This document provides information about the 5th Annual Unmanned Aircraft Systems conference taking place from May 18-21, 2009 in the Washington DC area. The conference will feature panels on warfighter perspectives, OEM technologies, and programs from the various military branches involved in UAS. It will also include focus days on sense and respond systems and UAS subsystems and platforms. The document provides an agenda that highlights speakers and topics to be covered each day, including updates on UAS programs in the US Army and Air Force, homeland security applications, integration into the national airspace, and European defence activities related to UAS.

1. Featuring Warfighter
Perspective &
OEM Panels
presents a training conference…
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
5th Annual
May 18 – May 21, 2009
Washington, DC 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
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2. Who You Will Meet:
The audience of IDGA’s 5th Annual
Dear Colleague,
Unmanned Aircraft Systems is comprised of
senior-level technology specialists from
The role of today’s UAS is constant
ly evolving. In the current battlesp government agencies, research laboratories,
ace,
situational awareness is integral to and equipment suppliers with a range of
operational success. Technologica
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breakthroughs, such as smaller UAS responsibilities including:
, serve an increasingly valuable role
in US and
Coalition force transformation. • UAS/UAV/UCAV Development
• Sensor Systems Integration
Yet payload weight, time on stat • Weapons Payload R&D
ion, communication, airspace
management, sensor packages, • Platform and Systems Acquisition
and UCAV deployment are still issue
s and
obstacles currently faced by all UAS
operators. The various technologica • ISR Practitioners
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developments and improvements
have matured the UAS into necessar • Program Management
y, integral
and must-have tools in the combat
operator’s arsenal.
IDGA’s 5th Annual UAS Summit Here’s what past attendees
presents exclusive insights on:
• Improvemen
ts in combat capabilities and weapon have said about IDGA events:
ization of current platforms
• Developmen
ts in micro UAS
“Terrific! Well done, no snafus … well-
• Use of UAS
in homeland security
organized and well-planned.”
• DARPA initia
tives
Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia
National Labs
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May 18: Sense & Respond
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May 21: UAS Subsystems
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ems
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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
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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
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Data management for multiple sensor feeds
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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UAS Integration in CONUS
Joint operations and employment of UAS
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Current Homeland Security science and technology initiatives
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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
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Programs Future direction and challenges
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Status and direction of Army UAS programs
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K. Douglas Davis, Manager, Unmanned Aircraft Program
Current and future initiatives at the Army UAS Center of
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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
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Moderator: Lieutenant Colonel Brad “Myrtle” Beach, USMC,
Air Force safety and operational risk management education
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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
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Procedural Approaches to UAS Integration
1:15
global Four pillars of UAS integration: airworthiness, airspace,
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• 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
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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
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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
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Key areas and scenarios for unmanned air systems in the C4F AOF
Payload and UAS
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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
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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
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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
•
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
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
behaviors not currently available in this class of UAV, including condition • Be exposed to the power of commercial GIS products for interpretation of
based maintenance and high level operational behaviors. Novel cameras, with UAV imagery
orthorectifed image frames were utilized in the original version of the payload
Session Leader:
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
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)
Earth environments like forests, buildings, caves and tunnels. These are • Understand technical design requirements for flying in near-Earth
cluttered areas where there is no GPS and communications are degraded. environments
As such, such UAVs demand sensor suites that can autonomously navigate
Session Leader:
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
the development of technologies to coordinate and display disparate data feeds
Session Leader:
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
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Featuring Warfighter
Perspective &
OEM Panels
presents a training conference…
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
5th Annual
May 18 – May 21, 2009 4 reasons why you can’t afford to miss
Washington, DC area this time-critical event:
Get involved in program updates from the right PM’s, at
1 the right time
Gain insight in UAS utilization from across the spectrum
2 of services and integrators
3 Understand UAS requirements and opportunities
Hear success stories from the people who are at the
4 forefront of UAS technology