A training, education, and networking program focused on UAS Sense & Respond developments, current and future uses across the military, plus UAS subsystems & platforms.
IDGA’s Air-Launched Weapons Summit is taking place August 24-25, 2009 and will give you the opportunity to learn more about developing and deploying better, faster, and cheaper air-launched weapons. You will have the unique opportunity to interact and network with military, government, academic and private sector leaders.
The event will cover the ever more pivotal role in the way combat operations are conducted across the globe. OIF and OEF have shown that precision strike weapons are a necessity in the modern, urban warfare environment. This event will cover:
• Program Needs and Requirements
• Increasing Weapon System Effectiveness While Reducing Civilian Casualties
• UAV Weapon Integration
For more details please visit the website at: www.idga.org/us/AirLaunchedWeapons
IDGA’s Air-Launched Weapons Summit is taking place August 24-25, 2009 and will give you the opportunity to learn more about developing and deploying better, faster, and cheaper air-launched weapons. You will have the unique opportunity to interact and network with military, government, academic and private sector leaders.
The event will cover the ever more pivotal role in the way combat operations are conducted across the globe. OIF and OEF have shown that precision strike weapons are a necessity in the modern, urban warfare environment. This event will cover:
• Program Needs and Requirements
• Increasing Weapon System Effectiveness While Reducing Civilian Casualties
• UAV Weapon Integration
For more details please visit the website at: www.idga.org/us/AirLaunchedWeapons
Article in Defense ARJ on DARPA's Command Post of the Future and its successful transition to the Army. 1/1/10
Source: http://www.darpa.mil/Docs/Greene53.pdf
This paper introduces a compelling argument for development of and adherence to procedure based maintenance when implementing and executing a modern program to ensure maximum capacity of a plant and reliability of its equipment. The argument is based on a new analysis of four (4) statistically significant failure profile distribution studies over the period of the last 40 years, the latest of which was completed in 2001.
Airport Operations 2011 will address all aspects involved in running regional and international airports cost-effectively and efficiently. The conference will examine what prerequisites need to be met in order to prepare our airport operations for future growth and increasing environmental demands.
This is seminar report of ageing of aircraft.this useful for those student who want to give seminar on designing area of aircraft.In this report you will find brief introduction of ageing of aircraft.
Article in Defense ARJ on DARPA's Command Post of the Future and its successful transition to the Army. 1/1/10
Source: http://www.darpa.mil/Docs/Greene53.pdf
This paper introduces a compelling argument for development of and adherence to procedure based maintenance when implementing and executing a modern program to ensure maximum capacity of a plant and reliability of its equipment. The argument is based on a new analysis of four (4) statistically significant failure profile distribution studies over the period of the last 40 years, the latest of which was completed in 2001.
Airport Operations 2011 will address all aspects involved in running regional and international airports cost-effectively and efficiently. The conference will examine what prerequisites need to be met in order to prepare our airport operations for future growth and increasing environmental demands.
This is seminar report of ageing of aircraft.this useful for those student who want to give seminar on designing area of aircraft.In this report you will find brief introduction of ageing of aircraft.
10 Insightful Quotes On Designing A Better Customer ExperienceYuan Wang
In an ever-changing landscape of one digital disruption after another, companies and organisations are looking for new ways to understand their target markets and engage them better. Increasingly they invest in user experience (UX) and customer experience design (CX) capabilities by working with a specialist UX agency or developing their own UX lab. Some UX practitioners are touting leaner and faster ways of developing customer-centric products and services, via methodologies such as guerilla research, rapid prototyping and Agile UX. Others seek innovation and fulfilment by spending more time in research, being more inclusive, and designing for social goods.
Experience is more than just an interface. It is a relationship, as well as a series of touch points between your brand and your customer. Here are our top 10 highlights and takeaways from the recent UX Australia conference to help you transform your customer experience design.
For full article, continue reading at https://yump.com.au/10-ways-supercharge-customer-experience-design/
How to Build a Dynamic Social Media PlanPost Planner
Stop guessing and wasting your time on networks and strategies that don’t work!
Join Rebekah Radice and Katie Lance to learn how to optimize your social networks, the best kept secrets for hot content, top time management tools, and much more!
