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UAV                                               TM
                                                       Achieving Maximum
                                                       Unmanned Capabilities


Summit                                                 April 26 - 29, 2010
                                                       Washington, DC Metro Area


Lead the way with revolutionary Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle initiatives by attending sessions on:
•   AFRL research currently underway
•   Unmanned Aircraft System payloads
•   UAV acquisition and certification
    opportunities
•   Developments toward greater UAV
    autonomous controls
•   DoD visions for the UAVs of the future


Meet key decision-makers and hear from a distinguished speaker faculty that includes:
Lieutenant General David Deptula, USAF,                Captain Mike Carsley, USN, Section Head,
Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance   US Navy UAS Requirements
and Reconnaissance, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force
                                                       Captain Paul Stewart, USN, Commander,
John Stanton, SES, Executive Director, National Air    US Naval Research Laboratory
Security Operations, Customs and Border Protection,
                                                       Colonel Jessie O. Farrington, USA, Assistant
Department of Homeland Security
                                                       G-3 for Operations and Aviation, U.S. Army
Colonel Eric Mathewson, USAF, Director, UAS            Forces Command
Task Force, US Air Force

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Who you will meet:



    UAV Summit
                                                                                              At IDGA’s UAV Summit you will have
                                                                                         TM   the unique opportunity to interact and
                                                                                              network with representatives from
                                                                                              military and government agencies,
                                                                                              manufacturers/contractors,
                                                                                              technology/service providers, and
                                                                                              academia. Attendees will include:
    Achieving Maximum Unmanned Capabilities                                                   •   Program Managers
    April 26 - 29, 2010 • Washington, DC Metro Area                                           •   Project Managers
                                                                                              •   Directors
                                                                                              •   Branch Heads
                                                                                              •   Project Leads
                                                                                              •   Commanders
       Deployed US Forces in places such                                                      •   Scientists and Engineers
                                            as Iraq and Afghanistan demand the
       be greater use of unmanned veh                                               re
                                              icles wherever possible. Previously,
       contracts in the millions of dollars                                        UAV
                                            were big news; now these awards
       the billions of dollars. In addition                                     are in
                                             to procurement, research funding for
       unmanned aerial vehicles could exce
                                              ed $20 billion through 2018.                    About IDGA
      Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) prov
                                                  ide the intelligence, armament and
      sensors which could dramatically dec                                                                    The Institute for
                                               rease the number of casualties. The
      role of UAVs is expanding, and                                                                          Defense &
                                            their unlimited role on the futu
      battlefield is inevitable. Rapid tech                                     re                            Government
                                                nological advances promise to                 Advancement (IDGA) is a non-
      radically alter the realm of possibilities
                                                  for unmanned aerial warfare and             partisan information-based
      next-generation models. There is
                                              a need to discuss developments in               organization dedicated to the
     propulsion, Artificial Intelligence, mul                                                 promotion of innovative ideas in
                                               ti-spectral sensors, and energy use.
                                                                                              public service and defense through
     IDGA’s UAV Summit will deliver a                                                         live conferences and events. We
                                             comprehensive overview of thes
     focus areas, requirements, emergin                                          e            bring together speaker panels and
                                            g policies, programs, methods and                 events comprised of military and
     technologies that are accurate and
                                            responsive to mission managers’ and               government professionals while
     commanders’ needs.
                                                                                              attracting delegates with decision-
                                                                                              making power from military,
     This conference will probe into                                                          government, and defense
                                       the following key topics:
          • The latest upd                                                                    industries.
                          ates on UAV program developmen
                                                         ts and requirements
          • Communications
                             and frequency issues                                             In addition to our live events, IDGA
         • National air spac                                                                  also offers an online community
                            e challenges
         • And so much                                                                        dedicated to providing defense
                          more!                                                               industry professionals with
                                                                                              breaking news, business
     Do not delay! Get updates on the                                                         opportunities, introductions,
                                        latest UAV initiatives –                              podcasts, webinars, and
     register today! See page 6 for det
                                       ails!                                                  presentations from key industry
                                                                                              leaders. Members of our online
                                                                                              community are able to extend their
                                                                                              live event experience and interact
                                                                                              with the defense industry by
    Here’s what past attendees are saying about IDGA events:                                  leveraging the opportunity to
                                                                                              network, share ideas, best
                                                                                              practices, and business solutions.
    “I enjoyed the conference very much. I obtained a lot of useful                           For more information, please visit
    information and met some very interesting and hopefully, good                             www.idga.org.
    contacts.”
    - Dr. Richard M. Kolocinski, Director of Advanced Controls, Orbital Research Inc.
                                                                                              Join IDGA's UAV
    ‘’Terrific! Well done, no snafus….well-organized and well-planned.’’                      (Unmanned Aerial
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UA TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP DA
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UA TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP DAY   Monday, April 26, 2010
                             Sign up for this in-depth and interactive workshop day examining the latest technologies that enhance UAV autonomy and persistence.

