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Unmanned Ground and Sea Systems Conference vvx 04-04-2006
Posted by vvx on April 4, 2006, 12:42 am
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Unmanned Ground and Sea Systems Conference
April 5-7, 2006 - Washington, DC

April 5, 2006:
DAY 1

0900-0905 Administrative Announcements

0905-0935 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: "Challenges Facing the Unmanned Systems
Community"
VICE ADMIRAL (ret) JOE DYER, Executive Vice President and General Manager,
Government and Industrial Robots, iRobot

0935-1005 "Unmanned Systems for Army Infantry Forces"
MR. HARRY LUBIN, Deputy, Live Prototype Experimentation Division, Soldier
Battle Lab, Ft. Benning, GA

1005-1035 "Navy UUV Needs and Initiatives"
CAPTAIN PAUL SIEGRIST, Assistant Program Manager, Director of Undersea
Acquisitions, PMS 403, Program Executive Office - Littoral and Mine Warfare
(PEO-LMW)

1035-1055 Coffee Break

1055-1125 "Roles for Unmanned Systems and Robotics in Future Surface
Warfare"
CAPTAIN TONY DROPP, Department Head, Future Ships Branch, and COMMANDER JOE
CHIARAVALOTTI, Section Head, Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), OPNAV N763

1125-1155 "LCS and Unmanned Systems"
DR. NORMAN FRIEDMAN, Editor, World Guide to Naval Systems

1155-1225 "Battlespace Preparation Autonomous Undersea Vehicle (BPAUV)"
MR. FRANK Van MIERLO, President, Bluefin Robotics

1225-130 Lunch Break

130-200 Performance Requirements and Standards for Search and Rescue Robots"
MR. ALBERT WAVERING, Chief, Intelligent Systems Division, National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST)

200-230 "UUV-Submarine Force Multiplier"
CAPTAIN DOUGLAS PRINCE, Director, Submarine Weapons and Payloads Branch,
OPNAV N7

230-300 "A Birds-eye view of the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge Course:
Practical Applications Based on Current Technology."
MR. DAVID BOEHM, Field Test Director, CAP/USAF Auxiliary

300-320 Refreshment Break

320-350 "ART-Based Tetrahedral Robotics for Planetary Exploration"
MR. RICHARD P. WESENBERG presenting for Dr. Steve Curtis, Principle
Investigator, Addressable Reconfigurable Technology (ART) Project, NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center

350-420 "A Practical View and Future Look at the Joint Architecture for
Unmanned Systems (JAUS) Standard"
MR. JORGEN PEDERSEN, Chief Executive Officer, RE2 INC

420-450 "Soldier-Robot Teaming"
DR. KERYL COSENZO, Research Psychologist, Human Engineering Directorate,
Army Research Lab

450-520 "A Cognitive Architecture for System of Systems"
MR. ALBERT WAVERING, Chief, Intelligent Systems Division, National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST)

April 6, 2006
DAY 2

800-805 Administrative Announcements

805-835 "JAUS and Interoperability in Unmanned Systems"
MR. CARL CARRERA, Chief Engineer,
MR. DAVID HINKES, Autonomous Control Engineer, Advanced Information
Systems, The Boeing Company

835-905 "Future Combat System (FCS) UGVs"
DR. ALAN WALLS, FCS Lead System Integrator and UGV IPT Lead, Science
Applications International Corporation (SAIC)

905-935 "Frontiers in Unmanned Ground Vehicle Sensor Systems"
MR. DAN KOMAROMI, Systems Architect, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems

935-1005 "Robotic Swarms"
DR. VIJAY KUMAR, Chair, GRASP Lab of Robotics Research, University of
Pennsylvania

1005-1025 Coffee Break

1025-1055 "The Gladiator UGV"
MR. JEFF FARBACHER, Program Manager, Gladiator, National Robotics
Engineering Consortium, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

1055-1125 "Design & Autonomous Control of Multiple Unmanned Vehicles
for Maritime Surveillance"
MR. RON BOSCH, Military Division Manager, and MR. JIM HULL, Marine Systems
Project Manager, Oregon Iron Works; MR. DAVE DUGGAN, Vice President, Geneva
Aerospace

1125-1155 "Special Weapon Observation Reconnaissance Direct
Action System (SWORDS), XM-1154"
Lt. COLONEL (ret) CHARLES DEAN, Program Manager, Advanced Robots,
Foster-Miller

1155-100 Lunch Break

100-130 "Swarming Architectures and Ground Force Operations"
MR. CHRIS RICKARD, OR Analyst and MR. MIKE TOMLINSON, Senior OR Analyst,
SAIC; MR. PAUL PAGE, Team Lead, Studies and Analysis Division, Future
Warfare Center, Army Space and Missile Defense Command

130-200 "USV and Shipboard Protection"
MR. LARRY DATKO, Northrop Grumman Ocean and Naval Systems Program Manager

200-230 "Advanced AUVs for Unique Missions"
MR. GARY TRIMBLE, Director, Marine Automation and Robotics Engineering,
Lockheed Martin/Perry Technologies

230-250 Refreshment Break

250-320 "Future UUV Power Systems"
Mr. DAVID CHAUDOIR, Manager, Preliminary Engineering, Hamilton Sunstrand -
Sea Systems

320-350 "Networked Autonomous Sea Vehicles"
DR. CHRYSSOSTOMOS CHRYSSOSTOMIDIS,
Director, Sea Grant Program and Doherty Professor of Ocean Science and
Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

350-420 "USV Platforms"
MR. DON DARLING, President, Sea Robotics

420-450 "COTS Game-Based Operator Interface Unit for UGVs and Payloads"
MR. ED CROW, Head, Systems Operations and Automation Division, Penn State
Applied Research Laboratory

DAY 3
April 7, 2006

8:00-8:05 Administrative Announcements

805-840 "Robotics Systems Program Office Needs and Initiatives"
COLONEL TERRY GRIFFIN, Project Manager, Robotic Systems Joint Program Office

840-915 "Unmanned Vehicles in Naval EOD Operations"
CAPTAIN MARVIN HEINZE, Commander, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Group
One, USN

915-950 "UUVs and USVs - Challenges and Applications"
MR. NICK HAHN, Project Engineer at Commonwealth Technology Inc.

950-1010 Refreshment Break

1010-1045 "Robots for Explosive Ordnance Disposal"
MR. MACK BARBER, President, Remotec
MR. JOEL CRISWELL, Technical Advisor, Remotec

1045-1120 "Robotic Detection of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED)"
DR. ANDREW VAUCHER, Chief Scientist, Hi-Energy Technologies

1120-1155 "Robotic Personnel Extraction from Hostile Environments"
DR. PATRICK ROWE, Chief Scientist, Applied Perception, Inc.

1155-1230 "The FCS Armed Robotic Vehicle Program"
MR. GREG PEARLY, Business Development Manager, Armed Robotic Vehicle, BAE
Systems

12:30-100 "Mobile Robotics for Crisis Response"
Lt. COLONEL (ret) JOHN BLITCH, Director, Alliance for Robot Assisted Crisis
and Response (ARACAR)



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