Everything You Need to Know from the AMTC 24-05 Collaboration Event

Last week, the Aviation and Missile Technology Consortium (AMTC) hosted the AMTC 24-05 Collaboration Event in Huntsville, AL. The event convened AMTC member organizations from industry and academia to collaborate directly with the government on the latest opportunities in aviation and missile technology prototyping. The AMTC comprises members of the National Armaments Consortium (NAC) and the Vertical Lift Consortium (VLC).

In all, over 223 attendees heard from keynote speakers from government and industry, received briefings on 6 new technology requirements/statements of need (SONs) worth $321.50M, and took part in 111 1-on-1 sessions to collaborate with the government on their needs.

Additional highlights from the event include:

• An address from Lt. Col. Jeremy “Nova” Vanderhal, Assistant Director of Operations, 586th Flight Test Squadron on flight test opportunities for prototyping & experimentation.”
• An address from Mr. Mark Casey, Director, Test Program Integration Directorate (TPID) on opportunities coming out of the U.S. Army Redstone Test Center (RTC).
• A keynote address from John Stough, Founder and Chief Architect, Exocubic LLC and former Executive Director of the Vertical Lift Consortium.
• An AMTC Program overview from Mr. Jason Duffey, AMTC Program Manager.

Additionally, the event included a requirements briefing panel that presented 6 new requirements across a range of aviation and missile technology areas. Specific technology needs briefed during the event include:

• GM-24-05-01: Advanced Multispectral Synthetic Environments for Testing Hardware-in-the-Loop (AMSETH)
• GM-24-05-02: Joint Reduced Range Rocket (JR3)
• GM-24-05-03: Guided Missile Systems Open Architecture Prototyping Testbed (GMSOAPT) – 2
• MED-24-05-01: FIRES System Converged Baseline Architecture (FSCBA)
• MED-24-05-02: Weapons and Protective Technologies Process Improvement Prototype (WPTPIP)
• MED-24-05-03: Chemical, Biological, Radiation, Nuclear and Natural Space Environments (CBRN-NSE) Survivability Prototype for End-to-End Simulation and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) Stimulation Modeling

Thank you to all of the NAC and VLC members who attended, in spite of the serious travel challenges that occurred leading up to the event. Your dedication and participation are greatly appreciated. An additional thank you to our partners at the VLC  and Advanced Technology International (ATI) for their hard work to make the ATMC 24-05 Collaboration Event a success.

Save the Dates: Upcoming NAC Events

The next opportunity to collaborate with the NAC will be September 16-18 at the Biosynthesis of Cellulose in Support of the DoD event in Blacksburg, Virginia. The event will take place at the Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center and will include technical panels and presentations on recent research advances in the use of rapidly emerging biological production methods for creating new sources of cellulose. Registration is now open.

Additionally, registration is now open for the 2024 U.S. Energetic Materials Technology Working Group Meeting to take place from October 8th to October 10th, 2024 at the Jack C. Taylor Conference Center in Annapolis, Maryland.