                             7:30am       Registration & Coffee
                             8:00am-9:30am                                                                                                Leverage capabilities of a team of vehicles!
                             Autonomous Path Planning
                             Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have shown promise in recent years for                       What will be covered:
                             autonomous sensing. UAV systems have been proposed for a wide range of                       • Real-Time task allocation algorithm that assigns assets to tasks
                             applications, such as mapping, surveillance, search and tracking operations. The             • A mission definition language for multiple UAVs
                             recent availability of low-cost UAVs suggests the use of teams of vehicles to                • Distributive data fusion for cooperative search missions

                             perform sensing tasks. To leverage the capabilities of a team of vehicles, efficient         • Multiple UAV experiments

                             methods of decentralized sensing and cooperative path planning are necessary. The            Session Leader: J. Karl Hedrick, James Marshall Wells Professor of
                             discussion will examine practical control strategies for a team of fixed-wing vehicles       Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Director,
                             performing cooperative sensing in order to develop decentralized, autonomous                 Berkeley’s Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory, Principal Investigator, Center for
                             control strategies that can account for a wide variety of sensing missions.                  the Collaborative Control of Unmanned Vehicles


                             9:35am-11:05am                                                                             Gain insight into best practices in a UAS environment!
                             Research Directions and Best Practices for UAS in the National Airspace System
                             The NSF/AUVSI/FAA/DHS Workshop on Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research                             (autonomy, computer vision, human-robot interaction, multi-robot systems,
                             Directions for National Air Space was held in June 2008. An outcome of this                      networks, security, and simulation and training)
                             workshop was the establishment of the 15-member FAA Research Advisory Group,                 •   A translation of needs into basic research objectives for academic research, and
                             co-chaired by Professor Robin Murphy (Texas A&M Univ.) and Brian Argrow, and an                  new mechanisms to facilitate timely academic research, especially for small UAS.
                             Executive Committee with members from NSF, AUVSI, FAA, and DHS. The mission of               •   Synthesis of experiences into practitioner-based guidelines for safe UAS operations
                             the Group is to advise the FAA Unmanned Aircraft Program Office on research results              which can be incorporated into certificates of authorization or waiver (CoAs) and
                             and directions affecting the safe operation of UAS in the National Airspace System               future regulations, to ease entry for new UAS users and researchers, create safer
                             (NAS). This workshop will discuss this Group’s expertise as a mix of traditional                 systems, and lead to more expeditious, confident processing of CoAs.
                             aerospace disciplines and non-traditional disciplines related to unmanned systems.           Session Leader: Dr. Brian Argrow, Alfred and Betty Look Professor,
                             What will be covered:                                                                        Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Director, Research and Engineering
                             • New basic research directions for UAS in “non-traditional” areas of research               Center for Unmanned Vehicles, University of Colorado, Boulder


                             11:10am-12:40pm                                                     Understand the most effective way to use UAV sensor technology!
                             Achieving Robust Tactical Seeability™ through Integrated Sensor Guidance
                             The development of sensor payload technologies has outpaced the ability to                   What Will be covered:
                             manage these new capabilities in a way that does not place undue burden on the               • Operationally relevant definitions of quality of sensing delivered by optical

                             human operator. Given a set of operational requirements, environmental factors,                sensor packages carried onboard Tier I and Tier II UAVs
                             and an available sensing platform, significant uncertainty can exist on how best to          • Advanced techniques for planning and correcting the trajectory and

                             position, orient, and electronically configure imaging payloads over time in a                 configuration of airborne sensors to improve the quality of optical sensing
                             manner that maximizes the tactical utility of the video and metadata streams                   delivered to human operators and automated exploitation systems
                             delivered to an operator.                                                                    • Methods for robustly fusing video streams with geospatial and navigational

                                                                                                                            information to achieve unique capabilities for real-time overlay of map
                             This workshop will cover the challenging nature of this problem and introduce an               features on imagery and dynamic markup of optically observed scenes
                             approach for obtaining robust solutions across a spectrum of operational and
                             environmental conditions. Capabilities at the platform, sensor, and ground station           Session Leader: Dr. Stephen Pledgie, Director of Advanced Autonomy &
                             levels will be discussed as will advanced techniques for automatically assessing the         Applied Cybernetics, Mosaic ATM
                             Tactical Seeability™ of terrain regions that have been viewed by one or more
                             imaging sensors. Testbed activities supporting advanced research & development
                             in this area will be summarized and future directions in sensing-intelligent UAV-
                             based RSTA will be presented.


                             12:40pm-1:40pm              Lunch

                              1:40pm-3:10pm
                                                                                                                                              Identify high-level tasking of UAV teams
                              Cooperative Delivery Using Teams of UAS
                              This session will discuss recently developed technologies in support of a mission           •   Vision-based target tracking
                              thread consisting of autonomous search, acquisition, tracking, and effects delivery.        •   Video enhancement for user context-awareness
                              The technologies are focused on allowing a single operator to effectively task the          •   User interface for control of multi-agent teams
                              team of UAVs to accomplish this mission thread while maintaining persistence-of-            •   Terminal guidance of UAS for effects delivery
                              vision on target.                                                                           •   Cooperative timing algorithms for sequential arrival at target
                              What you will be covered:                                                                   Session Leader: Blake Barber, Senior Controls Engineer, Procerus
                              • Probabilistic search                                                                      Technologies


