Defense Strategies Institute cordially invites you to an educational and training Summit: Modernizing secure, networked, and interoperable tactical communications systems DSI Supports our Nation's injured service members through donations to the 501c3 Wounded Warrior Project September 9-10, 2013: Mary M. Gates Learning Center, Alexandria, VA
Who We Are: Our Mission: DSI is a premier non-partisan woman owned, minority owned, small business designed to assist in advancing the mission critical goals of the United States' Military and Government. Through our high level educational and training summits and symposiums we are able to reach across all offices and departments in a fair and balanced manner. We bring together the mission relevant representatives in our neutral forums in order to foster the necessary discussions and debates to help them achieve efficient and effective mission success with their partners across the services, government agencies, academia, and industry solution providers. In order to maintain our neutrality, we receive no funding or investment for operating costs from any outside organization, group, or individual. ALL DSI events support the 501c3 nonprofit Wounded Warrior Project through DSI s direct charitable donations. (This is not an official fundraising event.) DSI Thanks our Select Volunteer Advisory Board Members that include: - The Honorable Dr. John Hillen, former Asst. Secretary of State, Political/Military Affairs - Dr. Joe Guerci, former Director, SPO, DARPA, and current IEEE Fellow - RADM (ret) James Olson, former Commander, 9 th District, USCG This Summit is compliant with Department of Defense operating guidelines, and adheres to the most recent standards of the Office of General Council, Standards of Conduct Office: COMPLIANT Operating Guidelines: *Currently, SOCO advisory 09-03: 7.(a) purposes of jer 3-211 (a)(7) the Office of Government Ethics (OGE), OGE standards of ethical conduct for employees of the executive branch: currently 5 cfr part 2635 and 31 u.s.c. 1353 as it pertains to OGE standards *Qualifies as training in compliance with 5 U.S.C. Chapter 41 and is compliant with The Office of Government Ethics, Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch: currently 5 CFR part 2635 and 31 U.S.C. 1353 as it pertains to OGE Standards. *The Military Tactical Communications Summit is open to all DoD and Federal employees and is considered a compliant education and training forum. *Active military and government employees are offered complimentary attendance. * This Summit further meets the guidelines per USD(Comptroller) Memorandum dated 3/ 05/ 2013 titled Additional Guidance for Handling Budget Uncertainty in Fiscal year 2013 General Target Audience: Attendees: General Titles Program Design & Goal: U.S. Military Services, U.S. Government Agencies, Academia, U.S Industry Technology Service Providers Chief Technology Officer, Commander, PM, Chief Engineer, Directors of Programs for C4I, RF communications, SDR Comms, SATCOMS, Antennas A non-partisan educational and training Summit designed as a Town Hall full spectrum view towards improving the efficiency and effectiveness of tactical communication networks. The forum is created to encourage a real, pragmatic level of discussion and debate amongst all in attendance. Our goal is to bring together leaders from across the Armed Services & Government
Agencies, and the industry and academic leaders that can help them forge many of the solutions necessary to achieve their respective next steps. Actionable take aways for today, tomorrow, and the future will drive the discussions. Summit Guidelines: By participating in one of our meetings, you will discover an environment that strives to encourage real actionable outcomes for its participants, while fostering new and continued relationships amongst all in attendance. Our speaker faculty and subject matters are chosen through an extensive process of research, and are designed to provide a full spectrum perspective towards the issue at hand. Depending on the subject matter, we strive to maintain representation of all military services in our agendas. Attendees are expected to have a professional, working knowledge of the subject matter. Contact information of attendees and speakers is not automatically distributed and is on a volunteer basis only. No PRESS or recordings are allowed unless a speaker specifically requests so. An agile approach to modernizing secure, networked, and interoperable tactical communications systems through discussions and debates on topics including: 1.. SATCOM