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Select Criteria: Tracks = AUVSI Defense

Tuesday, May 09, 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM

AUVSI Defense Opening Remarks - Day 1
  • Room: 401/402
  • Session Number:XPO23-DF00
Opening remarks relevant to the AUVSI Defense theme of realizing autonomy for the Department of Defense.  ...
Speaker(s)
Session Speaker
Danielle Medaglia
Project Manager
Uncrewed Aircraft Systems
Tracks:
  • Co-located AUVSI Event

Tuesday, May 09, 2:16 PM - 2:45 PM

Debrief of Driving an Assured Autonomous Maritime Future Workshop
  • Room: 401/402
  • Session Number:XPO23-DF01
Overview of key take-aways from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA) collaborative workshop that focused on maritime autonomy, specifically the multidisciplinary challenges and opportunities for assured autonomous surface vessel operations in compliance with the Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGs). ...
Speaker(s)
Session Speaker
Cara LaPointe
Director of Strategic Assessment
US Department Of The Navy
Session Speaker
Domenic Carlucci
Vice President
ABS
Session Speaker
Dorothy Engelhardt
Director for Unmanned Systems DASN Ships; ASN RD&A
U.S. Navy
Tracks:
  • Co-located AUVSI Event

Tuesday, May 09, 2:46 PM - 3:15 PM

Transforming the Future Battlefield
  • Room: 401/402
  • Session Number:XPO23-DF02
COL Medaglia manages the Army’s portfolio of UAS including the Gray Eagle; Shadow; the Future Tactical UAS (FTUAS); SUAS Family of Systems (Short, Medium, Long-Range Reconnaissance systems); Air Launched Effects (ALE); Scalable Control Interface (SCI); and Robotics and Autonomous Command and Control (RAC2) programs. She works closely with Industry/DoD stakeholders... read more...
Speaker(s)
Session Speaker
Danielle Medaglia
Project Manager
Uncrewed Aircraft Systems
Tracks:
  • Co-located AUVSI Event

Tuesday, May 09, 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Creating UAS Autonomy for Low C-SWaP Devices
  • Room: 401/402
  • Session Number:XPO23-DF03
Creating low C-SWaP solutions for Defense applications can be realized through the utilization of Edge Computing (EC). EC can greatly improve unmanned vehicle capabilities and autonomy but requires planning to proceed from a prototype system to a final product. We present decisions made and lessons learned in the selection of... read more...
Speaker(s)
Session Speaker
Richard Stilson
Senior Systems Engineer
Pathfinder Systems, Inc.
Session Speaker
Sheila Jaszlics
President
Pathfinder Systems, Inc.
Tracks:
  • Co-located AUVSI Event

Tuesday, May 09, 4:01 PM - 4:30 PM

Quantitative Analysis for Autonomous Systems
  • Room: 401/402
  • Session Number:XPO23-DF04
A brief on a recently completed tool, Quantitative Analysis for Autonomous Systems, will be presented. Given a set mission and threat information, this tool rapidly develops new kill chains and quantitatively evaluates their effectiveness, alone, or against each other and/ or conventional kill chains. A cost assessment is also performed... read more...
Speaker(s)
Session Speaker
Ryan Fitzgerald
Autonomy Outcome Lead, Naval Division
The MITRE Corporation
Session Speaker
Thomas Apker
Project Lead
MITRE Corporation
Tracks:
  • Co-located AUVSI Event

Tuesday, May 09, 4:31 PM - 5:00 PM

Purchasing Autonomy as a Service: A Faster/Cheaper Way to Field Autonomous Capability for the Army
  • Room: 401/402
  • Session Number:XPO23-DF05
For the past 20 years, the Government has sought to deploy ground autonomy leveraging modular open systems architecture and common interfaces (IOP) to ensure vendor interoperability using a Government owned software approach. The Government needs to refine its acquisition strategy to increase competition in the offroad autonomy space and reduce... read more...
Speaker(s)
Session Speaker
Gabe Sganga
Head of Commercial Business Development
RRAI
Session Speaker
Matthew Dooley
Army Growth Strategy Lead
Robotic Research, LLC
Tracks:
  • Co-located AUVSI Event

