Upcoming events.
2025 Spring Technical Forum JHTO UCAH
The University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics (UCAH) is an inclusive, collaborative network of universities working with government, industry, national laboratories, federally funded research centers, and existing university affiliated research centers. It aims to deliver the innovation and workforce needed to advance modern hypersonic flight systems in support of national defense.
Hypersonic Weapons and Emerging Technologies Summit
The 4th Annual Hypersonic Technology Summit analyzes the DoD’s strategies to address global hypersonic weapons proliferation, featuring insights into cutting-edge technologies, missile defense systems, and operational challenges in the context of rising competition with Russia and China.
The AIAA Defense and Security Forum (AIAA DEFENSE Forum)
AIAA Defense and Security Forum (AIAA DEFENSE Forum) is a Secret/NOFORN event covering the strategic, programmatic, and technical topics and policy issues pertaining to the aerospace and defense community. This year’s theme will delve into how the science and technology community, systems developers, and operators address operational needs through rapid innovation and deployment. By enhancing capacity, efficiency, and readiness, this approach enables warfighters to adapt to dynamic conditions and sustain a tactical advantage. The forum’s program consists of two main parts: a technical program offering a deep analysis on research and technologies geared to solve specific problems, and high-level plenary sessions tackling the most pressing issues impacting the future of national security.
2025 Hypersonic Innovation Conference
HYPERSONIC INNOVATION CONFERENCE
The Hypersonic Innovation Conference is America's official hypersonics event, featuring Senior military leaders, acquisition authorities, & technical experts from across industry & academia. This “town-hall” style forum will offer attendees from military, government, industry, and academia a wide range of next-generation products and services that are enabling the U.S. military to design, test, manufacture, and scale hypersonic missiles in an era of Strategic Competition. Senior leaders at this event will address how the DoD is working to rapidly field innovative capabilities & strengthen the supply chains of strategic systems to keep pace with the evolving threat of hypersonic weapons.
The Hypersonic Innovation Conference is first corporate sponsor of Women in Hypersonics- if you are attending, register with code WIH2025 to show your support!
Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Testing Intern (JHTO)
This summer internship opportunity, funded by the Joint Hypersonics Transition Office, will establish a cohort of students to design and execute a wind tunnel test campaign in NASA Langley Research Center’s supersonic and hypersonic wind tunnel facilities. Students within the cohort will design and build wind tunnel models, develop test plans, implement both conventional and advanced test techniques, and perform computations to compare to experimental measurements. Students selected from this posting will work primarily on experimental work and will be placed in either the Flow Physics and Control Branch or the Aerothermodynamics branch.
2025 Hypersonic Technology and Systems Conference
HTSC's emphasis is on systems and applied technology. This conference highlights the nation's investments in systems integrated hypersonic technologies for both research and development and weapon platform integration for offense and defense. It brings together the best and brightest involved in the development and use of hypersonic technologies in a unique, limited-attendance forum which will facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration opportunities. This event is held at a restricted access level.
Grantseeking Strategies for Small Teams: Achieving Success with Limited Resources
Working in a small or mid-sized nonprofit often requires wearing multiple hats. Flexibility isn’t just helpful — it’s essential. Your official job title only scratches the surface of your daily responsibilities. As an executive director, you’re not only leading the organization’s vision but also actively managing various operational tasks. Likewise, development directors juggle more than just grant writing — they’re planning events, cultivating major donors, growing memberships, and tackling countless other priorities.
WIH is attending the 49th International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC2025)
The 49th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC 2025) is scheduled for January 26–31, 2025, at the Hilton Daytona Beach Resort/Ocean Walk Village in Daytona Beach, Florida. Organized by The American Ceramic Society's Engineering Ceramics Division, this annual event has been a premier gathering for professionals in the field since 1977. ICACC 2025 serves as a vital platform for scientists, researchers, engineers, and industry leaders to exchange knowledge and foster collaborations in the field of advanced ceramics and composites.
CMS 2025 : composites, materials, and structures
The annual Conference on Composites, Materials, and Structures is the preeminent export controlled and ITAR restricted forum in the United States to review and discuss advances in materials for extreme environments. The Conference started in the 1970s as a small informal gathering for government and industry to share information on programs and state-of-the-art technology. Attendance has grown to nearly 500 people while preserving this same objective to share needs and trends in high-temperature and extreme environment materials, and the latest information on advanced materials and manufacturing processes.
The five-day conference program includes two to three parallel sessions per day on topics including thermal protection materials, ceramic matrix composites, carbon-carbon materials, ballistic technologies, hypersonics, and gas turbine engines. Attendees are engineers, scientists, managers, and operational personnel from the turbine engine, aviation, missiles and space, and protective equipment communities. These communities include the Navy, Air Force, Army, MDA, NASA, DARPA, FAA, DOE, engine manufacturers, missile and aircraft manufacturers, commercial space companies, and material and component suppliers.