on-the-move Focus Areas: 2.. Mobile IP networking solutions and interoperable, open architectures 3. Joint Aerial Layer Network 4. Antennas for Tactical Communication 5. Cellular Networks (Multi-Hop), Mobile Devices and applications for Tactical Edge Users 6. Electronic Warfare and securing the network at the tactical edge (including jamming/ anti-jamming) Review of current and future evaluations such as the Army's NIE 14.1, fielding of Capability Set 13, and AFRICOM's "Joint Endeavor 2013" The Summit will be hosted at the Mary M. Gates Learning Center/United Way Location: 701 N. Fairfax St. Alexandria, VA http://www.marygateslearningcenter.com * Rental fees will support the nonprofit United Way Foundation
Monday SEPTEMBER 9, 2013 7:30 8:30 Registration and Networking Breakfast 8:30 8:45 Welcome 9:00-9:25 Open Remarks: Mr. Martin M. Westphal, Vice Director C4/Cyber, Joint Staff, J6 (confirmed) 9:25-10:00 Creating an Integrated and Interoperable Communications Systems of Systems - Maturing an agile process towards aligning systems engineering and integration - Analyzing near-term and long-term systems integration and architecture engineering - Projecting and synchronizing trends in technology and standards - What industry needs to understand towards the development and role of requirements and standards to ensure the acquisition of products and services is efficient and effective. - Update on the coordination efforts with various PEOs and PORs to ensure the Army is making the right investments and establishing the best disciplines to buy the IT needed to meet mission Mr. Terry Edwards, SES, Director, Systems of Systems Engineering and Integration (SoSE&I) Directorate, ASA(ALT) (confirmed) 10:00-10:35 Delivering the Network to the Tactical Edge: Expectations for NIE 14.1 and Beyond - An integrated network baseline: Understanding the ground work of technical standards - Viewpoint towards the next steps through the NIEs: Where the operational gaps still lie and what's truly needed and what's not from industry moving forward COL Mark Elliott, USA, Director, HQ G3/5/7 LandWarNet - Mission Command (confirmed) 10:35-11:05 Networking break 11:05-11:40 PEO C3T: WIN T Update - Update on the Aerial Tier enhancing network capacity :creating a three-tiered system that involves Traditional line-of-sight communications, airborne communications nodes using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and manned aircraft, as well as satellite communications (SATCOM) - Moving from initial (Increment 2) to full line of OTM networking (Increment 3): current technical challenges - On-the-move tactical communications network at the company level: OTM SATCOM status - Current status on introducing the JC4ISR radios into the system COL Edward Swanson, USA, PM, WIN-T, PEO C3T(confirmed) 11:40-12:15 Antenna Research and Development for Tactical Comms-on-the-move - Current research interests in electronically scanned antennas, multibeam antennas, multi-band/broadband antennas, and wafer level antennas - Researching affordable shared aperture, single system architectures -Conformal Antennas: integrated antennas and antenna arrays that are platform conformal - Reducing size Dr. Steven Weiss, Antennas and RF Technology Integration Branch, ARL (confirmed) 12:15 1:15 Networking Lunch 1:15 1:50 Navy s Space Activities in Support of Forward and Geographically-Dispersed Operations -Challenges of developing, fielding, and supporting solutions in this era of budget constraints -Transitioning legacy systems to a modern platform: Current roadmap to augment and then replace the Navy's UHF spacecraft constellation and how this will effect comms for the Warfighter - Update on MUOS satellites-current progress on the digital MUOS waveform Dr. John Zangardi, SES, DASN C4I/IO and Space (confirmed but will be done via VTC in the afternoon) 1:50-2:25 Air Force's Current Approach to Advancing Warfighter C2 Challenges - Update on the Joint Aerial Layer Network C2 - Challenges with fielding solutions towards connectivity, capacity, information/data sharing, and network management. - Operating in a fiscally constrained environment: what's needed from industry partners and what's not Mr. William Jackson, Chief AFC2IC LO National Capital Region (confirmed)
