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Hear from the visionaries and
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• Dr. Bob Simpson, Chief, RF/EO Subsystems Branch, AFRL Discussions on cost-effective
• Dr. Chip Grounds, Director, Surveillance Communications and antenna development:
Electronic Combat, Office of Naval Research • Metamaterials and small, wideband
• Jeffrey Boksiner, Chief Scientist and Program Director, antennas
Antennas and Spectrum Analysis, Space and Terrestrial • Multifunctional, cognitive antenna
Communications, CERDEC systems
• Dr. Steven Best, Principal Sensor Systems Engineer, MITRE • Army tactical vehicular antennas
Corporation • Modeling and simulation for
enhanced antenna design
• Dr. Joe Mitola, III, VP for the Research Enterprise, Stevens Institute
of Technology • Antenna integration on UAV
platforms
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Enhanced platform integration, superior RF communication leaders with job functions such as:
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As the US Military increasingly relie
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s on communications and RF sens Chief Technology Officer
network centricity and situational ing systems for •
awareness in theater, the DoD calls Chief Scientist
more robust, and more multifu for smaller, •
nctional antennas that can be Team Leader, Antennas
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Focus Day Small Business and Antenna Design
Monday, September 28, 2009
Get up-close and personal with experts in both antenna design, and
proposal-writing. Learn in a classroom-style setting about two need-to-know topics:
Focus Day
• Warfighter wearable antennas • How to create award-winning proposals for your antenna projects
8:00 am – 9:00 am Registration and Coffee
9:00 am – 11:00 am Find out your best avenues of success for creating award-winning proposals!
Small Business and Antenna Design
SBIR Opportunities for Military Antennas
Small Business Innovation Research provides funding for high-tech • Discuss with peers the important issues within the antennas community
research and development initiatives. Small businesses have often in order to determine which of your programs can generate more
benefited from this program, allowing dedicated service providers to success for you
grow into larger businesses with several DoD contracts under their belt.
What you will learn:
How do these companies land numerous awards? It all begins with the • Several opportunities for small businesses that you did not think were
opportunities out there. This session will guide you through the process out there
of finding the right opportunities for your organization, and how you can • The whole SBIR award approval process, as applied to antenna design
use them to your advantage. This session’s leader will help you and deployment
understand the approval process, and what your organization needs to • How to create award-winning proposals
do in order to land a coveted SBIR award.
Session Leader:
How you will benefit: Dr. Joseph R. Guerci, IEEE Fellow and Warren D. White Award Recipient
• Explore several options for finding the SBIR program appropriate to 2007, IDGA Advisory Board Member
your project
11:15 am – 1:15 pm Lunch will be served Create winning proposals for the benefit of your organization!
Winning an SBIR Award: Tricks of the Trade
As a continuation to the previous session, this workshop will delve How you will benefit:
deeper into the requirements for creating winning proposals. Hearing • Understand the requirements of SBIR solicitations
from an actual SBIR award-winner will allow you to learn the entire • Gain insight into case studies of winning proposals
process of proposal conceptualization, and the necessary steps it takes • Find out what happens and what to do after you win an award
for you to communicate your goals for successful project
implementation. What you will learn:
• Step-by-step process of creating a winning proposal
• The necessary means to communicate your program’s goals in an
At the end of this session, you should be able to come up with a
checklist of requirements so that you can succeed – organizationally effective manner
• How to work hand-in-hand with the DoD for antenna technology
and financially – in creating an ideal proposal to benefit your
company. advancement
Session Leader:
C. David Massey, Director for Business Development, First RF Corporation
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm Discover the latest in warfighter-mounted antenna systems!
