Agenda
I. Emerging Service and Government Missions, Needs & Opportunities
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
“Miniature Air Launched Decoy (MALD) Program Update”
■ MAJOR GENERAL KENNETH ISRAEL, USAF (ret)
Consultant, Raytheon and former Director, Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office (DARO)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
“Future of Airborne ISR and Processing,
Exploitation, and Dissemination”
■ MAJOR GENERAL DARRYL W. BURKE, USAF
Deputy Commander, Joint Functional
Component Command for Intelligence,
Surveillance and Reconnaissance, USSTRATCOM and Deputy Director, Collections Management,Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
• Uncertain Environment • ISR Requirements • ISR and the Defense Strategy • AEW & Joint ISR • PED Challenges • Future Priorities to Improve PED
“Unmanned Aerial Systems in Homeland Security Applications”
■ MAJOR GENERAL RANDOLPH D. “TEX” ALLES, USMC (ret),
Assistant Commissioner, Air and Marine Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
“Perspective on Role for Unmanned Aircraft in the SOUTHCOM ISR Mission”
■ BRIGADIER GENERAL LINDA R. URRUTIA-VARHALL, USAF
Director for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance,
U.S. Southern Command
“Naval Perspective on Unmanned Aircraft Systems”
■ REAR ADMIRAL CHIP MILLER, US NAVY – JUST ADDED!
Director, ISR Capabilities Division, Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV N2/N6F2)
“UAS Spectrum Management Challenges – The Road Ahead”
■ COLONEL DONALD REESE, USAF
Commander, Air Force Spectrum Management Office (AFSMO), Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)
• U.S. Spectrum Environment • International Spectrum Environment • UAS Spectrum Challenges • Concepts to Enhance UAS Spectrum Access
“Canada’s UAV Experience 11/12 Successes, Challenges and Lessons Learned”
■ LIEUTENANT COLONEL SCOTT MUTTON, CF
Section Head, 1 Canadian Air Division/Canadian NORAD
Region Headquarters A3 UAV
“USMC UAS Needs, Initiatives and Requirements”
■ MAJOR DAVE FUNKHOUSER, USMC
UAS Capabilities Officer, Combat Development and Integration Branch,
Total Force Structure Division, Capabilities Development Directorate, Marine Corps Combat Development Command
(MCCDC)
“Marine Corps UAS Needs and Challenges – A MAWTS-1 Perspective”
■ GUNNERY SERGEANT JOSEPH M. LAPI, USMC
Chief, UAS Division, Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics
Squadron One (MAWTS-1) [tentative]
“Naval Research Laboratory UAS Initiatives”
■ MR. AL CROSS
Lead, Vehicle Research, Tactical Electronic Warfare Division, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
II. High Altitude Unmanned Aircraft Systems
“Next Generation High Altitude, Long Endurance UAS”
■ MR. JACK CRONIN
Chief Strategy Officer, Aurora Flight Sciences
“ISIS Program Update”
■ MR. VINCENT SABIO
Program Manager, Integrated Sensor Is Structure (ISIS), DARPA
• What is ISIS? • Airship as a Radar Platform • Build-up from T/R Modules to System • Operational Utility
“HALE UAS for Government and Commercial Applications”
■ MR. DAVID RECORD
Chief Executive Officer, Advanced Unmanned
• Historical Perspectives on Satellite/UAS Solutions • The Opportunity – TPED Challenges & Solutions • The Advanced Unmanned HALE Platform • Drivers for Commercial Growth
III. The Latest on Tactical Unmanned Aircraft
“Market Insight on Israeli UASs”
■ MR. MICHAEL BLADES
Senior Industry Analyst, Frost & Sullivan
• Manufacturers and Systems • Training Companies • Strategic Partnerships (Israeli/Israeli and Israeli/Foreign Company) • Exports and Licensing Agreements • Market Trends, Drivers, Restraints, and Forecasts
“Enabling Optionally Piloted Aircraft (OPA)”
■ COLONEL DAVE SCHRECK, USAF (ret)
Director, UAS and Control Technologies, Rockwell Collins
“Expanding the Capabilities of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA)”
■ MR. SCOTT NYBERG
Senior Marketing Communications Associate, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
• Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper • Gray Eagle • Predator C Avenger • The Next Generation in RPA Payloads
IV. Current and Emerging UAS Payload and Data Initiatives
“Advancing Small-Swap/SWIR Video & Payload Capabilities and the Impact on the
Roadmap for New UAS CONOPS”
■ DR. JOHN TREZZA
Vice President, ISR Systems, United Technologies Corp. (UTC) Aerospace Systems (UTAS)
“UAS Hyperspectral Payloads – Current and Future Capabilities”
■ MR. DAVID BANNON
Chief Executive Officer, Headwall Photonics
“Advancements in FMV Video Streaming for the UAS Platform”
■ MR. JOHN-ISAAC CLARK
Chief Innovation Officer (CnO), Thermopylae Sciences & Technology
“Compact Wide Area Airborne Sensors (WAAS) for UAS”
■ MR. RICHARD STERCHELE
Director, Strategic Development, L-3 Integrated Optical Systems
V. Flying Unmanned Aircraft: Autonomy and Piloting Challenges and Opportunities
“Universal Distributed Management System (UDMS™) Expanding Autonomous Cooperation-Innovations in UxS Development”
■ MR. ROBERT F. DAVIS
Chief Executive Officer, Proxy Technologies, Inc.
• A Short Overview of Proxy Technologies • An Introduction to Various Autonomy Schemes • Multi UAVs with Shared Missions • High Levels of Autonomy for Group Tactical Goals
“UAS Operators and Autonomy”
■ MR. MICHAEL KEATON
Senior Manager, Unmanned Systems, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems
“Onramps to the UAS Profession”
■ COLONEL JERRY LEMIEUX, Ph.D., USAF (ret)
President, Unmanned Vehicle University
