DEFENSE

Systems Digest

14 FEBRUARY 2023

DSIAC collects and publishes articles related to our technical focus areas on the web to share with the DoD community.

FEATURED ARTICLE

U.S. Air Force photo / Kenneth McNulty

AFRL Commander Highlights 2023 S&T Goals

U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Commander Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle joined the “Lab Life” podcast to discuss her vision for the coming year and reflect on 2022 successes. “Lab Life,” an AFRL Public Affairs product, brings listeners behind the scenes with Department of the Air Force scientists, engineers, and professionals who are developing tomorrow’s…

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Notable Technical Inquiry

Overview of U.S. Additively Manufactured Energetic and Explosive Materials Research

Energetic materials additive manufacturing (EMAM) is a growing research field of particular interest to the U.S. government because of its ability to explore new energetic formulations quickly and economically in various mediums.  This report provides a brief overview of the different additive manufacturing (AM) processes and research being done by U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and industrial and academic organizations.  While there is…

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FEATURED WEBINAR

Energetic Materials Additive Manufacturing

The benefit of additive manufacturing is being realized in industries where custom parts can be made when traditional manufacturing methods and economics fall short. In recent years, there has been an effort to apply this technology to energetics applications, which has not seen significant technological advancement in processing for many decades. The hope is to…

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5th Annual Military Aviation & Air Dominance Summit

The 5th Annual Military Aviation & Air Dominance Summit will convene senior-level experts from across the DoD, acquisition authorities, industry, academia, and other critical partners for a Joint Service discussion revolving around strategic initiatives toward…

25th Annual Expeditionary Warfare Conference

The 25th Annual Expeditionary Warfare Conference offers the year’s premier opportunity to learn and discuss challenging expeditionary warfare and force protection issues in the distant littoral regions of the world that affect the strength and…

Military Aviation & Air Dominance Summit

The 5th Annual Military Aviation & Air Dominance Summit will convene senior-level experts from across the DoD, acquisition authorities, industry, and academia for a Joint Service discussion centered around strategic initiatives toward facilitating air lethality…

2023 Tactical Wheeled Vehicles Conference

This event brings together leaders from the U.S. Department of Defense, the military services, industry, prime contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, and academia to address present and future tactical wheeled vehicle requirements in preparation for the multiservice…

Fundamentals of Random Vibration and Shock Testing Open Course (WESTPAK, Inc., San Diego, CA)

This three-day course covers all the information required to plan, perform, and interpret the results of all types of dynamic testing. Some of the additional areas covered are fixture design, field data measurement, and interpretation,…

Voice From the Community

Carleton Knisely
Carleton Knisely

Flight Assessments Lead

Carleton Knisely is the Flight Assessments Lead for the Flight Performance Integration Project and the NA-115 Delivery Environments Portfolio Lead at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Carleton and his team use various aerodynamic, aerothermal, and flight dynamics modeling/simulation tools to characterize the in-flight environments of vehicles at hypersonic speeds with a particular emphasis on the implications for the payload. Prior to his time at LLNL, Carleton received his PhD from UCLA, where he studied real-gas effects on hypersonic boundary layer transition with support from DoD grants (US Air Force & Navy) and the NDSEG Fellowship.

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