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Published by: SMI Publishing, Ltd
Published: Nov. 27, 2006
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 Limited.
- 9.10 UK VISION OF UNMANNED VEHICLES
- The role of UVs in the UK military
- Current and future capabilities
- Benefits
- Requirements for operability
- Aims and requirements for developing UVs
- Future UK strategy
- Group Captain Harry Hallet, , Permanent Joint Headquarters.
- 9.50 NATO UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS
- UAS capabilities
- Current NATO UAS capabilities
- Future NATO UAS capabilities
- NATO UAS standards, working group and research
- Issues and challenges of UAS in NATO
- The NATO flight plan for unmanned aircraft systems
- Colonel Daniel Lewandowski, Chief Space Systems, NATO.
- Lieutenant Colonel Mihai Stir, Future Capabilities Branch Officer, NATO.
- 10.30 Morning Coffee
- 11.00 OPERATIONS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN
- Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Fitzgerald, Commanding Officer 32nd Regiment, British Army.
- Major Paul Tombleson RA, Second in Command, 32nd Regiment Royal Artillery, British Army.
- 11.40 HOMELAND SECURITY
- Border Protection
- Protection
- Border surveillance
- Threats
- Use of UAV's in homeland security
- Major General (ret'd) Michael Kostelnik, Assistant Commissioner, DHS, U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
- 12.20 Networking Lunch
- 1.50 THE ROYAL AIRFORCE PREDATOR EXPERIENCE
- UAV vision
- UAV road map
- UAV issues legacy and future
- Some recent UK successes
- Squadron Leader Richard Sanderson, SO2 RPA, Ministry of Defence, UK.
- 2.30 FLYING UAV’S IN SEGREGATED AIRSPACE
- A step toward solving the issues of Sense and avoidance, pilot certification and secure data links for UAV's
- Setting the baselines for Sense and avoidance, pilot certification and Secure Data links
- The need for manufacturer, user and air traffic controller interface in testing
- Reducing the research and development costs
- The need for flight test data
- The need for a large designated test and evaluation area that can be restricted when needed
- Captain Robert Kendall, International Training Programs, Foreign Military Training Programs, Canadian Forces.
- 3.10 Afternoon Tea
- 3.40 CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENTS AND LESSONS LEARNT EMPLOYING UVS
- Recent operational use
- How do we increase combat effectiveness
- Improved mission performance
- Adapting to operational environments
- Improved command and control
- Effective mission management
- Communication challenges
- Brigadier General Roberto Corsini, Deputy Chief 3rd Department, Ministry of Defence, Italy.
- 4.20 UAVS WITHIN CZECH ARMED FORCES
- Current operations and technology
- Current and future capabilities
- Goals and objectives
- Recent challenges and achievements
- Lieutenant Colonel Radek Stastny, Senior Officer, Ministry Of Defence (Czech.
- 5.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
- Professor Ian Poll OBE, Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Technical Director, Cranfield Aerospace Limited.
- Day 2
- 8.30 Registration & Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Professor Ian Poll OBE, Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Technical Director, Cranfield Aerospace Limited.
- 9.10 USAF UAS S&T
- Future UAS concepts
- ISR and Hunter-Killer Platforms
- Key enabling technologies:
- - Auto air refueling,
- -Sense and avoid,
- -Embedded apertures,
- -Co-operative airspace ops
- Mr Brian Van Vliet, Chief, U S A F A F R L / V A.
- 9.50 TOTAL AUTONOMY?
- The development of intelligent autonomy in unmanned vehicles
- Autonomy development
- Autonomous systems capabilities
- Terms and levels of autonomy
- Adjustable authority
- Human requirements
- Professor Ricardo Sanz, Autonomous Systems Laboratory, Universidad Politecnica De Madrid.
- 10.30 Morning Coffee
- 11.00 THE EUROPEAN DEFENCE AGENCY AND ITS ROLE IN DELIVERING EU MILITARY CAPABILITIES THROUGH UAVS
- Presentation of the EDA
- The EU capability development process
- UAV activities in the EDA
- Colonel Maurice de Langlois, Capability Manager Engage, European Defence Agency.
- 11.40 FGPAS AND CELL BROADBAND ENGINE
- A disruptive technology impacting the current Electronic Warfare and Multi-int CONOPS paradigm
- COTS price/performance comparative technology perspective
- CONOPS advantages using FPGAs v. IBM Broadband Engine technology for deployed and ground based mission critical environments.