Watch the replay here: bit.ly/socialmedia-plan
http://inarocket.com
Learn BEM fundamentals as fast as possible. What is BEM (Block, element, modifier), BEM syntax, how it works with a real example, etc.
Content personalisation is becoming more prevalent. A site, it's content and/or it's products, change dynamically according to the specific needs of the user. SEO needs to ensure we do not fall behind of this trend.
IDGA’s 2010 UAV Summit will deliver a comprehensive overview of these focus areas, requirements, emerging policies, programs, methods and technologies that are accurate and responsive to mission managers’ and commanders’ needs.
Focused and High-level, UAV Summit will present the latest developments in unmanned aviation capabilities and technologies. In addition to the unparalleled speaker faculty, the event will allow you to network with experts from the various service branches, DOD and industry experts who are leading the way in UAV platform development.
My books- Hacking Digital Learning Strategies http://hackingdls.com & Learning to Go https://gum.co/learn2go
Resources at http://shellyterrell.com/classmanagement
The reality for companies that are trying to figure out their blogging or content strategy is that there's a lot of content to write beyond just the "buy now" page.
Dear Colleague,
In the asymmetrical realities of urban combat and mountainous terrain, as
well as in homeland defense areas of border patrol and maritime surveillance,
night vision systems have become crucial assets to maximize operational
advantage. As the US Military enters the seventh year of sustained combat in
OIF/OEF, the ability to conduct surveillance and operations under the cover of night
is of great concern to operators and commanders alike.
IDGA's 4th Annual Night Vision Systems will examine how the military, DHS, and
industry are evolving their technology requirements in this tough and dynamic
environment. It will bring attendees up to date on forward looking sensor technologies,
including a frank discussion on next generation low light level sensors and
imagers as potential successors to the image intensifier tube and the related
technological developments. Topics will include:
• New applications for Electro-Optic/Infrared Sensors
• Component Revolutions: Sensors, Displays, Processors, Optics
• System Capability Trade-Offs: Digital vs. Analog
• Networked Sensors Evolution and Current Status
• Maintaining and Utilizing Night Vision Systems in 24/7 High Intensity Operational
Environments
• Trade Controls: Policy & Procedure
IDGA’s 4th Annual Night Vision Systems will bring solution providers face to
face in one location with DoD & DHS program and procurement influencers to
discuss future night vision requirements and ways to get new systems and
technologies into the field quicker without compromising capability or
interoperability.
Join this discussion! Act now & reserve your place among the top night vision
experts at this critical event. Register today by calling 800-882-8684 or visiting
www.idga.org/us/nightvision.
I look forward to meeting you in July!
V/R,
Dr. Joseph Estrera
Senior VP and Chief Technology Officer
L-3 Electro-Optical Systems
2009 Night Vision Systems Conference Chair
8:00 am – 10:00 am 7:30 am Registration I2CMOS roadmap and options for customization!
Image Intensified (I2) CMOS cameras represent a low-risk technical
solution for digital night vision. I2 CMOS combines two proven and
reliable technologies into a single camera sensor using a common
aperture. This workshop provides system integrators with an
understanding of the technology, its usefulness in various night vision
applications and interface considerations.
What will be covered:
• I2CMOS Technology – principles of operation, how it is manufactured
and expected performance.
• I2CMOS Application – trades analysis and concept of operations.
• I2CMOS Integration – mechanical, electrical, communications, optical,
display, MMI and life-cycle management
• I2CMOS Maturation – plan for enhanced sensor performance and
added features.
How you will benefit:
• Interact directly with I2CMOS subject matter experts, gaining invaluable
insight into the technology, its operation, manufacture and performance
• Receive an analysis of other digital night vision camera technologies
and the strengths and weaknesses of each
• Gain a better understanding of the role I2CMOS can play in mounted,
dismounted, aerial and force protection/security operations
• Receive thorough training regarding the complete integration of
I2CMOS into a higher level assembly or system. Considerations for
integrators will include: mechanical, electrical, software,
communications, optical, display, man-machine interface and life cycle.
