The Joint Aircraft Survivability Program Office (JASPO) will host the 2025 Joint Aircraft Survivability (JAS) Program Review (JPR) at the Joint Center for Electromagnetic Readiness (JCER) at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB) from 16-18 September 2025. The purpose of the review is to facilitate aviation survivability dialogue between the science and technology, acquisition, industry, academia, and operational communities. This will be achieved by presenting a technical overview of the JASP and fiscal year 2025 projects and informing the aviation community of our efforts.
This year’s event will be held both in-person and virtually.​
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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 Base, Florida. Pilots operating an F-16C Fighting Falcon and an F-15E Strike Eagle each controlled two XQ-58A Valkyrie aircraft in…
This report surveys the state of the current digital-engineering (DE) tool landscape, with specific emphasis on applications relevant to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The request originated from an inquiry seeking to understand the state of DE tools without disclosing personally identifiable information. The study excludes areas that have been heavily analyzed in prior literature, such as artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning, and application life-cycle…
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August 27, 2025 12:00 pm
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, putting the aviator at risk. In the 1990s, the military began replacing manned aircraft with unmanned aircraft. Unmanned aerial systems…
Registration for JPR 2025 has closed as of 5 September 2025.
This event gathers Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA) members and the greater ecosystem from across the US each year at the Advanced Functional Fabric Summit. Attendees learn about new advanced fiber and fabric technology…
The NDIA 2025 Future Forces Capabilities Conference & Exhibition will discuss how new technologies and capabilities will influence future military operations. The conference will provide a platform for collaboration between the defense industry and military…
Registration for the Threat Weapons Effects (TWE) Training 2025 is at capacity and closed. Please click to complete an interest form if you are interested in being placed on the waitlist.
Weapon Physics Group Leader, Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA)
Joseph Maestas is an energetics modeling and simulation subject matter expert with a background in virtual, physics-based analyses for evaluating weapon performance. His work includes explosive fill survivability research, lethality methodology development, and model development for non-ideal, enhanced blast and combined effects explosives. At ARA, he leads the Weapon Physics Group out of the Niceville, FL office, which specialize in high-fidelity modeling and simulation and fuzing and on-board instrumentation for hard target defeat, hypersonic, and maritime target applications.
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