Commander, Naval Air Systems Command (Code 2.3), Patuxent Naval Air Station, Bldg 2272, Lexington Park, MD 20670

99 -- AIRCRAFT SURVIVABILITY SYMPOSIUM POC Mike Crawford, Phone (301) 757-5237 E-MAIL: crawfordmt.jfk@navair.navy.mil, crawfordmt.jfk@navair.navy.mil. The American Defense Preparedness Association/National Security Industrial Association's Combat Survivability Division is sponsoring an Aircraft Survivability Symposium in cooperation with the Federal Aviation Administration, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Helicopter Society, Aerospace Industries Association, Air Line Pilots Association, National Defense Transportation Association, Joint Technical Coordinating Group on Aircraft Survivability, Joint Strike Fighter Program, Naval Air Systems Command, and Army Aviation Research, Development and Engineering Center. The symposium will be held on October 21-23, 1997 at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. The symposium will examine current and emerging technologies and system applications that will enable both military and commercial aircraft to better withstand damage induced by hostile action and peacetime accidents. Symposium sessions will include Perspectives on Operational Requirements and VVulnerability Reduction, Transport Aircraft: More safe and less Vulnerble, Reducing Susceptibility and Vulnerability: Doing the Trades, Advanced Technology: Key to Vulnerability Reduction, and Affordable/Survivable Aircraft: A Design Challenge. For more information contact ADPA/NSIA about Event #894 at at (703) 522-1820, Fax (703) 522-1885, or E-Mail mbilowich@adpansia.org. (0237)

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