The Conference will be held in St. Augustine again for 2025! Participation is limited to U.S. Citizens and U.S. Permanent Residents only with an active DD2345 certification.
Workforce Development Opportunities at CMS 2025
Professor Rodney Trice will be teaching the Materials for Hypersonics short course again for CMS. The course is intended to introduce the audience to the following topics: History of Hypersonic Flight, the Hypersonic Aerothermodynamic Environment and Important Materials, Introduction to Mechanical Properties of Ceramics, Ceramic Matrix Composites, Thermal Properties of Ceramics, Applications of Thermal and Mechanical Properties, and Radiation Heat Control.
Rodney Trice is full professor of materials engineering at Purdue University. Trice has worked in the hypersonics research area since 2010. He is current research on materials for hypersonic applications encompasses high-temperature high-emissivity coatings for carbon/carbon composites, processing of IR and RF windows, additive manufacture of C/C composites, direct ink write of SiC short fiber/SiC composites, digital light projection of UHTCs and RF window materials, novel energy absorbing ceramics, and powder-processing schemes to fabricate ceramics into complex shapes.
35th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting
The 2025 AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, hosted by the American Astronautical Society (AAS) and cohosted by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) will be held January 19-23 in Kaua'i, Hawaii. The conference is organized by the AAS Space Flight Mechanics Committee and the AIAA Astrodynamics Technical Committee.
ACerS Virtual Hypersonic Workshop
Virtual Hypersonic Course instructed by Rodney Trice, and offered by the American Ceramic Society Learning Center.
This virtual course will take place from January 7–8, 2025, from 1–5 p.m. ET.
Please note: This is a Distribution A event.
Course Description
Learn the fundamentals and apply them to hypersonic applications
The topics below will be covered in the two-day short course. Modulues 1-5 will be presented on Day 1, with the remaining modules discussed Day 2.
Module 1 History of hypersonic flight and design
Module 2 Hypersonic aerothermodynamics
Module 3 Colloidal processing, shaping methods, and sintering of UHTCs with a focus on additive manufacturing of ceramics
Module 4 Introduction to mechanical properties of ceramics:
Module 5 Thermal properties of ceramics
Module 6 Applications of thermal and mechanical properties
Module 7 Materials for RF and IR performance
Module 8 Composites including carbon/carbon and ceramic matrix composites and their manufacture
Module 9 Materials for radiative cooling
Course Format
4 hours of instruction per day | 8 hours of instruction total | Virtually from 1–5 p.m. ET
Registration Pricing
Save nearly $100 when you sign up for both days!
One day: $249
Both days: $399
Please be aware: Notes will be made available electronically without the ability to download or print. Those who would like a physical copy of the course notes may order them for an additional $49. This is a Distribution A event.
On Jan. 8, 2024, the Department of Defense Cornerstone Consortium under the DOD Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment program and the National Imperative for Industrial Skills initiative awarded The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) a contract to develop a sustainable, targeted, workforce training program on the science and engineering of materials for hypersonic applications.
ACerS has partnered with the United States Advanced Ceramics Association (USACA) to create a comprehensive hypersonic materials training program. The goal of this program is to target those working in industry, national labs, DOD agencies, and others working in the field who may be outside the reach of academic programs.
View this press release for more information.
About ACerS
Founded in 1898, The American Ceramic Society is the leading professional membership organization for ceramic and materials scientists, engineers, researchers, manufacturers, plant personnel, educators, and students. The Society serves more than 10,000 members from more than 70 countries.
About USACA
Founded in 1985, the U.S. Advanced Ceramics Association champions the business interests of the advanced ceramic producers and end-users. Its members range from the largest U.S. industrial companies to smaller corporations dedicated to the manufacture of advanced ceramic products. For more information, visit https://advancedceramics.org.
Contact
Contact Amanda Engen, director of communications and workforce development, at aengen@ceramics.org for more information on the program.
The Burgers Program 2024 Summer Research School on Fluid Dynamics Topics in Turbulence
This Summer School, the fourth following those in 2010, 2015, and 2018, will bring together graduate students and distinguished instructors from several different scientific disciplines to spend one week fully focused on the topic of turbulence. The Summer School is an opportunity for participants to develop a both deeper and broader appreciation and understanding of turbulence, and offers a unique opportunity for them to build their professional networks.
19th Department of Defense (DoD) Electromagnetic Windows Symposium (EMWS)
The 19th Department of Defense (DoD) Electromagnetic Windows Symposium (EMWS) supports the unique mission of DoD and the Services in the area of electro-optic and radar window and dome materials and design.
