50th Annual AOC International Symposium & Convention

Keynote Speakers:
The Honorable James Clapper Director of National Intelligence Intelligence Integration - Past, Present and Future

Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert, USN Chief of Naval Operations Imminent Domain 2014

Major General Robert E. Wheeler, USAF (Invited) Deputy Chief Information Officer, Office of the Secretary of Defense

MONDAY, OCTOBER 28

Opening Session and Keynote Address 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

JOINT SESSION 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Session 1: Future Acquisition Strategies in a Constrained Environment Session Chair: Mr. Jaymie Durnan, Senior Assistant to the Principle Deputy, OASD(R&E) (Invited)

Despite the fiscal uncertainties associated with current and future defense spending, the globalization of sophisticated electromagnetic spectrum warfare capabilities, including the confluence of electronic attack, electronic protection and cyber demand a comprehensive investment strategy across the DOTMLPF spectrum. This strategy must embrace not only the technology enabling solutions, but new organizations and concepts of operations to maximize the power of the EMS in providing our warfighters with a significant competitive advantage. This session will explore these complex issues by an engaging series of senior level perspectives and panel discussion.

Mr. Al Shaffer Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering OASD (R&E)

Mr. James MacStravic Chief of Staff pro tem to USD/AT&L

Dr. David Walker Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Science, Technology, and Engineering Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition (SAF/AQ)

Mr. Earl Wyatt Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Rapid Fielding OASD (R&E)

Dr. Reginald Brothers (Invited)
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research OASD (R&E)

Mr. David Hime ASD (R&E) EW/EP Priority Steering Council Chairman

JOINT SESSION 12:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

Session 2: Industry Response: Future Strategies in a Constrained Environment Session Chair: Mr. Steve Hogan, Vice President & General Manager, Northrop Grumman Corporation Technical Services

With the “table set” in Session 1 as to future requirements, trends and priorities, how is Industry reacting to this complex set of issues? What efficiencies and opportunities exist to accelerate robust EW capabilities into the hands of the warfighter? What are the impediments – are they technical or procedural? This session will “respond” with various corporate views on strategies being taken to deal with global EW markets and fiscal realities.

Mr. Roy Azevedo Vice President, Advanced Concepts and Technology, Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems

Mr. Richard Sorelle President, Electronic Systems, Exelis Professor Steve Roberts Cranford University, United Kingdom; Defence Academy of the United Kingdom

Captain Thomas J. Williams, USN (Ret) President, Capitol Defense Consulting, LLC Mr. Terry McKnight Vice President, Government Relations, Cobham Defense Systems

Mr. Olaf Lukas Head of Marketing, Rohde & Schwarz, Munich, Germany

Mr. Brian Walters VIce President, Electronic Combat Systems, BAE Systems

ADVOCACY WORKSHOP
3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

JOINT SESSION 3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Session 3: International Perspective Session Chair: Wing Commander John Clifford, OBE RAF (Ret)

Most military operations in the 21st Century will be conducted by international alliances such as NATO in Afghanistan and by coalitions of the willing elsewhere. EW and related EM operations, including ISR, SIGINT, communications and spectrum management are essential to effective military operations globally across the spectrum of conflict. Understanding mutual capabilities forms the foundation for international, cooperative, EW operational effectiveness and capability development but is difficult to achieve without a clear concept. Listening to and learning from others provides the vision needed for new concepts. This session will examine some of the issues and opportunities that effective international EW cooperation entails, with perhaps some surprising conclusions.

Commander Gunnar Marcusson Joint EW Branch, Swedish Armed Forces HQ Swedish National EW - A 21st Century Approach

Mr. Lee Simonetta Associate Laboratory Director, Electronics Systems Lab, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Academia's Perspective and Contribution to Future U.S. & International EW Initiatives

Dr. Jim Wickes Senior Principal Survivability Dstl

Major William Cardwell, 2IC 14 Signals Regiment (EW), United Kingdom From COIN to Contingency Operations - the Future of UK Land EW in Coalition Operations

Wing Commander John Clifford, OBE RAF (Ret) Towards a New Understanding of EW: Operational Experience and Radical Change

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29

General Session and Keynote Address 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Session 4: The Speed of EW Session Chair: Mr. Marvin Potts, Division Technical Advisor, Spectrum Warfare Division, Air Force Research Laboratory

Future EW challenges will be driven by time. Technology proliferation and flexibility continue to shorten the threat-to-countermeasure timeline into unprecedented territories. Development and upgrade cycles of years or even months will leave one on the losing end in the battle for EMS dominance. Future EW engagements will be won by those who can adapt in micro-timelines, even to the point of real-time EW design. This future will require significant paradigm changes in intelligence, EW reprogramming, and EW capability development and this session will explore those concepts.

