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Annapolis, MD
Must-attend briefings will detail:
Software/hardware integration
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The latest in digital glass cockpit
•
Platform-oriented avionics developments
•
Common Avionics Architecture success and opportunities
•
Hear from an unrivaled speaker faculty that includes:
Colonel Randy Rotte, USA, Deputy Director, Aviation Taskforce, Army G/3
Captain John “Snooz” Martins, USN, Program Manager, F-35 Lightning II
(PMA 235)
Colonel Andrew R. Larson, USAF, Vice Commander, 419th Wing, Hill AFB
Lieutenant Colonel Mark Thompson, USAF, Commander, 366th
Operations Support Squadron, Mountain Home AFB
Captain Bill Brooks, USMC, Avionics Programs Officer, Presidential
Helicopter Program, HMX-1
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HSI AND AVIONICS TECHNOLOGY FOCUS DAY HSI and Avionics Technology Focus Day Tuesday, February 10, 2009
This in-depth and interactive Focus Day Topic sessions will include:
will examine the latest technologies and • Human Systems Integration tools
best practices that support continuous • Avionics upgrades, deployment, and R&D efforts
avionics development. • Training and familiarity tools
• Avionics display initiatives
Registration begins at 8:00 am
Display Technologies Study
8:30 am – 10:30 am
AFRL Digitized Display Research
Cockpit-grade is the toughest specification to meet for any display technology. Avionics How you will benefit:
AMLCDs were developed to provide sunlight-readable digital interfaces to pilots and Learn current DoD experience with fielded displays
•
have now became the preferred solution for direct-view instrument panels. Virtual Discover opportunities for improving cockpit display
•
view-displays (head-up and head-mounted), however, remain analog and are only now systems
being digitizated. Challenges to improved performance exist in the areas of hardware, Understand the status and limitations of current
•
software, ergonomics, and integration. Research programs are underway with the technology to address cockpit needs
potential to revolutionize the pilot-vehicle interface in cockpits. Learn of investments aimed at improving pilot-cockpit
•
interface
What will be covered:
Review of fielded cockpit displays and technologies across the DoD Session Leader:
•
Improved technologies for instrument panels Dr. Darrel G. Hopper, Principal Electronics Engineer, Air
•
Electronic paper to replace real paper in the cockpit Force Research Laboratory
•
Advanced HMD, HUD, other virtual-view technologies
•
INSECT Applications and Development
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Intuitive Navigation System for Effective Collision-avoidance Tactics (INSECT)
This workshop will detail R&D efforts in the area of collision-avoidance navigation How you will benefit:
systems. Vertical short takeoff and landing (VSTOL) operators face numerous challenges, Find out how this system will incorporate proven synthetic
•
particularly during takeoff, hover, and landing operations. Threats take the form of vision tech with terrain display models
power lines, structures, and – in the case of combat – enemy fire. Often, these threats Understand how this sensor package will enhance operator
•
are obscured when visibility is compromised by dust, sand, or snow. Maintaining awareness of the surrounding environment
awareness of the surrounding environment becomes almost impossible. VSTOL operators Learn the role of INSECT as a situational awareness aid
•
need a set of electronic eyes that can “see” even under conditions of zero visibility. Receive system information on application and deployment
•
of this sensor system
What will be covered:
Comprehensive navigation and guidance system for VSTOL operators Session Leaders:
•
Supporting collision avoidance Dr. Michael Paley, Executive Vice President
•
Terrain negotiation Dr. Cullen Jackson, Cognitive Scientist
•
Flight planning and flight path adherence APTIMA Inc.
•
Lunch will be served
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
UAS HSI R&D
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
UAS Avionics: Human Robot Interaction
This workshop will discuss current efforts in human robot interaction in unmanned air How you will benefit:
systems. The purpose of these technologies is to enhance the means by which the Find out how this system will improve upon current
•
human operator relates, reacts and uses information and data in the operation of UAS. interaction systems
Improving on current interaction and integrations, a better understanding of the issues Understand the research and development behind this key
•
and focuses of operator familiarity with the UAS system would improve operational issue
capabilities and mission success. Get the latest on HSI/HRI efforts across UAS systems
•
What will be covered: Session Leader:
Human Systems Integration applications Dr. Amos Freedy, President, Perceptronics Solutions, Inc.
