Conference Documentation: Air C4i

Published by: SMI Publishing, Ltd

Published: Oct. 8, 2002

Table of Contents

DAY 1

8.30 Registration and Coffee

9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks

Edwin Leigh Armistead, Information Assurance Team Lead, Task Force Web, Chief of Naval Operations, OPNAV N09W.

9.10 OPENING ADDRESS

US Air Force implementation of C4 intelligence support planning (c4isp)

History of C4ISP

C4ISP purpose

C4ISP is to identify and manage interoperability, supportability and sufficiency risks

USAF implementation

Planned improvements

Charles L Houston III, Senior Acquisition Systems Analyst (retired USAF Lt Col), SAF/AQII.

9.40 AIRBORNE C4I IN THE US ARMY

The role of aviation in the Digitized Force

US Army system of systems for command and control

Integrating air and ground C4I systems into a UH-60 Blackhawk

Common Situational Awareness Systems for Air and Ground Forces

Providing real time UAV connectivity to US Army aviation

Improving sensor-to-shooter data transfer

Lieutenant Colonel Donald Hazelwood, Product Manager Army Airborne, Command and Control System, US Army.

10.20 GLOBAL SITUATIONAL AWARENESS

Monitor anywhere, anytime

What are the desired global and local capabilities?

Concept of operations

Signatures and sensors: what do we collect? how do we collect it?

Data handling

Data mining

Data fusion

Dr J Douglas Beason, Deputy Associate Director (Defense Threat Reduction), Los Alamos National Laboratory.

11.00 Morning Coffee

11.20 A UK VIEW ON AIR C4I AND ITS DEVELOPMENT

Recent developments in UK air C4I

Coalition operations

How should C4I develop?

Where is the UK going?

Technological advance against operational requirement

The joint approach

Paul Blackford, Military Programmes’ Manager, QinetiQ.

12.00 MULTI-SENSOR COMMAND AND CONTROL AIRCRAFT (MC2A) BRIEF

Platform systems background

Introduction

Multi-Platform radar technology insertion program-building block of MC2A

MC2A program brief · Technical requirements · Spiral strategy · Program plan · Acquisition approach · Linkage to the multi-sensor command and control constellation (MC2C)

Conclusion

Colonel Joseph Smyth, Program Director MC2A, US Air Force.

12.40 Lunch

1.40 THE FUTURE OF AIRCRAFT CARRIER BASED AIRBORNE SURVEILLANCE & NETWORK-CENTRIC WARFARE

An examination of the likely developments in airborne maritime C2 aircraft

Emergent mission drivers

New sensors

Multi-Sensor/Multi-source integration

Combat identification

Connectivity

William R Hamel, E-2C Advanced Development, NAVAIR PMA-231.

2.00 RAPID C4I HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FOR THE JOINT BATTLESPACE INFOSPHERE

A system of systems focused on decision quality information

Scalable information management enterprise - information to users at all echelons

Delivering the right information at the right time -transforming data into knowledge

Requests through publish and subscribe- -enables rapid exchange of information to decision makers

Inherently distributed architecture- scales to the number of users

High information survivability - no systemic single point of failure

Repository servers- rapidly search data bases for relevant information

Dr George O Ramseyer, Physicist Information Systems, Air Force Research Laboratory.

3.20 Afternoon Tea

3.40 SAR SYSTEMS FOR AIR C4I

The requirements

Complementarity of spaceborne and airborne SAR

Cost effective sensor architectures

The issues

Potential solutions

Communications

The issues

Potential solutions

The way forward

James Machell, Business Development Manager, Astrium.

Yvonne Munro, Head of EO Applications Group, Astrium.

4.20 BUILDING ISR FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

Key drivers accelerating change in the ISR environment

Command and control of ISR resources

Collaborative data exploitation

Handling information overload

Information engineering solutions

Challenges for the future

Herb Kemp, Vice President and Manager, C4ISR Operations Division, Adroit Systems.

5.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

DAY 2

8.00 Re-registration and Coffee

9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks

Edwin Leigh Armistead, Information Assurance Team Lead, Task Force Web, Chief of Naval Operations, OPNAV N09W.

9.10 EXECUTIVE BRIEFING

Conducting Distributed ISR Operations Executive Briefing in association with Adroit Systems

Enabling technologies

Deciding what functions to distribute

10.10 Morning Coffee

10.30 RESUME EXECUTIVE BRIEFING

Managing risk

Mission management

11.30 CASE STUDY: ROYAL NETHERLANDS AIR FORCE

Seventh edition in the series of EAD/TAMD exercises - ‘Joint Project Optic Windmill’

Advanced C4I technological impact - scheduled JPOW - V111 (YPOW-8)

Providing forces with enhanced capabilities to detect, process, decide and communicate

Required communications and simulation infrastructure

What is the main focus of the tests?

Preparing for the tests - what are the aims and objectives?

Getting the best results? - what does it hold for the future?

Captain Bart van der Graaff, Officer Attached SAM & Ground Operations Division at Staff Tactical Air Force HQRNLAF, Royal Netherlands Air Force.

12.10 WHERE IS JOINT STARS HEADED?

Taking the Joint STARS forward into a new digitised era

Joint STARS today

Keeping fighters informed, integrating the Joint STARS into ground systems

Driving doctrine forward

Conclusion

Richard O Bleau, System Program Director, Joint STARS Joint Program Office, US Air Force.

12.50 Lunch

2.00 ISR

Mission Area Plan

Process

Capacities

Support/liaison

Lessons Learned · DESERT STORM · ALLIED FORCE

Coalition efforts and multi-level security

Colonel Catherine Bacon, Reserve Advisor to the Commander, Air Force Command & Control, Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance Center.

2.40 FUTURE US NAVAL UAV ARCHITECTURE

Forward thinking naval applications

Infostructure

Vehicles

Sensors

Concept of operations

C4I issues

Commander Jim Clifton, Naval UAV Architecture IPT Lead, US Navy, PMA-263.

3.20 MODERN TECHNOLOGY IN REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS

Intel, Linux and COTS

Introduction to Concurrent Computer Corporation

Real-time defined

Real- time needs in today’s world

COTS and real-time?

Intel and Linux based system solutions

Edward J Marchant, VP of Engineering, Concurrent Computer Corporation.

4.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Conference Followed by Afternoon Tea and Coffee

Abstract

• Colonel Joseph Smyth, Program Director MC2A, USAF
• Colonel Catherine Bacon, Reserve Advisor to the Commander, Air Force
• Command & Control, Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance Center
• Commander Jim Clifton, Advanced Technology Director for ER-C, US Air Navy
• Lieutenant Colonel Donald Hazelwood, Product Manager Army Airborne, Command and Control Systems
• Captain Bart van der Graaff, Officer Attached SAM & Ground Operations Division at Staff Tactical Air Force - HQ RNLAF, Royal Netherlands Air Force

• UNDERSTAND the global concept of Air C4I
• DEVELOP specific knowledge of the latest technology
• MAXIMISE awareness of developments in the US and other key countries
• LEARN from the military officials pushing the concept forward
• BUILD your presence in the international marketplace

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