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Published by: SMI Publishing, Ltd
Published: Feb. 16, 2005
Table of Contents
- Day 1
- 8.30 Registration & Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Professor Ian Poll OBE, Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Technical Director, Cranfield Aerospace Ltd.
- 9.10 ENHANCING ISR CAPABILITIES
- Meeting future requirements through technological advancements
- Ensuring maximum capability in all weathers at all times
- The new battlefield - challenges ahead in ensuring capability
- Current developments in ISR technology
- The potential of technology
- Dr David Hull, Technical Capability Leader, ISTAR, Dstl Analysis.
- 9.50 PERSISTENT ISR
- UAV/UCAV capabilities of the future
- Integrating air breathing persistent ISR concepts
- Capability focused tech investment - a process for delivering integrated tech suites
- Current programmes within the AFRL
- Emerging requirements from recent future capability gap analysis
- The future of persistent ISR and the UAV
- Colonel Michael Leahy, Material Group Director, Air Vehicles, Air Force Research Laboratory, US Air Force.
- 10.30 Morning Coffee
- 11.00 OPPORTUNITIES AND ADVANCES IN EMPLOYMENT AND EXPLOITATION OF COALITION ISR
- Multinational ISR interoperability and integration programmes
- Coalition ISR systems - an historical perspective
- Coalition ISR operations - the Commander’s role
- ISR interoperability and integration
- Experimentation in the operational environment
- Operational and technical advances for coalition ISR capabilities
- Mr John Mahaffey, Senior Scientist, NATO C3 Agency.
- 11.40 PANEL DISCUSSION
- Achieving maximum persistent surveillance capability within a coalition force - where do we have to focus our efforts in the short and long term future
- Chaired By: Professor Ian Poll OBE , Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Technical Director , Cranfield Aerospace
- Dr David Hull, Technical Capability Leader, ISTAR, Dstl Analysis.
- Colonel Michael Leahy, Material Group Director, Air Vehicles, Air Force Research Laboratory, US Air Force.
- Mr John Mahaffey, Senior Scientist, NATO C3 Agency.
- 12.20 Networking Lunch
- 1.50 MANNED AND UNMANNED ISR SYSTEMS
- A Hellenic Armed Forces Perspective
- NATO staff requirements for 21st century operations
- Functions of the transatlantic industrial proposed solution
- Integration of co-operative radar
- Analysis of the Prague Summit
- The impact of NATO actions on international programs
- Major Nikolaos Koutras, Program Manager, ISTAR, Signals Directorate, Hellenic Army General Staff/Signal div.
- Major Gianopoulos, Assistant Programme Manager, ISTAR, Signals Directorate, Hellenic Army General Staff/Signal div.
- 2.30 ALLIANCE GROUND SURVEILLANCE
- ISR for Battle Management: the role of NATO AGS
- AGS Program Progress Report - toward a deployable AGS capability for NATO and the EU
- Responding to NATO military requirement
- NATO AGS mixed fleet architecture and assets
- Supporting the network: interdependence of C2 and ISR
- Adapting ISR architecture to operational scenario
- Mr James Moseman, Director, Europe & NATO, South Wales Police.
- 3.10 Afternoon Tea
- 3.40 CANADIAN ISR CAPABILITIES
- Leveraging the potential of inhabited and uninhabited ISR through experimentation
- Current and potential ISR capabilities through net enabled operations
- Results from recent CFEC experimentation (the Pacific and Atlantic Littoral ISR Experiments)
- Lessons learned and emerging future requirements for ISR stemming from this experimentation
- The need for continued experimentation and advanced concept development
- Integration of experimentation results and the UAV Joint Program Office
- Mr Paul Comeau, Head Operations Research, Canadian Forces Experimentation Centre.
- 4.20 IMAGE EXPLOITATION AT THE SENSOR
- The increasing role of surveillance
- The increase in sensor types and sensor resolution
- Why the current exploitation scheme is problematic
- Migration to platform exploitation
- The new focus on deploying algorithms
- Brian Hoerl, Business Group Manager, Defence Technology Business Segment, Mercury Computer Systems .
- 5.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
- Day 2
- 8.30 Re-registration & Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Professor Ian Poll OBE, Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Technical Director, Cranfield Aerospace Ltd.
- 9.10 NATO INTEGRATION
- Incorporating multiple aspects of ISR
- NATO integration of ISR with AGS and UAVs
- Using integration of services to enhance the missions of NATO
- Integration of air to ground assets
- Increasing information for future roles of missions
- Major General Gary Winterberger, NAEW&C Force Commander, NATO Airborne Early Warning Force.
