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SAE Media Group’s 2nd annual ISR conference will provide attendees with a complete view of the issues currently being felt in ISR. Focusing on PED (Process, Exploitation and Dissemination) of data this informative event will bring together key military and civilian personnel to provide attendees with an in-depth look into the current status of ISR.
The event will present itself as the perfect platform for learning about the new advances in the field, presenting attendees with lasts information and technology in this ever changing sector. SAE Media Group’s ISR conference will explore the issues and successes around PED and will provide the perfect platform for discussion and debate.

Building on the success of last year’s inaugural event, with senior military and civilian representatives presenting on their own experiences and referring to current projects and case studies, this event promises to be a unique forum for problem-solving debate and idea sharing discussion.

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Anthony Crook

Anthony Crook

SO1 DPD Cap C4ISR, Ministry of Defence, UK
Lieutenant Colonel Andrea Esposito

Lieutenant Colonel Andrea Esposito

Staff Officer UAV Operations, NATO
Major General James Poss USAF (ret'd)

Major General James Poss USAF (ret'd)

Director of Strategic Initiatives, High Performance Computing Collaboratory , Mississippi State University
Philippe Margot

Philippe Margot

ESSOR Programme Manager , OCCAR-EA

Andy Kelly

QWI ISR Instructor, 54 squadron , RAF Waddington
Andy Kelly

Anthony Crook

SO1 DPD Cap C4ISR, Ministry of Defence, UK
Anthony Crook

Christian Serra

Technical Director, a4ESSOR S.A.S
Christian Serra

Colonel Dr Friedrich Teichmann

Director, ICT Innovation Department, Ministry of Defence, Austria
Colonel Dr Friedrich Teichmann

Derek Hatton

Image Analyst, European Union Satellite Centre
Derek Hatton

George Harrison

Director, GA Technical Research Institute
George Harrison

Joe Ross

Technical Manager, NATO Communications and Information Agency
Joe Ross

John Callahan

Associate Director InfoDom, ONR Global
John Callahan

Lieutenant Colonel Andrea Esposito

Staff Officer UAV Operations, NATO
Lieutenant Colonel Andrea Esposito

Lieutenant Commander Paul Mullowney

Qualified Weapons Instructor, Aviation Warfare Centre, RAF Waddington
Lieutenant Commander Paul Mullowney

Major General James Poss USAF (ret'd)

Director of Strategic Initiatives, High Performance Computing Collaboratory , Mississippi State University
Major General James Poss USAF (ret'd)

Major General Ken Israel USAF (ret'd)

Defense Science Board Advisor, Office of the Secretary of Defense , Israel Associates
Major General Ken Israel USAF (ret'd)

Mick Davidson

Tactical UAS SME, Unmanned experts
Mick Davidson

Peter Sapaty

Director of Distributed Simulation and Control, Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems
Peter  Sapaty

Philippe Margot

ESSOR Programme Manager , OCCAR-EA
Philippe Margot

Toby Breckon

Senior Lecturer, Computer Vision & Image Processing, Cranfield University
Toby Breckon

Tony Reeves

ISTAR Team Leader, 3SDL
Tony Reeves

Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Chairman's Opening Remarks

Paul Rolfe

Paul Rolfe, Head of Operations, Europe, Unmanned experts

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9:50

Intro to tasking

Paul Rolfe

Paul Rolfe, Head of Operations, Europe, Unmanned experts

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10:30

Morning Coffee

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11:00

Collection to Assest

Paul Rolfe

Paul Rolfe, Head of Operations, Europe, Unmanned experts

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12:20

Networking Lunch

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13:50

Collection Practical

Paul Rolfe

Paul Rolfe, Head of Operations, Europe, Unmanned experts

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15:10

Afternoon Tea

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15:40

Practical Assessment

Paul Rolfe

Paul Rolfe, Head of Operations, Europe, Unmanned experts

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17:00

Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

Paul Rolfe

Paul Rolfe, Head of Operations, Europe, Unmanned experts

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Chairman's Opening Remarks

George Harrison

George Harrison, Director, GA Technical Research Institute

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9:10

MAJIIC2 Project Update

Joe Ross

Joe Ross, Technical Manager, NATO Communications and Information Agency

• Results from latest MAJEX
• Relatioships with NATO AGS Programme
• Relationship with Chicago JISR Initiative
• Relationship with other NATO
• Relationship updated NATO JISR Policy

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9:50

Delivering collaborative information and intelligence exploitation (CI2X)