Short Course on Materials for Infrared Windows and Dome Radomes
This short course is an add on option with the EMWS registration. The morning Session covers EOIR Window and Dome Materials with an overview of optical, thermal and mechanical characteristics of window and dome materials for missiles and aircraft. The afternoon Session covers radomes, describing electro-magnetic wave transmitting materials used on supersonic and hypersonic radar-guided tactical missile interceptors and strike weapons. Fundamental structural and environmental design requirements will be discussed as well as methods to analyze the material responses to the stressors seen during flight.
Hypersonic Innovation Conference
The Hypersonic Innovation Conference emphasizes the pressing need to advance American hypersonic technologies and leverage these technologies to achieve U.S. National Security goals. As nations around the world accelerate their development and production of hypersonic systems, the pace of US developments needs to advance as well. Hypersonic weapons have the potential to change the balance of power in the Pacific and Europe, and only a concerted effort across DoD and US allies will allow us to maintain the balance of global power.
2024 Joint Army-Navy-NASA-Air Force (JANNAF)
Join us for the May 2024 Joint Army-Navy-NASA-Air Force (JANNAF) meeting. Ms. Christina A. Blankenship, with DEVCOM Aviation & Missle Center at Redstone Arsenal, AL, is the Meeting Chair.
JHTO UCAH Spring Forum 2024
Join Women in Hypersonics for the JHTO UCAH Spring Technical Exchange. The University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics (UCAH) is an inclusive, collaborative network of universities working with government, industry, national laboratories, federally funded research centers, and existing university affiliated research centers. It aims to deliver the innovation and workforce needed to advance modern hypersonic flight systems in support of national defense.
TMS 2024
TMS 2024 153rd Annual Meeting & Exhibition Simulations/Experiments Integration for Next Generation Hypersonic Materials.
International IEEE Aerospace Conference
The international IEEE Aerospace Conference, with AIAA and PHM Society as technical cosponsors, is organized to promote interdisciplinary understanding of aerospace systems, their underlying science and technology, and their applications to government and commercial endeavors.
AIAA HyTASP Technical Committee Hypersonics Webinar
In this webinar Ali Gülhan, German Aerospace Center (DLR), will discuss how high-quality validation data that is representative of the real flight environment is necessary for the simulation-based design of flight hardware. Since ground testing facilities have limitations to duplicate the flight environment and numerical tools still have shortcomings in modelling high temperature gas phenomena and gas-surface interaction in such environments, availability of flight data is essential. A complementary validation approach using ground and flight testing for gathering reliable data and validation of numerical tools also is required. Gülhan will explain how simulation of the hot hypersonic flight environment in ground facilities is limited and requires data from further flight experiments. Hypersonic flight experiments by means of multistage sounding rocket configurations are seen as the most cost-efficient options to gather valuable flight data.
University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics Small Business Opportunity Day
JHTO is interested in reviewing White Papers that contribute to improved performance, reliability, manufacturability, and affordability for hypersonic systems in the technical areas listed below through both hardware and software solutions. White Papers (due January 26th) should show a realistic path to implementation, including integration and scalability, and be achievable with approximately $1M of funding.
JHTO UCAH Networking Breakfast
Join us for the 2024 JHTO UCAH Spring Forum Networking Breakfast at the Texas A&M Conference Center, at the tables in the back of the main room, starting at 7AM on March 13, 2024. For more information contact WIH@IBconsortium.org.
Virtual Q&A session Hypersonic Accelerated Manufactured Prototype Demonstration (Hyper-AMPD!)
Virtual Q & A session: Hypersonic Accelerated Manufactured Prototype Demonstration (Hyper-AMPD!)
Hypersonic Technology & Systems Conference (HTSC) 2023
WIH will be attending the the fourth annual Hypersonic Technology & Systems Conference (HTSC) will take place in North Logan, Utah, 16-19 October 2023. Join us, and pick up a limited edition Women in Hypersonics pin.
IDGA Hypersonics Weapons Summit 2023
IDGA Hypersonics Weapons Summit 2023
Hypersonic weapons development in the US has seen significant growth. The US has actively pursued the development of hypersonic weapons as since the early 2000s. In recent years, the US has focused such efforts on hypersonic glide vehicles and hypersonic cruise missiles with shorter and intermediate ranges for use in regional conflicts.
Although funding for these programs has been relatively restrained in the past, both the Pentagon and Congress have shown a massive interest in pursuing the development and near-term deployment of hypersonic systems through almost $4 billion in federal funding in 2022, with a further request of $4.7 billion in FY2023. This is due to the growing interest in these technologies in Russia and China, leading to a heightened focus in the United States on the strategic threat posed by hypersonic flight.
