1. Military Radar
Summit 2015
8th Annual
February 23rd-25th
2015 Washington D.C
Presents:
Pertinent and Focused
Discussion will Include:
• Cost Effective Modular Upgrades
to Military Radar Capabilities
• Maintaining a Competitive
Advantage in the Wake of
Foreign Breakthroughs
• Harnessing Strategic
Developments in Over the
Horizon Radar and MIMO
• Developing Advancements in
Electronic Warfare
Advancing Radar Capabilities for Evolving Military Operations
Introducing the 2015 Participating Prime Contractors:
Senior level speakers include:
Jian Wang
Principal Systems Engineer
Rockwell Collins
Chief Christian Keller
Project Manager
Sensors-Aerial Intelligence
Stuart Timerman
Director
Defense Spectrum Organization
Stephen Dunyk
Chief Architect/Technical Director
Lockheed Martin
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The Military Radar summit is a truly unique venue. Unlike academically focused conferences, or those of a
classified nature , Mil Radar addresses the entire radar enterprise: emerging customer needs and markets,
the latest technology developments, and unparalleled networking opportunities with those ready to do
business! Once a slowly evolving field driven by outdated acquisition practices, modern radar is finding
entirely new application areas in both the commercial and military spaces, and is evolving more quickly
than ever. - Dr. Joseph R. Guerci, IEEE Fellow, IEEE Warren D. White Award
2. Military Radar
Summit 2015
8th Annual
February 23rd-25th 2015 • Washington D.C
In an era of constantly developing defense technologies: possessing
the most cutting edge capabilities has become absolutely critical
to securing national safety. The nations that are ahead of all others
in; detection, stealth, intelligence collection, early warning, speed,
accuracy, and automation are those that are most defended from
the serious implications brought forth by outside threats. In the
Radar arena every new technology is critical and every second
counts.
By all accounts 2014 was a challenging year in the radar arena. We
saw significant developments in foreign nations, identified major
capability gaps, and sequestration forced realignment toward
modular upgrades. Where positive developments go it was also a
positive year for new capabilities in OTHN radar, MIMO, and foliage
penetration. No matter what your outlook, it goes without saying
that a strong game plan moving forward into the New Year will be
absolutely critical.
In light of this state of affairs, this year’s 8th Annual Military
Radar Summit brings together key U.S. military branches,
government and defense agencies and OEM’s that work in this
space to collaborate and strategize for 2015. This year’s program
will provide you with everything you need to make a plan to improve
your radar resiliency, catch up to foreign developments, implement
the newest scientific capabilities, overcome functional challenges,
and upgrade your existing resources.
Don’t miss the opportunity to be a key player in solving your
division’s greatest challenges at 8th Annual Military Radar
Summit 2015!
Very Respectfully,
Trevor Sosvielle
Program Director
IDGA
·· Air Force Research
Laboratory
·· Airbus Defence &
Space
·· Aveillant, Ltd.
·· CGI Federal
·· Colorado
Engineering
·· DARPA/IPTO
·· Defence Research
& Development
Canada - Suffield
·· Defense
Technology Security
Administration
·· General Dynamics C4
Systems
·· IET/SciTech
Publishing
·· Joint Spectrum
Center
·· Lockheed Martin
·· Milsat Magazine
·· National Instruments
·· NORAD
Headquarters
·· Northrop Grumman
·· Raytheon
·· Riverside Research
Institute
·· Saab Sensis
Corporation
·· Sandia National
Laboratories
·· Thales Raytheon
Systems Company
·· Times Microwave
Systems
·· U.S. Army - SOTF
·· UAS Project Office
·· University of
Oklahoma
·· US Government
Accountability Office
·· US Naval Research
Laborator
P.S. Don’t miss this
year’s Electronic
Warfare Focus Day!
see page 5 for Details!
