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Published by: SMI Publishing, Ltd
Published: Mar. 15, 2004
Table of Contents
- DAY ONE
- Registration and Coffee
- Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Peter Varnish OBE, Director, International Geopolitical Solutions.
- MULTI-SPECTRAL INTEGRATED SIGNATURE MANAGEMENT
- Enhanced Survivability for Land, Sea & Air Platforms
- Importance of integrated signature management for platform survivability
- Thru-life signature management activities - from concept to disposal
- Signature priorities for land sea and air platforms
- Key aspects of above and below water signatures
- Multi-spectral signatures workshop
- Dudley Bird, Technology Manager, Signature Management, Thales Communications UK.
- INTEGRATED ABOVE WATER SIGNATURE MODELLING
- A cost effective approach to prediction and design
- Radar signature (RCS), IR signature and EMC
- Requirements of signature prediction tools
- Technical, time and cost benefits
- Advantages of an integrated approach
- Background physics
- Worked examples using QinetiQ codes
- Dr Robert Syddall, Project Manager, QinetiQ.
- LAND PLATFORM SIGNATURE REDUCTION
- Development and demonstration of practical reduction techniques
- Modelling
- Means of assessing effectiveness
- Contribution to vehicle and force survivability
- Paul Ratcliff, Team Leader, Signatures, DSTL.
- Morning Coffee
- STEALTH FOR ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLE
- Developments in visual, IR, radar, acoustic and magnetic domains
- Current operational requirements
- Vehicle survivability in land environments
- Current Technology
- Low observable AFV and stealth kits
- Potential developments
- Benoît Pizon, Stealth Expert, Armoured Vehicles, GIAT.
- MISSILE PROPULSION
- Minimum signature from solid propellant rocket motors
- Introduction, examples and current status
- Technologies for flame suppression
- Full performance with stealth
- Boost/sustain design for stealth
- Alternative (non solid propellant) approaches
- The future
- Jim Fleming, , Roxel .
- Konrad Nofer, Senior Ballistician, Roxel .
- Networking Lunch
- COUNTERMEASURES
- Passive Countermeasures
- Overview of total requirement
- Recent technological changes/advances
- Demonstrating an improvement through modelling
- Summary / questions
- Richard Lord CBE, Director Sales & Marketing, Chemring Countermeasures.
- INTEGRATED SHIP TOPSIDE DEMONSTRATION SYSTEM
- Bill Solitario, Director of Technology Development, Northrop Grumman Ship Systems.
- STEALTHY PHILOSOPHY BUT REAL SOLUTIONS FROM SWEDEN
- Stealth developments
- The Extreme Littorals - Environment, threats and tactics
- Tactical and technical philosophy, eg, ability to stay and survive in the extreme littoral area, holistic stealth approach, modular mission loads
- From operational requirements to technical solutions
- Cost aspects
- The Visby Class corvette - The real thing
- Other stealth technology programmes
- John Nilsson, Manager Product Development, Kockums .
- Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
- DAY TWO
- Re-registration and Coffee
- Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Keith Atkins, Editor, KA Associates.
- THE IMPORTANCE OF DETAIL IN THE PURSUIT OF RADAR STEALTH
- Current and future detail
- Radar cross section of antennas
- Stealth on the drawing board versus real life
- Radar stealth effectiveness and usefulness
- Future stealth applicability
- Lucas van Ewijk, Senior Research Scientist, TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory.
- Eric Heemskerk, Senior Research Scientist, TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory.
- LOW OBSERVABLE AIRCRAFT
- Evaluation of Radar Signatures during its Life-cycle
- RCS budgeting
- Uncertainty analysis
- Airframe
- Features and components
- Prototype and production aircraft
- Gerry Jepps, Technical Manager, Signature Management, Thales Communications UK.
- DETECTING THE UNDETECTABLE
- Radar vs low RCS targets
- Laws of physics - the radar equation
- High power systems
- Bistatic systems
- Pros and cons of lower frequencies
- Detection is not enough
- Robert Pollard, Systems Design Group, BAE SYSTEMS Advanced Technology Centre.
