The Office of Naval Research is supporting the 2024 Naval Science & Technology / Combat Systems Symposium and Technology, Systems & Ships Symposium over the December 9-12, 2024 timeframe at the George Mason University Arlington, VA Campus. In recent years, ASNE Combat System Symposiums have focused on Digital Engineering concepts and their impact on Combat Systems as well as reflected on the Secretary of the Navy’s Strategic Objectives of how we go about expanding our forward presence, enhancing our warfighting readiness, and innovating and modernizing our combat system capability. Given real world operations and conflicts in both Eastern Europe and the Middle East, ASNE Combat Systems Symposium 2024 will delve into our offensive and defensive weapons that have been used or may be called into service, tactics used to employ those weapons, and how we maintain and sustain those weapons to ensure they are available when needed. The Symposium will also look at future weapon capabilities, from both the benefits and challenges perspective.

The Technology, Systems & Ships Symposium will focus on 'meeting the demand signal' with Technology, Systems & Ships. As the CNO has stated “…our Sailors must be the best warfighters in the world with the best systems, weapons, and platforms to ensure we can defeat our adversaries. We will put 'more players on the field' -- platforms that are ready with the right capabilities, weapons and sustainment, and people who are ready with the right skills, tools, training, and mindset.”

Meeting Information

Venue

Van Metre Hall, George Mason University

3351 Fairfax Dr

Arlington, VA 22201

(703) 993-8999

https://masonsquare.gmu.edu/

 

Transportation/Parking

Via Metro: Clarendon or Virginia Square Metro Stations are equidistant from Van Metre Hall ~ 1-2 blocks away.

Parking: It is recommended individuals put Founders Way North into their GPS device.

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Agenda

Naval S&T | Combat Systems | Technology, Systems and Ships Symposium 2024

George Mason University, Van Metre Hall, Arlington, VA

December 9 - 12, 2024

Registration

Sponsorships/Exhibits

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Intro to Combat Systems Engineering

Date/Time: December 11, 2024; 0800-1630.

Location: George Mason University, Van Metre Hall, Arlington, VA

Course Description:

• Introduction to Combat System Engineering introduces participants to the overarching DoD system engineering processes and uses history and heritage to advance student understanding.
• The course is structured to cover basic combat system engineering and fire control principles, from top-level requirements to allocated requirements to design requirements to combat system functions and associated design specifications, using historical examples from gunnery to air defense.
• This context-delivered approach improves the critical thinking required to engineer a complex system to meet always-advancing threat requirements.
• Participants have the opportunity to apply the skills they’ve learned in the classroom through independent exercises and group discussion.

Course Level: Introductory (100 Level) – Learner requires little to no previous knowledge of this topic area

PDHs: 8

*ASNE members can get credit for these PDH hours for free! Non-members can pay $40. Please complete this PDH Request Form and email it to education@navalengineers.org to receive credit.

Instructor: Rear Admiral Tom Druggan, U.S. Navy (Retired)

• Rear Admiral Tom Druggan, U.S. Navy (Ret.) served in the U.S. Navy for over 33 years with significant experience serving onboard five U.S. Navy destroyers, supporting the CNO and VCNO at Navy headquarters, and leading large technical and acquisition organizations to deliver critical integrated air & missile defense systems for DoD.
• Flag officer tours include Program Executive for Aegis BMD sea-based weapon systems in the Missile Defense Agency and as Commander of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, leading nearly 18,000 scientists and engineers.
• He also served as major program manager for the Aegis Combat System in the Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems. At sea, he earlier served on five destroyers and as the commanding officer of USS O’Kane (DDG 77), conducting strike group operations and independent missions worldwide.
• Rear Admiral Druggan currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Insight, Ltd.

Call for Papers

ASNE is seeking papers for inclusion in the technical program of the 2024 Technology, Systems, and Ships (TSS) conference at the beginning of this coming December. Authors will have the opportunity to then present their papers at the conference. Technical papers for TSS are solicited across the broad range of technical challenges and opportunities applicable to technology, systems, and ships. With a focus on current and emerging trends, particular emphasis is placed on content surrounding digital transformation for the U.S. Navy that facilitates more players on the field of ship design and technology integration.

The following topics are particularly encouraged:

• Technology integration
• Systems engineerting
• Modern warship desgin and shipbuilding
• Digital transformation to facilitate “more players on the field”
• Advances in electric and hybrid ship technology
• Unmanned ship technology

Abstract Submission Details

Abstracts Due: November 12, 2024

• Proposed Paper Title
• Author name(s) and affiliations
• Contact email
• A 300 words or less written description in sufficient detail to permit evaluation. 1-2 key figures are recommended to be included as part of the abstract.

Important Dates

• Abstracts Due: November 12, 2024
• Notification of Acceptance: November 13, 2024
• Paper Submission November 20, 2024 (Access Copyright Form)
• Presentation Submission December 5, 2024
• Conference Dates: December 11-12, 2024

Papers are encouraged to be 4-6 pages in length but longer papers will be considered. Papers must have technical merit for the naval ship community and not be used primarily as a means of advertisement or promotion of a commercial venture. Accepted papers will be published as part of the TSS 2024 proceedings.

Additionally, authors of papers that have been accepted or published in ASNE’s Naval Engineers Journal (NEJ) in the past 2 years are invited to present without having to submit a separate paper. In this case, please submit the abstract of that paper and the publication details

For additional information and details on paper submission, see the ASNE Technical Papers Guidelines or contact the Technical Papers Sub-Committee at TSS@navalengineers.org