                             3:15pm-4:45pm                                                                                     Gain insight into UAV communication technology!
                             Development of Conformal “Paint-On” Antenna Materials Technology and Experimental
                             Investigations for UAV Applications
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                             This presentation discusses the development of conformal “paint-on” antennas and             •   Differences between “paint-on” antenna technology over conventional antenna
                             several experimental demonstrations of the technology such as a phased array                     technology
                             antenna on a composite wing section model of the Air Force Sensorcraft profile; UAV          •   Application of “paint-on” technology for airships
                             GPS/Iridium Satellite design, ballistic helmet, and a high altitude airship flight test.
                             What will be covered:                                                                        Session Leader: Mr. Thomas Campbell, IEEE Fellow, Program Manager
                             • Application of novel “paint-on” antenna technology for UAVs                                (Advance Programs), Applied EM Inc



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MAIN SUMMIT DAY 1                                                                         MAIN SUMMIT DAY 2
               Tuesday, April 27, 2010                                                                   Wednesday, April 28, 2010
               7:00    Registration & Coffee                                                             7:30    Registration & Coffee
               8:00    Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks                                           8:00    Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks
               8:15    Remotely Piloted Aircraft: Charting a Way Ahead
KEYNOTE




                       • Concept to capability at an operational pace                                    8:15    Engineering UAVs for Airworthiness: Past, Present and
                       • Joint solutions for the future                                                          Future
                       Lieutenant General David A. Deptula, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff                          • What is UAV airworthiness: USN perspective
                       for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Headquarters U.S.                      • UAV acquisition and certification
                       Air Force                                                                                 • What we need from our contractors


               8:55    Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in a Homeland Environment                                        Captain Stephen C. Rorke, US Navy, Military Director, Air
                       • Current homeland S&T initiatives                                                        Vehicle Engineering Department, Naval Air Systems Command
KEYNOTE




                       • Future integration into operations
                       • Benefits and challenges for using UAVs in a homeland environment                8:55    Navy UAS Vision
                       John Stanton, SES, Executive Director, National Air Security                              • Impact on maritime awareness
                       Operations, Customs and Border Protection, Department of                                  • Current and future requirements
                                                                                                                 • Challenges and obstacles
                       Homeland Security
                                                                                                                 • Vision moving forward
               9:35    Networking Break                                                                          Captain Mike Carsley, USN, Section Head, US Navy UAS
               10:20   Air Force Roadmap for UAVs                                                                Requirements
                       •Joint development for a family of vehicles
                       •Anticipated challenges                                                           9:35    Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Current and Future
                       •Future flight plan and requirements                                                      Operations
                       Colonel Eric Mathewson, USAF, Director, Air Force UAS Task Force                          • Manned and unmanned teaming
                                                                                                                 • Current fight tactics, techniques and procedures
               10:55   MQ-X Update: Examining Current Capabilities                                               • Future army concepts & organization
                       • ACC's next generation UAS, projecting 2022 IOC
                       • Targeting analysis of alternatives beginning early CY10                                 Colonel Jessie O. Farrington, USA, Assistant G-3 for
                       • Payload modularity/flexibility, enhanced speed, ability to integrate with               Operations and Aviation, U.S. Army Forces Command
                         civil air traffic (file and fly)
                       • Enhanced ability to fly in contested airspace                                   10:15   Networking Break
                       Colonel Bruce Emig, USAF, Chief, Irregular Warfare Division,
                       Headquarters Air Combat Command (ACC/A8Q)                                         11:00   Striving for Unmanned Capabilities
                                                                                                                 • Army UAS roadmap
               11:35   UAV Pilot Panel Discussion                                                                • Strategy from 2010-2035
                       Hear feedback directly from UAV Pilots. Ask a moderated panel your                        • Synchronizing the soldier, equipment and the network
                       questions regarding UAV operation, capabilities and performance.                          Glenn Rizzi, Deputy Director, US Army UAS Center of
                       Moderator: Lieutenant Colonel Travis Burdine, USAF, Air Force                             Excellence
                       MQ-1/9 Functional Manager
                       Join this panel and share your expertise on UAVs!                                 11:40   Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in a Maritime Environment
                       Contact Brian Lazar at brian.lazar@idga.org for speaking opportunities.                   • Key areas and scenarios
                                                                                                                 • Current UAS initiatives for a maritime environment
               12:15   Lunch                                                                                     • UAS operations in the way ahead

                                                                                                                 Captain Ted Venable (Ret.), US Naval Forces, Counter Illicit
               1:30    Air Force Research Laboratory Session Introduction                                        Program Manager, US Southern Command
                       Lead by: Colonel Jeffrey Turcotte, USAF, Chief Air and Weapons
                       Division, Air Force Research Laboratory                                           12:20 Lunch
               1:50    Technology Maturation for a Next Generation Tactical UAS
                       • Systems engineering and concept definition                                      1:35    UAV Innovations and Vision at the Naval Research
                       • Desired capabilities (a system perspective)                                             Laboratory
                       • Technology maturation challenges
                                                                                                                 • Future sensor systems and the UAV platform innovations to support them
                       David A Brown, Senior Aerospace Engineer, Air Vehicle Directorate,
                                                                                                                 • UAV power and energy
                                                                                                                 • Autonomous behavior and command and control
                       AFRL
                                                                                                                 Captain Paul C. Stewart, USN, Commanding Officer, Naval
               2:30    AFRL Airspace Integration Research                                                        Research Laboratory
                       • Automatic collision avoidance technology                                                Joe Mackrell, Principal Investigator, Naval Research
                       • UAS sense and avoid
AFRL SESSION