Colonel John Arnold, USAF Deputy Director, Air Force Special Programs and Commander William Arnold, USN (Ret) Two Generations of EW

Mr. Brett Verzwyvelt Technical Director, Air Combat Command 53rd Wing Tomorrow's Programming Challenges

Dr. Yiftach Eisenberg Program Manager, DARPA, Information Innovation Office (I2O) Adaptive EW

Dr. Brian Reid Research Leader, EW Systems, Defence Science & Technology Organization, Australia (Co-authors: Dr. Damian Hall, DSTRO and Mr. Marvin Potts, AFRL) Shared EW Battle Management Challenges

Session 5: Developing Future EMSO Warriors Session Chair: Dr. Casey Wardynski, Superintendent, Huntsville City Schools

It is often said our greatest resource is people. With future EW/EMS paradigms on the horizon, what are we doing to produce that next generation of EMSO warrior? Purposeful efforts are required to develop a highly skilled EMSO and cyber workforce for the classified and technically demanding positions open today and those emerging for tomorrow – ranging from the K-12 STEM initiatives through the Service schools. Focused EW/EMS recruiting and career promotion is needed to keep from losing the best and brightest to other specialties. This interactive session will generate ideas for our government, industry and academic community to proactively work together to more clearly define our EW/EMS educational needs and career path development in engineering, physics/electromagnetics, mathematics, computer science, forensics, cyber technologies, and more.

Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Metzger, USA Chief, Leader Development, Training and Education, U.S. Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER) Preparing Cyber Warriors: Instilling a Culture of Responsibility and Army Values

Dr. Rusty Baldwin Research Director, Center for Cyber Research (CCR), AF Institute of Technology (AFIT) Graduate Research Opportunities in Cyber and Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations

Commander Pablo Breuer, USN Chief, Counter Intrusion Operations Planning Team, USCYBERCOM J35 Breaking Bad: Using BlackHat Cyber Skills to Build Future Leaders

Dr. Rodney Robertson Executive Director, Auburn University Research Center STEM Initiatives for Growing the 2025 EMSO Workforce

(Alternate) Ms. Susan Moon STEM and Career Specialist, Huntsville (AL) City Schools Future STEM Education: A Collaborative Approach

(Alternate) Ms. Christine Sutton High School Teacher, Cyber Curriculum Specialist

CONCURRENT SESSIONS 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Session 6: Navigation and Communications in Contested/Congested Environments Session Chair: Dr. Paul Zablocky, Director, CERDEC Space & Terrestrial Communications Directorate, Aberdeen, MD

Spectrum once reserved exclusively for military use is now being repurposed to satisfy the ever growing commercial demands for higher data rates to mobile devices. The decrease in bandwidth allocated to military communications and navigation, combined with the increasing reliance of our fighting forces on information and networking are posing significant challenges. Developers will need to leverage commercial communications components and systems to the greatest extent possible, despite them having significantly different architectures and operating environments compared to their military counterparts. This session will explore new and innovated technologies and policies that will be necessary to enable military communications and navigation systems in order to meet functional and capacity demands in future congested/ contested EMS environments.

Dr. Mahbub Hoque Chief Scientist, U.S. Army CERDEC, Space & Terrestrial Communications Directorate Sustaining Communication through Spectrum Optimization

Dr. Mike Johnson Information Systems, Northrop Grumman Corporation Harmonizing Communications and Electronic Warfare

Dr. Haruko Kawahigashi Chief Researcher, Mitsubishi Electronic Corporation, Japan Network Node Role Estimation with Improved Algorithm for Control Traffic Cycle Extraction

Mr. Marc Russon Director of Emerging Technology, L-3 Communications, Communications Systems - West Military/Commercial Spectrum Quandaries: Challenges and Opportunities

Dr. Peter Klein Branch Head, Naval Research Laboratory Code 5520 Optimizing Spectral Diversity, Agility, Capacity, and Resilient Mobile Networking to Overcome Challenging Environments

Session 7: Advanced EW Technologies Session Chair: Dr. Peter Craig, EW Program Manager, Office of Naval Research

EW capabilities are fueled by their underlying component and systems technologies. But the broad-ranging EW mission can represent significant challenges to developers of these technologies. Electronic Support (ES) receivers must detect weak and transient signals buried in the midst of a congested EM spectrum covering many orders of magnitude in power and frequency. Electronic Attack (EA) transmitters must efficiently project kilowatts of emitted power while retaining sufficient linearity to faithfully reproduce highly complex waveforms and modulations. And to top it off, these ES and EA systems must often operate side-by-side without interference, as well as communicate with impunity to other systems within their EW network. This session will highlight the cutting edge research and exploratory development that enables future EW systems which can meet and surpass these challenges, leading to the next generation of advanced EW capabilities.

