The  Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Technology Conference  (AVFOP'11) will be held 4-6 October 2011 at the Holiday Inn on the Bay,  San Diego, California, USA.  For this conference, AVFOP '11 will  continue the tradition of bringing together scientists from academia and  industry to share recent developments in the field. The aerospace  industry has made great strides in recent years deploying fiber optics  and photonics technology on commercial and military platforms. This  trend will continue to grow as avionics fiber optic system  architectures, networking schemes, and components evolve and mature. In  parallel with data and ideo transmission, photonics technology for  analog/RF, flight control, free-space communication, and vehicle  monitoring applications will have an increasing role in future aerospace  platforms. This application-oriented conference will provide a common  international forum for leaders, researchers, engineers, technicians,  logisticians, manufacturers, and instructors to convene and discuss all  aspects of severe environment fiber optic component, systems,  reliability, maintainability, producibility and supportability  technology, and its future direction.