- Counter IED
- UAV SIGINT
- Ground station multi-int fusion
- Mr Russ Adamchak, Director, Special Programs, Mercury Computer Systems, Inc..
- 1.00 Networking Lunch
- 1.50 HUMAN FACTORS IN UAVS
- Lieutenant Colonel John Mullin, UAV Capabilities Officer, Materiel Capabilities Division, Marine Corps Combat Development Command, US Marine Corps.
- Dr Dale Richards, H F Consultant, Autonomous Guidance & Telematics, QinetiQ.
- 2.30 EURO CONTROL SPECIFICATIONS
- The use of military UAVs in operational air traffic outside segregated airspace
- Why specifications?
- Regulatory context
- Main issues
- Basic principles
- Separation provision and collision avoidance
- Wing Commander Michael Strong, Eurocontrol Military Expert, EUROCONTROL.
- 3.10 Afternoon Tea
- 3.40 FUTURE MALE UAV OPERATIONS IN THE NETHERLANDS
- Concept of operations and airspace integration in the Netherlands
- Introduction of MALE UAV CONOPS for different missions
- Vision of functionality enhancements and reasons for further research for ground stations
- MALE UAV Intergration in NEC / NCW operations
- Certification and airspace integration preparations for MALE UAV operations in NL
- Major Armand Goossens, Technical Officer,, COMMANDER 970 SQN.
- 4.20 INTEGRATION OF UAV INTO ATM
- Experimental results
- Simulation of UAVs
- Validation of integration concepts in real time ATM-Simulation
- First European flight test results of a UAV aircraft in civil non segregated airspace
- Dr Dirk-Roger Schmitt, Business MAnager ATM, DLR.
- 5.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
- Professor Ian Poll OBE, Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Technical Director, Cranfield Aerospace Limited.
AbstractWe have the technology, now the military have to decide how to use it. As the importance of UAVs is now being recognised in modern military operations we need to decide what the military needs, what’s desirable and what’s possible. SMi’s 6th Annual Conference on The Future of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, will examine current and future UAV operations in the EU and the USA
The programme will address operations and concepts of UAVs with a view to the future battlefield, looking at the key areas that are influencing their use. The conference will investigate the relationship between UAV development and network centric and network-enabled visions, looking at ISTAR capabilities within military operations, autonomy levels in UAVs and the rules and regulations of flying in military and civil airspace.
With an exceptional international line up of speakers, the conference offers case studies from international programmes, allowing attendees to address their key concerns by drawing on the experience of our expert panel of speakers.
With special presentations from:
- Air Brigadier General Roberto Corsini, Deputy Chief 3rd Department, Plans & Policy, Defence General Staff, Italy
- Lieutenant Colonel Daniel P Lewandowski, Chief Space Systems, Combat Air Branch, Joint Air Power Competence Centre, NATO
- Lieutenant Colonel John Mullin, UAV Capabilities Officer, Material Capabilities Division, Marine Corps Combat Development Command, US Marine Corps
- Lieutenant Colonel Nick Fitzgerald, Commanding Officer 32nd Regiment Royal Artillery, British Army
- Colonel Maurice de Langlois, Capability Manager Engage, European Defence Agency
- Major General USAF (Ret) Michael Kostelnik, Assistant Commissioner, Office of CBP Air and Marine, DHS, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
- Wing Commander Andrew Jeffrey, DAS-UAV, Directorate of Air Staff, Ministry of Defence, UK
- Wing Commander Mike Strong, UK Staff Officer, Civil-Military Co-ordination Plan Dept, Eurocontrol
- Major AAHE Goossens MSc, Technical Project Officer, MALE UAV Project Team, Royal Netherlands Air Force
- Major Radek Stastny, Senior Officer, Reconnaissance and EW Department, Ministry of Defence, Czech Republic
- Professor Ricardo Sanz, Autonomous Systems Laboratory, Universidad Politecnica De Madrid
- Dr Dirk-Roger Schmitt, Business Manager ATM, Institut fuer Flugfuehrung, DLR, Germany
Chaired by: Ian Poll OBE, Professor, Aerospace Engineering, Cranfield University and Business Development and Technical Director, Cranfield Aerospace
Benefits of Attending The Future of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles:
- EXPLORE the current military aims for UAV's
- ASSESS the future direction for UAV's
- EXAMINE operational successes capability requirements
- HEAR international perspectives on UAV operations
- NETWORK with key military and industry exper
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