                       • UAS terminal area operations
                                                                                                                 Laboratory
                       Mr. Robert Smith, Cooperative Aerospace Operations Lead                           2:15    Networking Break
               3:10    Networking Break
                                                                                                         3:00    Unmanned Aircraft Systems Army Payloads
               3:50    Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) at AFRL                                             •Army non-optical UAV payloads
                       • Micro air vehicles                                                                      •Data link and survivability considerations
                       • AFRL vision for 2015 and 2030                                                           •Test facilities and ranges
                       • Technological challenges

                       Dr. Leslie S. Perkins, Micro Air Vehicle Lead, Air Force Research                         Jan Moren, Deputy Director, Intelligence and Information
                       Laboratory                                                                                Warfare Directorate, CERDEC RDECOM, US Army

               4:30    Fuel Cell Powered SUAV's and MAV power System                                     3:40    National Airspace Access
                       Development                                                                               • Current UAS operations
                       • Logistically fueled SOFC power systems                                                  • Mid-Term integration plans
                       • Fuel cell hybridized SUAV power systems                                                 • NextGen integration
                       • Long endurance MAV power systems
                                                                                                                 John H. Page Jr., Lead, Air Traffic Control Specialist, UAS NextGen
                       Lieutenant Mark Roosz, USAF, Special Purpose Power Lead,                                  Integration, Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office, Federal Aviation
                       Air Force Research Laboratory                                                             Administration
               5:10    Depot Technology in Future Support of UAS
                       • Depot/industry partnerships                                                     4:20    End of Main Conference
                       • Flight test range capability upgrades for supporting future UAS systems
                         and sensors                                                                      Sign up for the post-conference UAV Focus Day!
                       • Depot Technology upgrades for full sustainment capability of all UAS systems

                       Lt Col John Primbs (Ret.), USAF, Director, Advances Technology                                                                        See page 5 for details!
                       Workload Development, Ogden Air Logistics Center, Plans and
                       Programs Office, Hills Air Force Base
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UAV FOCUS DAY                                                                                Thursday, April 29, 2010

                                 8:00   Registration & Coffee                                                      2:30   Certifiable Autonomous Flight Management for
                                                                                                                          Unmanned Aircraft Systems
                                 8:30   Current UAS Capabilities                                                          The next generation air transportation system (NextGen) will achieve
MORNING

REMARKS
OPENING




                                        • Army requirement documents: emerging UAS capabilities                           unprecedented levels of throughput and safety by judiciously
                                        • Soldier comments from the field                                                 integrating human supervisors with automation aids. NextGen
                                        Colonel Robert J. Sova, USA, TRADOC Capability Manager for                        designers have focused their attention on commercial transport
                                        Unmanned Aircraft Systems (TCM UAS)                                               operations, with no standards proposed to accommodate the
                                                                                                                          burgeoning unmanned aircraft system (UAS) user community. This
                                 9:15   MCWL UAS Test Efforts                                                             presentation will introduce the formidable challenges associated with
                                        • Cargo UAS – Transition to NAVAIR for contracting efforts                        safely and efficiently integrating UAS into the national airspace system.
                                        • Experimental STUAS payloads                                                     For UAS, safe operations translate to maintaining acceptable levels of
                                        • Testing efforts for Lethal aerial munitions (LAM)                               risk to other aircraft and to people and property on the ground. With
                                        Colonel Stephen Medeiros, USMC, Director, Technology                              this definition, a UAS may fly “safely” during and after a crash into
                                        Division, Marine Corps Warfighting Lab                                            unimproved terrain, provided no harm comes to people or property on
                                                                                                                          the ground. While existing autopilots can fly an aircraft from takeoff
                                 10:00 Networking Break                                                                   through landing, perhaps the greatest impediment to fully-
                                                                                                                          autonomous flight is proving safety in the presence of anomalous
                                 10:45 Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) UAS Sense and                                 events, such as unexpected traffic, onboard failures, or receipt of
                                        Avoid (SAA) Development                                                           conflicting data (e.g., from sensors). We will describe a method to
                                        • UAS air space integration overview                                              capture a system-level “flight envelope” that accounts for evolving
                                        • AFRL SAA system architecture                                                    physical, computational, perceptual, and environmental constraints.
                                        • AFRL SAA development and progress
                                                                                                                          This envelope is used to develop and execute flight plans
                                        Vince Raska, AFRL Air Vehicles Directorate, UAS SAA Program                       (decisions/trajectories) that maximize safety margins primarily and
                                        Manager                                                                           traditional efficiency metrics secondarily. The key to certification of
                                                                                                                          such a system is to guarantee acceptable risk levels are maintained,
                                 11:30 Lunch                                                                              both real and perceived. As a realistic metric, we propose that such a
                                                                                                                          system is certifiable when proven at least as capable of anomaly
                                 12:30 Making the UAS Better                                                              management as today’s human pilot, exploiting the “closed world
                                       There is a rich S&T base can be applied to increase UAS engine                     assumption” that a human pilot or ground operator without visual
                                       efficiency, decrease the weight of the UAS structural components, and              cues (e.g., due to flight through fog/clouds) can only sense and act
                                       improve airborne ISR. Analysis leads us to believe that order of                   with the same information available to the autonomous system.
                                       magnitude increases in UAS engine efficiency are possible. Improved
                                                                                                                          What will be covered:
                                       fuel/air mixing and combustion chamber thermal management are two                  • Method to synergistically define and exploit a new concept of “flight
                                       keys to efficiency increases.                                                        envelope” that accounts for evolving UAS physical, computational,
                                       In a like manner, the order of magnitude increases in UAS structural                 perceptual, and environmental constraints
                                       material strength (largely carbon fiber composites) and in the near term
 OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY




