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Published by: SMI Publishing, Ltd
Published: Sep. 27, 2006
Table of Contents
- Day 1
- 8.30 Registration & Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Mr Paul Kennedy, Independent Consultant- Information Systems & Management Consultants, Independent Consultant.
- 9.10 LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCES
- Practical examples in France and lessons learnt
- Commander Thomas Lockhart, C4ISTAR Leader, General Staff, , French Navy.
- 9.50 COMMAND AND CONTROL AND INFORMATION FUSION IN SWEDEN
- Fusion research for battle groups
- New methods for C2 and information fusion and new situations faced in MOOTW settings
- Increasing situational awareness - classifying opponents based on capabilities to affect us
- The increasing need for human-in-the-loop systems and the requirement for technologies such as mixed-initiative interaction
- Methods for accessing and changing knowledge bases e.g. wiki technology
- Interoperability as a basic requirement for future systems
- Dr Pontus Svenson, Scientist, Swedish Defence Research Agency.
- 10.30 Morning Coffee
- 11.00 ENVIRONMENTAL DATA FUSION
- Environmental Fusion Capability
- Overview of current and future practice for provision and exploitation of environmental Information within UK Defence
- What Industry should realise
- Examples of how we envisage meeting future tactical and operational requirements
- Lieutenant Colonel Craig Cowan RE, SO1 Geospatial, Ministry Of Defence, UK.
- 11.40 THE SMART DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM (SDSS)
- Parsimoniously gathering, fusing and presenting information
- 12.20 Networking Lunch
- 2.00 BEYOND THE HIGHER LEVELS OF DATA FUSION
- Supporting military intelligence processing
- Modelling heuristic intelligence processing
- Supporting processing steps in intelligence (JDL level 2 and 3)
- Templating: A qualitative approach to information fusion for situation awareness and threat assessment
- Knowledge based information fusion in defence and security (examples)
- Ongoing research and challenges in high level information fusion
- Mr Joachim Biermann, Senior Scientist, F G A N / F K I E.
- 2.40 DATA FUSION IN THE BIGGER TACTICAL PICTURE
- The evolving role of closed loop sensor and data fusion in NCW/NEC ISRT
- Description of a preliminary analysis of the feasibility of man-packable sensor nets using miniaturized tactical ISR assets
- Description of hands on experiments and proof of concept demonstrations of critical technology components.
- Description of demonstrations utilizing miniature aerial vehicles and advanced algorithms for video stream geo-registration
- Discussion of military operational utility of sensor nets for advanced ISRT
- Dr William Torrez, Scientist,SSC SD, Spawarsyscen San Diego.
- 3.20 DEVELOPMENTS IN CIVIL TECHNOLOGY
- Impact on needs for data and information fusion
- Civil technology evolving faster than military technology
- How do we integrate civil and military technology?
- How will problem space have changed in ten year’s time?
- Dr Andrew Tilbrook, Director, Data and Information Fusion DTC, General Dynamics C4S.
- 4.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks, followed by Afternoon Tea
- Close of Day One
- Mr Paul Kennedy, Independent Consultant- Information Systems & Management Consultants, Independent Consultant.
- Day 2
- 8.30 Registration & Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Mr Paul Kennedy, Independent Consultant- Information Systems & Management Consultants, Independent Consultant.
- 9.10 DATA FUSION DEVELOPMENTS
- A NATO perspective
- A standards based approach
- Current abilities in data fusion
- Goals and requirements in data fusion
- Dr Paul Howland, Principal Scientist, NATO C3 Agency.
- 9.50 ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES RELATING TO DATA FUSION, AGENTS AND SIMULATION
- Multi-sensor integration research
- A simulation challenge
- Data fusion perspectives
- Advanced technologies
- An integrated picture
- Mr Bryan Talbot, Advanced Missions Division, Northrop Grumman Information Technology.
- 10.30 Morning Coffee
- 11.00 DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NETWORKS
- Decentralising data fusion
- Decentralised control
- Sensor networks
- Intelligent agents and multi-agent systems
- Professor Nicholas Jennings, , University Of Southampton.
- 11.40 INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSION
- Multi-target tracking and multi-sensor fusion
- Colonel Charles H Murray, Director, Global Communications and Information, Air Force Command and Control and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center, US Air Force
- Joseph Ross, Principal Scientist, Command and Control, NATO C3 Agency
- Professor Nicholas Jennings, Professor of Computer Science and Head of Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, University of Southampton
- Chaired by: Paul Kennedy, Independent Consultant, Information Systems and Management Consultancy
- 12.20 Networking Lunch
- 2.00 INTELLIGENT AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS
- Fusion around the OODA Loop
- Picture compilation
- Shared Situation Assessment
- Decentralised decision making
- Multiple platform autonomy
- Dr David Nicholson, Executive Scientist, BAE SYSTEMS.
- 2.40 FUTURE CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS
- Responding to the demands of future data fusion methods
- Unexpected threats, targets and situations
- Network Centric Operations and distributed data fusion
- Integrating human and automatic decision making
- Integrating data fusion, data mining and sensor management
- Integrating across the data fusion levels: signal target, situation, threat, and performance assessment
- Achieving trustworthiness: test and evaluation of multi-sensor and distributed systems
- Mr Alan Steinberg, Independent Consultant, SGE.
- 3.20 DATA FUSION: EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT
- Where is information fusion heading?
- Mr Paul Kennedy, Independent Consultant- Information Systems & Management Consultants, Independent Consultant.
- 4.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks, followed by Afternoon Tea
- Close of Conference
- Mr Paul Kennedy, Independent Consultant- Information Systems & Management Consultants, Independent Consultant.
AbstractAccurate and efficient management of information on the battlefield is vital for successful military operations. The process of collecting, collating, integrating and interpreting data must be achieved whilst ensuring that no information is lost.
By considering international perspectives on fusion management and key concepts and application, SMi's 8th annual Military Data Fusion conference will provide an update on developments world-wide. It will identify concerns in technological advancement, analysing current and future requirements, as well as determining the major challenges faced, and how these challenges can be resolved.
- REVIEW the main issues driving current and future requirements for military data fusion
- EXAMINE current information fusion applications and methods
- ANALYSE practical examples and lessons learnt, analysing the current ability to achieve information security
- DISCUSS future challenges and possible solutions
- NETWORK with key decision-makers and industry experts in this international forum
An international speaker line-up includes:
- Lieutenant Colonel Craig Cowan, SO1 Requirements DIJE, Ministry of Defence, UK
- Pontus Svenson, Scientist, Information Fusion, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)
- Dr William Torrez, Scientist, SPAWARSYSCOM, US Navy
- Joachim Biermann, Senior Scientist, FGAN-FKIE
- Alan Steinberg, Senior Research Scientist, CUBRC
Chaired by: Paul Kennedy, Independent Consultant, Information Systems and Management Consultancy
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