Objectives

1. Promote progressive projects and meetings in the survivability discipline.
2. Reconfirm key issues in the survivability field (annually).
3. Identify key technical survivability challenges expected in the short-term (2-5 years) and long-term (5+ years).
4. Identify out-of-the-box survivability issues. i.e. space survivability, earth survivability (meteor strike), sustainability, crashworthiness - NASA safety/survivability initiatives ($500M Three Pillars project).
5. Develop and maintain a list of current Survivability studies, projects, programs within government, industry, academia.

STC Membership

6. Identify and recruit missing STC talent, such as chem/bio expertise, government (NASA, USAF) reps, major program reps. Member limit = 35. 
7. Recruit 1-2 Associate Members (under 32 years of age).
8. Collect and publish member biographies.
9. Identify outstanding Survivability papers for potential publication in AIAA journal/magazine.

STC Business Operations

10. Conduct Steering Committee meeting a least two months prior to full STC meeting. Use 'virtual meetings' when possible.
11. Increase participation and responsibilities of the sub-committee chairs.
12. The STC Chair will coach, facilitate, and coordinate with AIAA. Members need to accept ownership and reap benefits of the STC activities.
13. Establish measurable goals and milestones to accomplish selected tasks.
14. Utilize name cards at meetings (identify members and guests).