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UAV                                              TM
                                                       Achieving Maximum
                                                       Unmanned Capabilities


Summit                                                 April 26 - 29, 2010 • Sheraton Premiere
                                                       at Tysons Corner Hotel, Vienna, VA




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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    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
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                                        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.
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    information and met some very interesting and hopefully, good
    contacts.”
    - Dr. Richard M. Kolocinski, Director of Advanced Controls, Orbital Research Inc.
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    ‘’Terrific! Well done, no snafus….well-organized and well-planned.’’                      (Unmanned Aerial
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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
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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    Morning Opening Keynote Session
                       •Joint solutions for the future                                                                 BGen. Kelly Thomas, USA, Deputy Commanding General, Assistant
                       Lt Gen. David A. Deptula, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence,                         Commandant, US Army Aviation Center of Excellence
                       Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Headquarters US Air Force
               8:55    Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in a Homeland Environment                                      8:55    Engineering UAVs for Airworthiness: Past, Present and Future
                                                                                                                         What is UAV airworthiness: USN perspective
KEYNOTE




                                                                                                                       •
                       • Current homeland S&T initiatives
                       • Future integration into operations
                                                                                                                       • UAV acquisition and certification
                                                                                                                       • What we need from our contractors
                       •
                         Benefits and challenges for using UAVs in a homeland environment
                       John Stanton, SES, Executive Director, National Air Security Operations,                        Capt. Stephen C. Rorke, US Navy, Military Director, Air Vehicle
                       Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security                                  Engineering Department, Naval Air Systems Command
               9:35    Networking Break                                                                        9:35    Navy UAS Vision
               10:20   Air Force Roadmap for UAVs                                                                      • Impact on maritime awareness
                       • Joint development for a family of vehicles                                                    •
                                                                                                                         Current and future requirements
                                                                                                                       • Challenges and obstacles
                       •
                         Anticipated challenges
                       • Future flight plan and requirements                                                           • Vision moving forward

                       Col. Eric Mathewson, USAF, Director, Air Force UAS Task Force                                   Capt. Mike Carsley, USN, Section Head, US Navy UAS Requirements
               10:55   MQ-X Update: Examining Current Capabilities                                             10:15   Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Current and Future
                       • ACC's next generation UAS, projecting 2022 IOC                                                Operations
                       • Targeting analysis of alternatives beginning early CY10                                       • Manned and unmanned teaming
                       • Payload modularity/flexibility, enhanced speed, ability to integrate with civil air

                         traffic (file and fly)
                                                                                                                       • Current fight tactics, techniques and procedures
                                                                                                                       • Future army concepts & organization
                       •
                         Enhanced ability to fly in contested airspace
                       Col. Bruce Emig, USAF, Chief, Irregular Warfare Division, Headquarters                          Col. Jessie O. Farrington, USA, Assistant G-3 for Operations and
                       Air Combat Command (ACC/A8Q)                                                                    Aviation, U.S. Army Forces Command
               11:35   UAV Pilot Panel Discussion                                                              10:55   Networking Break
                       Hear feedback directly from UAV Pilots. Ask a moderated panel your questions
                       regarding UAV operation, capabilities and performance.                                  11:30   Striving for Unmanned Capabilities
                       Moderator:                                                                                      •
                                                                                                                         Army UAS roadmap
                       Col. Eric Mathewson, USAF, Director, Air Force UAS Task Force                                   • Strategy from 2010-2035
                                                                                                                       • Synchronizing the soldier, equipment and the network
                       Panel:
                       CW2 Germell Milton (DES), Directorate of Evaluation and                                         Glenn Rizzi, Deputy Director, US Army UAS Center of Excellence
                       Standardization, USAACE, Fort Rucker
                       SFC Brian Miller (DES), Directorate of Evaluation and Standardization,                  12:10 Lunch
                       USAACE, Fort Rucker
                                                                                                               1:35    Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in a Maritime Environment
               12:15   Lunch                                                                                           • Key areas and scenarios
                                                                                                                       • Current UAS initiatives for a maritime environment
               1:30    Air Force Research Laboratory Session Introduction                                              •
                                                                                                                         UAS operations in the way ahead
                       Lead by: Col. Jeffrey Turcotte, USAF, Chief Air and Weapons Division, Air                       Capt. Ted Venable (Ret.), US Naval Forces, Counter Illicit Program
                       Force Research Laboratory                                                                       Manager, US Southern Command
               1:50    Technology Maturation for a Next Generation Tactical UAS
                       •
                         Systems engineering and concept definition                                            2:15    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, AFRL                         • UAV power and energy
                                                                                                                       • Autonomous behavior and command and control