• Be presented with the I2CMOS roadmap and options for customization
– performance and form/fit/function
Session Leaders: Dr. Joseph Estrera, Senior VP and Chief Technology
Officer, and John Robinson Advanced Technologies Business
Development Manager, L-3 Electro-Optical Systems
A Primer on I2CMOS and its Applicability to System Integrators
10:15 am – 12:15 pm Understand NV component tech!
Modern combat operations necessitate the use of nig
"Preparing Army Aviation for the Future The US Army has been making great strides in Aviation advancement. Due to the mountainous terrain and extreme climate conditions faced in the Afghan and Pakistani theaters, The US Army has increased focus and resources on Helicopters and UAVs to provide support, transportation, intelligence, deadly force and to rescue troops as they combat the insurgency.
IDGA’s Army Aviation 2010 is the premier event in the US that examines the link between emerging requirements, technology, and the long term focus of US Army Aviation Programs. Through a combination of technical examination sessions and key case studies, we will identify performance of current aviation systems platforms, potential growth areas, and the long term focus of the US Army Aviation community.
"
Fast jet flying is an inherently complex and demanding activity that remains dependent on the mindset and decision-making ability of the pilot. Recognizing the need to optimize this human performance in order to achieve its operational goals, the RAF has initiated a culture of self-improvement with dynamic feedback loops that seek out and capture the real sources of underperformance for consistently better outcomes. How can the investment management industry apply the same principles to upping its own game?
Homeland security and defense is run by complex systems that require large scale
integration to protect our nation. C4ISR describes programs and solutions that
allow the intelligence community, military personnel, and policy decision makers
to make quick and unified decisions. This seminar will explore developments in
C4ISR programs and strategies to pursue interoperable and integrated business
capabilities across the U.S. Department of Defense. We will also look at the impact
of chatter analysis on these efforts.
At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
a) Explore legislation and recent developments in C4ISR programs and solutions
b) Examine the role of Chatter Analysis
c) Connect to industry experts around business strategies and functional
effectiveness of C4ISR
Learning Outcomes: Learn and explore benefits and opportunities around C4ISR
and Chatter Analysis
This 3-day, classroom and practical instructional program provides individuals or teams entering the unmanned aircraft system (UAS) market with the need to 'hit the ground running'. Delegates will gain a working knowledge of UAS system classification, payloads, sensors, communications and data links. You will learn the UAS weapon design process and UAS system design components. The principles of mission planning systems and human factors design considerations are described. The critical issue of integrating UAS in the NAS is addressed in detail along with major considerations. Multiple roadmaps from all services are used to explain UAS future missions.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object Calisthenics
UAS: Unmanned Aircraft Systems 2009 Summit Prog Reg V3
1. Featuring Warfighter
Perspective &
OEM Panels
presents a training conference…
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
5th Annual
May 18 – May 21, 2009
Sheraton Premiere, Tysons Corner (Washington DC metro area)
Featuring a
distinguished speaker
faculty including:
Major General Frederick F
Roggero, USAF, Commander, Air
Force Flight Safety Center, US Air
Force
Brigadier General Charles K.
Shugg, USAF, Commander, Joint
4 reasons why you can’t afford Unmanned Aircraft Systems
to miss this time-critical event: Center of Excellence, US Air Force
1 Get involved in program updates from the right Colonel Robert J. Sova, USA,
PM’s, at the right time Director, Army Unmanned Aircraft
System Center of Excellence, US
2 Gain insight in UAS utilization from across the Army
spectrum of services and integrators
John Stanton, SES, Executive
3 Understand UAS requirements and opportunities Director, National Air Security
Operations, Customs and Border
4 Hear success stories from the people who are at
Protection, Department of
the forefront of UAS technology
Homeland Security
Sponsored By: Media Partners:
Call Mark on 416-597-4762 to register!
3. UAS Sense-and-Respond Focus Day
Monday, May 18, 2009
This in-depth and interactive classroom-style workshop day will examine initiatives in UAS Sense & Respond systems
Registration & Coffee
7:30 AM – 8:00 AM
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Real-Time Target Geo-Location and Web-Based Situational Awareness using Tactical UAVs
The use of advanced technology and novel system architectures to improve How you will benefit:
on conventional GPS equipment and methods for UAS is at the forefront Discover the benefits of a georegistered imagery downlink
•
of unmanned systems. Multiple platforms carry sensors to support Learn about advancements in data management for multiple sensor feeds
•
battlespace awareness, and real-time video has been given the ability to be Understand how improved GPS and imagery systems can provide
•
downlinked to the battlefield. Precision registration of imagery is needed enhanced response time
to allow sensor data to be used for targeting.