2:25-2:55 Networking Break 2:55 3:30 Meeting the Challenges of Interoperable Communication Systems in Canada -Understanding the current efforts and challenges with Canadian Defence's full approach to tactical communications - Canadian viewpoint on recent lessons learned from CWIX: testing and improving the interoperability of NATO and National C4I systems Canadian Defence Representatives (confirmed representation from Ottawa HQ) 3:30 4:05 CERDEC s Critical Role in Supporting the Army s Tactical Communication Efforts: Current and near term S&TCD initiatives - Advanced antenna development to enhance comms at the tactical edge for the dismounted Solider - Using common components for C4ISR for multiple functions such as comms and EW to reduce SWAP - Current efforts with advanced mobile networking technologies and SATCOM Dr. Paul Zablocky, SES, Acting Director, Space & Terrestrial Communications Directorate, CERDEC (confirmed) 4:05 4:35 TBD 4:35 End of Day 1 Tuesday SEPTEMBER 10, 2013 8:00 8:45 Registration and Networking Breakfast 8:45-9:25 Meeting the Demands of Tactical Communications for the Marine Corps - Viewpoint towards evolving legacy systems into an interoperable environment :current initiatives towards TSOA - Current initiatives in MOUS Capabilities, SATCOM systems, and tactical networks - Understanding the unique requirements for expeditionary communications - Viewpoint towards current challenges with integrating comms systems in joint and coalition environments - Challenges with implementing a holistic and effective and efficient fielding capability in a fiscally constrained environment: what s truly needed and what s not to meet the Marine Corps needs in the near term future Col Peter Reddy, USMC, PM MC3, MCSC (confirmed) 9:25 10:00 Advanced Research in Communications, Networks, and Electronic Warfare for the Tactical Edge : DARPA Perspective -Improving network availability and increasing network capacity and scaling -Assuring operations in compromised and complex electromagnetic environments, while controlling the adversary s capability to operate in these environments. -Approaches for efficient spectrum utilization and performance in the presence of interference, and dynamic and efficient use of space/time and access to new modalities such as high frequency RF and optical polarization - Intra- and cross-modality (radar, communications, and sensing) spectrum access techniques; spatial reuse through higher frequency operations; interference avoidance and tolerance; and large-scale testing of complex RF environments -Dr. Wayne Phoel, PM, STO, DARPA(confirmed) 10:00-10:30 Networking Break 10:30 11:10 Keynote Understanding the Entire Network : Integrating the Core to the Tactical Edge - Current Initiatives in C3, Space and Spectrum for the objective of net- centric operations - What will it take to create total force (including coalition) interoperability: understanding the network topology architecture and the current technology gaps/challenges Dr. Ronald Jost, DASD,C3 Space and Spectrum DoD (confirmed) 11:00-11:35 Update on the Key Building Blocks for a JALN - Strategic level: Integrating with space and surface layers - Operational level: JALN Core Functions - Tactical level: Capability Development Documents (CDDs) for Aerial Layer Network Components - Requirements: Acquisition Principles to Support Building the JALN Col Anthony Genatempo, USAF, Space, Aerial and Nuclear Networks Division, AFLCMC (confirmed)
11:35-12:10 Tactical Comms for Navy: Forward looking S&T within ONR -Current trends in smart antenna development and lightweight conformal antennas - Update on research initiatives with naval platforms and marine environments Dr. Santanu Das, Program Officer, Code 31-Communications and Networking Science and Technology, ONR (confirmed) 12:10-1:10 Networking Lunch 1:10-1:45 Mobile ad hoc Network Developments: Current Academic Research from Drexel University s Applied Informatics Group (confirmed) 1:45-2:20 Understanding Electronic Warfare Through a Tactical Communications Lense: EA, ES, and EP and the interplay with Tactical Comms - Cognitive Jamming and Anti-Jamming : understanding the threats at the tactical edge - Current research towards securing tactical comms from EA - Review of The Electronic Warfare Planning and Management Tool (EWPMT) Fran Orzech, Chief Engineer, PM EW, PEO IEWS (tentative) 2:20 2:55 AFRICOM: Results and lessons learned from Africa Endeavor 2013 Towards Coalition Communication Interoperability -JITC s role in identifying interoperability shortfalls and developing workable solutions - Developing C3IS architectures during future exercises and real-world operations - Developing common stability objectives and security and sustainment goals LTC Timothy Timmons, USA, Chief, JITC Warfighter Support Division Integrated Communications Systems Branch (JTE3) FH/IH/FM (invited) 3:00 End of Summit