Session 1:
Exercises, Experiments & Operational Lessons Learned
Session Chairs: Mr. Robert
Hintz, NAVAIRWD; Mr. Russell Neu, Boeing; and Mr. John Robinson, USASMDC |
| This
session focuses on operational results from the use of our
fire control systems and processes. Significant exercises
(e.g. Joint Expeditionary Forces Experiment, Roving Sands),
Blue Flag experiments (e.g. Fleet Battle Experiment), and
wargames provide venues to evaluate hardware, software,
tactics, techniques, procedures, and concepts of operation.
The assessments gained from these and many other testing
venues are critical to the future of fire control. Recent
tactical fire control events in current Iraqi operations,
and the potential for continued activity in other
geographical locations, highlight the importance of our
constant striving to refine our fire control processes. We
must learn from "on-the-fly" and "in-the-field" adaptations,
as well as focusing on new technologies and capabilities to
facilitate rapid CONOPs assessment and change in conjunction
with these current and emerging capabilities. |
Poster Session:
The FLAGSHIP Experiment Highlighting the Homeland
Security Vision
Ms. Terri Innes, US Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC),
Missile Defense Division
(Presented at the Marriott, in the NFCS Exhibit Hall) |
Session 2:
Advanced Technologies
Session Chairs: Mr. Bryant Centofanti, Northrop Grumman
Corp.; Dr. David Corman, Boeing;
and
Mr. Daniel Misch, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren |
| Emerging concepts and technologies will be part of the
warfighters’ future arsenal and fire control capabilities.
These are the seed-corn for advanced fire control
technologies giving tomorrow’s military forces an
overwhelming advantage in future conflicts. This topic will
focus on new and emerging technologies (both offensive and
defensive) and key initiatives that will help maintain the
US warfighters’ edge against an increasingly sophisticated
enemy within unconventional military environments. This
topic will cover concepts including non-lethal antipersonnel
weapons, technologies such as rail guns and directed energy
weapons, emerging weapons and weapon system platforms and
their impact on the fire control requirements (detection
range, track accuracy, updates rates, track identification
accuracy, etc.) for various missions and threats. It will
also include human factors considerations, decision aids,
navigation aids, and data links. This topic will also
include new and novel algorithms, devices, and compelling
new techniques that hold great promise for improved military
effectiveness. |
Poster Session:
Topics in Mitigation of Bias in Target Tracking for BMD
Dr. Demetrios Serakos, NAVSEA - DAHLGREN(Presented at the Marriott, in the NFCS Exhibit Hall) |
Session 3:
Enabling Joint Interoperability
Session Chairs: Mr. James Cech, CACI; Dr. Gary McCown,
SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego; and
Dr. Anthony Pandiscio, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems |
The evolution of Joint Air and
Missile Defense warfare relies upon the cost
effective integration and testing of mission specific
sensors and weapons system into a family of systems that can
be made to interoperate. Joint warfare also relies upon the
exchange of reliable, high quality track data, used as an
integral part of the fire control process that begins with
next generation surveillance, detection and situational
awareness systems, supported by complex command and control
systems.
In addition, the emergence of multi mission threats places
additional
burdens on cruise and ballistic missile defense systems, the
transfer of
information between systems and a seamless command and
control hand
off. Numerous Integrated Fire Control (IFC) Systems of
Systems and
Family of Systems are in various states of development to
counter these
emerging threats. Although most of these acquisitions are
service mission
specific; there is an expectation and need for
communication, sensor
integration and systems interoperability that will provide
force multiplication and battle-space expansion required to
meet the emerging threat.
This session will address mandates and challenges facing the
development, integration, modeling and simulation, testing,
deployment, and interoperability of IFC systems including:
sensors, communication systems
and combat systems netting, federated approaches to modeling
and simulation, open architecture, joint service and
coalition command and control structures, and concepts of
operation; using net-centric applications, GIG connectivity,
cross-service network management.
Whether the mission is defending troops from attacking
aircraft, force
projection to attack enemy infrastructure, or protecting the
homeland
from cruise and ballistic missiles, the objective is the
same:
associating the right sensor to put the right weapon on the
right
target, with the highest probability of kill and the lowest
expenditure
of resources. Issues, challenges, and solutions that
demonstrate the
commonality of these missions is also of interest.
|
Poster Session:
Network Considerations for Data Links in the Tactical
Targeting Kill Chain
Mr. Gary Mastenbrook, Northrop Grumman Corp.