                                                                                                                          • Building or altering flight plans that preserve safety margins, primarily
                                       may be possible. If an airframe can be made 10 times lighter, it can                 in the context of collision avoidance and off-nominal event
                                       travel 10 times as far or carry increased loads. This discussion will                management
                                       discuss the technical progress that can similarly be made in UAS wing              • A proposed certification process by which the UAS must be
                                       deicing, geo-location, and advanced communication.                                   guaranteed to manage off-nominal events at least as well as (or
                                        What will be covered:                                                               better than) a human pilot or ground operator
                                        • Materials science as it relates to UAS; stronger carbon composites (by          Ella M. Atkins, Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace
                                          a factor of 2), Wing icing prevention coatings, testing etc.                    Engineering, University of Michigan
                                        • Communication and ISR system miniaturization, Software Defined

                                          Radio / Cognitive Radio, etc.                                            4:00   END OF CONFERENCE
                                        • UAS engine performance and the path to achieve improved

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  • 1. presents a training conference… Get the latest information on current and future plans from the US Air Force, Navy and Army! See p. 4 for details… UAV TM Achieving Maximum Unmanned Capabilities Summit April 26 - 29, 2010 Washington, DC Metro Area Lead the way with revolutionary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle initiatives by attending sessions on: • AFRL research currently underway • Unmanned Aircraft System payloads • UAV acquisition and certification opportunities • Developments toward greater UAV autonomous controls • DoD visions for the UAVs of the future Meet key decision-makers and hear from a distinguished speaker faculty that includes: Lieutenant General David Deptula, USAF, Captain Mike Carsley, USN, Section Head, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance US Navy UAS Requirements and Reconnaissance, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force Captain Paul Stewart, USN, Commander, John Stanton, SES, Executive Director, National Air US Naval Research Laboratory Security Operations, Customs and Border Protection, Colonel Jessie O. Farrington, USA, Assistant Department of Homeland Security G-3 for Operations and Aviation, U.S. Army Colonel Eric Mathewson, USAF, Director, UAS Forces Command Task Force, US Air Force Sponsor: Media Partners: Contact Danielle Bussani at 212-885-2680 and danielle.bussani@iqpc.com
  • 2. Who you will meet: UAV Summit At IDGA’s UAV Summit you will have TM the unique opportunity to interact and network with representatives from military and government agencies, manufacturers/contractors, technology/service providers, and academia. Attendees will include: Achieving Maximum Unmanned Capabilities • Program Managers April 26 - 29, 2010 • Washington, DC Metro Area • Project Managers • Directors • Branch Heads • Project Leads • Commanders Deployed US Forces in places such • Scientists and Engineers as Iraq and Afghanistan demand the be greater use of unmanned veh re icles wherever possible. Previously, contracts in the millions of dollars UAV were big news; now these awards the billions of dollars. In addition are in to procurement, research funding for unmanned aerial vehicles could exce ed $20 billion through 2018. About IDGA Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) prov ide the intelligence, armament and sensors which could dramatically dec The Institute for rease the number of casualties. The role of UAVs is expanding, and Defense & their unlimited role on the futu battlefield is inevitable. Rapid tech re Government nological advances promise to Advancement (IDGA) is a non- radically alter the realm of possibilities for unmanned aerial warfare and partisan information-based next-generation models. There is a need to discuss developments in organization dedicated to the propulsion, Artificial Intelligence, mul promotion of innovative ideas in ti-spectral sensors, and energy use. public service and defense through IDGA’s UAV Summit will deliver a live conferences and events. We comprehensive overview of thes focus areas, requirements, emergin e bring together speaker panels and g policies, programs, methods and events comprised of military and technologies that are accurate and responsive to mission managers’ and government professionals while commanders’ needs. attracting delegates with decision- making power from military, This conference will probe into government, and defense the following key topics: • The latest upd industries. ates on UAV program developmen ts and requirements • Communications and frequency issues In addition to our live events, IDGA • National air spac also offers an online community e challenges • And so much dedicated to providing defense more! industry professionals with breaking news, business Do not delay! Get updates on the opportunities, introductions, latest UAV initiatives – podcasts, webinars, and register today! See page 6 for det ails! presentations from key industry leaders. Members of our online community are able to extend their live event experience and interact with the defense industry by Here’s what past attendees are saying about IDGA events: leveraging the opportunity to network, share ideas, best practices, and business solutions. “I enjoyed the conference very much. I obtained a lot of useful For more information, please visit information and met some very interesting and hopefully, good www.idga.org. contacts.” - Dr. Richard M. Kolocinski, Director of Advanced Controls, Orbital Research Inc. Join IDGA's UAV ‘’Terrific! Well done, no snafus….well-organized and well-planned.’’ (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) -Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratory Group! 2 Register Now! Contact Danielle Bussani at 212-885-2680 and danielle.bussani@iqpc.com
