Engineering & Research

The U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center (Natick), located in Natick, Massachusetts, is the Army’s one-stop soldier-support organization. Natick is responsible for researching, developing, fielding, and managing food, clothing, shelters, airdrop systems, and soldier support items.

Parks College of Engineering, Aviation, and Technology at St. Louis University aims to (1) advance the state of knowledge on the aerodynamics and other basic physical processes involved in the deployment, inflation and flight of circular and square parachutes; (2) expose Saint Louis University undergraduate and graduate students to the latest in parachute science and technology, and (3) help the parachute industry develope safer, more technologically advanced, and less expensive products.

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Computer-aided simulation & design. Applied results on parachutes in flight simulation (structural, aerodynamic and aeroelastic analysis).