Corporate Providers

Society Providers

The Society is proud to recognize those organizations that continue to help the Society further its objectives.

Company membership fees are used to fund the Student Awards.

Corporate and member donations are invited for the Manfred Held scholarship fund.
This fund was created in memory of Manfred Held, a world-class ballistician, who attended every International Symposium on Ballistics up to the 25th, held in Beijing in 2010, where the Society was founded. In honor of his achievement Manfred was made the Society's first member.

The scholarship fund is being developed to provide ways to help ballisticians further their studies.
   

Founding Platinum Providers

 

 

Prof. Bo Janzon, President of Secrab

Founding Member of the International Ballistics Society Board of Directors, Chairman IBS Publications Committee.

Founding Lifetime Member of the IBS

SECRAB Security Research – a Societal Entrepreneurship Company - works with research and technology, mostly within public safety and security, especially in connection with the EU 7th Framework Program.
Some specific competences:

• Elaboration and planning of large projects, research applications. consortium forming, coordination and project management
• Scientific publications, reviews, seminars, conferences and symposia
• Analysis of safety and security problems
• Energetic materials, effects, detection and remediation of explosives, protection against effects
• Rock blasting, underwater blasting and shaped charges
• Threat, Risk and Consequence Analysis, foremost in connection with energetic materials
• Protection of critical infrastructure against physical attack, explosives, fire

We act as research and technology brokers for Security, Safety and Defence Research and Technology.  We assist Customers to set up or participate in Research and Technology Project applications for the European Union, including FP 7 and especially the Security Research Program, the US Department of Homeland Security/HSARPA and DoD/DARPA.  SECRAB is a partner in two major EU FP7 Security Research Projects:

  • LOTUS - Localisation Of Threat substances in Urban Society (www.lotusfp7.eu)
  • PREVAIL - PRecursors of ExplosiVes: Additives to Inhibit their use including Liquids

 www.secrab.eu   info@secrab.eu

Phone: +46 8 420 18400       Fax: +46 8 519 89239

 

 
 

 

 

 

Dr. Roxan Cayzac, Founding Member of the International Ballistics Society Board of Directors.

 

 
 
Comprehensive solutions for constantly changing threats.
 
With three complementary business lines, Nexter Group specialises in a wide range of land-defence systems.
 
Working in close collaboration, the Group's three business lines offer a full range of Products and Services, from systems design to operational maintenance.
 
Nexter's strategy is based on several guiding principles. It strives to enhance continuously its manufacturing plants, seeking to improve responsiveness, performance and environmental safety. Through a research and development policy that welcomes partnerships, Nexter adapts its product line to constantly changing threats. Its entire team is committed to achieving customer satisfaction and upholding company values.
 
Nexter has 2,720 employees, with sales of €1,286 million in 2009, compared with €560 million in 2008. The company invests 16% of its revenue in research and development.
 
Descending from Giat Industries, Nexter is continuing a long tradition that could be considered to start in the XVII century, during the reign of Louis XIV in France, when the Royal Arsenal was created at the Bastille, and Colbert developed the arms manufacturing sites.

 

 

 

Dr. Ian Cullis, Founding Member of the International Ballistics Society Board of Directors

Founding Lifetime Fellow of the IBS

 

 

 
 
QinetiQ is a leading international provider of technology-based services and solutions to the defence, security and related markets. We develop and deliver services and solutions for government organisations, predominantly in the UK and US, including defence departments, intelligence services and security agencies. In addition, we provide technology insertion and consultancy services to commercial and industrial customers around the world.
 
Providing the armed services with independent advice, assurance and effects that deliver battle-winning military advantages
 
Materials, Protection and all areas of Ballistics Science and Engineering as well as…
 
Technical Assurance
 
We provide Technical Assurance and have a wealth of experience in providing advice and support to acquisition programmes. We are uniquely placed to understand the technological risks and the approaches needed to deliver a battle-winning advantage.
Visit our website to find out how much more we can do for you from fundamental research through applied research to engineering solutions.

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Founding Gold Providers

 

 

 

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is a nonprofit engineering R&D center.  The main facility is a 1200-acre campus in San Antonio, Texas where over 3000 employees perform contract research for both government and industry.

SwRI's Engineering Dynamics Department in the Mechanical Engineering Division works on armor and impact physics.

1. SwRI maintains multiple indoor and outdoor ballistic range facilities, where small and medium arms are tested against various armor configurations.

