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40th Annual Electronic Symposium

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Symposium Classification - Unclassified session at Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (Jan 26) and Classified sessions at Naval Air Warfare Center-Weapons Division Pt Mugu, CA (Jan 27-28)

Symposium will include aircraft static displays and tours of Laboratories at Point Mugu

CONFERENCE AGENDA
Collaborative Electronic Warfare

Day 1, 26 January Agenda
Location: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
Conference Welcome
CAPT Mark Storch, Commander NAWCWD

Keynote Address, Lt General Daniel Leaf (Ret USAF), NGC-ISD, SYS Division Vice-President, Strategic Initiatives
"Even though the response to IEDs has fi-nally put EW on the radar screen, America has nonetheless lost its edge in the disci-pline due to a rising and increasingly sophis-ticated global threat, internal conflicts, lack of investment, institutional barriers and a failure to understand and respond to the changing nature of the electronic spectrum. Drawing on his decades of frontline military experience, culminating in his service as Deputy Commander of the Pacific Com-mand, Lt. General Leaf will lay out his views on what it will take to surmount these obsta-cles and ‘own the spectrum."

MAGTF EW Change is Underway, Brig General Jon M. Davis, USMC, Assistant Deputy Commandant for Aviation
There is a transformation occurring in the Marine Corps. The Commandant has released his Vision and Strategy 2025; the Deputy Commandant for Avia-tion is actively pursing his vision in sup-port of the Commandant. That vision is a network-enabled and digitally-interoperable expeditionary aviation combat element postured to execute responsive, persistent, lethal and adap-tive full-spectrum operations asdirected by the MAGTF or joint force commander."

Next Generation Jammer Program Overview, CAPT John Green, USN, Prowler/AEA Program Manager
Briefing will provide an overview of the Next Generation Jammer program, a pre-MDAP program in the analysis of alter-natives (AOA) phase.

Why Do We Need EW Battle Management, CAPT Dan Roper (Ret USN), NETWARCOM

EW Battle Management and EW Systems,  CAPT Joe Hulsey, (Ret USN) Director, Strategic
Initiatives, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
EWBM is being defined and interpreted in many ways within the EW community. This briefing will address EW Battle Manage-ment from the perspective of EW System Architecture

CARTOS – DARPA Research Project, Dr. Gershon Weltman, Principal Scientist and Vice President at Perceptronics Solutions, Inc.
Looking for optimum solutions to teams operating in an emergency. This is an evaluation tool for test and evaluation of emergency response. For ninety percent optimization of teams it takes approxi-mately one minute run time on the com-puter.

Providing Tactical PED with Net-Centric EW Intel Systems Using an Advanced UDOP Architecture,  Mr. Michael Phipps, Vice President, Electronic Warfare Systems, Ultra Electronics, ProLogic
To achieve Tactical Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (PED) warfighters must be able to easily access, combine, and ma-nipulate multiple sources of Electronic War-fare (EW) Intelligence data without direct support from data production centers. This paper describes our experiences with de-veloping a UDOP system (GAPS) and EW Intelligence data from the GIG.

Initial Joint EWBM Design Considerations,  CDR Michael "Shoe" Herrera, Military Faculty,
Program Officer Information Systems and Technol-ogy, Program Officer Information Warfare Systems Engineering Naval Postgraduate School
The briefing will include an overview of command and control concepts that can contribute to EWBM as well as identifica-tion of gaps in current EW processes that EWBM should address.

Network Performance / EP,  Mr. Darren McCarthy, Worldwide RF Technical Marketing Manager, Tektronix
This presentation will discuss a novel ap-proach to utilizing commercial-off-the-shelf test equipment to increase confidence in test and assurance of proper network op-erations

Day 2, 27 January Agenda
Location: Pt Mugu Base Theater
Point Mugu Welcome, Dr. Ron Smiley, SES, Director Electronic Warfare, NAVAIR

Electronic Warfare in the Information Dominance Age ,CDR Howard  Watson, OPNAV, N2/N6F34
This brief will describe CNO's reorgani-zation of the OPNAV staff to create the DCNO for Information Dominance in order to accomplish these goals.

Airborne Electronic Attack Programs Overview, CAPT John  Green, Prowler / AEA Program Manager
Briefing will outline the various systems under development by PMA-234 as part of the Airborne EA systems of systems approach being taken by both the Navy and Marine Corps.

TACAIR EW, CAPT Paul "Stress" Overstreet, USN, PMA-272
Presentation of recent developments with Assault Aircraft protection includ-ing the recent deployment of the Ma-rine Corps DoN LAIRCM.

Virtual Integrated Support for the In-formation Operations eNvironment (VisIOn),  Mr. Ed Juersivich, USJFCOM/IO JMO/VisIOn Program
This brief will provide an overview of the Virtual integrated support for the Information Operations eNvironment (VisIOn) Program, a DEPSECDEF directed program to provide "a joint analysis and planning capability that provides timely, focused IO analysis, planning and target-ing support."