  • 3. UA TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP DA V Y UA TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP DAY Monday, April 26, 2010 Sign up for this in-depth and interactive workshop day examining the latest technologies that enhance UAV autonomy and persistence. 7:30am Registration & Coffee 8:00am-9:30am Leverage capabilities of a team of vehicles! Autonomous Path Planning Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have shown promise in recent years for What will be covered: autonomous sensing. UAV systems have been proposed for a wide range of • Real-Time task allocation algorithm that assigns assets to tasks applications, such as mapping, surveillance, search and tracking operations. The • A mission definition language for multiple UAVs recent availability of low-cost UAVs suggests the use of teams of vehicles to • Distributive data fusion for cooperative search missions perform sensing tasks. To leverage the capabilities of a team of vehicles, efficient • Multiple UAV experiments methods of decentralized sensing and cooperative path planning are necessary. The Session Leader: J. Karl Hedrick, James Marshall Wells Professor of discussion will examine practical control strategies for a team of fixed-wing vehicles Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Director, performing cooperative sensing in order to develop decentralized, autonomous Berkeley’s Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory, Principal Investigator, Center for control strategies that can account for a wide variety of sensing missions. the Collaborative Control of Unmanned Vehicles 9:35am-11:05am Gain insight into best practices in a UAS environment! Research Directions and Best Practices for UAS in the National Airspace System The NSF/AUVSI/FAA/DHS Workshop on Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research (autonomy, computer vision, human-robot interaction, multi-robot systems, Directions for National Air Space was held in June 2008. An outcome of this networks, security, and simulation and training) workshop was the establishment of the 15-member FAA Research Advisory Group, • A translation of needs into basic research objectives for academic research, and co-chaired by Professor Robin Murphy (Texas A&M Univ.) and Brian Argrow, and an new mechanisms to facilitate timely academic research, especially for small UAS. Executive Committee with members from NSF, AUVSI, FAA, and DHS. The mission of • Synthesis of experiences into practitioner-based guidelines for safe UAS operations the Group is to advise the FAA Unmanned Aircraft Program Office on research results which can be incorporated into certificates of authorization or waiver (CoAs) and and directions affecting the safe operation of UAS in the National Airspace System future regulations, to ease entry for new UAS users and researchers, create safer (NAS). This workshop will discuss this Group’s expertise as a mix of traditional systems, and lead to more expeditious, confident processing of CoAs. aerospace disciplines and non-traditional disciplines related to unmanned systems. Session Leader: Dr. Brian Argrow, Alfred and Betty Look Professor, What will be covered: Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Director, Research and Engineering • New basic research directions for UAS in “non-traditional” areas of research Center for Unmanned Vehicles, University of Colorado, Boulder 11:10am-12:40pm Understand the most effective way to use UAV sensor technology! Achieving Robust Tactical Seeability™ through Integrated Sensor Guidance The development of sensor payload technologies has outpaced the ability to What Will be covered: manage these new capabilities in a way that does not place undue burden on the • Operationally relevant definitions of quality of sensing delivered by optical human operator. Given a set of operational requirements, environmental factors, sensor packages carried onboard Tier I and Tier II UAVs and an available sensing platform, significant uncertainty can exist on how best to • Advanced techniques for planning and correcting the trajectory and position, orient, and electronically configure imaging payloads over time in a configuration of airborne sensors to improve the quality of optical sensing manner that maximizes the tactical utility of the video and metadata streams delivered to human operators and automated exploitation systems delivered to an operator. • Methods for robustly fusing video streams with geospatial and navigational information to achieve unique capabilities for real-time overlay of map This workshop will cover the challenging nature of this problem and introduce an features on imagery and dynamic markup of optically observed scenes approach for obtaining robust solutions across a spectrum of operational and environmental conditions. Capabilities at the platform, sensor, and ground station Session Leader: Dr. Stephen Pledgie, Director of Advanced Autonomy & levels will be discussed as will advanced techniques for automatically assessing the Applied Cybernetics, Mosaic ATM Tactical Seeability™ of terrain regions that have been viewed by one or more imaging sensors. Testbed activities supporting advanced research & development in this area will be summarized and future directions in sensing-intelligent UAV- based RSTA will be presented. 