2. At a facility further out of town large explosive tests, including land mines, IEDs, and arena tests are performed to assess the survivability of vehicles and structures.

3. Low, medium, and high-strain-rate laboratory testing facilities provide the ability to characterize materials and then develop constitutive models for use in computational tools.

4. SwRI has extensive experience with the three primary software tools used for ballistics and explosive-loading: CTH, LS-DYNA, and EPIC.  SwRI has modified all three for new constitutive models and boundary conditions.

Thus, SwRI's numerical work is directly applicable and available to the armor community.

The armor and shielding program at SwRI has been funded over the years by the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Department of Energy, NASA, and DARPA.

Please, visit www.engineeringdynamics.swri.org for more information or www.swri.org/PMSC/default.htm for the Penetration Mechanics weeklong course taught every year.

 

 

 

China Ordnance Society

Founded in April, 1964 and affiliated with the China Association for Science and Technology, the China Ordnance Society is an academic social group composed of science and technology workers for China Ordnance.

The purpose of the China Ordnance Society is to serve the defense construction and economic development by organizing science and technology workers and to promote and develop scientific ideas and disciplines. Its main task is to organize academic exchange, publish academic periodicals, promote the development of science and technology, propagate scientific information and popularize scientific knowledge.

The Society has general members, senior members and fellows and so on. It has all together 21120 members, among which more than 533 are senior members and 33 are fellows. Currently, the Society has 40 specialized committees which includes ballistics, ammunition, fire explosives, artillery, rocket missiles, small arms, fuses, explosive initiator and pyrotechnics, measuring and testing techniques, automatic control, techniques of explosion and safety and tank armored vehicles.

The Society sponsors and publishes dozens of scientific and technical periodicals or popular science journals such as Journal of China Ordnance, Journal of Ballistics, Journal of Gun Launch & Control, Journal of Explosives & Propellants, Industrial Explosive Materials, Optics Technology, Vehicle Engineering, Journal of Detection & Control, Ordnance Knowledge and Small Arms. The Society also publishes a certain amount of conference proceedings every year. It has successfully held domestic or international academic conferences in the fields of tank armored vehicles, artillery, small arms, explosives & pyrotechnics, reliability, measurement & testing, optics and combustion inhibiting.

www.cos.org.cn

 

 

 

Earth, Horizon, Space ... Weibel Scientific Reaches Further!

Weibel Scientific is the global leader in the market for advanced Doppler radar systems. For over fifty years, we have been designing, manufacturing, and delivering cutting-edge velocity and position measuring instruments to customers around the world. Weibel radars are used to protect lives on the ground, in flight, and in space.

For more information on our products, please visit our website

www.weibel.dk

 

 


 

Founding Silver Providers

 

 

 

Mr. Jack Riegel, President of R3 Technology, Inc

President International Ballistics Society; Founding Member of the IBS Board of Directors

Founding Lifetime Member of the IBS

IBS Fellow

 

 

R3 Technology, Inc is a small business offering business and engineering services to prime contractors and government clients.  The company is led by Mr. Jack Riegel.  Mr. Riegel has 32 years ballistics, explosive phenomenology, and business process experience.  Mr. Riegel is the founding President of the International Ballistics Society.

R3 Technology maintains headquarters in Virginia.  The company has expertise in dynamic analysis (blast, armor), machine design, chem-bio, textiles, battery technology, lean six sigma, proposal management, black hat and red team reviews, and executive coaching.

In addition to supporting the International Ballistics Society, we are members of the Association of the US Army (AUSA), Armed Forces Communications Electronics Association (AFCEA), Air Force Association (AFA), National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), and the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP).

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Cage Code: 5V2B0  DUNS 833140648.

www.r3-technology.com    jriegel@r3-technology.com

Voice:  (703) 879 - 4501     Fax: (210) 858-5107



 

 

Prof. Klaus Thoma
Director of EMI

Lifetime Founding Member of the International Ballistics Society

International Ballistics Society Fellow

 

 

The Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, known under the name  Ernst-Mach-Institut (EMI) is one of the 60 institutes of the German Fraunhofer society. Fraunhofer is a non profit organization which specialises in applied research and has close links to German government authorities. It is the biggest research organization in its field in Germany and one of the essential European research organizations.  EMI adopts interdisciplinary and comprehensive material strategies to investigate impact, shock and penetration phenomena by experiment and simulation concerning:

•Modeling of material behavior under dynamic loading (strain-rate influence, failure behavior) applied to the whole spectrum of materials ranging from ceramics via metals to polymers and composites

•The development of mathematical models for dynamic material behavior, deployed in the fields of continuum mechanics, mesomechanics, mircomechanics

•The development of new measuring methods for dynamic material properties, guided by the necessity to deliver data for numerical modeling

•The development and application of new sensors and measuring techniques in high-speed physics (high pressures, high strain rates, short time spans)

•The development of numerical computing methods in structural dynamics, fluid mechanics and the coupling of fluid-structure interaction

The solutions acquired at EMI by experimental, computer-based and analytical methods aim at improving the security and reliability of components and structures under dynamic loads. Typical applications are armour and antiarmour, protection against space debris, hypervelocity impacts, light gas guns, light weight armour, impact and crash, sensors and electronics for harsh environments, development of new materials using methods of computational physics, security research, car crash analysis.

Positioned at the interface between basic research and industrial application, EMI puts great emphasis on integrated experimental-numerical research. As well nationally as internationally, EMI ranks among the best addresses concerning this claim.

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

Specialised Imaging is an award winning, dynamic company focused on the design and manufacture of ultra high-speed imaging systems for industrial, scientific and defence research applications. Formed in 2003, the founding directors previously worked together in the high speed imaging field and each brought over 20 years experience to the venture. This experience combined with a commitment to innovation and development has positioned the company as an exciting and creative leader in the high-speed camera market.

We enjoy problems, and we enjoy finding solutions.

At Specialised Imaging we are passionate about creating specific solutions for our clients and to that end, will design and develop new functions and facilities for our systems to exactly match customer requirements.

This level of commitment and support continues throughout the life of the product – on-going advice, problem-solving and the design and reconfiguration of software are all part of our comprehensive after-sales service.

The Specialised Imaging has products ranges ideally suited to the field of ballistic research, such as our Multi Channel Framing Camera (SIM) that can take up to 32 high resolution digital images at a frame rate of up to 1 billion frames per second, the Range Camera (SIR3) which has been ruggedized to withstand the harsh environment of ballistic proving grounds and will give one or two 11 million pixel images with exposure time as short as 10 nanosecond and our Tracker flight follower system which is used to observe the performance of a projectile over a significant portion of its trajectory by using a precision controlled positive feedback scanning mirror and a high speed video camera.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MS Instruments PLC – Manufacturers of Ballistic Measuring Instrumentation, Range Design and Live-fire Training Facilities

The leading innovators in the design and manufacture of Ballistic Measurement instrumentation and Live-Fire Training Equipment for both ground and air training. combined with the facilities and expertise of Wiltshire Ballistic Services enables MS Instruments to provide proven, rugged and well built products for most internal and external applications. Our products are used by a number of manufacturing companies, Governments and Armed Forces worldwide and once combined with our leading edge software, this instrumentation delivers flexible and individually tailored solutions. Our equipment is designed to be of the highest accuracy and due to the fact that our equipment is in constant use in testing at Wiltshire Ballistic Services we continuously develop our products. MS Instruments strive to be the world experts on ballistic instrumentation and because of this we have been approached to work on specialised projects and have since developed a covert vehicle protection system for both close protection and possible live-fire environment protection. At MS Instruments we pride ourselves on lifetime care of our products and have expert support all over the world enabling us to network closely with our overseas customers.
As well as being a part of the Ballistic ToolKit which is a group of 40 companies all specialising in ballistic products, we can provide complete ballistic solutions with the co-operation of these companies and their resources, MS Instruments presents the capabilities of a large company with the personal detail only a small company can offer. 
 

 www.msinstruments.co.uk

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

ABAL : The Department of Weapon Systems & Ballistics of the Belgian Royal Military Academy

The department of weapons systems & ballistics is unique as it is the only place in Belgium to teach courses in ballistics and weapon systems on a university level. The department is equipped with a modern laboratory containing a 102 m in-door range. Several research projects are performed within the department and its expertise is used for the benefit of multiple third parties (military and civilian).

 Our department ensures a high quality education through a strong theoretical knowledge combined with state of the art practicals.

 The choice and use of high-level educational methods is one of our major concerns. Through students feedback and permanent assessment, we improve every day.

 Our knowledge is supported and updated by selected and efficiently supervised research activities.

 The know-how of our laboratory is continuously updated and extended by innovative trials for third parties.

