Call for contributions
What a contribution is
The workshop is not a venue for survey talks or capability overviews. Each contribution is organized around a single, concrete radiation acceptance decision and states five things:
- The conventional requirement or practice, and where it comes from: a standard, a project policy, or inherited practice.
- The proposed alternative: the relaxed, replaced, or differently structured requirement, or the case that the conventional requirement should stand.
- The evidence supporting the alternative: test data, flight data, analysis, or published work, with enough specificity that the audience can judge it.
- The conditions under which the alternative would fail: the environments, technologies, applications, or data gaps that would make it the wrong call.
- The data or analysis still needed to support the alternative at the confidence a project would require.
A contribution that argues for retaining a requirement is welcome on the same terms. The point is to make the margin explicit and to attach it to an uncertainty, not to remove it for its own sake.
Formats
- Invited talk
- A short presentation that opens one of the six priority discussions. Talk lengths will be set when the program is assembled; expect the presentation to be brief and the discussion to be long.
- Case study
- A worked example from a real program, presented in the five-part structure above, used to anchor a discussion or the closing panel.
- Panel question
- A question submitted for the closing panel, with the submitter's own proposed answer and the evidence for it. Panel questions do not require the submitter to present.
Selection
Contributions are reviewed by the organizers. Selection weighs the concreteness of the acceptance decision, the quality and specificity of the evidence, relevance to a priority discussion or a case study slot, and balance across sectors so that cadence-driven programs, qualification-driven programs, government, primes, suppliers, and research institutions are each represented. Contributions that identify a clear knowledge gap are generally preferred over contributions that report a settled result.
Releasability
The workshop is open and internationally attended. Contributions must be limited to publicly releasable material. No controlled unclassified information, no ITAR or other export-controlled technical data, and no proprietary data without the owner's consent. Submitters attest to this on the proposal form. If you are uncertain whether material is releasable, resolve that with your organization before submitting.
Dates
- Proposals due
- 15 January 2027
- Notifications
- 1 February 2027
- Program posted
- 1 March 2027
How to submit
Use the concept proposal form. The form asks for the five elements above, your preferred format, and whether you are willing to present. Proposals from people who do not intend to present are also welcome; they inform the program and the knowledge-gap catalogue.