Session Leader:
What will be covered: Alison Brown
• Near-real time mensurated imagery needed to support call-for-fire operations President and CEO, NAVSYS Corporation
• Data management for multiple sensor feeds
Get the latest on GPS advancements
• Key performance issues for High Accuracy GeoRegistration
10:15 AM – 12:15 PM
Sense and Avoid for Single and Multiple UAVs
This workshop will address key technologies enabling single and multiple How you will benefit:
UAVs to safely conduct reconnaissance and surveillance missions in an Learn about the future of sense and avoid
•
urban environment. We will discuss means to plan a mission and locate or Understand the fundamental requirements for control of multiple UAVs
•
position UAVs for maximum area coverage while using sensing Discover the advancements made in collision avoidance
•
technologies to ensure collision avoidance with both stationary and
Session Leader:
moving obstacles. Issues of cooperative control among multiple UAVs will
Dr. George Vatchsevanos
be highlighted with an emphasis on collision avoidance.
Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
What will be covered:
• Sense and Avoid in urban operations
• Collision avoidance for all manner of obstacles
Discover collision avoidance for multiple UAVs
• Control technologies for multiple UAVs
Lunch
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
1:15 PM – 3:15 PM
Sense and Respond in Urban Operations
Significant advancements in sense-and-respond have provided UAS the ability How you will benefit:
to fly in non-segregated urban operational airspace. Issues surrounding the Learn about advancements in mid-air collision avoidance
•
feasibility of a solution fulfilling the traffic separation and mid-air collision • Discover insight operating UAS in non-segregated airspace
avoidance requirements for UAS will be addressed. Considerations such as • Hear about ongoing challenges in meeting various airspace requirements
required safety level and functional performances will also be discussed.
Session Leader:
What will be covered: David Maroney
• Necessary links with ongoing standardization work Lead Systems Engineer, MITRE
• Operational recommendations
Learn about UO-specific technology
• Mid-air collision avoidance requirements
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Advanced Sensor Systems for UAS Sense & Respond
This workshop will assess three collision detection and avoidance How you will benefit:
technologies that are viable for UAS, namely low-cost optic flow sensor, Discover how performance parameters are being refined
•
non-scanning, low-power laser range finders and on-board computer vision • Learn about line-of-site rates to detect collisions and avoid
techniques. We describe on-going research and flight experiment efforts to • Gain insight into the future of sense and respond systems
develop and refine these technologies in support of military applications like
Session Leader:
over-the-hill surveillance and reconnaissance operations in urban terrain.
Douglas Marshall
What will be covered: Director of Program Development, UAS Center of Excellence,
• Characterization of near mid-air collision encounters
University of North Dakota
• Defining collision avoidance system performance requirements
Gain insight into multi-sensor technologies
• Incorporating both industry standard and industry evolving methods and
techniques
Seating is limited. Register yourself and your team today. See page 6 for details
For further information call Mark Wilson on 416-597-4762 3
Sponsored By:
4. Main Conference Day 1 Main Conference Day 2
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Registration & Coffee
7:15
Registration & Coffee
7:15
Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
8:00
Chairperson’s Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:00
Keynote: UAS in Homeland Security Applications
8:15
Keynote: USAF Unmanned Systems Roadmap
8:15 Use of UAVs in Homeland Security
•
UAS Integration in CONUS
Joint operations and employment of UAS
•
Current Homeland Security science and technology initiatives
•
Unmanned Aircraft COE Programs
• Advanced operator training for improved utilization of data
John Stanton, SES, Executive Director, National Air
Brigadier General Charles K. Shugg, USAF, Commander, Security Operations, Customs and Border Protection,
Department of Homeland Security
Joint Unmanned Aircraft System Center of Excellence,
U.S. Air Force
National Airspace System – Access
9:00
and Integration
Update on U.S. Army UAS CoE and Army UAS
9:00
FAA policy on use of UAS in national airspace
•
Programs Future direction and challenges
•
Status and direction of Army UAS programs
•
K. Douglas Davis, Manager, Unmanned Aircraft Program
Current and future initiatives at the Army UAS Center of
•
Office, AIR-60, Federal Aviation Administration
Excellence
Networking Break
Colonel Robert Sova, USA, Director, Army Unmanned 9:45
Aircraft System Center of Excellence, U.S. Army
Warfighter Perspective Panel: Soldier & Operator
10:30
Perspective – UAS Requirements and Capabilities
Networking Break
9:45
Join UAS industry leaders and hear directly from the warfighter!