               2:30    AFRL Airspace Integration Research                                                              Capt. Paul C. Stewart, USN, Commanding Officer, Naval Research
                       • Automatic collision avoidance technology                                                      Laboratory
                       • UAS sense and avoid
AFRL SESSION




                       • UAS terminal area operations
                                                                                                                       Joe Mackrell, Principal Investigator, Naval Research Laboratory
                       Mr. Robert Smith, Cooperative Aerospace Operations Lead                                 3:05    Networking Break
               3:10    Networking Break
                                                                                                               3:40    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

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

               4:30    Fuel Cell Powered SUAV's and MAV power System Development                               4:20    National Airspace Access
                       • Logistically fueled SOFC power systems                                                        • Current UAS operations
                       •
                         Fuel cell hybridized SUAV power systems                                                       • Mid-Term integration plans
                       •
                         Long endurance MAV power systems                                                              • NextGen integration
                       Lt. Mark Roosz, USAF, Special Purpose Power Lead,                                               John H. Page Jr., Lead, Air Traffic Control Specialist, UAS NextGen
                       Air Force Research Laboratory                                                                   Integration, Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office, Federal Aviation
               5:10    Depot Technology in Future Support of UAS                                                       Administration
                       • Depot/industry partnerships
                       • Flight test range capability upgrades for supporting future UAS systems and           5:00    End of Main Conference
                         sensors
                       • Depot Technology upgrades for full sustainment capability of all UAS systems

                       Lt. Col. John Primbs (Ret.), USAF, Director, Advances Technology
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4              5:50    End of Main Summit Day One
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UAV FOCUS DAY                                                                                 Thursday, April 29, 2010

                                 8:00   Registration & Coffee                                                              unimproved terrain, provided no harm comes to people or property on
                                                                                                                           the ground. While existing autopilots can fly an aircraft from takeoff
                                 8:30   Current UAS Capabilities                                                           through landing, perhaps the greatest impediment to fully-
MORNING

REMARKS




                                                                                                                           autonomous flight is proving safety in the presence of anomalous
OPENING




                                        •
                                         Army requirement documents: emerging UAS capabilities
                                        •
                                         Soldier comments from the field                                                   events, such as unexpected traffic, onboard failures, or receipt of
                                        Colonel Robert J. Sova, USA, TRADOC Capability Manager for                         conflicting data (e.g., from sensors). We will describe a method to
                                        Unmanned Aircraft Systems (TCM UAS)                                                capture a system-level “flight envelope” that accounts for evolving
                                                                                                                           physical, computational, perceptual, and environmental constraints.
                                 9:15   MCWL UAS Test Efforts                                                              This envelope is used to develop and execute flight plans
                                        •
                                          Cargo UAS – Transition to NAVAIR for contracting efforts                         (decisions/trajectories) that maximize safety margins primarily and
                                        •
                                          Experimental STUAS payloads                                                      traditional efficiency metrics secondarily. The key to certification of
                                        •
                                          Testing efforts for Lethal aerial munitions (LAM)                                such a system is to guarantee acceptable risk levels are maintained,
                                        Colonel Stephen Medeiros, USMC, Director, Technology                               both real and perceived. As a realistic metric, we propose that such a
                                        Division, Marine Corps Warfighting Lab                                             system is certifiable when proven at least as capable of anomaly
                                                                                                                           management as today’s human pilot, exploiting the “closed world
                                 10:00 Networking Break                                                                    assumption” that a human pilot or ground operator without visual
                                                                                                                           cues (e.g., due to flight through fog/clouds) can only sense and act
                                 10:45 Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) UAS Sense and                                  with the same information available to the autonomous system.
                                        Avoid (SAA) Development                                                            What will be covered:
                                        •
                                          UAS air space integration overview                                               • Method to synergistically define and exploit a new concept of “flight
                                        •
                                          AFRL SAA system architecture                                                       envelope” that accounts for evolving UAS physical, computational,
                                        •
                                          AFRL SAA development and progress                                                  perceptual, and environmental constraints
                                        Vince Raska, AFRL Air Vehicles Directorate, UAS SAA Program                        • Building or altering flight plans that preserve safety margins, primarily
                                        Manager                                                                              in the context of collision avoidance and off-nominal event
                                                                                                                             management
                                 11:30 Lunch                                                                               • A proposed certification process by which the UAS must be

                                                                                                                             guaranteed to manage off-nominal events at least as well as (or
                                 12:30 Making the UAS Better                                                                 better than) a human pilot or ground operator
                                       There is a rich S&T base can be applied to increase UAS engine                      Ella M. Atkins, Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace
                                       efficiency, decrease the weight of the UAS structural components, and               Engineering, University of Michigan
                                       improve airborne ISR. Analysis leads us to believe that order of
                                       magnitude increases in UAS engine efficiency are possible. Improved          4:00   END OF CONFERENCE
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                                       keys to efficiency increases.
                                       In a like manner, the order of magnitude increases in UAS structural
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Uav Summit 2010 Agenda

