Featuring
ALTERNATIVE
presents a training conference… POWER
Focus Day!
See page 3
6th Annual for details.
TACTICAL Featuring a
POWER distinguished
speaker faculty
including:
SOURCES Michael Gallagher,
Program Manager,
SUMMIT Expeditionary Power
TM
Systems, Marine Corps
Systems Command
January 26 – 28, 2009 • Ronald Reagan Building & Robert Diltz,
International Trade Center Research Engineer,
Washington, DC
Air Force Research
Laboratory
5 reasons why you can’t afford to
miss this event: Dr. Rao Surampudi,
1 Discover advancements in new and alternative Program Manager,
power sources Spacecraft Power
2 Discuss future performance requirements Systems, Jet Propulsion
3 Gain an in-depth understanding of the DoD’s Laboratory, NASA
current programs and future plans
James Gough,
4 Identify advancements in large-scale
and handheld power sources Fleet Manager,
5 Examine the programs leading the Installations & Logistics,
way in power requirements U.S. Marine Corps
Sponsors:
Media Partners:
Exhibitors:
To register call Sherryl Jacobs at 416-597-4710

Who you will meet:
The audience of IDGA’s 6th Annual
6th Annual
Tactical Power Sources Summit is
TACTICAL comprised of senior-level technology
specialists from government
agencies, research laboratories, and
POWER equipment suppliers with a range of
responsibilities including:
Plans and Policy
SOURCES
•
• Operational Requirements
• Program Management
SUMMIT TM •
•
Technology Systems
Engineering Initiatives
Dear Colleague,
With new electronic breakthroughs Past Attendees
emerging almost daily, power requ
skyrocketing. Standard-issue power irements are Picatinny Arsenal, Energizer Battery
sources and fuels are currently the
everything from night vision devices, backbone of Manufacturing Inc., Pacific Northwest
weapon sights, and GPS units thro
tank missile launchers, humvees, and ugh to anti- National Laboratory, Thales, Rolls-
armored personnel carriers. Royce Distributed Generation Systems,
Already, the average warfighter Army Research Laboratory, DRS
consumes 88 AA batteries over the
five-day mission, and the military course of a Technologies, Marine Corps Systems
uses approximately 2.4 million gall
every day in Iraq and Afghanistan ons of fuel Command, Aerovironment, Idaho
. New technological breakthroughs
and machinery are at the forefront to power devices National Laboratory, ITT Power
in the long war, with the key thrusts
weight, increase efficiency, and outla being to reduce Solutions, Eagle Picher, L3 Combat
st mission durations – all at the low
est cost possible. Propulsion Systems, Battelle Memorial
IDGA’s 6th Annual Tactical Pow Institute, Lockheed Martin
er Sources Summit will provide
insight into the power sources Corporation, ATK Launch Systems,
fueling the technology of the futu
re Ensign Bickford Aerospace and
This timely event will examine the Defense Company, General Electric
immediate need to utilize new and
technologies to overcome current emerging
fuel consumption rates and add
improved large and small scale ress the need for
power. Next generation technolo
materials will be assessed to identify gies, systems, and Here’s what past
the challenges in ensuring US and
Warfighters have superior power, Coalition
when they need it the most. attendees have said
Primary areas of focus will incl about IDGA events:
ude:
• Lithium-Ion Power Sources “Terrific! Well done,no snafus … well-
• Waste-to-Energy Solutions organized and well-planned.”
• Solar/Photovoltaic Power Principal Member of the Technical
• Fuel Cell Technology Staff, Sandia National Labs
• Hydrogen Power and Applications
“All the speakers were well prepared
Take the time now to block off Janu and knowledgeable.
ary 26 – 28, 2009 in your calenda This expertise will be very valuable to us
your place among IDGA’s Power com r and reserve
munity. Register yourself and you in our project work.”
by emailing sherryl.jacobs@idga r team today
.org or calling 416-597-4710. Electrical Engineer,
Williams Pyro Inc.
I look forward to meeting you in Janu
ary! “Met needs, ‘on the ball’, professional”
V/R, Military Programs,
Operations & Development, BSST
, LLC
P.S. Don t miss:
Sarah Wickens January 26: Alternative
Program Director, 6th Annual Tact
Sources Summit
ical Power Power Focus Day
see page 3 for details
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Alternative Power Focus Day
Alternative Power Focus Day Monday, January 26, 2009 This in-depth and interactive focus day will examine the latest technologies and
best practices that support continuous alternative power source development.
