Note: This event was originally planned for 31 March - 2 April, 2020 in Oxon Hill, MD, USA and has now been rescheduled
New date: 31 August - 2 September, 2020
Combating Emerging Drone Threats
UAS production and use has grown exponentially in the last few years, and with that so has the threat of rogue drones being used for illegal, dangerous or even deadly purposes. The drones of today are harder to track, categorize, intercept and disable and with that the potential threat(s) of UAS' being used in an attack are becoming more common and more of a global concern.
In light of these increasing threats, we are bringing back our
Counter UAS series to discuss the passing of the Preventing Emerging Threats Act of 2018, which gives government agencies new authority to counter airborne drone threats, as well as the latest in
C-UAS innovations and technologies.
We have been busy developing an agenda that will give you powerful examples of how this new legislation will give the DoJ and DHS unprecedented ability to "mitigate" a credible drone threat, by physically disabling the drone, taking it over, intercepting its communications, or seizing the drone itself, all without a warrant or judicial review/oversight.
Our
Counter-UAS Summit will provide a forum for military leaders, program executive officers, industry executives, academics and researchers to focus on emerging and current innovative
C-UAS technologies to detect, identify & neutralize drones to prevent attacks on critical infrastructures, citizens and soldiers.
This year's summit will cover topics including:
- Military's Counter-UAS acquisition goals
- DOJ and DHS CUAS acquisition priorities
- Countering drone swarms
- Countering UAS attacks by terrorists
- Defending against autonomous UAS
- Military's Counter-UAS requirements
- DOJ and DHS CUAS strategies and policies
- Mounted C-UAS weapon systems
- Protecting critical infrastructure from UAS
- Directed energy weapons
Speaker Faculty
- Major General Sean Gainey, Deputy Director, Force Protection, Joint Staff J-8
- COL Gary Beard, TCM Air Defense Artillery, US Army
- Colonel Joe Bookard, Director, Rapid Equipping Force, US Army
- Dr. Michael Jirjis, Directed Energy Experimentation Lead, AF Strategic Development Planning & Experimentation, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
- Lieutenant Colonel Hany Noureddine, Chief AMD, 2nd Infantry Division, ROK-US Combined Division, U.S. Army
- Cheickna Soumare, Deputy Branch Chief Counter UAS, Pentagon, Army HQ
- Sunshine Smith-Carroll, Director, Counter Unmanned Air Systems, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy Air and Ground Programs
- Scott Miller, Chief of the Aviation Branch of the Surveillance and Aviation Section, Critical Incident Response Group, FBI
- Brigadier General (R) David P. Komar, Former Director of Capabilities Developments Directorate ARCIC, US Army
- Luke Fox, CEO, WhiteFox
- Jeffrey Boulware, Technical Director, Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense Organization
- Darshan Divakaran, Executive Aviation Consultant, Aerospace Arizona Association
- Dr. Houbing Song, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
- Michael Cathcart, Ph.D., Principal Research Scientist, Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta
- Zachary Kallenborn, Unmanned Systems (Swarms), CBRN Warfare and Terrorism Analyst
- Randall Nichols, Professor of Practice, Director, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus & Professor Emeritus - Cybersecurity Utica College
- James Housinger, Senior Program Manager, Fortem Technologies
- Jon Gruen, Executive Director of the Board of Directors, Fortem Technologies
- Chad Irick, College of Security and Intelligence, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
- Daniel Mahan, College of Security and Intelligence, College of Engineering Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
- Bryce Hughes, College of Security and Intelligence, College of Engineering Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
- Leo McCloskey, Vice President, Marketing, Echodyne Corp.
- David Romero, Vice President, Strategic Development, Black Sage
- Evan Hunt, Director, High Energy Lasers & C-UAS, Raytheon
- Bernard Hudson, CEO, Looking Glass
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Pre-Summit Focus Day: 31 August, 2020
Main Summit: 1-2 September, 2020
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