12:40pm-1:40pm Lunch 1:40pm-3:10pm Identify high-level tasking of UAV teams Cooperative Delivery Using Teams of UAS This session will discuss recently developed technologies in support of a mission • Vision-based target tracking thread consisting of autonomous search, acquisition, tracking, and effects delivery. • Video enhancement for user context-awareness The technologies are focused on allowing a single operator to effectively task the • User interface for control of multi-agent teams team of UAVs to accomplish this mission thread while maintaining persistence-of- • Terminal guidance of UAS for effects delivery vision on target. • Cooperative timing algorithms for sequential arrival at target What you will be covered: Session Leader: Blake Barber, Senior Controls Engineer, Procerus • Probabilistic search Technologies 3:15pm-4:45pm Gain insight into UAV communication technology! Development of Conformal “Paint-On” Antenna Materials Technology and Experimental Investigations for UAV Applications V This presentation discusses the development of conformal “paint-on” antennas and • Differences between “paint-on” antenna technology over conventional antenna several experimental demonstrations of the technology such as a phased array technology antenna on a composite wing section model of the Air Force Sensorcraft profile; UAV • Application of “paint-on” technology for airships GPS/Iridium Satellite design, ballistic helmet, and a high altitude airship flight test. What will be covered: Session Leader: Mr. Thomas Campbell, IEEE Fellow, Program Manager • Application of novel “paint-on” antenna technology for UAVs (Advance Programs), Applied EM Inc 3 Register Now! Contact Danielle Bussani at 212-885-2680 and danielle.bussani@iqpc.com
  • 4. MAIN SUMMIT DAY 1 MAIN SUMMIT DAY 2 Tuesday, April 27, 2010 Wednesday, April 28, 2010 7:00 Registration & Coffee 7:30 Registration & Coffee 8:00 Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks 8:00 Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks 8:15 Remotely Piloted Aircraft: Charting a Way Ahead KEYNOTE • Concept to capability at an operational pace 8:15 Engineering UAVs for Airworthiness: Past, Present and • Joint solutions for the future Future Lieutenant General David A. Deptula, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff • What is UAV airworthiness: USN perspective for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Headquarters U.S. • UAV acquisition and certification Air Force • What we need from our contractors 8:55 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in a Homeland Environment Captain Stephen C. Rorke, US Navy, Military Director, Air • Current homeland S&T initiatives Vehicle Engineering Department, Naval Air Systems Command KEYNOTE • Future integration into operations • Benefits and challenges for using UAVs in a homeland environment 8:55 Navy UAS Vision John Stanton, SES, Executive Director, National Air Security • Impact on maritime awareness Operations, Customs and Border Protection, Department of • Current and future requirements • Challenges and obstacles Homeland Security • Vision moving forward 9:35 Networking Break Captain Mike Carsley, USN, Section Head, US Navy UAS 10:20 Air Force Roadmap for UAVs Requirements •Joint development for a family of vehicles •Anticipated challenges 9:35 Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Current and Future •Future flight plan and requirements Operations Colonel Eric Mathewson, USAF, Director, Air Force UAS Task Force • Manned and unmanned teaming • Current fight tactics, techniques and procedures 10:55 MQ-X Update: Examining Current Capabilities • Future army concepts & organization • ACC's next generation UAS, projecting 2022 IOC • Targeting analysis of alternatives beginning early CY10 Colonel Jessie O. Farrington, USA, Assistant G-3 for • Payload modularity/flexibility, enhanced speed, ability to integrate with Operations and Aviation, U.S. Army Forces Command civil air traffic (file and fly) • Enhanced ability to fly in contested airspace 10:15 Networking Break Colonel Bruce Emig, USAF, Chief, Irregular Warfare Division, Headquarters Air Combat Command (ACC/A8Q) 11:00 Striving for Unmanned Capabilities • Army UAS roadmap 11:35 UAV Pilot Panel Discussion • Strategy from 2010-2035 Hear feedback directly from UAV Pilots. Ask a moderated panel your • Synchronizing the soldier, equipment and the network questions regarding UAV operation, capabilities and performance. Glenn Rizzi, Deputy Director, US Army UAS Center of Moderator: Lieutenant Colonel Travis Burdine, USAF, Air Force Excellence MQ-1/9 Functional Manager Join this panel and share your expertise on UAVs! 11:40 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in a Maritime Environment Contact Brian Lazar at brian.lazar@idga.org for speaking opportunities. • Key areas and scenarios • Current UAS initiatives for a maritime environment 12:15 Lunch • UAS operations in the way ahead Captain Ted Venable (Ret.), US Naval Forces, Counter Illicit 1:30 Air Force Research Laboratory Session Introduction Program Manager, US Southern Command Lead by: Colonel Jeffrey Turcotte, USAF, Chief Air and Weapons Division, Air Force Research Laboratory 12:20 Lunch 1:50 Technology Maturation for a Next Generation Tactical UAS • Systems engineering and concept definition 1:35 UAV Innovations and Vision at the Naval Research • Desired capabilities (a system perspective) Laboratory • Technology maturation challenges • Future sensor systems and the UAV platform innovations to support them David A Brown, Senior Aerospace Engineer, Air Vehicle Directorate, • UAV power and energy • Autonomous behavior and command and control AFRL Captain Paul C. Stewart, USN, Commanding Officer, Naval 2:30 AFRL Airspace Integration Research Research Laboratory • Automatic collision avoidance technology Joe Mackrell, Principal Investigator, Naval Research • UAS sense and avoid AFRL SESSION • UAS terminal area operations Laboratory Mr. Robert Smith, Cooperative Aerospace Operations Lead 2:15 Networking Break 3:10 Networking Break 3:00 Unmanned Aircraft Systems Army Payloads 3:50 Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) at AFRL •Army non-optical UAV payloads • Micro air vehicles •Data link and survivability considerations • AFRL vision for 2015 and 2030 •Test facilities and ranges • Technological challenges Dr. Leslie S. Perkins, Micro Air Vehicle Lead, Air Force Research Jan Moren, Deputy Director, Intelligence and Information Laboratory Warfare Directorate, CERDEC