Anthony Crook

Anthony Crook, SO1 DPD Cap C4ISR, Ministry of Defence, UK

• Meeting the defense challenges of the C21st through CI2X
• CI2X principles & milestones
• Achieving horizontal and vertical functional integration

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10:30

Morning Coffee

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11:00

NATO JISR Initiative

Lieutenant Colonel Andrea Esposito

Lieutenant Colonel Andrea Esposito, Staff Officer UAV Operations, NATO

-          Chicago Summit

-          NATO JISR Capability Area Manager (CAM) and JISR Task Force

-          NATO JISR Network Development

-          NATO JISR Training

-          NATO JISR Way Ahead

 

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Next steps for NATO’s Ground Surveillance Programme

Lieutenant Colonel Andrea Esposito

Lieutenant Colonel Andrea Esposito, Staff Officer UAV Operations, NATO

• AGS Core- ground, air and support segments
• NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance Management Organization responsibilities
• Looking ahead- Strategic allied commander Europe

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12:20

Airborne ISR in the Royal Navy

Lieutenant Commander Paul Mullowney

Lieutenant Commander Paul Mullowney, Qualified Weapons Instructor, Aviation Warfare Centre, RAF Waddington

• Collection platforms for RN ISR
• Onboard exploitation vs. post mission exploitation
• Data fusion
• Sensors and data links
• The future of assured ISR for the Fleet

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13:00

Networking Lunch

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14:00

ISR/RPA/UAS operator training

George Harrison

George Harrison, Director, GA Technical Research Institute

• Brief outline of US RPA training
• FAA issues with US RPA pilots
• RPAs in the national airspace
• FAA mandates
 

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14:40

Status of the ESSOR Programme: Moving to WF implementation and Testing*

  • Strategic Aim and Main Expectations
  • Stakeholders and Relationships Scheme
  • ESSOR Contract Overview
  • ESSOR Perspectives on SDR
  • Status of Activities
  • Looking to the future
  • Conclusions
  • Philippe Margot

    Philippe Margot, ESSOR Programme Manager , OCCAR-EA

    Christian Serra

    Christian Serra, Technical Director, a4ESSOR S.A.S

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    15:20

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:50

    Imagery and GEOINT for the European Union

    Derek Hatton

    Derek Hatton, Image Analyst, European Union Satellite Centre

    <p>&bull;&nbsp;EU SatCen Operations<br /> &bull;&nbsp;Satellite Imagery Analysis for EU Missions<br /> &bull;&nbsp;OSINT Support to EU SatCen Analysts<br /> &bull;&nbsp;Challenges in Future Exploitation and Dissemination</p>

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    16:30

    Exploiting UAV imagery - where we are and where we want to be

    Toby Breckon

    Toby Breckon, Senior Lecturer, Computer Vision & Image Processing, Cranfield University

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    17:10

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

    George Harrison

    George Harrison, Director, GA Technical Research Institute

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    8:30

    Registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    George Harrison

    George Harrison, Director, GA Technical Research Institute

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    9:10

    Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance in an Austere and Evolving Threat Environment

    Major General Ken Israel USAF (ret'd)

    Major General Ken Israel USAF (ret'd), Defense Science Board Advisor, Office of the Secretary of Defense , Israel Associates

  • Autonomous Vehicles will dominate the next generation of ISR assets
    1. Limiting Factor will be the Role of Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination
    2. Speed of information must exceed the speed of engagement
  • Challenges:  Technology, Threats and Operations
  • Next Generation Required Capabilities:  Multi intelligence Sources, Integration of Social Radar, Volumetric Solutions, Autonomy for Swarm Assets, Cyber, New Operational Paradigms, Multi Mission Weapons
  • Value of Speed, Stealth, Precision and Persistence on the Non-Linear Battlefield

     

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    Overview of UK-US ISR Interoperability issues

    Tony Reeves

    Tony Reeves, ISTAR Team Leader, 3SDL

    • Reconnaissance Airborne Pod for Tornado (RAPTOR) PED improvements
    • Airborne Stand-Off Radar (ASTOR) PED limitations
    • Lessons learned from Foreign Comparative Test (FCT) Project
    • Future US PED capabilities for UK ISR data

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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    Challenges facing ISR-Interoperability in Peace Support Operations as Presented from the Perspective of a Neutral Country*

    Colonel Dr Friedrich Teichmann

    Colonel Dr Friedrich Teichmann, Director, ICT Innovation Department, Ministry of Defence, Austria