Dr. Akis P. Goutzoulis Senior Consulting Engineer, Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems (Co-author: Dr. Doyle Nichols) Integrated Photonic Circuits for EW Receivers

Dr. James Vian Assistant Group Leader, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Nonlinear Digital Predistorter with 18-45 GHz Digital Transmitter on a Chip (DTOC) Array

Dr. Jinsong Huang Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska, Lincoln High Gain, Low Noise, Large Linear Dynamic Range UV Hybrid Photodetectors

Dr. Jerry Meyer Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. (Co-authors: Mr. Igor Vurgaftman, NRL and Mr. Martijn Heck & Mr. John Bowers, UC Santa Barbara) High-Power Broadband Multispectral Source Heterogeneously Integrated on a Silicon Chip

Mr. Michael E. West Principal Research Engineer, Electronic Systems Laboratory, Georgia Technical Research Institute The Future Battlespace through the use of Heterogeneous UAV Networked Teams for Electronic Warfare (HUNT4EW) Operations

(Alternate) Dr. Dejan Filipovic Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder
Electronic Attack with Frequency Independent Antennas

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30

CONCURRENT SESSIONS 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Session 8: Cognitive/Adaptive Systems: Can "Skynet" and "the Borg" Solve EW and Cyber Challenges? Session Chair: Mr. J.D. McCreary, Chief, Strategic Technology Program Office, GTRI

Future military operations are likely to encounter dense, diverse and dynamic target environments. As we think through the challenges of executing missions outlined in Air Sea Battle or the Joint Operational Access Concept, there is the balance of choosing effects and delivery mechanisms. Some choices will be driven by the level of apriori intelligence on the battlespace. Other factors include timely access, persistence, lethality, survivability and combat power regeneration. Command and control and situational awareness will become increasingly challenging for decision-makers at all levels of execution, to include the integration of machine-machine execution, whether that be unmanned vehicles or cyber and EW operations. This session will explore how future warfighting capabilities might benefit from multi-disciplinary, multi-domain advances in cognitive/adaptive systems, machine hierarchies, and complex behavior systems.

Mr. Harry Wingo Managing Partner, West River Solutions, LLC Cloud Spectrum Warfare: Innovation, Security, and the IoT

Dr. Allan Friedman Brookings Institution

Dr. Henrik Schmidt Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mr. David Slayton Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Dr. Bob Baxley Senior Research Engineer, Georgia Technical Research Institute Distributed Spatial Reasoning for Electronic Warfare

Session 9: Game-changing Technologies: Revolution over Evolution Session Chair: Dr. Gerry Borsuk, Associate Director of Research for Systems, Naval Research Laboratory

Evolution is “a process of gradual or progressive change;” whereas Revolution is “a radical or sudden, complete, marked change.” As has been discussed throughout in this symposium, the future threat terrain is complex, ever-changing and has access to advanced electronics technologies. A few years ago, cloud computing was a “game changer,” but today “the cloud” is part of our everyday experience. Are there new, revolutionary technologies that will fundamentally change the nature of the EW engagement – something that will provide a leap-ahead EW capability? This session will present several examples of such leap ahead advanced technologies.

Mr. Ara Kurdoghlian HRL Laboratories Wideband High Dynamic Range EW Receiver Components

Dr. Daniel Sparacin Director of Technology, Aurrion, Inc. Heterogenous Silicon Photonics for True Time Delay (TTD) Applications

Dr. W. Devereux Palmer Program Manager, DARPA, Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) Expanding the EW Design Space
Dr. Dejan Filipovic Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder Antenna Technologies for Wideband Millimeter-wave EA and ESM Systems

Mr. Thomas Johnson Manager, RFSOC Microelectronics Design Group, BAE Systems Tunable Filter Technology

JOINT SESSION 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Session 10: EM Spectrum/EW Battle Management Initiatives Session Chair: Colonel Steve Ling, USAF, Director, STRATCOM Joint Electronic Warfare Center

The evolution of operations in the electromagnetic spectrum, driven by the proliferation of EMS enabled technologies, has far outpaced the development and adaptation of policy, doctrine, tactics, tools, and procedures. The hotly contested and congested EMS environment challenges the traditional approach of separating EMS operations into independent stove-piped sub-specialties for operations, communications, and collections, and requires a more integrated approach. This session addresses ongoing efforts within the joint community to merge electronic warfare and operational aspects of spectrum management operations into a unified concept of Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (JEMSO).

Mr. Stu Timerman Director, Defense Spectrum Organizations

Captain Rob Gamberg, USN Director, Fleet Electronic Warfare Center

Colonel Jim Ekvall, USA (Invited) FA Chief, HQDA G3/5/7, Electronic Warfare Division

Colonel Jim Pryor, USAF Chief, Electronic Warfare Headquarters, USAF

Lieutenant Colonel Jason Schuette, USMC MAGTF EW Requirements, EW Branch Chief

Mr. Ron Hahn Vice President, EMS Strategies, Information Solutions Group, URS Corporation

Closing Session and Keynote Address 4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

ALTERNATE SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS

Mr. Mark Elo Vice President, Marketing, Giga-tronics On High Speed Wide Band Frequency Synthesis
Mr. Philippe Guillaume Thales Communication & Security MINI-UAS: a New Threat, and a New Challenge for Electronic Warfare?
Mr. Rick Lu President & CEO, Spectranetix, Inc. 3-Dimensional Direction Finding “3-DF” Technology for Advanced EW Systems
Mr. Marcus Makarehchi EW Integration and Interoperability Lead, Naval Air Systems Command Electronic Warfare Cyber Convergence and Mission-Based Lethality/Survivability Effectiveness Analysis
Dr. Samuel Shapero Electronic Systems Laboratory, Georgia Tech Research Institute A Multi-Target, Multi-Sensor, Triangulating Multiple Hypothesis Tracker