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Joint Air Survivability Summit

  • November 12-13, 2025
  • 151 St. George, National Harbor, MD

Event Overview

The 2nd annual Joint Air Survivability Summit will convene key decision-makers and innovators from the DoW, Military Services, Industry, & Academia to explore how the joint force is advancing air survivability to enhance platform resilience, reduce vulnerabilities, and ensure mission success in increasingly contested environments. This forum will highlight how the joint force is addressing critical threats to aerial platforms through innovation in threat detection, countermeasure development, and test and evaluation.

2025 Confirmed Speakers Include:

Download the agenda for a complete list of speakers.

  • Dennis Lindell

    Director, Joint Aircraft Survivability Program, DOT&E

  • Col Timothy Helfrich, USAF

    Senior Material Leader, Advanced Aircraft Division, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center

  • Col Andrew G. Prue, USAF

    Deputy Commander, 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing

  • Col Ryan Roper, USAF

    Detachment 6 Commander, Air Force Operational Test & Evaluation Command

  • COL Joseph Alexander, USA

    Commander, Redstone Test Center, U.S. Army Test & Evaluation Command

  • Col John Dirk, USMC

    Commanding Officer, Marine Corps Test & Evaluation Squadron 1

  • Col Michael Rigoni, USAF

    Director, F-16 International EW Systems

  • Clint Spratley

    Product Manager, Advanced Technologies Division, PM ASE, PEO IEW&S

  • Lt Col Luke Marron, USAF

    Commander, 23rd Electronic Warfare Squadron

  • Dr. Jonathan Odom

    Director, Sensors & Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory, Georgia Tech Research Institute

  • Brandon Baier

    Director, Full-Scale Structural Test Lab, National Institute for Aviation (NIAR), Wichita State University

  • MG Kirk Vollmecke, USA (Ret.)

    Former Program Executive Officer, PEO IEW&S Event Moderator

About the Joint Air Survivability Summit

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

  • Integrating modernized, long-range systems to bolster Army aircraft survivability
  • Conducting developmental test & evaluation of air systems to ensure sustained survivability & lethality
  • Enhancing air survivability through joint test & evaluation
  • Fielding scalable, integrated EW capabilities to enhance aircraft survivability
  • Advancing naval aviation’s readiness, technical superiority, & survivability
  • Maintaining air superiority through next generation survivability technologies
  • Enhancing aviation survivability & readiness in support of the MAGTF
  • Delivering flight & ground testing to ensure lethality, speed, survivability, & stealth of advanced air capabilities
  • Safeguarding aircrews & maximizing aviation solider mission performance

Amid a dynamic global threat landscape marked by the proliferation of advanced integrated air defense systems, directed energy weapons, precision-guided munitions, terminal ballistics, and sophisticated electronic warfare capabilities, the Department of War and the Military services are committed to advancing aircraft survivability equipment to maintain air dominance and mission effectiveness in contested environments. The 2025 Joint Air Survivability Summit will emphasize cross-service collaboration, joint interoperability, and the integration of survivability measures into current and future air platforms.

This year’s forum will convene DoW, Military Services, Industry, & Academia to examine how to improve and upgrade aircraft survivability equipment and related threat management solutions. As legacy systems become ineffective against modern threats, the services are working to upgrade aerial platforms with advanced multi-threat protection capabilities. Key discussion will focus on test and evaluation efforts, emerging survivability technologies, current and emerging threats, susceptibility and vulnerability reduction, survivability modeling and simulation, and defensive aide suites. Attendees at the Joint Air Survivability Summit will gain valuable insights from key decision makers, subject experts, and solution providers to ensure aircraft lethality and survivability in future combat operations.

DSI’s team specializes in the extensive research and development of our Summit’s content and focus areas. We will assemble the most respected minds in the joint air survivability community, including operational leaders, key policymakers, industry, and academia. Our non-partisan approach allows us to reach across all services and organizations to bring together a truly holistic group of decision makers and solution providers.

  • Gain Education & Insight: Walk away with knowledge gained from our senior level speakers on some of the complex challenges facing the DoW and Military Services as it relates to the air survivability community.
  • Build Partnerships:The agenda is designed to allow for ample networking opportunities and the ability to engage in constructive dialogues among all in attendance.
  • Influence: Help foster ideas! Share your own insight and knowledge during our interactive sessions. All attendees are encouraged to address our speaker faculty and each other with their questions, comments or ideas.
  • DSI’s Summit directly supports DoW, Military Services, and Industry priorities by providing a conduit for officials to efficiently reach audiences outside of their respective offices that directly impact their department’s mission success, at no charge to the government, and in an efficient expenditure of time.
  • DSI’s Summit will provide a forum to address and improve internal and external initiatives, meet with and hear from partner organizations, disseminate vital capability requirements to industry, increase visibility within the larger community, and generally support their mission.
  • The Summit is open and complimentary to all DoW and Federal employees and is considered an educational training forum, and a widely attended gathering.

 

(Industry and academia members are charged a fee for admission.)

Summit is CLOSED TO PRESS / NO RECORDINGS

**U.S. Citizens Only**

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The Joint Air Survivability Summit provides opportunities for exhibit space, round table discussions, product demonstrations, luncheon, and cocktail receptions.

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