Past Attendee Snapshot:
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·· Attend our ELECTRONIC
WARFARE FOCUS DAY
to understand the newest
tools, technologies, and
platforms
·· Participate in our
ROUNDTABLE
DISCUSSIONS to interact
with like-minded peers
sharing similar priorities
·· Hear from LEADING
PRIME CONTRACTORS
to understand
requirements for future
technologies
Maximize your time at the
Military Radar Summit:
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Detecting Threats along
the Nation’s Borders
see Main Summit Day 2 11:00 AM Session
• Utilization of LYNX AR and Predator platforms
• Bringing cutting edge radar and intelligence capabilities to maturity
Developments in Multi
Input Multi Output Radar
See Main Summit Day One 14:15 Session
• Enhancements in dynamic range and arbitrary
wave form generators
• Feeding data to a smart phone based system by UAV,
Ground Robotics, and movement detectors
Inter Sector Spectrum
Interoperability
see Main Summit Day 2 11:45 Session
• Improvements in waveforms, data compression,
and frequencies
• Spectrum sharing across commercial and
government sectors
Expanding Payload Capabilities
see Pre Summit Workshop Day
• Designing high performance radar assets that are compatible
with next gen platforms
• Achieving simultaneous electronic warfare and
stealth capabilities
Combating Foreign Capabilities
see Main Summit Day One 9:00 Session
• Designing a stealth platform that is impervious to
existing detection capabilities
• Increasing resiliency against electronic attack
Managing the Unpredictability of
the Ionosphere
See Main Summity Day One 09:45 Session
• Advancements in algorithms and technologies that account for
ionosphere behavior
• Developments in understanding the ionosphere’s interaction
with radar
Expanding Capabilities of
Existing Radar Resources via
Modular Upgrades
see Main Summit Day One 15:30 Session
• Increasing functionality and processing power
while limiting size
• Designing attachments that advance older systems with
modern capabilities
Strategies for
a changing Environment
4. 2015 Highlighted Military Radar Speakers:
Peter Moo
Group Leader, Multifunction Radar
DRDC Defence Research and Development Canada
Courtney Liggins
ISR Lead
Customs and Border Protection/
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
Stuart Timerman
Director
Defense Spectrum Organization
Stephen Dunyk
Chief Architect/Technical Director
Lockheed Martin
“Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) supports defence and security operations
at home and abroad with knowledge and technology; provides S&T to forecast, cost, and
deliver future readiness levels to meet operational requirements; and, generates knowledge
and technology for a robust, connected and multi-jurisdictional security and intelligence
environment.”
“NGA is a unique combination of intelligence agency and combat support agency. It is the
world leader in timely, relevant, accurate and actionable GEOINT. NGA enables the U.S.
intelligence community and the Department of Defense (DOD) to fulfill the president’s
national security priorities to protect the nation. NGA also anticipates its partners’ future
needs and advances the GEOINT discipline to meet them. NGA is the lead federal agency for
GEOINT and manages a global consortium of more than 400 commercial and government
relationships. The director of NGA serves as the functional manager for GEOINT, the head of
the National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG) and the coordinator of the global Allied
System for Geospatial Intelligence (ASG). In its multiple roles, NGA receives guidance and
oversight from DOD, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and Congress.“
“The Defense Spectrum Organization (DSO) enables information dominance through effective
spectrum operations. DSO provides commanders direct operational support, including
electromagnetic battlespace planning, deconfliction, and joint spectrum interference
resolution. DSO develops and implements net-centric enterprise spectrum management
capabilities to enhance efficiency and effectiveness, and pursues emerging spectrum
technologies that may either benefit or impact DoD’s ability to access the electromagnetic
spectrum. DSO advocates for current and future military spectrum requirements in national
and international forums to protect DoD global operations.”
“As a global security, aerospace, and information technology company, the majority
of Lockheed Martin’s business is with the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S.
federal government agencies. In fact, Lockheed Martin is the largest provider of IT
services, systems integration, and training to the U.S. Government. The remaining
portion of Lockheed Martin’s business is comprised of international government and
some commercial sales of our products, services and platforms.”
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Kurt Sorensen
Manager SAR Sensor Technologies
Sandia National Laboratories
Jian Wang
Principal Systems Engineer
Rockwell Collins
“For more than 60 years, Sandia has delivered essential science and technology to resolve
the nation’s most challenging security issues. Sandia National Laboratories is operated and
managed by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Sandia Corporation operates Sandia National Laboratories as a contractor for the U.S.
Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and supports
numerous federal, state, and local government agencies, companies, and organizations.
As a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), Sandia may perform work
for industry responding to certain types of federal government solicitations. The solicitation
must allow FFRDC participation and meet the requirements of Sandia’s management and
operating contract with DOE/NNSA.”
“Rockwell Collins is a pioneer in the design, production and support of innovative solutions
for our customers in aerospace and defense. Our expertise in flight-deck avionics, cabin
electronics, mission communications, information management and simulation and training
is strengthened by our global service and support network spanning 27 countries. Working
together, our global team of nearly 20,000 employees shares a vision to create the most
trusted source of communication and aviation electronics solutions.”
