8:00am – 10:00am Operationalizing NTISR into Traditional PED Architectures

In an unpredictable world, the key to victory in modern warfare is timely and accurate intelligence. A panel of BAE Systems experts will discuss challenges and solutions to operationalize NTISR into existing PED architectures. The BAE Systems panelists bring operator, intelligence and combat support agency perspectives to the NTISR discussion in one workshop.

What will be covered:

• Operational viewpoint on NTISR as it relates to tasking, disseminating, and having results incorporated into the Air Tasking Order
• The utility of NTISR data to enhance ISR products: an MTI case study weapon system video, RF and RADAR data provide opportunity to enhance traditional ISR resources
• The impact of introducing NTISR into PED organizations that are supporting increased traditional ISR requirements
• A perspective on considerations in attempting to integrate NTISR into the National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG) framework

How you will benefit:

• Discover the many challenges facing NTISR as the overall ISR enterprise continues to grow
• Examine ways that NTISR can be better utilized within ISR PED architectures

Session Leader:

Wes Green
Program Director, ISR Analysis and Operations
BAE Systems

10:15am - 12:15pm Next Generation Electronic Warfare ES/EA Scheduling and Control

A significant shortfall of legacy and modern electronic warfare (EW) systems in use today is an inability to execute simultaneous electronic support (ES) and electronic attack (EA) missions against a diverse and rich target battle space. This workshop will look at what is currently pursuing the development of a prototype system that will provide this capability. This session will also discuss systems that will employ threat specific target information and hardware (HW) resource management to minimize an adversary’s successful use of the EM spectrum on a threat severity weighted basis.

What will be covered:

• SW architecture and the need to implement advanced surgical EW techniques
• System operation needs to be coordinated via advanced scheduling algorithms

Session Leader:

Dr. Randall Janka
Senior Associate, Support to Military Operations
ZETA Associates

1:30 – 4:00pm Innovative Technologies that Support NT-ISR Analysis and Planning

Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom clearly demonstrate the need for actionable intelligence within tactically useful timelines. ‘Actionable’ means contextually relevant to the mission; ‘tactically useful’ means timely intelligence supporting effective dynamic battle command. The DCGS-A Warfighter will have access to an unprecedented volume of intelligence data. In addition, Army ISR data will be combined with joint service, coalition forces, national agency, mission and cultural context information. This workshop will tackle issues of Persistent Vigilance, a predictive intelligence capability for unambiguous situational awareness based on intelligent semantic agents.

What will be covered:

• Multi-source exploitation to complement existing fusion application
• Flexibility to support future military operations

Session Leader:

Buster McCrabb
(Colonel, USAF, retired)
DMM Ventures

3:30pm-5:30pm Next Generation Electronic Warfare ES/EA Scheduling & Control

A significant shortfall of legacy and modern electronic warfare (EW) systems in use today is an inability to execute simultaneous electronic support (ES) and electronic attack (EA) missions against a diverse and rich target battle space. This workshop will look at what is currently pursuing the development of a prototype system that will provide this capability. This session will also discuss systems that will employ threat specific target information and hardware (HW) resource management to minimize an adversary’s successful use of the EM spectrum on a threat severity weighted basis.

What will be covered:

• SW architecture and the need to implement advanced surgical EW techniques
• System operation needs to be coordinated via advanced scheduling algorithms

How you will benefit:

• Learn background of ES search for situation and target awareness
• Explore simple round robin scheduler and are currently developing more advanced scheduling algorithms

Session Leader:

Dr. Randall Janka
Senior Associate, Support to Military Operations
Zeta Associates