Mid-Morning Keynote: UAS Flight Safety
10:30 Gain insight into the capabilities that work and requirements for
the future of all unmanned aircraft.
Operational and individual risk decision-making
•
Moderator: Lieutenant Colonel Brad “Myrtle” Beach, USMC,
Air Force safety and operational risk management education
•
UAS Coordinator, Department of Aviation, Aviation
Major General Frederick F Roggero, USAF, Commander,
Weapons Requirements-81, Unmanned Aircraft Systems,
Air Force Flight Safety Center, U.S. Air Force
Headquarters Marine Corps
Three Persistent & Emerging Issues Impacting the
11:15
LUNCH
12:00
UAS Operator
Joint interdependencies & relationships: local, inter-theater, and
•
Procedural Approaches to UAS Integration
1:15
global Four pillars of UAS integration: airworthiness, airspace,
•
• Technology challenges: CODEC, metadata, encryption, LOS spectrum
operational training/procedures, technology
• Limitations
• Addressing integration today while technology addresses
• Collaboration challenges tip to tail: vertical & horizontal
tomorrow
Bob Fitzgerald, President, Bosh Global Services • Foundation of integration: sound safety assessments (SRM/ORM)
Lieutenant Colonel Dallas S Brooks, USAF, Chief,
LUNCH Unmanned Aircraft Integration Policy, DOD Policy Board on
12:00
Federal Aviation (PBFA)
UAS OEM Panel Discussion
1:15
United States Marine Corps Unmanned Aircraft
2:00
USMC Program Update
Programs
Hear the UAS OEMs discuss the latest challenges, innovations
Overview of systems currently employed by the Marine Corps
and evolutions in the sector. •
Challenges associated with UAS fielding and employment
• Maintaining the DoD/OEM/Supplier relationship •
• Future systems and acquisition considerations
• Current and future UAS supply requirements and opportunities
Lieutenant Colonel Brad “Myrtle” Beach, USMC, UAS
Coordinator, Department of Aviation, Aviation Weapons
Networking Break
2:45
Requirements-81, Unmanned Aircraft Systems,
Headquarters Marine Corps
European Defence Agency: Activities on UAS Air
3:15
Allied Perspective
Traffic Insertion Networking Break
2:45
and Activities
Introduction: role of EDA
•
DARPA Vulture Program
• Outline of what the EDA is doing in the area of UAS
3:15
• UAS sense and avoid program: MIDCAS DARPA Vulture Program: Extraordinary flight endurance
•
Daniel Johansson, Senior Officer, Armaments Co- Operations paradigm shift: Sustained airborne mission without
•
cost/footprint of conventional sustainment
Operation, European Defence Agency
• Acquisition paradigm shift: Why downselect?