- Morning Coffee
- ELECTROMAGNETIC PREDICTION CODES FOR LO AIRCRAFT DESIGN
- Simulation and concepts
- Requirements for Computational Electromagnetics (CEM)
- Simulation codes in the different application areas of stealth engineering
- Applicability of simulation techniques to LO Design
- CEM-Code Development Review at EADS
- Application Examples
- Jan Ritter, Head of CEM-Group, Signature Technician, EADS.
- PLASMA ANTENNAS
- Stealth reconfiguability and resistance to electronic warfare
- Testing of several prototype RADAR antennas
- Test results area as follows at 3 gHz:
- transmission and reception characteristics - same as metal antennas
- reduction of reflection when off - 22dB
- Several very positive new discoveries will be disclosed pending patent filings
- Professor Igor Alexeff, ASI's plasma scientist, University of Tennessee.
- Networking Lunch
- HOW PLASMA ANTENNAS WILL REVOLUTIONISE STEALTHY OPERATION
- Plasma antennas concept
- Passive stealth using absorptive plasma to electronically control RCS
- Active stealth using electronic beam forming and steering
- Combining stealth with communications, radar, EW and seeker applications
- Expendables, UAV and micro-UAV opportunities
- Balance of investment arguments
- David Hayes, Managing Director, Plasma Antennas.
- MOTION CAMOUFLAGE STEALTH TACTICS
- Camouflage developments
- What is motion camouflage
- Motion camouflage in biology
- Motion camouflage in artificial systems
- Motion camouflage teams
- Andrew Anderson, Research, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London.
- Afternoon Tea
- ANALYSIS OF PLATFORM IR SYSTEMS
- Application of modern simulation technology
- Basic IR simulation capability (ship signature, signature targets, IRSS design)
- Exhaust gas suppression/cooling
- Fluent simulations
- Current and future developments
- Summary
- W. Roland Davis, President, W. R. Davis Engineering.
- LAND
- Land Platform Survivability
- Threats from surveillance and target acquisition (STA) systems in the acoustic wavebands are developing but these wavebands have the additional benefit that detections are possible without the soldier employing sophisticated sensors and without the need for line of sight
- Acoustic signatures of vehicles, depending upon factors such as wind direction, can be detected at several kilometres range
- It is therefore important that both acoustic characteristics and their implications on vehicles’ detectability are understood
- Acoustic detection cues and practical signature reduction methods within the constraints of the modern battlefield vehicle requirements
- Predictive modelling of detectability and benefits of suppression
- Patrick Griffin, Senior Engineer, Survivability, Alvis Vickers.
- Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Conference
AbstractKey Benefits of Attending:
- DEVELOP an in-depth knowledge of signature control technologies, requirements and approaches
- UNDERSTAND the integration of LO technology into existing and next-generation land, sea and air platforms
- REVIEW developments in IR radar, EW and plasma technology
- IDENTIFY effective methods to enhance stealth design and the application of stealth materials
- MAXIMISE networking opportunities in a globally attended forum
Gain an insight from the key industry speakers in the field:
- Major Mike "Gunny" Schmidt, Joint Strike Fighter PEM, SAF/AQPF, The Pentagon, USA
- Paul Ratcliff, Team Leader, Signatures, dstl
- Dr Robert Syddall, Project Manager, QinetiQ
- Lucas van Ewijk, Senior Research Scientist, TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
- Eric Heemskerk, Senior Research Scientist, TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
- Professor Igor Alexeff, ASI's Plasma Scientist, University of Tennessee
- Andrew Anderson, Research, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London
- Dudley Bird, Technology Manager, Signature Management, Thales Communications (UK)
- Robert Pollard, Systems Design Group, BAE SYSTEMS Advanced Technology Centre
- Richard Lord CBE, Director Sales & Marketing, Chemring Countermeasures
- Bill Solitario, Professor, Northrop Grumman Ship Systems
- Jan Ritter, Head of CEM-Group, Signature Technician, EADS Benoît Pizon, Stealth Expert, Armoured Vehicles, GIAT
- John Nilsson, Manager Product Development, Kockums
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