- 9.50 THE INTEGRATION OF TECHNOLOGY WITHIN FUTURE ISR
- Technological advances within space based systems to enhance threat reduction
- The need for effective research and development
- Technological advancements and their potential impact upon future capabilities
- The application with UAVs and other platforms
- Dr Douglas Beason, Director ISR, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- 10.30 Morning Coffee
- 11.00 THE FUTURE OF EMBEDDED COMPUTING FOR PERSISTENT SURVEILLANCE
- Current state of Embedded computing for surveillance
- What technology trends are driving deployed systems decisions?
- Faster, hotter processors
- Faster interconnect fabrics
- Software trends for persistent surveillance
- Mr Joey Sevin, Director of Business Development, Radar Business, Mercury Computer Systems.
- 11.40 UK PERSPECTIVE OF FUTURE UAV STRATEGY
- Incorporating the UAV into future MoD operational strategy and planning
- Current and future capability
- Where does the UAV ‘fit it’, now and in the future?
- What we must include within strategy integration?
- The Joint Force - how must we adapt operational strategy, planning and execution to accommodate future coalition requirements?
- Wing Commander Andrew Jeffrey, DAS-UAV, Ministry of Defence.
- Major Andrew Page, SO2 ISTAR, Directorate of Joint Capability, Ministry of Defence.
- 12.20 Networking Lunch
- 1.50 THE IMPLICATIONS OF FUTURE SURVEILLANCE
- SAR within UAVs and AGS - meeting the requirements
- The need for effective research and development within radar systems
- Technological advancements and their potential impact upon future capabilities
- Radar capabilities/systems of the future - advanced SAR?
- Future radar technology integration within UAVs and AGS
- Maximising information extraction
- Mr Peter Hoogeboom, Senior Advisor Radar, TNO Defence, Security and Safety.
- 2.30 THE IMPACT OF THE MALE UAV UPON ISR WITHIN THE ROYAL NETHERLANDS AIR FORCE
- The potential capability increase
- Bridging the gap - current and future UAVs and ISTAR capability of the RNLAF
- ISTAR missions of the future and MALE UAVs role within these missions
- Conceptual development to testing - the project currently and results so far
- The future of the MALE UAV and UAVs within the RNLAF
- Major Armand Goossens, Technical Officer, MALE UAV Project Team, Royal Netherlands Air Force.
- 3.10 CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVED UAV AUTONOMY AND RELIABILITY
- The future of UAV technology
- Concept of autonomy
- UAV hardware and software for autonomous flight operations
- Control strategies for improved UAV autonomy - mission planning to envelope protection
- Future research and development directions - UAV fault-tolerant control and co-operative control of multiple UAVs
- Professor George Vachtsevanos, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute Of Technology.
- 3.50 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Conference
AbstractRecent conflicts have illustrated that ISR is a fundamental aspect of warfare today. The inclusion of UAVs in this area has widened the scope to fight conflicts from the command room, rather than using battletanks and man-to-man operations in the field. With rising technology in the defence sector today, it is more important than ever to understand how best to deploy UAVs and utilise ISTAR actions in the battlefield, and how these actions are affecting international defence strategies.
Persistent Surveillance will address the ongoing advancements in ISTAR, demonstrating the current capability, as well as future developments in getting intelligence to the warfighter. Through lessons learned in recent operations, case studies will show the successes in surveillance, particularly through the application of unmanned vehicles and ISR integration. Future technologies, trends and techniques will also be assessed. Major General Gary Winterberger (Commander, NATO Early Warning and Control Force, NATO’s only operational command) will be delivering a keynote presentation regarding ISR integration within NATO.
This events panel of industry experts will provide you with an unparalleled opportunity to network and to learn key issues that are impacting upon Persistent Surveillance. This conference therefore should not be missed by anyone involved in the industry.
Guest Speakers at Persistent Surveillance include:
- Major General Gary Winterberger, Commander, NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Force
- Colonel Michael Leahy (PhD), Material Group Director, Air Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, US Air Force
- Colonel (Ret’d) Herb Kemp, Vice President, SRA International
- Wing Commander Andrew Jeffrey, DAS-UAV, Ministry of Defence, UK
- Major Armand Goossens, Technical Officer, MALE UAV, Royal Netherlands Air Force
- Major Nikolaos Koutras, G-1, Section Electronic Warfare - Surveillance, Communication Directorate, General Staff, Hellenic Army
- Major Gianopoulos, G-2, Section Electronic Warfare - Surveillance, Communication Directorate, General Staff, Hellenic Army
- John Mahaffey, Senior Scientist, NATO C3 Agency
- Dr David Hull, Technical Capability Leader, ISTAR, DSTL
- Paul Comeau, Operational Research Lead, Canadian Forces Experimentation Centre, Canadian National Defence Headquarters
- Dr J Douglas Beason (Col Ret’d) , Director, ISR, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
- Professor Peter Hoogeboom, Senior Advisor, TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
- Professor Ian Poll OBE, Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Technical Director, Cranfield Aerospace
- Professor George J Vachtsevanos, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Dr David Jordan, Defence Studies Lecturer, King’s College London
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