Vincent Sabio
Program Manager Strategic Technology Office
DARPA
“Creating breakthrough technologies for national security is the mission of the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). By making pivotal investments in new
technology-driven ideas for the United States, DARPA imagines and makes possible new
capabilities for overcoming the multifaceted threats and challenges that lie ahead. This
makes a better, more secure future possible. In an uncertain world, with constrained budgets,
providing these new capabilities is more important than ever.”
Chief Christian Keller
Project Manager
Sensors-Aerial Intelligence
“CERDEC’s Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate is the Army’s technical expert
in the areas of tactical and strategic communications technologies, providing a service-
unique environment to develop, evaluate and transition secure, reliable and practical defense
communications, networking and cybersecurity capabilities. As the Defense Department
leader in communications and networking R&D for the Soldier, CERDEC S&TCD adopts,
adapts and develops emerging communications technologies to provide secure, networked
tactical communications. The directorate also develops and evaluates hardware components,
antennas, waveforms, communications security and network operations capabilities that
enable Soldiers to acquire, secure and sustain operational communications.”
Eli Brookner
Principal Engineer (Retired)
Raytheon
“Raytheon Company is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, security and
civil markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 92 years, Raytheon
provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the
areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems;
as well as a broad range of mission support services”
Chris Reed
Program Manager Radar
IARPA
“The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) invests in
high-risk, high-payoff research programs to tackle some of the most difficult
challenges of the agencies and disciplines in the Intelligence Community (IC)”
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Electronic Warfare Focus Day Monday, February 23rd, 2015
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Challenges and Milestones for Military-Commercial Shared Spectrum
Developments and improvement gaps in national electronic warfare in recent years has led to the creation of a wide variety of multi-block
ten plus year initiatives focused on improving Surveillance, Support Measures, Emitter Identification, High Gain Sensitivity, software, and
jamming capabilities.
In this session we will cover:
·· The fundamental physics of spectrum sharing impacting features, capabilities, and current state of production of EW programs
·· Expected requirements and anticipated challenges for near future jamming capabilities
·· Timelines, certainties, and uncertainties in programs beyond the current acquisition horizon
·· Remaining challenges and notable accomplishments
Dr. Joseph Mitola III
Chef Product Scientist
Federated Wireless
Affordability of Electronic Warfare and Radar Subsystems
With a broad suite of Electronic Warfare payloads becoming available military brass is turning its attention to expanding and massively
distributing these capabilities to as many platforms as possible. The military is eager to harness the benefits that the newest electronic
warfare technology can offer in as many ways as possible. Learn how to design technologies that are agile and easily operated. In this
session we will cover:
·· Enablement of integration and interoperability
·· Introduction of layer based approaches to electronic warfare as seen in the Reaper and Prowler
·· Increasing the spectrum of electronic warfare capabilities while reducing SWAP concerns and reducing budgetary constraints
·· Advancements in multi function wideband radar implementation as seen with the Pandora
Dr. Mahesh Kumar
Technology Fellow
Cobham
Designing a Complimentary Fleet of Electronic Warfare Ready Assets
In light of foreign advancements many OEMS and military branches that are involved in electronic warfare operations have begun
pushing for military resources with capabilities that are targeted specifically at combatting these enhancements. While some feel
that this has created vulnerabilities in other areas we intend to illustrate the core necessity of a robust and varied fleet with differing
capabilities customizable to any scenario. In this session we will explore:
·· Current limitations of both the F35 and the Growler and advantages of operating the two platforms in conjunction
·· Possible advantageous scenarios that could be attained by designing a complimentary fleet as opposed to all in one platforms
·· How collaborative efforts by OEM’s to plan out a complimentary fleet can net significant profit returns
Eli Brookner
Principal Engineer (Retired)
Raytheon
09:00
10:45
15:15
08:15 Registration and Coffee
10:30 Morning Networking & Refreshment Break
12:15 Lunch
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Main Conference Day One
08:00 Registration & Coffee
08:45 Chairperson’s Welcome and Opening Remarks
Joseph C. Deroba
Chief Technical Engineer
RDER-IWR
09:00 Advances In Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar
Imaging
High resolution inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR)
imaging of non-cooperative targets has been the focus of
many military users and remains a critical component for
wide-area surveillance, air defense and weapon control,
maritime surveillance, and other military applications.
New frontiers have been reached with the definition of
new ways of conceiving ISAR, such as bistatic/multistatic
ISAR, polarimetric ISAR, passive ISAR, hybrid SAR/ISAR,
and so on. The advances in ISAR offer a unique suite of
benefits for military applications. The aim of the session is
to showcase recent advances in ISAR to present a range of
perspectives and innovative results with potential to enable
future practical ISAR systems. In this session we will explore
·· ISAR target feature extraction;
·· Bistatic/multistatic ISAR;
·· Hybrid SAR/ISAR imaging;
Victor C. Chen
Technical Director
Ancortek Inc.
