Technical Sessions
Aviation Systems
Chair, Glen Sharpe
Advanced Acoustic Concepts A Thales Company
gsharpe@aaccorp.com
Advanced Acoustic Concepts A Thales Company
The Aviation Committee focuses on the technologies and capabilities that the airborne undersea warfighting community provides. Near term, the committee will focus on the “Davidson Window” and available capabilities for the 2027 timeframe. This committee is interested in a wide range of aviation platforms to include manned and unmanned fixed and rotary winged aircraft. The committee articulates contributions made by artificial intelligence/machine learning, signal processing, human factors, training, undersea capable weapons, sensors, man-machine interface, littoral and large area search concepts. The presentations cover theoretical discussions by academic institutions and laboratories, reports and roadmaps on experimental systems and systems being developed for Fleet introduction, and discussions of Navy programs of record.
C4I/Combat Systems
Chair, Paul Rosbolt
Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc.
prosbolt@spa.com
This session will focus on Communications, Information Exchange, Data Fusion and Command and Control enablers for the ASW Kill Chain F2T2EA (Find, Fix, Track, Target, Engage and Assess). Particular focus will be given to improvements in the ASW Kill chain that can be made by 2027.
Mine Warfare
Chair, Kevin Hagan
Peraton
khagan@peraton.com
The Mine Warfare (MIW) Committee provides the opportunity for Industry, Government, and Academia to exchange information and express their views in addressing technical, programmatic and operational issues and activities in the MIW community. The Committee addresses threats, programs, operations, CONOPS, and future technologies across the MIW spectrum of mine hunting, mine sweeping, neutralization, command and control, mining and other areas of interest.
Undersea Sensors
Deputy Chair, Joe Cuschieri,
Lockheed Martin, Rotary and Mission Systems
joe.cuschieri@lmco.com
The focus of the Undersea Sensors session is to provide guidance to the U.S. Navy about the application of cutting-edge technology. Abstracts submitted to this section relate to current and future sensors and sensor system, signal processing, test and evaluation, operational use, at sea test results and other theoretical studies. Topics covered include underwater acoustic transduction and acoustic sensor arrays, electro-optic sensors, magnetic sensors, electrostatic sensors, chemical sensors, gravity sensors and other sensor types, signal processing techniques and operational and test data. This list is not exhaustive but representative of several disciplines and associated sciences.
Undersea Vehicles
Chair, Chuck Fralick
Leidos
charles.r.fralick@leidos.com
The Undersea Vehicles session focuses on both large and small diameter undersea vehicles (both manned and unmanned) and unmanned surface vehicles relevant to undersea warfare. Technical subjects cover the broad areas of vehicles, weapons, defensive systems such as countermeasures and decoys, and hull, mechanical and electrical systems. The technical presentations range from theoretical discussions by academic institutions and laboratories, reports on experimental systems and systems being developed for Fleet introduction, to discussions of Navy programs of record. An emerging area of discussion is “CONDEP” or concept of deployment – this reflects the growing interest of DoD to understand not only how unmanned system will be delivered to theater but how they will be sustained once there. Part and parcel of CONDEP is the “who” – this opens up the discussion of contractual methods, and GOCO, COCO, etc, models of operation.