With recent successful tests, the path to hypersonic deployment seems closer than ever for the United States. However, there are many technological and operational decisions to be made before fielding operational weapons. Meeting the pace at which the Services wants to test and field a hypersonic offensive capability will be a challenge, but doing so is critical to the National Defense Strategy of the United States Military. Our conference provides an opportunity for stakeholders from across the the DoD, academia and industry to get together for two days of networking, information sharing, thought leadership and problem solving to better achieve the goals of the US in hypersonics. There will be senior representatives from across the major programs run by the US Air Force, US Navy, US Army and DARPA. We will also host perspectives from Allied programs to provide a truly international perspective, allowing for a comprehensive update on the progress, challenges and developments in the Hypersonic space.
2023 JHTO UCAH Fall Forum
WIH will be attending the University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics Fall Forum held August 1-3, 2022 in Alexandria Virginia. The Fall Forum focuses on three key areas: ensuring technology moves from science to system, preparing the next-generation hypersonic workforce, and the hypersonic research continuum. Summer undergraduate student research will be showcased with a poster session.
Women In Aerospace Event by Robin Butler
Throughout the year, WIA’s leadership develops a series of high impact events for WIA members and the general public. With events ranging from keynote addresses featuring high-level government experts to panel discussions focused on industry trends, the events attract a diverse audience of industry and government attendance.
Advanced Manufacturing Challenge
Join the nation's largest Advanced Manufacturing Acceleration program, connecting top fabrication technologies aligned with our nation's most critical challenges from the Navy Manufacturing Technology Program (ManTech). Pitch your technical project proposal to major OEMs and military leadership, representing multi-billion in funded projects seeking dual-use solutions aligned with Naval focused investment areas.
Tech Connect World Innovation Conference and Expo
Join the nation's largest Advanced Manufacturing Acceleration program, connecting top fabrication technologies aligned with our nation's most critical challenges from the Navy Manufacturing Technology Program (ManTech). Pitch your technical project proposal to major OEMs and military leadership, representing multi-billion in funded projects seeking dual-use solutions aligned with Naval focused investment areas.
Advanced Materials Sessions TechConnect World Innovation Conference
Join the nation's largest Advanced Manufacturing Acceleration program, connecting top fabrication technologies aligned with our nation's most critical challenges from the Navy Manufacturing Technology Program (ManTech). Pitch your technical project proposal to major OEMs and military leadership, representing multi-billion in funded projects seeking dual-use solutions aligned with Naval focused investment areas.
National Summit on Hypersonic Weapons Systems
WIH will be attending the National Summit on Hypersonic Weapons Systems 2023, a comprehensive & immersive DoD/Gov and Industry experience focusing on the Hypersonic Weapons Threat, Current Capabilities and Way Ahead Strategies for U.S and Strategic Allies.
AIAA Education: Hypersonic Flight Vehicle Design and Performance Analysis
Hypersonic flight has once again risen to prominence as a topic of high national interest. Current US and international programs range from hypersonic cruise vehicles (HCV) and transatmospheric vehicles (TAV), to maneuverable hypersonic glide vehicles (HGV) and hypersonic interceptors. The design and performance analysis of these vehicles is challenging because of the wide range of flight conditions encountered, and the critical importance of maintaining acceptable fuel mass fractions. These constraints impose severe challenges to designers, requiring innovative component designs and careful integration of the various components to achieve an efficient flight vehicle. This course will educate the attendee on principles and methods to better address these challenges.
This 20-hour course will cover airbreathing hypersonic flight vehicles, emphasizing propulsion systems that range from ramjets, scramjets, dual-mode scramjets, turbine-based and rocket-based combined cycles to pre-cooled engine cycles. Topics will include an introduction to hypersonic flight from a historical perspective, design challenges, vehicle performance requirements, design methodology, aerodynamics, propulsion, structures, flight mechanics/stability & control, thermal management, design convergence, off-design performance analysis, the role of CFD, ground & flight testing, and conclude with a review of ongoing international programs.
2023 AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (AIAA SciTech Forum)
AIAA SciTech Forum is the world’s largest event for aerospace research and development. The 2023 forum will explore the science, technologies, and policies that are shaping our industry’s future and enabling sustainability.
Hypersonic Technology & Systems Conference (HTSC)
WIH will be attending the the fourth annual Hypersonic Technology & Systems Conference (HTSC) will take place in North Logan, Utah, 24 - 27 October 2022. Join us, and pick up a limited edition Women in Hypersonics pin.
IWRP Consortium General Membership Meeting (GMM) and Quarterly Industry Day (QID)
IWRP engages industry and academia to develop and mature technologies in the field of Information Warfare that enhance Navy and Marine Corps mission effectiveness, focusing on underlying technologies that advance information warfare capabilities through a consortium that can support research, development and prototyping.