 ABAL is member of IBS, Dymat, ARA, VPAM, EEMLS and CIP.

www.rma.ac.be/en/rma%20-%20weapon%20systems%20and%20ballistics.html

 

 


 

Platinum Providers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Gold Providers

 

 

 

 

 


Engineering Services & Software
for Defence Industry and Government Agencies

 

NUMERICS is an engineering services and software development company located close to Munich, Germany. We are serving our customers world-wide with innovative tailored solutions to their problems in the complete field of ballistics: from detonation to terminal effects and from constitutive modeling to vulnerability and lethality analyses.

NUMERICS offers a broad range of supporting consultancy services designed to meet the clients’ specific needs, including

  • specialist software development,
  • product development and optimization,
  • turnkey analyses and
  • technical training courses.

We are in permanent contact with universities and other research organizations to include modern technologies, modern methods, and the state-of-the-art in physical and engineering research in all our products and services.

NUMERICS is proud to support the International Ballistics Society as a Corporate Member.

For further information, please visit www.numerics-gmbh.de/en.
 

 
 

 

 

 

 

"THE DIFFERENCE"

TDW Gesellschaft für verteidigungstechnische Wirksysteme mbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of MBDA Germany, is experienced in the design and manufacture of warheads, and the associated fuzes and safe & arm devices. TDW designs and manufactures all kinds of warhead systems such as shaped-, blast-, blast/fragmentation-, tandem-charges and penetrators for missile system houses worldwide. Our key technologies include insensitive explosive charges with outstanding safety even under extreme mechanical and thermal effects which provide nonetheless ultimate destructive performance. Our value creation chain encompasses all of the following activities to their full extent:

  • Design and assessment
  • Development and qualification
  • Manufacture and integration
  • Testing and validation.

TDW focuses research and development on creating a family of warheads that can be adapted to the required effect for the target. To cope with the latest battlefield scenarios like military operations in urban terrain (MOUT), we offer:

  • Switchable Mode Warheads (Dial-a-Mode)
  • Scalable Effects Warheads (Dial-a-Yield)
  • Aimable Warheads (Dial-a-Direction)
  • Multi-Effects Warheads (Dial-an-Effect)
  • Intelligent Penetrator Fuzes.

Our on-site test range comprises a full suite of environmental and detonation test facilities, as well as the according state-of-the-art measuring equipment for high-speed dynamics. As a full-service company at one integral site in Schrbenhausen, Germany, the value created for our customers ranges from the fundamental research on detonation physics, engineering of warheads to qualification and manufacturing. That is the difference.

For further information, please visit www.tdw-warhead-systems.com.
Phone:    +49 8252 99 6592
Fax:        +49 8252 99 6120
tdw.contact@mbda-systems.de

 


Silver Providers

 

 

 

 

BOGGES is a company focussed on research, development, testing and expertise in the field of ballistic and blast protection. Our team is ready to fulfil your requirements for personnel and vehicle survivability development and enhancement based on advanced materials and technologies.

We are providing the services and products, which will help you to achieve the following objectives:

  • To protect against ballistic threat: Testing and certification of vehicle, personnel and critical infrastructure protection. Complete design route of vehicle armour from integration study on 3D model through preparation of armour panels for ballistic testing up to the vehicle armour prototype production and its full certification according to relevant international and national standards.
  • To protect against mines and IED threat: Design route of vehicle blast protection from numerical simulation through blast tests of panel samples to the blast tests of real vehicle. Testing, development and evaluation of protection against landmines and IEDs including Explosively Formed Projectiles charges.
  • To protect against warheads: Static tests using shaped charge (RPG and ATGM warheads): e.g. testing of reactive armour and spall-liners. Dynamic tests using RPGs and ATGMs: e.g. testing of SLAT armour or active armour solutions.
  • Other requirements: Material expertise. Advanced equipment and skilled experts in the field of terminal ballistic, material characterization and analysis: high speed camera, HYBRID III dummy, acceleration and overpressure sensors, mechanical properties testing, SEM microscopy with EDX, WDX and EBSD, X-ray diffraction, heating microscopy, high temperature dilatometry, environmental testing, etc.

BOGGES goal is to fulfil your requirements by combination of high flexibility, skilled team of experts and utilization of most recent equipment and testing facilities.
For more information please visit our website: http://www.bogges.eu

E-mail: info@bogges.eu

Phone: +420 777 248 604

 

 

 

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