Agenda

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

“Congressional Perspective on Unmanned Aircraft Systems”
CONGRESSMAN DUNCAN D. HUNTER (R-CA-52)
Member, Congressional Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Caucus & Member,
House Armed Services Committee

“The Future of Remotely Piloted Aircraft in the Air Force”
LIEUTENANT GENERAL CHRISTOPHER D. MILLER, USAF
Deputy Chief of Staff, Strategic Plans and Programs (AF/A8)

 

I: Emerging Service and Government Needs, Initiatives & Opportunities

“Army UAS ISR Initiatives and Challenges”
MR. TERRY L. MITCHELL, Director, ISR Integration Directorate, G-2/Intelligence, HQ US Army

“UAS Experience in Theater – Successes, Growth and Lessons Learned”
COLONEL A. T. BALL, US ARMY, Executive Assistant to the Deputy Commander, U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM) and Former Commander, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade [tentative]

“Unmanned Aircraft Systems in the Marine Corps”
LIEUTENANT COLONEL TIMOTHY “CROW” BURTON, USMC, Commanding Officer, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 3 (VMU-3), 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (3D MAW)

“Unmanned Aircraft in JIATFS Operations – Current and Future Vision”
COMMANDER GUY PEARCE, US NAVY, Deputy Director for Operations (J-3), Joint Interagency Task Force South, U.S. Southern Command
• Joint Operating Area/JIATF-s Mission Overview • Need for Persistent ISR
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Persistent ISR • Past UAS Efforts • Future UAS Initiatives

“U.S. Navy UAS Needs, Initiatives and Requirements”
COMMANDER JACK THOMAS, US NAVY, Director, Maritime, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Aviation Training & Plans Program (N882) [invited]

“UAS Integration into the National Airspace System”
MR. STEVE MAY, Special Programs Integrator, Regions and Center Operations, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

 

II: UAS Analyst Perspectives on the Way Forward

“UAS Market Forecast”
MR. RON STEARNS, Director of Research, G2 Solutions
• FY2013 UAS Budget Compare and Contrast • UAS Transition from Current CENTCOM Focus to a Less Tactical, More Strategic Posture • How Will UAS Contribute to DoD’s Vision for the Future? What are the Key Programs?

“Wall Street Perspective: Financing Innovation in a Declining Defense
Budget Environment”
MS. TESS OXENSTIERNA, Managing Director, Head of Aerospace and Defense, Bank Street Group

“Emerging UAS Opportunities, Needs and Challenges”
MR. PATRICK EGAN, UAS Consultant and Editor in the Field, sUAS News

 

III: High Altitude, Long Endurance UAS – Current Capabilities and Future Opportunities

“Global Hawk RQ-4 Program Update”
LIEUTENANT COLONEL BRAD WARD, USAF, Commander, 12th Reconnaissance Squadron, Beale AFB

“Feasibility of Laser Power Transmission to a High Altitude UAV”
MR. RICHARD MASON, Engineer, RAND Corporation

“Extreme Persistence – Extreme Altitude: Counter-IED and Huge Commercial Profits”
MR. ED HERLIK, Managing Partner, Market Info Group [tentative]

 

IV: Tactical and Small UAS – Current and Future Programs

“National Guard Predator UAS Program Update”
COLONEL RANDALL R. BALL, USAF, Commander, 163d Reconnaissance Wing, March ARB, CA [tentative]

“VMU-4 UAS Update and Warfighter’s Perspective on UAS Needs and Challenges”
MAJOR BRIAN COLE, USMC, Commander, Yuma Detachment, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 4 (VMU-4)

“Gray Eagle Program Update”
MR. DON CATTELL, Director, Army Programs, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

“Optionally Piloted Aircraft Development”
CAPTAIN DAVE “ROY” ROGERS, US NAVY (ret), Director, Strategic Initiatives, L-3 Communications Sensors and Simulation Group
• Lessons Learned in the Development of L-3’s Mobius Optionally Piloted Aircraft • The Viking 400 Program of Record Status Update • The Role of L-3’s Open Architecture in Achieving True Plug-n-Play Interoperability

“Vertical Lift UAS – An Industry Perspective”
DR. MICHAEL S. FRANCIS, Chief, Advanced Programs and Senior Fellow, United Technologies Research Center & Program Manager, Optionally Piloted and Autonomous Systems, Sikorsky Aircraft Company
• UAS Evolution and VTOL Systems • Mission Opportunities • Emerging Enabling Technologies & Capabilities • Unique Autonomy Challenges • Unmanned or Optionally-Piloted?

“Barracuda Program Update”
MR. THOMAS GOTTMANN, Program Manager, Barracuda, EADS [tentative]

“T-20 Small UAV Alternative Missions: Non-Government/Defense UAV Applications”
MR. STEVE SMITH, Senior Application Engineer, Arcturus UAV

 

V: UAS Communication and Bandwidth Challenges, Opportunities and Capabilities

“UAS Spectrum Management Challenges – The Road Ahead”
COLONEL BRIAN T. JORDAN, USAF, Director, Air Force Spectrum Management Office (AFSMO), Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)

“Dispelling the Myth’s – Commercial SATCOM and Unmanned Aircraft Systems”
MR. DAVID CAVOSSA, Vice President, Operations, CapRock Government Solutions

“Strategies to Advance Cross Domain UAV Communications and Information Sharing Interoperability Capabilities”
MR. JOEL COULTER, President, Mobile Sciences Consortium

 

VI: Emerging UAS Payload and Data Initiatives and Challenges

“USAF Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination of UAS ISR Data”
COLONEL PATRICK FLOOD, USAF, Commander, 548th ISR Group and Distributed Ground Station-2, Beale AFB, CA

“‘Real-Time’, Differential Interference Phase Contrast Telescope for UAVs”
Dr. JEROME FRANCK, Senior Technical Advisor, Operations Division, Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD), U.S. Army Communications Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) [tentative]

“GeoINT/Full Motion Video (FMV) Convergence”
BRIGADIER GENERAL MICHAEL LEE, USAF (ret), Vice President and General Manager, Intelligence Solutions, General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) [tentative]

“Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (PED) of UAS Data: Challenges and Potential Solutions”
MR. AMADO CORDOVA, Senior Engineer, RAND Corporation

 

VII: UAS Training and Crew Resource Management

“Simultaneous Control of UAS Platform and Payload by One Pilot”
MR. JOHN O’CONNOR, CEO, Media Foundry

“Air Force RPA Beta Class Training”
MR. ROBERT CUSHING, Managing Director, MQ Operations, Crew Training International (CTI)
• The Training Pipeline and its Transformation to Allow non-Undergraduate Pilot Training Pilots to Enter the MQ-1 and Now MQ-9 • Current and Past Training Challenges • The Latest and Greatest: CTI Initiatives to Enhance Training