•
Avionics and cockpit interaction
•
Current R&D efforts in HRI
•
Multi-Media HSI Study
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Aviation HSI Training Program
This workshop will discuss the creation, modification, and deployment of multi-media How you will benefit:
training material for Navy tactical systems – currently a highly labor-intensive process. Find out how this system will updated current interface
•
The authors of training material must first review technical systems manuals and training methods
source material, such as pictures of electromechanical parts or display screens used by Understand the current applications for decision making
•
Navy operational personnel. Once the material has been created, it is often in a static technology
form that is difficult to deploy or modify. The proposed program will provide the tools to Get the latest on HSI in the decision making process
•
automate the creation of Navy training material. At the conclusion of Phase II we will Learn the role this innovative technology will play in
•
deliver to the US Navy a complete hardware software system to automate Navy training. operator performance
What will be covered: Session Leader:
Human Systems Integration applications Dr. John Schroeder, Staff Scientist, ONTAR Corp
•
Human computer interface
•
Training process improvement
•
Automation of cognitive decision making process
•
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CONFERENCE DAY ONE MAIN CONFERENCE DAY TWO
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 Thursday, February 12, 2009
Registration & Coffee Registration & Coffee
7:15 7:15
Welcome and Chairperson’s Opening Remarks Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
7:50 7:50
Common Avionics Systems Development JSF Avionics Integration & Systems Development
8:00 8:00
Opening Keynote
Opening Naval &
Programs roadmap Program avionics road map and avionics commonality
• •
JSF Keynote
• Avionics Architecture development Program opportunities
•
• Software/hardware integration • HMD integration and flight certification
• Current success and program opportunities • Pilot transition to non-HUD cockpit
Colonel Randy Rotte, USA Captain John “Snooz” Martins, USN
Deputy Director, Aviation Taskforce, Army G/3 Program Manager F-35 Lightning II (PMA 235)
PHP Avionics: CUP & Beyond F-15 Avionics Upgrades and Developments
8:45 8:45
Platform avionics update Operational experience and needs overview
• •
• Current R&D pre-deployment Information assimilation and squadron development
•
Operational initiatives Avionics platform specific integration
• •
Software/hardware integration Modernization and sustainment
• •
USAF Avionics Integration & Development Briefings
Captain Bill Brooks, USMC Lieutenant Colonel Mark Thompson, USAF
Avionics Programs Officer, Presidential Helicopter Program, HMX-1 Commander, 366th Operations Support Squadron, Mountain
Home AFB
Networking Break
9:30
Networking Break
9:30
10:15 Avionics Design and Integration
10:15 F-16 Combat Avionics
• Systems development and evolution
• Architecture design and implementation • Operational perspective
• Operator interface • Platform avionics road map
Ron Bell • Digital cockpit development
Manager Advanced Programs • Capabilities and needs assessment
Colonel Andrew R. Larson, USAF
Glenn Greathouse
Vice Commander, 419th Fighter Wing, Hill AFB
Director BD, Situational Awareness Systems
Northrop Grumman Corporation
11:00 F-22 Raptor Capabilities and Development
• Avionics layout and design
11:00 V-22 Avionics Design and Capabilities • Integration and functionality
V-22 Avionics
Architecture
• Avionics integration and systems development
• Architecture and use
• Dashboard architecture and operator perspective
Maj Geoffrey Lohmiller, USAF
• Field experience and HSI
59th TES/DO, Nellis, AFB
Lieutenant Colonel Gregory Skinner, USMC
MV22 Program Office
11:45 LUNCH
11:45 LUNCH
TOWN HALL Discussion
1:00
Join our distinguished speakers and program participants in an
Common Avionics Architecture System
1:00
open discussion on key avionics integration, technologies
Design and development
•
development, and deployment.
System architecture and integration
•
Session Leader: Dr. Darrel G. Hopper
• Hardware/software case study and results
Principal Electronics Engineer, Air Force Research Lab
• Successes and opportunities
Clayton E. Brown
F/A 18 Hornet Avionics Profile
1:45
Programs Manager, Utility & Attack Solutions, Rockwell Collins
Platform avionics updates and sustainment
•
F/G avionics design, development, and deployment
•
MH-60 Naval Avionics
1:45 • Operational initiatives
Naval Avionics: Fixed Wing
Common platform avionics
•
Denis Kent
Mission systems integration
•
F/A 18 Hornet Core Avionics IPT Lead, PMA 265
• Avionics systems architecture design and functionality
• Hardware/Software integration
Networking Break
2:30
Naval Avionics: Architecture and Upgrades
CDR Greg Ouellette, USN
MH-60R Avionics Systems Project Officer (ASPO) PMA-299
EA-6B Avionics Enhancement Program
3:00
ICAP III & beyond
•
Networking Break
2:30
Functionality and use
•
• VX-23 program development
P8A Avionics Design
3:00
Major Jeffrey Rothstein, USMC
Systems architecture
•
VX-23 Program, PMA 234
Systems, sensors, and combat avionics integrations
•
• Platform upgrades over P3-Orion
Chairperson’s Closing Remarks and Program
3:45
Neal Rothback, USN
Summary
Program Manager, PMA 290
This session will feature closing remarks from the chairperson,
addressing key issues, topics, remarks and areas of focus from the
Naval Avionics Architecture
3:45
entire event.
Operational needs and capabilities
•
Uniform avionics development
•
End Of Cockpit Avionics Conference
4:15
• Aviator integrations in systems design
Doug Isleib
Director, Naval Aviation Center for Rotorcraft Advancement (NACRA)
END OF DAY ONE
4:30
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2nd Annual
CAS COCKPIT AVIONICS TM
SUMMIT February 10 – 12, 2009
Annapolis, MD
Must-attend briefings will detail:
Software/hardware Platform-oriented avionics
• •
integration developments
The latest in digital glass Common Avionics Architecture
• •
cockpit success and opportunities
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