Conference Day One: Tuesday, November 17, 2009

7:15 Registration And Coffee

8:15 Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks

8:30 Opening Keynote: PEO Soldier Perspective

  • Designing, developing, procuring, fielding, and sustaining virtually everything the Soldier wears or carries
  • Operating to increase combat effectiveness, to save lives, and to improve quality of life

William R. Smith
SES, Deputy Program Executive Officer
PEO Soldier

9:10 Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance, And Reconnaissance Enterprise (MCISR-E)

  • Conceptual overview
  • Multi-sensor integration to enable Persistent ISR
  • Future intelligence capability roadmap

Colonel Phillip C. Chudoba
USMC, Program Manager, Intelligence Systems
Marine Corps Systems Command

9:50 Networking Break

10:35 Ultra Vision – The View To The Future

  • Image fusion today
  • What Marines need to see
  • "Vision" for the future

George Gibbs
Technologist, IWS Strategic Business Team
Marine Corps Systems Command

11:15 Using Advance Authoring Format To Manage Related Intelligence Information

  • Still imagery in different formats, motion imagery (originating from UAVs), GMTI, HTML, and LIDAR
  • Different data types being generated by different sensors

Paul Devine
Senior Software Engineer
representing the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Acquisition Directorate)

11:55 Lunch

1:00 Green Devil: A New Architecture For Tactical Persistent Surveillance: From Sensor To Knowledge Dissemination

  • Green Devil, an experiment conducted at Empire Challenge, demonstrates the utility of image and image/SIGINT fusion to building an actionable tactical picture
  • Wide area surveillance sensors, high resolution airborne spot sensors, tower based sensors, unattended ground sensors and RF
  • Measurement of the ability of the PISR network to detect inserted behaviors of interest

Captain David R. Luber
USN, Deputy Program Manager for ISR, Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare & Combating Terrorism, S&T Directorate
ONR

1:40 Fusion To Counter The Improvised Explosive Device: JIEDDO Perspective

  • Updates from the S&T department
  • Applications on the battlefield
  • Future challenges

Julia Erdley
Science and Technology Advisor
Joint IED Defeat Organization

2:20 Networking Break

3:05 Urban Leader Tactical Response, Awareness & Visualization (ULTRA-Vis)

  • Techniques to create/disseminate/display geo-registered icons and actionable combat information for Fire Team Leaders/Dismount Warfighters in real time over an existing soldier radio network
  • Integration with a low-profile, see-through display to prototype and demonstrate multi-modal icon-based command and control in a nonline- of-sight, urban environment

Dr. Amy Vanderbilt
Program Manager, IPTO
DARPA

3:45 Application Of Multi-Variate Visualization Techniques To Multispectral Imagery

  • Summary of existing multi-variate display techniques
  • Demonstration of their use on multi-spectral imagery
  • Evaluating applicability and user needs for practical use of these techniques

Mark Livingston
PhD, Research Scientist, Information Technology Division
Naval Research Laboratory

4:25 End Of Day One

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