US Naval Research
Laboratory (Retired)
09:45 An Overview of Sandia National Laboratories’
FARAD Program
This presentation will provide insight into Sandia’s
“FARAD” program (“Facility for Advanced Radar/RF and
Algorithm Development”), which is a high-performance,
multi-mode, multi-band airborne radar “test-bed”
capability focused on radar hardware and algorithm
development, phenomenology research, and associated
data collection and data analysis.
·· FARAD is an important asset in maintaining unique and
cutting-edge radar ISR capabilities at Sandia
·· FARAD operates synergistically with Sandia efforts to
provide advanced radar airborne data collection and
exploitation capabilities to facilitate specific research and
development objectives
·· Provides a research tool set that can be widely utilized
in support of both internal RD and collection of
customer-requested data products
·· This presentation will highlight FARAD demonstrations
of fine-resolution polarimetry, videoSAR, and velocity-
independent tracking modes.
Kurt Sorensen
Manager, ISR EM Sensor Technologies
Department
Sandia National Laboratories
10:30 Morning Networking Refreshment Break
11:00 An Integrated Approach to Effective HF Emitter
Geolocation
Dramatic improvements in HF emitter geolocation are
possible by integrating novel, electrically small antenna
systems, signal processing algorithms, and ionospherically-
informed geolocation methods. Integration of these
elements enables highly available and accurate systems that
can quickly be emplaced in response to new or changing
mission requirements.
·· Challenges to highly accurate and available geolocation of
HF skywaves
·· Use of polarization diverse electrically small antennas for
accurate angle-of-arrival measurement and rejection of
interferers
·· Improved modelling of HF wave propagation though the
ionosphere for both short and long range paths
·· Live test results from prototype technology components
Chris Reed
Program Manager
IARPA
11:45 Simplifying Multi-Sensory Data
While incorporating a detection system that incorporates
detection and visual representation of detected objects in an
array of formats means having many options it also means
many complications. How can we make communicating
what’s been detected as simple as possible?
·· How multiple types of imagery and readings can be
displayed as simplified units on a UI
·· Creating multiple on-the-fly view types for operators
·· Simplifying assurance of operation indicators to system users
·· Simplifying operator input capabilities
Nathan A. Goodman
Director of Research, Advanced Radar Research
Center, Associate Professor, School of Electrical and
Computer Engineering
The University of Oklahoma
12:30 Networking Luncheon
13:30 Smart Phones and Radar on the Battlefield
Smart phones have been enjoying an expanded set of military
friendly capabilities in the past year. Favored for their low cost
and high flexibility they’ve proven to be an asset. How can these
systems interact with radar on the battlefield?
·· The testing and progress of the Army SULSAT system
·· Creating a unified and flexible view for all field operators
·· Feeding data to a smart phone based system by UAV, Ground
Robotics, and movement detectors to give soldiers a complete view
·· Marking IED’s and other dangerous scenarios quickly and
accurately
Eli Brookner
Principal Engineer (Retired)
Raytheon
Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
·· Polarimetric ISAR;
·· Passive ISAR;
·· Applications of ISAR to
non-cooperative target.
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Main Conference Day One Continued
14:15 MIMO Radar: Breakthroughs, Applications,
Challenges, and Adoption
MIMO or “Multi Input Multi Output” Radar is poised to
serve as a signification compliment to current systems such
as phased array radar. What are the potential benefits to
be provided by this system, and what roadblocks are still
preventing mass adoption? In this session we will explore:
·· Benefits of MIMO radar over phased array radar
·· How MIMO radar is enabled by enhanced dynamic range
and arbitrary waveform generators
·· Improving MIMO techniques using a variety of transmit
configurations
·· Reducing angle estimation error
Peter Moo
Group Leader Multi-Function Radar
DRDC
15:00 Afternoon Refreshment Break
15:30 PANEL: Extending and Upgrading the
Capabilities of Existing Radar Resources
This session will bring together the leading developers of
radar components to fully illustrate what can be done with
our existing radar infrastructure to exponentially increase
capabilities and return.