RDECOM, US Army 4:30 Fuel Cell Powered SUAV's and MAV power System 3:40 National Airspace Access Development • Current UAS operations • Logistically fueled SOFC power systems • Mid-Term integration plans • Fuel cell hybridized SUAV power systems • NextGen integration • Long endurance MAV power systems John H. Page Jr., Lead, Air Traffic Control Specialist, UAS NextGen Lieutenant Mark Roosz, USAF, Special Purpose Power Lead, Integration, Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office, Federal Aviation Air Force Research Laboratory Administration 5:10 Depot Technology in Future Support of UAS • Depot/industry partnerships 4:20 End of Main Conference • Flight test range capability upgrades for supporting future UAS systems and sensors Sign up for the post-conference UAV Focus Day! • Depot Technology upgrades for full sustainment capability of all UAS systems Lt Col John Primbs (Ret.), USAF, Director, Advances Technology See page 5 for details! Workload Development, Ogden Air Logistics Center, Plans and Programs Office, Hills Air Force Base Register Now! Contact Danielle Bussani 4 5:50 End of Main Summit Day One at 212-885-2680 and danielle.bussani@iqpc.com
  • 5. UAV FOCUS DAY Thursday, April 29, 2010 8:00 Registration & Coffee 2:30 Certifiable Autonomous Flight Management for Unmanned Aircraft Systems 8:30 Current UAS Capabilities The next generation air transportation system (NextGen) will achieve MORNING REMARKS OPENING • Army requirement documents: emerging UAS capabilities unprecedented levels of throughput and safety by judiciously • Soldier comments from the field integrating human supervisors with automation aids. NextGen Colonel Robert J. Sova, USA, TRADOC Capability Manager for designers have focused their attention on commercial transport Unmanned Aircraft Systems (TCM UAS) operations, with no standards proposed to accommodate the burgeoning unmanned aircraft system (UAS) user community. This 9:15 MCWL UAS Test Efforts presentation will introduce the formidable challenges associated with • Cargo UAS – Transition to NAVAIR for contracting efforts safely and efficiently integrating UAS into the national airspace system. • Experimental STUAS payloads For UAS, safe operations translate to maintaining acceptable levels of • Testing efforts for Lethal aerial munitions (LAM) risk to other aircraft and to people and property on the ground. With Colonel Stephen Medeiros, USMC, Director, Technology this definition, a UAS may fly “safely” during and after a crash into Division, Marine Corps Warfighting Lab unimproved terrain, provided no harm comes to people or property on the ground. While existing autopilots can fly an aircraft from takeoff 10:00 Networking Break through landing, perhaps the greatest impediment to fully- autonomous flight is proving safety in the presence of anomalous 10:45 Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) UAS Sense and events, such as unexpected traffic, onboard failures, or receipt of Avoid (SAA) Development conflicting data (e.g., from sensors). We will describe a method to • UAS air space integration overview capture a system-level “flight envelope” that accounts for evolving • AFRL SAA system architecture physical, computational, perceptual, and environmental constraints. • AFRL SAA development and progress This envelope is used to develop and execute flight plans Vince Raska, AFRL Air Vehicles Directorate, UAS SAA Program (decisions/trajectories) that maximize safety margins primarily and Manager traditional efficiency metrics secondarily. The key to certification of such a system is to guarantee acceptable risk levels are maintained, 11:30 Lunch both real and perceived. As a realistic metric, we propose that such a system is certifiable when proven at least as capable of anomaly 12:30 Making the UAS Better management as today’s human pilot, exploiting the “closed world There is a rich S&T base can be applied to increase UAS engine assumption” that a human pilot or ground operator without visual efficiency, decrease the weight of the UAS structural components, and cues (e.g., due to flight through fog/clouds) can only sense and act improve airborne ISR. Analysis leads us to believe that order of with the same information available to the autonomous system. magnitude increases in UAS engine efficiency are possible. Improved What will be covered: fuel/air mixing and combustion chamber thermal management are two • Method to synergistically define and exploit a new concept of “flight keys to efficiency increases. envelope” that accounts for evolving UAS physical, computational, In a like manner, the order of magnitude increases in UAS structural perceptual, and environmental constraints material strength (largely carbon fiber composites) and in the near term OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY • Building or altering flight plans that preserve safety margins, primarily may be possible. If an airframe can be made 10 times lighter, it can in the context of collision avoidance and off-nominal event travel 10 times as far or carry increased loads. This discussion will management discuss the technical progress that can similarly be made in UAS wing • A proposed certification process by which the UAS must be deicing, geo-location, and advanced communication. guaranteed to manage off-nominal events at least as well as (or What will be covered: better than) a human pilot or ground operator • Materials science as it relates to UAS; stronger carbon composites (by Ella M. Atkins, Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace a factor of 2), Wing icing prevention coatings, testing etc. Engineering, University of Michigan • Communication and ISR system miniaturization, Software Defined Radio / Cognitive Radio, etc. 4:00 END OF CONFERENCE • UAS engine performance and the path to achieve improved performance Session Leaders: Larry R. Avens, Ph.D. Inorganic Chemistry, Group Leader, Special About Our Sponsor Projects, Global Security Directorate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory No Magic Inc Website: www.nomagic.com Michael R. Moore, M.S. 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