Body-Centric Antennas and Networks
Recently, there has been a growing interest in body area networks How you will benefit:
(BANs), which play an important role in body-centric wireless • Discover the problems and solutions of untrawideband antenna design
communications. The ability to model and simulate these networks is • Gain insight into saving time and money for your organization by
crucial to their design – as a complement to measurements that are simulating the design and propagation of each antenna system before
essential but quite tedious and time-consuming in nature. The objective deployment
of this session is to focus on the problems of ultrawideband UWB
antenna design and propagation modeling, using a versatile What you will learn about:
computational EM (CEM) solver GEMS. • Body area networks
• Ultrawideband antenna design
This session will include illustrative numerical results for the propagation • Propagation modeling
and coupling problems, and will discuss some designs for wideband
antennas that make them useful for the application at hand, because of Session Leader:
their conformal nature and desirable radiation characteristics. Raj Mittra, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
3:45 pm – 5:45 pm Gain insight into the design behind multi-functional, wearable antenna systems!
Body Wearable Diversity Antenna Systems for Increased Antenna Performance
Current body wearable antenna systems are being designed under the How you will benefit:
Tactical Networking Communications Antennas ATO for the Land • Discover antenna design requirements, as presented by warfighter case studies
Warrior/Ground Soldier Systems Soldier ensembles to support wideband • Find out more about designing small, multifunctional antennas designed for
(225-1000 MHz) and broadband (1350-2700) MHz communications. warfighter movement in theater
These frequency bands are particularly vulnerable to signal cancellations
due to multipath. Diversity techniques employed with these antennas What you will learn:
decrease multipath and thereby increase the overall link system gain. • Performance of current warfighter-wearable antennas and points of
Improved system gain translates into higher throughputs, increased range improvement
and more flexible use of the Army’s tactical radio systems. • Design guidelines for multifunctional, wearable antennas
• Overall benefits to creating small and cost-effective antenna systems
This workshop will present comprehensive design and demonstration of
body wearable diversity antennas that can increase channel capacity and Session Leaders:
improve communication links. Size, weight, and power (SWAP) C. J. Reddy, Chief Technology Officer, Applied EM Inc.
minimization will be the focus to realize practical diversity antennas for
body-worn communications.
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Main Conference Days
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Wednesday, September 30, 2009
7:30 Registration and Coffee 7:30 Registration and Coffee
8:15 Chairperson’s Welcome and Opening Remarks 8:15 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
Dr. Joseph Guerci, Consultant, IEE Warren D. White Award Recipient Dr. Joseph Guerci, Consultant, IEE Warren D. White Award Recipient 2007,
2007, IDGA Advisory Board Member IDGA Advisory Board Member
Military Antennas and their Application to Radar Systems
Opening Keynote
8:25 Metamaterials for RF Antenna Applications 8:25
Opening Keynote
•
Applied R&D of metamaterial-based or metamaterial-inspired RF
•
Breakthroughs in phased-arrays and radars
Antennas
•
Adaptive MIMO antennas and MIMO radar
•
Multifunctional antennas and cognitive radar
•
Utility of metamaterials for military applications
Dr. Joseph Guerci, Consultant, IEE Warren D. White Award Recipient 2007,
•
Ability of metamaterials to enhance or enable RF antenna performance
IDGA Advisory Board Member
beyond current state-of-the-art
Dr. Bob Simpson, Chief, RF/EO Subsystems Branch, Air Force Research
9:05 Antenna Integration into Army Aviation Platforms:
Laboratory
Today and in the Future
Keynote
•
Antenna testing and evaluation on aviation platforms
9:05 On the Applications of Electromagnetic Metamaterials •
Innovative antenna designs for effective platform integration
to Military Tactical Communications •
Requirements and capabilities for Army aviation antennas
Keynote
•
Applications of electromagnetic metamaterials (MTMs) to antennas
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Challenges in application of MTMs to military systems
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Direction of Army aviation antenna R&D Programs FY10 – FY17
•
Addressing the issues Mitchell S. Mayer, Team Leader, Antenna Technology & Analysis Branch, US