    • Modern ICT trends (pathway towards an information society) Synergy between IT Space Applications
    • Geospatial Services IT Security: the forgotten prime directive?
    • Architecture design methods applied for ISR
     

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    11:40

    Lessons Learned from International Partnership in the USAF Distributed Common Ground Station (DCGS)

    Major General James Poss USAF (ret'd)

    Major General James Poss USAF (ret'd), Director of Strategic Initiatives, High Performance Computing Collaboratory , Mississippi State University

  • The USAF pioneered the DCGS and distributed operations concepts
  • They have worked well, but shifting from being physically present for processing exploitation and dissemination (PED) to doing it from thousands of miles away was a difficult paradigm shift
  • We encountered few technical challenges, but many cultural, procedural and policy issues
  • USAF, RAF and RAAF have been working via USAF DCGS since 2007; Allied participation in brings tremendous benefits, but adds new procedural, policy issues
  • We should work together to solve these issues for other nations; PED partnership is absolutely vital to modern collective security
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    12:20

    Networking Lunch

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    Providing Global Awareness in Distributed Dynamic Environments

    Peter  Sapaty

    Peter Sapaty, Director of Distributed Simulation and Control, Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems

    • Self-evolving spatial intelligence and its implementation in dynamic networked systems
    • Investigation and impact of distributed infrastructures with Spatial Grasp Technology (SGT)
    • High-level management of cooperative robotic reconnaissance teams
    • Integration of cyber and electronic warfare with directed energy systems in SGT
    • Automatic distributed control in time critical asymmetric responses and missions

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    The Qualified Weapons Instructor (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) Course

    Andy Kelly

    Andy Kelly, QWI ISR Instructor, 54 squadron , RAF Waddington

    • The Requirement - Why the QWI ISR Course was originally conceived to improve ALI in Afghanistan by taking J2/J3 SMEs and broadening them across the wider ISR domain
    • The QWI (ISR) Course – What the QWI ISR Course does is to train, to the expert level, operators that can plan, task and execute ISR holistically at all levels across all environments
    • The Applicant – Who applies for the QWI ISR Course and who is accepted with an emphasis on the optimal type of candidate
    • Course Syllabus – How the QWI ISR Course is delivered in terms of subject matter and the type of training used
    • Graduate Disposal – Where the successful QWI ISR Course graduates are employed both in the UK and on operations
     

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    Afternoon Tea

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    PED- Round Table Discussion

    The demand for actionable, global ISR continues to grow at a rapid pace. However, the future of ISR is not necessarily about the platform and/or sensor, but it really is about the data and the people who exploit it’
    Colonel Patrick Shortsleeve 2012
     

    Derek Hatton

    Derek Hatton, Image Analyst, European Union Satellite Centre

    George Harrison

    George Harrison, Director, GA Technical Research Institute

    Lieutenant Commander Paul Mullowney

    Lieutenant Commander Paul Mullowney, Qualified Weapons Instructor, Aviation Warfare Centre, RAF Waddington

    Major General James Poss USAF (ret'd)

    Major General James Poss USAF (ret'd), Director of Strategic Initiatives, High Performance Computing Collaboratory , Mississippi State University

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    17:20

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two

    George Harrison

    George Harrison, Director, GA Technical Research Institute


    QWI ISR Instructor, 54 squadron
    RAF Waddington
    SO1 DPD Cap C4ISR
    Ministry of Defence, UK
    Director, ICT Innovation Department
    Ministry of Defence, Austria
    Image Analyst
    European Union Satellite Centre
    Director
    GA Technical Research Institute
    Technical Manager
    NATO Communications and Information Agency
    Associate Director InfoDom
    ONR Global
    Staff Officer UAV Operations
    NATO
    Qualified Weapons Instructor, Aviation Warfare Centre
    RAF Waddington
    Director of Strategic Initiatives, High Performance Computing Collaboratory
    Mississippi State University
    Defense Science Board Advisor, Office of the Secretary of Defense
    Israel Associates
    Tactical UAS SME
    Unmanned experts
    Director of Distributed Simulation and Control
    Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems
    ESSOR Programme Manager
    OCCAR-EA
    Technical Director
    a4ESSOR S.A.S
    Senior Lecturer, Computer Vision & Image Processing
    Cranfield University
    ISTAR Team Leader
    3SDL

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    Collection Driving the Tasking Cycle

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