These papers were presented at the NSIA Aircraft Survivability Symposium. Some of the topics include: Aircraft Vulnerability: A Survey of Combat and Peacetime Experience; A History of the Survivability Design of Military Aircraft; Airline Safety and Security: An International Perspective; Overview of Structural Damage Tolerance History and Trends; Enhancing Survivability - an Air Force Perspective; Aircraft Fire Safety; Alternatives to Halon: A Status Report; Balancing Survivability Attributes: The Cost of Mission Success and numerous other topics.

From infant car seats to the design of aircraft cargo bay structures that can withstand bomb blasts, the government is taking the lead in survivability standards. The extensively illustrated new edition of this book presents the fundamentals of the aircraft combat survivability design discipline as defined by the DoD military standards and acquisition processes.

This thesis examines the effect of combining radar signature reduction and onboard electronic attack (EA) capability on the survivability enhancement of a generic joint strike fighter (JSF). The missions of a generic JSF are examined, and a tactical scenario for an air-to-air mission and a strike mission are presented. The principles of signature reduction and EA using onboard Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) are reviewed. The effect of signature level and of jammer effective radiated power (JERP) on the ability of a radar to detect the JSF are determined individually. Finally, an approach for combining the two survivability enhancement features is described, in the context of the two tactical JSF scenarios, and an EXCEL spreadsheet program entitled RCS-JERP is developed using unclassified radar and EA equipment data. Although all of the material in this thesis and in RCS-JERP are unclassified, the principles, methodology, and spreadsheet can be applied to specific (and classified) scenarios by utilizing the specific radar data, applicable mission threat analyses, and the effectiveness of the specific EA techniques employed.

Our focus for this issue of Aircraft Survivability is aircraft vulnerability reduction. Included are four articles that report on JTCG/AS-sponsored projects related to aircraft vulnerability reduction. In addition, you will find two articles on the survivability symposium sponsored by the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) and held annually in Monterey, California, at the Naval Postgraduate School. This year's event took place 16-18 November 1999 with the theme, "Aircraft Survivability 1999: Challenges for the New Millennium." In the first article, VADM John Lockard summarizes his keynote address, "Supporting the Warfighter. . . Delivering 21st Century Aviation Solutions Enabling Dominance from the Sea." The second article provides an informative report on the symposium by its chairman, Mr. Dave Hall.