MAGTF EW , LtCol Jason "Dizzy" Schuette, OPNAV N88 Marine Prowler RO

The Future of Army Electronic Warfare,  LTC Ricardo C. Bullock, USA, Branch Chief, Future Force, Army Electronic Warfare Division, HQDA

JVRAPID Development,  Mr. Paul Boehm, Director JVRAPID/Sr. Systems Engineer

EW Network Centric Operations from EA-6B and EA-18G perspective, Mr. Torsten "Toast" Garber, Battle Management, NAWCWD
This brief will outline the idea of EW Net-work Centric Operations and how EWBM will support the growth of EW NCO away from the platform paradigm to the network centric aspect. Current Status of NAWC WD Pt Mugu will include review of EW Doctrine and TTPs, EWBM efforts at NAWC WD Pt Mugu, EA-18G near term EWBM achievable technology enhancements and future EW NCO efforts.

EW Services Demonstration,  Ms. Lynne Clarke, JEACO Lead, NAWCWD
Development is ongoing to create an archi-tecture and services that will support not only today’s Electronic Attack require-ments, but future Electronic Warfare ones as well. The EW Services Architecture (EW SA) is a Services Oriented Architecture with consumer, provider and infrastructure ser-vices focused on helping meet the net cen-tric challenges facing EW.

Intelligence Perspective, Mr. Tom Webber, Special Advisor for Science and Technology, Information Operations and Strategic, Studies Directorate/IOD

Day 3, 28 January Agenda
Location: Pt Mugu Base Theater

EMS - The New Battle Ground,  Mr. Ronald "Fog" Hahn, Deputy Director, Joint Infor-mation Operations Warfare Center, EW Directorate
The ability to conduct modern warfare requires the ability to effectively ma-neuver through the EMS. Our ability to maneuver through this modern battle-space is becoming more and more diffi-cult due to congestion and rapidly ad-vancing technologies that can inhibit our ability to gain control of this critical maneuver space!

Need for Network Operations, LCDR Jason "Finster" Fassett, VAQ-209
Examples from Afghanistan of where our inability to integrated into comms and data networks negatively impacted our ability to operate. Followed by a quick overview of Growler EWBM plans.

VMAQ Community Status, LtCol Marlin Benton, Marine Aircraft Group 14 Fleet Introduction Team (MAG -14 FIT)
Current status of the VMAQ community, to include current operations in OIF (VMAQ-3), OEF (VMAQ-1) and emerging USMC EA-6B capabilities.

OEF 2009 Post Deployment Brief, LT Josh Hattery, VAQ-139
An overview of VAQ-139's Electronic Warfare operations in OEF from July through September 2009. Additionally, VAQ-139's employment of the advanced ICAP III systems in theater to include MATT, Link 16, and ALQ-218.

EA-6B Interoperability with SLAM-ER, Mr. Jeffrey D. Anderson, JATO IPT Lead, PMA-234
This brief presents the approach and results of a JATO hardware-in-the-loop lab test to assess the impact of opera-tional ALQ-99 jamming techniques on the data and video links of the SLAM-ER.

Collaborative Warfighter Data,  Mr. Scott "Cliffy" Burkholder, EWDS Lead Analyst, NAWCWD
Mission data must be standardized so that the warfighter does not have to fight the enemy and mission data at the same time.

Air-to-ground Collaborative EW / compati-bility,  Dr. Melissa Midzor, JEWEL Lead, NAWCWD
Compatibility during missions for air, and land systems in the same RF spectrum is vital. Results of compatibility testing will be presented, and the EW Arena (a multi-system RF test environment) will be discussed.

EW Collaboration across the JFCOM IO Range, Mr. Tom  Curby-Lucier, USJFCOM IO Range LNO to JEWC
This presentation will highlight some areas across EW that have been brought together or integrated as events on the JFCOM IO Range to support various customers and missions, from analysis of EW effects in PACOM Theater of Operations to integra-tion of EW with other non-kinetic and ki-netic effects in support of Air Force training events at Nellis AFB.

Jammer Effectiveness Testing of Multiple EW Systems, Dr. Dino Mensa, JATO Test Lead, NAWCWD

M&S for RF Compatiblity, Mr. David Goldstein, Modeling & Simulation Divi-sion, Capabilities and Acquisition Center, Joint IED Defeat Organization JIEDDO M&S Division
The brief will discuss several of the current capabilities and future capabilities being developed by the.

Coalition Compatibility Testing, Mr. Mark Keenan, Deputy CIED TPO LEAD, NAWCWD

Overview of the Idaho National Labora-tory's Wireless Test Range Capabilities & Electronic Warfare Modeling, Simulation, & Support Efforts, Mr. James Hanneman, Wireless Communications Project Manager Idaho National Laboratory
This presentation highlights the Idaho Na-tional Laboratory's unique Electronic War-fare (EW) attributes.

USMC & ARMY CREW CompatibilityTesting, Mr. Christopher M. Christian, National Counterterrorism/Counterinsurgency, Integrated Test and Evaluation Center Trax Test Services, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground