Call for Abstracts

Poster Abstract Due Date: 25 January 2025

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We invite you to participate in the 31^st National Fire Control Symposium (NFCS) which will take place in Virtual, 21 - 24 April 2025. The NFCS, heralded as the premiere forum for discussing the entire kill web, has served the Integrated Fire Control - Community of Interest (IFC-COI) for over three decades. Due to its restricted and no-foreign format, the NFCS is in a unique position to cultivate lasting relationships between the forward operators, service communities, warfare centers, laboratories, and our industry partners.

Initially launched in 1992 by the Air Force, and subsequently supported by the Army, Navy, and Marines, and the Missile Defense Agency, the NFCS is now an industry sponsored event. The 2025 event features the U.S. Navy as the lead technical advisor. The event has been successful in engaging the multi-services, industry, and academia in synergistic relationships and discussions. With continued reduction in budgets, the government has an increasing reliance on cooperative research efforts. The size and focus of the NFCS promotes a greater number of productive contacts and collaborative relationships, provides an overview of a larger number of external research efforts, and provides U.S. researchers with a deeper understanding of the state-of-the-art and the warfighter's perspective. The net result is the potential reduction in duplication of work completed by academia, industry, and the services, as well as the promotion of scientific advancements resulting from joint efforts that could save DoD valuable time and financial resources, while defining innovative solutions to technology challenges.

Along with concurrent technical sessions offered throughout the week, attendees can attend a flag level Plenary Session, special topic presentations, a technical poster session, and many networking and collaboration functions. The topics chosen will support the 2025 theme “Fire Control in the Age of Peer Competition” which is critical to ensuring U.S. advantage over peer adversaries.

The 2025 Call For Abstracts will focus on both kill web elements and specific topic areas. All abstracts must fit in one or more of these elements AND Topics:

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