(Presented at the Marriott, in the
NFCS Exhibit Hall)
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Session 4:
Asymmetric Warfare
Session chairs: Session Chairs: Mr. William Moore, AFRL/RYR;
Mr. Douglas Ousborne, Johns Hopkins University, Applied
Physics Laboratory; and Mr. John Warnke, Lockheed Martin |
We are witnessing dramatic changes in the strategic
environment caused by an enemy who is choosing asymmetric
means to attack US and Allied power. The recent Quadrennial
Defense Review (QDR) states that the Nation is involved in a
long war - a global war against violent extremists who use
terrorism as their weapon of choice and who seek to destroy
our free way of life. This topic focuses on the fire control
implications of asymmetric attack which is unique to the
diverse environments (urban, littoral, open ocean, desert,
mountainous, trees) where our military must operate as well
as the type of threat (IEDs, WMD, RPGs, UAVs, cheap cruise
missiles, and rogue nation ballistic missiles). Many nations
have turned to small boats to supplement and in some cases
replace traditional naval forces for patrol and active
defense within the littoral regions.
Responding to these types of threats presents challenges in
situational awareness, threat identification - including
determination of hostile intent -, rapid engagement
response, rules of engagement, endgame guidance and control,
countermeasures, and limiting collateral damage.
Topic papers should define the fire control challenges of
asymmetric warfare and describe how the US Government, DoD,
HLD, and defense contractors are responding to the
challenges.
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Session 5:
Integrated Air & Missile Defense (IAMD)
Session Chairs: Mr. Norven
Goddard, US Army SMCD; Mr. David Conrad, MIT Lincoln
Laboratory; and Mr. Michael Fischer, Northrop Grumman
Integrated Systems |
The U.S. military services are applying a variety of
system-of-systems acquisition approaches to meet the
requirements of the warfighter and obtain the desired
capabilities for today’s and tomorrow’s battlefields. These
system-of-systems approaches call for a restructuring of
traditional stove-piped systems into a component view of
sensors, weapons, and BMC4I, with standardized interfaces
among those components facilitating a plug-and-fight
capability and other interoperability advantages.
These approaches will drive the need for fused radar and
sensor data, automatic target correlation, combined,
long-range Single Integrated Air Picture (SIAP) and advanced
Combat Identification (CID) information to give confidence
to engage and blue-protect throughout the battlespace,
Integrated Fire Control (IFC) to extend the battlespace and
handle multiple engagements, and Automated Battle Management
Aids (ABMA) to plan and execute engagements.
This topic will address such current key areas in Integrated
Air and Missile Defense as:
- evolving system architectures,
- Single Integrated Air Picture (SIAP)/long-range
Combat Identification (CID),
- Integrated Fire Control (IFC),
- Automated Battle Management Aids (ABMA),
- the role of air and missile defense in asymmetric
warfare,
- multi-source integration and track management,
- cruise missile and counter rocket, artillery, and
mortar defenses
- classification, discrimination, and identification,
and
- integration of planning, resource management, and
mission execution.
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Session 6:
Combat Identification/Accelerating the Kill Chain
Session Chairs: Mr. Michael Hampson, Raytheon Space &
Airborne Systems; Mr. Jesse Hodge, NAVAIR; and Mr. James
Moore, AFRL/MNG |
| Time sensitive targets require
rapid execution of kill chain functions in the face of
ever-higher tasking levels for those functions: mobile and
asymmetric target engagements compress decision times;
advanced sensors provide high volumes of raw data that must
be processed to extract target information; and expectations
of precision targeting with little or no collateral damage
extend kill chain execution times. “Combat ID/Accelerating
the Kill Chain” will explore all aspects of the kill chain,
from new technologies to near term operational
lessons-learned to the legal decisions and processes
involved in target selection. All aspects of CID and the
kill chain are open for discussion and technological
improvements: combat identification, multi-target tracking
and geolocation for rapid target recognition and location;
command and control improvements to reduce decision
timelines; closing the loop with bomb damage assessment;
countering the effects on kill chain speed of camouflage,
concealment and deception; pushing engagement decisions
forward to the platform; and the legal and ethical aspects
of targeting decision making and how these decisions can be
improved to reduce kill chain execution times. |