  • 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 • Sheraton Premiere at Tysons Corner Hotel, Vienna, VA 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 Media Partners: Sponsor: Register Today! Call Thomas at 416-597-4707
  • 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 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 Today! Call Thomas at 416-597-4707
  • 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 Today! Call Thomas 416-597-4707
  • 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 Morning Opening Keynote Session •Joint solutions for the future BGen. Kelly Thomas, USA, Deputy Commanding General, Assistant Lt Gen. David A. Deptula, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Commandant, US Army Aviation Center of Excellence Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Headquarters US Air Force 8:55 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in a Homeland Environment 8:55 Engineering UAVs for Airworthiness: Past, Present and Future What is UAV airworthiness: USN perspective KEYNOTE • • Current homeland S&T initiatives • Future integration into operations • UAV acquisition and certification • What we need from our contractors • Benefits and challenges for using UAVs in a homeland environment John Stanton, SES, Executive Director, National Air Security Operations, Capt. Stephen C. Rorke, US Navy, Military Director, Air Vehicle Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security Engineering Department, Naval Air Systems Command 9:35 Networking Break 9:35 Navy UAS Vision 10:20 Air Force Roadmap for UAVs • Impact on maritime awareness • Joint development for a family of vehicles • Current and future requirements • Challenges and obstacles • Anticipated challenges • Future flight plan and requirements • Vision moving forward Col. Eric Mathewson, USAF, Director, Air Force UAS Task Force Capt. Mike Carsley, USN, Section Head, US Navy UAS Requirements 10:55 MQ-X Update: Examining Current Capabilities 10:15 Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Current and Future • ACC's next generation UAS, projecting 2022 IOC Operations • Targeting analysis of alternatives beginning early CY10 • Manned and unmanned teaming • Payload modularity/flexibility, enhanced speed, ability to integrate with civil air traffic (file and fly) • Current fight tactics, techniques and procedures • Future army concepts & organization • Enhanced ability to fly in contested airspace Col. Bruce Emig, USAF, Chief, Irregular Warfare Division, Headquarters Col. Jessie O. Farrington, USA, Assistant G-3 for Operations and Air Combat Command (ACC/A8Q) Aviation, U.S. Army Forces Command 11:35 UAV Pilot Panel Discussion 10:55 Networking Break Hear feedback directly from UAV Pilots. Ask a moderated panel your questions regarding UAV operation, capabilities and performance. 11:30 Striving for Unmanned Capabilities Moderator: • Army UAS roadmap Col. Eric Mathewson, USAF, Director, Air Force UAS Task Force • Strategy from 2010-2035 • Synchronizing the soldier, equipment and the network Panel: CW2 Germell Milton (DES), Directorate of Evaluation and Glenn Rizzi, Deputy Director, US Army UAS Center of Excellence Standardization, USAACE, Fort Rucker SFC Brian Miller (DES), Directorate of Evaluation and Standardization, 12:10 Lunch USAACE, Fort Rucker 1:35 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in a Maritime Environment 12:15 Lunch • Key areas and scenarios • Current UAS initiatives for a maritime environment 1:30 Air Force Research Laboratory Session Introduction • UAS operations in the way ahead Lead by: Col. Jeffrey Turcotte, USAF, Chief Air and Weapons Division, Air Capt. Ted Venable (Ret.), US Naval Forces, Counter Illicit Program Force Research Laboratory Manager, US Southern Command 1:50 Technology Maturation for a Next Generation Tactical UAS • Systems engineering and concept definition 2:15 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, AFRL • UAV power and energy • Autonomous behavior and command and control 2:30 AFRL Airspace Integration Research Capt. Paul C. Stewart, USN, Commanding Officer, Naval Research • Automatic collision avoidance technology Laboratory • UAS sense and avoid AFRL SESSION • UAS terminal area operations Joe Mackrell, Principal Investigator, Naval Research Laboratory Mr. Robert Smith, Cooperative Aerospace Operations Lead 3:05 Networking Break 3:10 Networking Break 3:40 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 • Technological challenges •Test facilities and ranges Dr. Leslie S. Perkins, Micro Air Vehicle Lead, Air Force Research Jan Moren, Deputy Director, Intelligence and Information Warfare Laboratory Directorate, CERDEC RDECOM, US Army 4:30 Fuel Cell Powered SUAV's and MAV power System Development 4:20 National Airspace Access • Logistically fueled SOFC power systems • Current UAS operations • Fuel cell hybridized SUAV power systems • Mid-Term integration plans • Long endurance MAV power systems • NextGen integration Lt. Mark Roosz, USAF, Special Purpose Power Lead, John H. Page Jr., Lead, Air Traffic Control Specialist, UAS NextGen Air Force Research Laboratory Integration, Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office, Federal Aviation 5:10 Depot Technology in Future Support of UAS Administration • Depot/industry partnerships • Flight test range capability upgrades for supporting future UAS systems and 5:00 End of Main Conference sensors • Depot Technology upgrades for full sustainment capability of all UAS systems Lt. Col. John Primbs (Ret.), USAF, Director, Advances Technology Sign up for the post-conference UAV Focus Day! Workload Development, Ogden Air Logistics Center, Plans and Programs See page 5 for details! Office, Hills Air Force Base 4 5:50 End of Main Summit Day One Register Today! Call Thomas at 416-597-4707