Dr. Jeffrey Boksiner, Electronics Engineer, Antennas and Spectrum Army CERDEC S&TCD
Analysis, Space and Terrestrial Communications, US Army CERDEC
9:45 Networking Break
9:45 Networking Break
Next Generation Antennas and Radios
10:30 Future Developments in Cognitive Antennas and Radios
10:30 Army Electromagnetic Modeling, Simulation and Cosite
•
Integration of antennas, software radio, and machine intelligence
•
Software radio architecture as applied to military antennas
Analysis Cognitive radio architecture and its impact on military antenna design
Modeling and Simulation Focus
•
•
Full Wave Electromagnetics for On-Vehicle Antenna Placement Dr. Joseph Mitola, III, VP for the Research Enterprise, Stevens Institute of
Optimization Technology
•
Hybrid Full Wave & Propagation Analysis Techniques
•
GPU Clustering for Quickly Simulating Large Electromagnetic Problems in 11:10 Regulatory and Technical Issues for Next-Generation
Full Wave Code Radio Networks
Daniel Duvak, Electromagnetic M&S (EMS) Team Lead, Antenna & •
Dynamic capabilities within radios and radio networks
Spectrum Division, IAT Branch, US Army CERDEC •
Cognitive systems for radios and robots and the importance of enhanced
antenna design
11:10 Vendor Panel Discussion: Modeling and Simulation •
Next generation communications technologies
•
Antenna design, placement, and integration on varying platforms Dr. Paul Kolodzy, Former Senior Spectrum Policy Advisor, Office of
•
Antenna design using AMCs, FSS and metamaterials Engineering and Technology, FCC and President of Kolodzy Consulting
•
Antenna design for MIMO wireless communications and adaptive radar
•
Advanced computational tools for enhanced simulation techniques 11:50 LUNCH
Panel Moderator: Dr. David Johns, CST North America
1:00 Antenna Design and Integration for C4I Initiatives
C4I Focus
11:55 LUNCH
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Current and future C4I initiatives
•
Plans and requirements for deploying antennas on C4I platforms
1:15 Affordable and Lightweight Directional Apertures for
•
Enhanced antenna design for superior RF communication
Kurt Fiscko, Communications Program Office, PEO C41, SPAWAR
UAV's
Advanced aperture designs
Platform Integration Focus
•
1:40 Round Table Discussion: Public-Private Partnerships for
•
Dielectric lens/prism and multi-horn technologies Antenna Technologies
Interactive
•
Lightweight, conformal and low power characteristics Take part in facilitated roundtable discussions about successful collaboration
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Broadband operation between government agencies and industry innovators, and how your
•
Future capabilities for networked systems organization can benefit from future partnerships. If you are an expert in
Dr. Preston “Chip” Grounds, Director, Electronics, Sensors & Network antenna design and business development, and are interested in being a
Research Division, Office of Naval Research table moderator, contact sherryl.jacobs@idga.org.
1:55 Army Tactical Vehicular Antennas 2:20 Networking Break
•
Development of small, multi-functional, rugged antennas
•
Conformal Antennas 2:50 RF Design and Applications
Dr. Rony Shahidain, Antenna Technology & Analysis Branch, Space and •
Analysis and design of mobile antennas and arrays as applied to various
Terrestrial Communications Directorate, US Army CERDEC platforms
•
Use of metamaterials for ideal antenna performance
Design and Application
2:35 Networking Break •
Developments and advancements for antenna miniaturization
Professor John Volakis, Chope Chair Professor, Electrical & Computer
3:05 Broadband Antenna Technology Engineering Department and Director, ElectroScience Laboratory, Ohio State
•
Reduced size broadband omnidirectional antennas University
Ultra-broadband antennas
Bandwidth Focus
•
•
Broadband and scalable mobile satellite communications
3:30 Antenna Pattern Synthesis in Operational Environments
•
Electromagnetic compatibility-based constraints
Electromagnetic System Technology Branch, SPAWAR Systems Center •
Independent component analysis approach to image sharpening in the
presence of atmospheric turbulence
3:45 State-of-the-art in Metamaterial Antennas Dr. Wasyl Wasylkiwskyj, IEEE Fellow, Professor of Engineering and Applied
•
Fundamental limitations associated with the design of antennas Science, George Washington University
•
Fundamental concepts of Metamaterials and antenna design
•
Performance comparison of Metamaterial and conventional antennas 4:10 End of Main Conference
Dr. Steven R. Best, Principal Sensor Systems Engineer, MITRE Corporation
4:25 End of Day One
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