Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) Systems and Helicopter Noise Reduction
What efforts focus on eVTOL aircraft and the potential for noise reduction of rotary-wing vehicles?
Autonomous Systems
Ground, air, or sea-launched kinetic munitions that utilize onboard sensors, algorithms, and control methods to improve estimates on the target state, understand the implications of the engagement situation/environment, or develop engagement geometries that are otherwise unavailable
to a conventional weapon.
Recent Inquiries
Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) with Blood Delivery Capability
What VTOL unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) that are commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) are capable of blood deliveries?
Cargo Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
What UAS could deliver a 50-pound payload for launch and landing on a moving ship at sea without use of catapults, cables, or nets?
Articles
Aligning the Navy’s Fleet Experimentation With Capability Development
Amidst the crashing surf of a remote coastline, two U.S. Navy sailors clad in black wetsuits and protective helmets carry the MK18 Mod 1 Swordfish unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) toward the open ocean
Air Force Advances Human-Machine Teaming With Autonomous Collaborative Platforms
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – The U.S. Air Force recently demonstrated a major leap in human-machine teaming, flying autonomous collaborative platforms (ACPs) alongside crewed fighter aircraft during a training event at Eglin Air Force…
DARPA to Demonstrate Revolutionary Drone Capabilities for Warfighters
Five cutting-edge unmanned aerial systems (UASs) are slated to begin flight testing later to highlight the versatility of vertical take-off and landing for UASs weighing less than 330 pounds. The vertical take-off and landing (VTOL)…
Webinars
Automated/Autonomous Impacts Routing – Path Optimization Through Adverse Atmospheric Effects and Obstacles
Automated Impacts Routing (AIR) is a software system that uses a modified version of the A* algorithm by including environmental (atmosphere/terrain) effects coupled with shortest path calculations. It allows best and second-best path solutions as…
Attritable Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Conceptualization and Key Players
Air domain operations are critical to the U.S. military defense strategy. Military air domain missions use aircraft for tasks like attack; resupply; rescue; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; etc. Historically, air domain missions required manned aircraft,…
Adapted Risk Assessment for Safety Certification of AI-Enabled Mission Software Applications
As the safety functional authority for fielding materiel solutions, the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command’s Safety Office uses risk management to certify that materiel is safe when used as intended. While risk assessment processes…
Events
Threat Weapons & Effects (TWE) Training 2026
This annual training event is a collaborative effort and draws information from threat exploitation, live fire testing, and combat experience to provide a complete picture of threat lethality.
Joint Aircraft Survivability Program (JASP) Model Users Meeting (JMUM) 2026
The purpose of this recurring meeting is to provide model users, managers, stakeholders, and other interested individuals with the latest information regarding JASP-sponsored modeling and simulation (M&S) tools, as well as others, used by the aircraft survivability community to evaluate aircraft performance in realistic threat environments.
Aircraft Combat Survivability Short Course (ACSSC) 2026
DSIAC is pleased to announce that the next Aircraft Combat Survivability Short Course will be held 2-4 June 2026 at Pratt & Whitney in East Hartford, CT. This three-day short course in aircraft combat survivability…