7:30 AM – 8:00 AM Coffee & Registration
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Advancements in power solutions
Nanophosphate High Power Lithium Ion Batteries
Nanophosphate technology delivers previously How you will benefit:
unattainable levels of power, safety, and life. • Learn how Nanophosphate materials are different from other chemistries
Based on new, highly active nanoscale material • Discover how the military can adopt this at the same rate as the commercial
initially developed at MIT, low impedance industry
Nanophosphate electrode technology provides • Acquire knowledge about customized power solutions to fit a variety of energy
significant competitive advantage over alternative needs
high power technologies. Cell and electrode
designs are optimized for low cost/watt and What you will learn about:
cost/watt-hour performance. These designs have
• Nanophosphate technology and how it addresses power, safety, and life
higher voltage than other long-life systems, objectives
enabling lower pack cost. Their long life leads to
• Analysis of other lithium ion chemistries
reduced lifecycle and system costs resulting in
• The Lithium battery industry for the military
greater overall price-performance. Dr. Ganesh Skandan, CEO, NEI Corporation
10:15 AM – 12:15 PM Design & manufacture of future technology
Designing Low-cost, Durable Fuel Cells for Military Applications
The requirements of the warfighter for portable How you will benefit:
energy is constantly increasing and evolving. The • Attendees will walk away with an understanding of the design of future
availability of power is the most significant limiting military fuel cells
factor in the design of small autonomously • Understand how performance improvements can be obtained with less
powered electronic devices. Managing system loads engineering effort
and energy sources for handheld and wireless
devices are new areas of research that may provide What you will learn about:
a significant increase in the effective utilization of
• System issues in the design of the next generation of military mobile power
available energy sources.
• Implementation of hardware and software
• Discussion of how the entire process can be automated from end to end
• The demonstration and discussion will provide the attendees with options and
alternative methods to solve their vehicle health management problems
Please see www.idga.org for an updated listing of presenters
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM LUNCH Lunch will be served
1:15 PM – 3:15 PM Are third generation solar cells potential reality or just an interesting idea?
Ultra High Efficiency Solar Cells and Beyond
This workshop will present the current status of How you will benefit:
high performance solar cell technology, discuss • Gain an objective assessment of the current capabilities of high performance
how much more the performance can realistically solar cells
be improved, and present the concept of the so- • Walk away with an understanding of the best that can be expected from solar
called Third Generation Solar Cell (as well as cells in the near term
defining the first 2 generations of solar cells). • Introduction to the latest ways to overcome traditional limits to solar cell performance
What you will learn about:
• Concepts for going beyond the near term capability of high performance solar
cell technology
• Gain insight into the potential to meet DOD power needs in a variety of
settings and applications
• Understand applications range from meeting Warfighter needs on the ground
to powering space assets.
Dr. Dennis J Flood, Co-Founder and CTO, NewCyte, Inc
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM The future of alternative fuels
Alternative Fuels; Choices and Changes
As Air Force landfills reach capacity, the mixed How you will benefit:
waste streams that are taken to these landfills need • Learn and ask about the latest developments on alternative fuel choices,
to be redirected to generate a significant amount production, and new processing technologies
of fuel from this biomass using portable biofuel • Gain insight into upcoming technology to fulfill energy requirements
reactors. Problematically, current decentralized • Walk away with an understanding of how to integrate future technologies into
gasification R&D is typically operated at your business research and development objectives
atmospheric pressure and with air as gasification
medium. The second major technological barrier in What you will learn about
converting bio-syngas into synfuels is gas cleaning
• Overview of the methanol catalyst allowing the process to be conducted
mainly dictated by the application, and furthermore
• Discussion of portable, modular or single unit biofuel reactors
by the amount and character of the contaminants
• Usability at developed, remote, and austere locations, with minimal logistics
as a result of feedstock. footprint
Dr. Richard Sapienza, CEO, METSS Corporation
To register please call Sherryl Jacobs at 416-597-4710.

Main Conference Day One Main Conference Day Two
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 Wednesday, January 28, 2009
7:15 Coffee and Registration 7:15 Coffee and Registration
8:00 Chairperson’s Welcome and Opening Remarks 8:00 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
ENERGY INITIATIVES
8:15 The DOE Hydrogen Program: Activities to Facilitate Federal Adoption
DEPARTMENT OF
8:15 Marine Corps Power and Energy Initiatives
• Alternative power solutions
of Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
• Opportunities to deploy fuel cells for specialty vehicles, backup power, and
• Future technology initiatives
prime power or critical loads
• Business opportunities
• Energy storage for intermittent renewables such as wind and solar
Michael Gallagher, Program Manager, Expeditionary Power Christy Cooper, Education Team Lead and Acting Market
