Symposium Agenda

Session Chair: Mr. Blaise Durante, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisition Integration, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition

This session will explore the one constant in EW since its inception…CHANGE.  Changes in technology, requirements, allocation, appropriation and support related to operations in the electromagnetic spectrum.

Session Chair: Brig Gen Dwyer Dennis (invited)

This session will focus on the particular electronic warfare requirements of each military service.

Session Chair: Mr. Jim Sproul, MC, Inc.

As the electromagnetic spectrum is both contested and congested, and technologies such as wireless communications explode, EW policies must now include cyber and spectrum warfare.

Session Chair:  Dr. Lon Pringle, GTRI

The planning and program insertion of current and future technology developments will be discussed.

General Session
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Davy Belk, member of the Senior Executive Service, Director, Information Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, N.Y.

Session Chair: Mr. Pierre Ghazal, ESC

National Department of Defense requirements will be discussed in this session.

This session will focus on evolving programs, technology, and laboratory activities in support of electronic warfare.

Session Chair: Ms. Linda Palmer, Defense Acquisition Inc

This session will focus on spectrum warfare and managing its integration into operations planning and modeling.  Speakers will discuss the warfighting benefit of unmanned aerial systems hosting SIGINT payloads, NAVWAR in campaign planning models, and treating EMS as a warfighting domain.

     Integrating Navigation Warfare (NAVWAR) into Campaign Level Models
     Mr. Joe Aldrich, JNWC

    Signals Intelligence Integrated onto Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles in support of the Marine
           Air Ground Task Force
     Capt Mark S. Gombo and Capt Samuel A. VerPlanck, USMC

Session Chair: Mr. Donato D'Angelantonio, Elettronica SpA

Electronic warfare requirements of international agencies and military services will be presented at this session.

Session Chair: Mr. Gary Gagnon, The MITRE Corporation

Particular focus on the mission assurance aspect of electronic warfare technologies will be discussed.

Session Chair: Mr. William “Billy” Davis, Mercury Computer Systems

Particular focus will be given to cyber warfare and related policy that will impact roles and missions of agencies and military services

Session Chair: Mr. Andrea De Martino, Elettronica SpA

This session will provide an authoritative update on principal international new programs and applications of new technologies.

Session Chair: Mr. Russ Blaine, Wyle

The work of war labs, technology assessment center, and military exercises will be discussed during this session.

Session Chair: Mr. Jim Fallon, Cobham

A panel of experts will discuss the difficulties to receive export license for the U.S. goods and the difficulties by the European EW manufacturers to participate to the U.S. RFQ’s for EW equipment, alone or teaming with an US Prime.

Session Chair: Mr. Russ Graves, The MITRE Corporation

Other electronic warfare applications will be discussed that include law enforcement, border defense, homeland securit

Session Chair: Mr. Mick Riley, Southern Marketing Associates

Changes in technology, resource allocation, and policy only matter if they provide the war-fighter the rights tools when he needs them.  You need to hear what leaders and recent veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom have to say about the real challenges they face and anticipate controlling the electromagnetic spectrum.