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 With its theme of “Military Sensing in Network Centric Warfare”, the Military Sensing Symposium will provide scientists, engineers, and managers from military, government, industry and academia an opportunity to learn about the broad range of sensing requirements, programs and technology developments in a vital international forum.
A primary goal of the meeting is to promote dialogue among North American, European and Australian partners active in the research, development, acquisition, test, and employment of military sensing systems. We also hope to promote dialogue between developers and users of various sensing technologies in order to gain from each other’s experiences.
The conference will be held at the national SECRET level. Each attendee must hold a SECRET clearance issued by Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom or the United States. Attendance will be open only to these countries. This meeting will afford you a unique opportunity to address the government and industry representatives of these nations who are most involved in the development, acquisition, and use of military sensing technology within a classified environment that protects your information from improper disclosure.
The conference covers all aspects of military sensing in the following sessions:
Military Sensing in Network Centric Warfare: Communication, Command, and Control
The quality and availability of information has always been of vital importance for warfare. In the past, military sensors have been predominantly linked directly to human operators, in a net their signals and related information get accessible to a number of users. The degree to which this qualitative change is usable will give the leading edge in future combat.
Contributions will be presented on relevant topics: dislocated and distributed sensors, sensor nets, the whole bandwidth of sensor data fusion to information fusion for network use, use of information in the net for sensor evaluation, specific communication issues from on board signal pre-treatment for instance for screening and data compression to specific sensor data links.
Operational Requirements
In this session, papers explaining how new operational requirements associated with future missions determine the need for improved sensors will be presented. Coalition operations and lessons from recent conflicts are major driving forces influencing these requirements. Direct feedback from coalition military operations is welcomed. Priority has been given to papers establishing the links between operational concepts or experiences and the need for improved performance from new or advanced sensors.
Survivability
This session consists of papers concerning space-based, airborne, shipborne and battlefield sensing using acoustic, RF, EO, IR technologies, on topics such as: situation awareness, threat detection and warning, active countermeasure approaches and techniques, jamming approaches and techniques, platform, system, and sensor signature reduction, sensor and system counter -countermeasures approaches and techniques, deception, chaff, decoys, camouflage and concealment, sensor and system hardening, mine detection.
Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Navigation
This session focuses on the applications of RF, EO, IR, and acoustic sensors to surveillance and reconnaissance, including passive or active sensor suites in all areas of military interest (space-based, airborne, shipborne, and ground and unattended platforms). Some suggested areas of interest include theater and national missile defence and advanced platforms such as: national assets, UAVs, and UGVs, and additional aids to navigation/driving/piloting or platforms and vehicles. Emphasis has been placed on integrated multisensor applications.
Targeting and Fire Control
This session focuses on the application of RF, EO, IR, and acoustic sensor systems to all areas of military targeting and firecontrol including space-based airborne, shipborne, and ground platforms. Areas of interest include tactical and strategic advanced platforms as well as other existing and advanced targeting and fire control approaches. Each service interest will be addressed in this session. Special consideration will be given to multisensor implementations to meet mission requirements. Papers are sought in the areas of system requirements, description of concept and design, performance projections, field measurement results and mission effectiveness. Special consideration has been given to papers that feature classified, multisensor targeting and fire control approaches.
Sensors, Processing, and Component Technology
This session covers RF, EO, IR and acoustic sensor technology, sensor fusion methods, processing components and subsystem configurations for both tactical and strategic applications. All spectral bands are of interest. We are especially interested in hardware demonstrations or field tests of advanced concepts or devices that push the performance envelope in sensitivity or operating condition. Example areas are: (i) sensor technology for current and future applications, including unique designs for active and passive multi- and broadband FPAs, optics, transceivers, lasers, antennas and RF subsystems or transceivers, from small microsensors to large space-based sensors, (ii) technology for design and manufacture of large area arrays, especially multispectral and hyperspectral, and the signal processing associated with utilization of the data, (iii) unique concepts for acoustic sensors technology advanced packaging, power management, MEMS structures, (iv) advanced fusion/processing techniques for automatically detecting, recognizing and identifying targets using multisensor or multispectral techniques.
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