Systems, Marine Corps Systems Command Transformation Team Lead, Department of Energy Hydrogen Program
9:00 Vehicle Battery Maintenance and Requirements 9:00 Tactical Electric Power – Now and for the Future
• Production and fielding, and developmental programs
• Technical barriers and solutions to a unique problem
• Science and technology initiatives
• Developing an effective maintenance strategy for ever-changing
• Battlefield electric power integration strategy
technologies Michael Padden, Department of Defense Project Manager, Mobile
Please see www.idga.org for an updated listing of presenters Electric Power, U.S. Army
9:45 Networking and Refreshment Break 9:45 Networking and Refreshment Break
LITHIUM-ION
10:30 Lithium Ion Power Sources 10:30 More than Moore: PV Meets Nanoelectronics
• Recent successes of photovoltaic programs at NIST
• Understanding lithium-ion power source chemistry
FOCUS
• Overview of nanoelectronics and their applications
• Military applications for current and future technology
• Tying photovoltaic and nanoelectronics together
• Future requirements and technology goals
Dr. Yaw Obeng, Senior Scientist, National Institute of Standards and
Hisashi Tsukamoto, CEO & CTO, Quallion Technology (NIST)
HYBRID POWER
11:15 Developments in Military Tactical Power Applications
CONTRACTOR
11:15 Hybrid Intelligent Power (HI-Power)
PERSPECTIVE
• Lithium ion nanophosphate materials and cell efforts • Fuel savings through autonomous control of the tactical grid, use of energy
FOCUS
• Commercial developments and their potential impact on Military storage, and renewables
• Source and demand management
Applications
• Small, medium, and large battlefield tactical operation centers
Dave Carmen, Applications Engineer, Government Solutions
Dr. H. Scott Coombe, Chief, Power Technology Branch, Army Power
Group, A123 Systems Division, Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM)
12:00 LUNCH 12:00 LUNCH
1:15 Using Biomass for Alternative Energy Solutions for Deployed 1:15 High Performance Li-FeS2 AA Batteries – Advances in Energy Density
Airbase Operations and Reliability
• Higher Energy Lithium Primary Batteries
• Using biomass to provide alternative energy solutions for deployed
• Extreme Reliability - Low Temperature Operation, Desert Storage, Shock
airbases in the U.S. Air Force
AFTERNOON FOCUS: LARGE-SCALE POWER
• Latest status of the CONDOR system and the future needs and
and Vibration
• New Helmet and Handheld Tactical Lights
plans
AFTERNOON FOCUS: HANDHELD POWER
• High Power Zinc Air Batteries
• Algae to fuel – the feasibility of using algal biomass to provide
Dr. Frank Feddrix, Director, Energizer
liquid fuels
Robert Diltz, Research Engineer, Air Force Research Laboratory 2:00 Advancements in Warfighter Portable Hydrogen Power Applications
• R&D of hydrogen for storage, production and applications
• Hydrogen storage system design, development and testing
2:00 Hybrid Drivetrains - From Fuel Cell Mineloaders to UAVs
• Development of novel storage materials
• Hybrid Drivetrain Overview
• The Mineloader Drivetrain
Theodore Motyka, Hydrogen Program Manager, Savannah River
National Laboratory
• Fuel Cell UAVs
• Future Tactical Power Hybrid Drivetrains
2:45 Networking and Refreshment Break
Charles Botsford, PE, Principal Engineer, AeroVironment,
Efficient Energy Systems Group 3:15 Extraordinarily Lightweight Wearable Power System for the
Warfighter
• Design of hybrid solid oxide fuel cell, battery, power management, and
2:45 Networking and Refreshment Break
controls
• Demonstration of 800 W-hr/kg at recent wearable power competition
3:15 Development and Implementation of Advanced Power Systems • Development and transition to military relevant products
for Space and DOD Applications Thomas Byrd, Technical Lead - Power Management, Lockheed Martin
• NASA mission power requirements
Dr. Caine Finnerty, Vice President - Fuel Cells, Nanodynamics Energy
• Future NASA and DOD applications
• Development of advanced batteries and fuel cells 4:00 Advanced Power Supplies for Portable Electronics
• Review of demanding requirements for portable electronics
Dr. Rao Surampudi, Program Manager, Spacecraft Power
• Overview of improved “conventional” power sources – batteries, fuel cells,
Systems, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
capacitors and super-capacitors
• R&D of advanced sources - low energy reaction cells and nuclear batteries
4:00 Hydrogen-Powered Vehicles and Fueling Stations Dr. George Miley, Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Tactical applications of hydrogen fuel
Campus; Director, Fusion Studies Laboratory
• Future needs and requirements
• Current research and development efforts 4:45 Solider Power Activities and Requirements for the Mobile Warfighter
James Gough, Fleet Manager, Installations and Logistics, U.S. • Current and future soldier power requirements
• Current soldier power roadmap and focus areas
Marine Corps
• Soldier and NATO tactical power standardization efforts
4:45 End of Day One Dave Schimmel, Sr. Technical Director, NCI Information Systems;
Hardware Systems Integration & Power Systems Lead Engineer,
Project Manager Soldier Warrior Ground Soldier, PEO Soldier,
U.S. Army
5:30 End of Conference
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Featuring
presents a training conference… ALTERNATIVE
POWER
6th Annual Focus Day!
See page 3
TACTICAL Featuring a
for details.
POWER distinguished speaker
faculty including:
Michael Gallagher, Program
SOURCES Manager, Expeditionary Power
Systems, Marine Corps
Systems Command
Robert Diltz,
SUMMIT
TM Research Engineer,
Air Force Research Laboratory
Dr. Rao Surampudi, Program
Manager, Spacecraft Power
Systems, Jet Propulsion
January 26-28, 2009 • Ronald Reagan Building & Laboratory, NASA
International Trade Center
James Gough,
Washington, DC Fleet Manager, Installations &
Logistics, U.S. Marine Corps
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