Daniel Newman, Program Manager, Vulture, Defense
Commander, U.S. Fourth Fleet UAS Update
4:00
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Maritime Environment in the SOUTHCOM and C4F area of focus
•
Key areas and scenarios for unmanned air systems in the C4F AOF
Payload and UAS
•
UAS Payloads and Facilities
4:00
• Current UAS initiatives in the C4F AOF and the way ahead for
Non-optical UAS payloads
•
Testing
UAS operations
Future UAS communication systems
•
Ted Venable, Capt. USN (Ret), COMFOURTHFLT UAS • Overview and utilization of UAS Test Facilities
Program Manager, Commander, U.S. Fourth Fleet Jan Moren, Deputy Director, Intelligence and Information
Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Southern Command Warfare Directorate, CERDEC RDECOM, US Army
End of Day One End of Main Conference
4:45 4:45
For further information, or simply to register, call Mark Wilson on 416-597-4762
4
5. UAS Subsystems & Platforms Focus Day
Thursday, May 21, 2009
This in-depth and interactive classroom-style workshop day will examine R&D for the future of UAS Subsystems and Platforms
Registration & Coffee
7:30 AM – 8:00 AM
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Highly Capable UAV Payload
This session highlights a recent payload developed for the Office of Naval How you will benefit:
Research that greatly enhances the capabilities of Tier II UAVs. By capitalizing Understand the capabilities that can be added to existing platforms that
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on commercial advances in computer networks a modular, low cost airframe have 20 lb payload capacity
agnostic onboard network was developed. An existing intelligent controller Gain information on the power of a networked intelligent controller in
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was modified to process information arriving on the network and directs UAV operations
semi-autonomous activities for the aircraft. The network enables several Receive a fundamentally different approach to generating UAV imagery
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behaviors not currently available in this class of UAV, including condition Be exposed to the power of commercial GIS products for interpretation of
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based maintenance and high level operational behaviors. Novel cameras, with UAV imagery
orthorectifed image frames were utilized in the original version of the payload
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to provide fundamentally novel and greatly improved image products.
William L. Kiser, Jr., Ph.D.
What will be covered: The Penn State Electro Optic Center
• Modular, network based UAV architectures
• Distributed onboard processing
• Intelligent controllers
Discover sensors and UAV optics
Orthorectified image products and corresponding workflow
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10:15 AM – 12:15 PM
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Near-Earth Environments
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have demonstrated usefulness in tasks like How you will benefit:
search-and-rescue, exploration and mapping, weather monitoring and forest Appreciation of UAV testing and evaluation (T&E)
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firefighting. More recently, UAVs are currently being designed to fly in near- Demonstration of UAV design cycle with validation and verification (V&V)
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Earth environments like forests, buildings, caves and tunnels. These are Understand technical design requirements for flying in near-Earth
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cluttered areas where there is no GPS and communications are degraded. environments
As such, such UAVs demand sensor suites that can autonomously navigate
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the vehicle. This talk will showcase designs and demonstrations of such
Dr. Paul Oh
UAVs at the Drexel Autonomous Systems Lab in Philadelphia USA.
Lab Director, Drexel Autonomous Systems Laboratory (DASL), Drexel
What will be covered University
• Highly sophisticated sensor suites
Sensor advancements for autonomous navigation
• UAV design and missions
Lunch
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
1:15 PM – 3:15 PM
Exploitation-Enabled Small UAVs for Enhanced Surveillance
Rapid integration and T&E of systems that use camera-equipped small UAVs How will you benefit:
are needed to assist soldiers in performing persistent site surveillance tasks. Understand capabilities available to see the battlefield in real-time
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The ability to detect and track moving vehicles and persons via laptop Gain insight into integration of design for easy portability
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stations is technology required for the future of UAVs in ISR operations. • Discover real time video exploitation systems
What will be covered: Session Leader:
• Command and control of UAVs and sensor systems Bruce Deal
• Quality data collection using novel technologies Senior Vice President, SET Corp
• Real-time analytical tools
Discover advancements in analytics and T&E
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Air Traffic Control Position Reports for Unmanned Aircraft
In order to improve air traffic control and UAV operations, and to provide a How you will benefit:
deconfliction solution for an increasingly congested airspace, air traffic control Discover the subsystems allowing for advancements in position reporting
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reporting systems are at the forefront of UAS technologies. Advancements in Learn about network-centric systems for improved operator performance
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the development of technologies to coordinate and display disparate data feeds
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between multiple UAV models, manned DOD aircraft, and commercial aircrafts
Gerard Pizzo
can be accomplished through a network-centric automated discovery tool.
CEO, VIPMobile
What will be covered:
• Optimization of data transfer systems
Learn about improvements in air traffic control for UAS
• Advancements in technologies to assist in fiend operations with limited
bandwidth
• Position reporting in congested airspace
For further information, call Mark Wilson on 416-597-4762 5
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