1 Expanding Memory and Processing Capabilities
2 The Latest Advancements in Chipsets
3 New Requirements in Digital Hardware
4 Implementations in Upgrading Chipset Technology
Moderator:
Stephen Dunyk
Chief Architect/Technical Director
Lockheed Martin
Jian Wang
Rockwell Collins
Eli Brookner
Raytheon
Kurt Sorensen
Sandia National Laboratories
Tony Ponsford
Raytheon
16:15 Holographic RadarTM –Target Centric
Surveillance
The presentation describes Holographic Radar (HR), a new
paradigm in persistent wide area surveillance. By using
a modular, static, staring array to create a continuous,
concurrent 3D surveillance volume, it eliminates the need to
interrogate targets in sequence, enabling more intelligent
characterization and classification of targets of interest.
Dr. Gordon Oswald
Chief Technology Officer
Aveillant
17:00 Closing Remarks
17:15 End of Main Conference Day One
Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
07:45 Registration Coffee
08:30 Chairperson’s Recap of Conference Day One
08:45 Key Note: Data Overload and Precise Intelligence
The improvement and investment in military radar
technologies and the distance we’ve extended our data
collection reach has empowered operators to make safe,
informed field decisions. However, these changes have also
resulted in an unforeseen oversaturation of data. In this
session you will learn to:
·· Find solutions for quick mass data interpretation
·· Understand what’s progressed in data algorithms to reduce
interpretation efforts
·· Potential upgrades and improvements to the Defense
Intelligence Information Enterprise
Vincent Sabio
Program Manager Radar
DARPA
Main Conference Day Two Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
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09:30 Radars for Maritime Domain Awareness
Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) is about generating
actionable information for confidence-based decision
support. This requires collecting information pertaining to
the whereabouts of all maritime vessels in the surveillance
area, including classification of vessel type and activity,
positive identification, and completing an assessment of
intent. No single sensor can achieve this and effective MDA
requires a combination of passive and active surveillance and
reconnaissance systems.
·· The need for Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA)
·· Sensors and Systems for achieving MDA
·· Radars for persistent surveillance
·· “Big Data” - finding “the needle in the haystack” and
highlighting anomalistic behavior
Dr. A.M. (Tony) Ponsford
Principal Engineering Fellow
Site Technical Director Manager RD
Raytheon
10:15 Morning Networking Refreshment Break
10:45 Smart Antennas for Direction Finding and
Geolocation
Dr. Frank B. Gross
Boeing Technical Fellow, Professor and Chair,
Electrical Engineering
Georgia Southern University
11:30 Spectrum Interoperability for Defense and
Commerce
Within the United States and internationally, there is a
significant push to identify spectrum that can be used to
accommodate commercial broadband wireless systems. A
wide range of government spectrum is being assessed to
include spectrum allocated for military radars. This session
will outline progress in this space as a result of developments
in science technology and leadership in the federal
government. In this session we will explore:
·· Increases in governmental spectrum efficiencies
·· Chosen directions that do not cause vulnerabilities or
impact
to mission
·· Scientific developments that are primed to aid major
technical challenges
·· Higher frequencies, new/improved waveforms, compressed
data, and other techniques being considered/implemented
to gain efficiencies
·· The DoD Spectrum Strategy and its Roadmap/Action Plan
geared to meet DoD and national goals
Stuart Timerman
Director
Defense Spectrum Organization
12:15 Networking Luncheon
13:15 Improvements in UAV based Radar
The past years 300 percent increase in unmanned vehicles says
a lot about the military commitment to UAV performance in
volatile areas. What has the increase fostered in UAV based radar
improvements?
·· What the incorporation of the STARLite reader has meant for
weight improvements
·· Radar capabilities of the gray eagle
·· How UAV’s contribute to the improvement of persistent threat
detection
·· UAV operational mode improvements
Chief Christian Keller
Project Manager
Sensors-Aerial Intelligence
14:00 Detecting Latent Threats
It is without question that radar technology has improved and we
have harnessed many advancements in detecting moving objects.
One frequently overlooked issue is advancing our capabilities
in detecting passive threats. This session will evaluate radar
capabilities in:
·· IED’S
·· Warheads
·· Mines
·· Environmental Dangers or Changes
Joseph C. Deroba
Chief Technical Engineer
RDER-IWR
14:45 Afternoon Networking Refreshment Break
15:15 Bringing EA and Stealth to the Same Platform
One remaining complication in the area of airborne stealth is the
difficulty allowing Electronic Warfare and Stealth Systems to co-
operate. Having both on the same platform not only raises SWaP
concerns but the systems in many cases actually interfere with
each other.
·· Designing an airframe that can easily support multiple types of
air defense
·· Reducing SWaP requirements of current systems
·· Designing EW and Airborne Radar that operates without
creating interference
Jian Wang
Principal Systems Engineer
Rockwell Collins
16:00 Chairperson’s Closing Remarks
16:15 End of Conference
Main Conference Day Two Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