  • 5. UAV FOCUS DAY Thursday, April 29, 2010 8:00 Registration & Coffee unimproved terrain, provided no harm comes to people or property on the ground. While existing autopilots can fly an aircraft from takeoff 8:30 Current UAS Capabilities through landing, perhaps the greatest impediment to fully- MORNING REMARKS autonomous flight is proving safety in the presence of anomalous OPENING • Army requirement documents: emerging UAS capabilities • Soldier comments from the field events, such as unexpected traffic, onboard failures, or receipt of Colonel Robert J. Sova, USA, TRADOC Capability Manager for conflicting data (e.g., from sensors). We will describe a method to Unmanned Aircraft Systems (TCM UAS) capture a system-level “flight envelope” that accounts for evolving physical, computational, perceptual, and environmental constraints. 9:15 MCWL UAS Test Efforts This envelope is used to develop and execute flight plans • Cargo UAS – Transition to NAVAIR for contracting efforts (decisions/trajectories) that maximize safety margins primarily and • Experimental STUAS payloads traditional efficiency metrics secondarily. The key to certification of • Testing efforts for Lethal aerial munitions (LAM) such a system is to guarantee acceptable risk levels are maintained, Colonel Stephen Medeiros, USMC, Director, Technology both real and perceived. As a realistic metric, we propose that such a Division, Marine Corps Warfighting Lab system is certifiable when proven at least as capable of anomaly management as today’s human pilot, exploiting the “closed world 10:00 Networking Break assumption” that a human pilot or ground operator without visual cues (e.g., due to flight through fog/clouds) can only sense and act 10:45 Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) UAS Sense and with the same information available to the autonomous system. Avoid (SAA) Development What will be covered: • UAS air space integration overview • Method to synergistically define and exploit a new concept of “flight • AFRL SAA system architecture envelope” that accounts for evolving UAS physical, computational, • AFRL SAA development and progress perceptual, and environmental constraints Vince Raska, AFRL Air Vehicles Directorate, UAS SAA Program • Building or altering flight plans that preserve safety margins, primarily Manager in the context of collision avoidance and off-nominal event management 11:30 Lunch • A proposed certification process by which the UAS must be guaranteed to manage off-nominal events at least as well as (or 12:30 Making the UAS Better better than) a human pilot or ground operator There is a rich S&T base can be applied to increase UAS engine Ella M. Atkins, Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace efficiency, decrease the weight of the UAS structural components, and Engineering, University of Michigan improve airborne ISR. Analysis leads us to believe that order of magnitude increases in UAS engine efficiency are possible. Improved 4:00 END OF CONFERENCE fuel/air mixing and combustion chamber thermal management are two keys to efficiency increases. In a like manner, the order of magnitude increases in UAS structural material strength (largely carbon fiber composites) and in the near term About Our Sponsors OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY may be possible. If an airframe can be made 10 times lighter, it can travel 10 times as far or carry increased loads. This discussion will No Magic Inc, the leading solutions provider of business discuss the technical progress that can similarly be made in UAS wing process and architecture modeling software with its deicing, geo-location, and advanced communication. 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Ageon ISR’s open architecture and adherence to key standards ensures easy integration and 2:30 Certifiable Autonomous Flight Management for interoperability with the sensors and systems used today and in the Unmanned Aircraft Systems future. Learn more at www.digitalresultsgroup.com. The next generation air transportation system (NextGen) will achieve unprecedented levels of throughput and safety by judiciously BOSH Global Services is a turnkey service integrating human supervisors with automation aids. NextGen provider delivering technical and designers have focused their attention on commercial transport operational support for unmanned systems, operations, with no standards proposed to accommodate the first responder communications, video burgeoning unmanned aircraft system (UAS) user community. This distribution, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) presentation will introduce the formidable challenges associated with systems. 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