Tuesday, May 09, 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

AFCEC Vision: Integrating sUAS in DAF Base of the Future
  • Room: 401/402
  • Session Number:XPO23-DF11
For the Department of the Air Force (DAF) Civil Engineer installation and mission support (I&MS) community, sUAS platforms offer agile and easily deployed remote sensing capabilities speeding the collection, analysis, and sharing of location-enabled recommendations for DAF installations and warfighting missions. The Air Force Civil Engineer Center Geospatial Integration Office... read more...
Speaker(s)
Panelist
Dan Sandrowicz
GIO Wright-Patterson AFB
88 CEG/CENME
Panelist
Julio Toala
Geospatial Operations & sUAS Project Manager
Air Force Civil Engineer Center Geo Integration Officer
Panelist
Nathan Glondys
Geospatial Engineer
Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC) Geospatial Integration Office (GIO) (DAF GeoBase Program)
Moderator
José "Hoss" Alfonsín
sUAS Capabilities Developer
Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC) Geospatial Integration Office (GIO) (DAF GeoBase Program)
Tracks:
  • Co-located AUVSI Event

Wednesday, May 10, 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM

AUVSI Defense Opening Remarks- Day 2
  • Room: 401/402
  • Session Number:XPO23-DF06
Introduction to the second day of AUVSI Defense programming featuring an overview of Realizing Autonomy Defense iniatives from the Air, Ground and Maritime domains....
Speaker(s)
Session Speaker
Mark Gordon
Stratom, Inc.
Tracks:
  • Co-located AUVSI Event

Wednesday, May 10, 2:16 PM - 2:50 PM

The Future of Ground Autonomy for the Warfighter
  • Room: 401/402
  • Session Number:XPO23-DF07
AUVSI’s Ground Defense Working Group is an effort to connect DoD leaders, Congress, industry, academia, and other partners to come together and strategize for the advancement of autonomous ground systems for the warfighter. During this panel, we will discuss the biggest challenges to the adoption of these technologies and how... read more...
Speaker(s)
Panelist
Christopher Orlowski
Associated Director and Growth Lead, Land Systems
Anduril Industries
Panelist
Hal Aldridge, PhD
CEO
Secmation
Panelist
Joe Cymerman
Business Lead for Army Programs
Applied Intuition
Panelist
Matthew Dooley
Army Growth Strategy Lead
Robotic Research, LLC
Panelist
Nathan Parker
General Manager, Defense and Public Sector
Kodiak Robotics
Moderator
Andrew Dallas
Deputy Executive Director
National Advanced Mobility Consortium
Tracks:
  • Co-located AUVSI Event

Wednesday, May 10, 2:51 PM - 3:20 PM

DoD Efforts for Airspace Modernization
  • Room: 401/402
  • Session Number:XPO23-DF08
Today’s airspace environment is increasingly complex; a trend furthered by technological advances in air defense systems, unmanned aircraft, and vertical take off and landing aircrafts (VTOLs). Further, wide-ranging variables such as aircraft capabilities, airspace characteristics, airspace use, and various control procedures add additional layers of complexity. The future of air... read more...
Speaker(s)
Panelist
Darshan Divakaran
Head of Airspace Innovation and Prime Partnerships
AFWERX, U.S. Air Force
Panelist
Joel Castillo
Unmanned Aircraft Systems / Robotic and Autonomous Systems
OUSD(A&S) Platform and Weapons
Moderator
John Sawyer
Senior Technical Manager, Airspace Innovation
AFWERX Agility Prime
Tracks:
  • Co-located AUVSI Event

Wednesday, May 10, 3:21 PM - 3:30 PM

Global Handbook of Military Drones Primer
  • Room: 401/402
  • Session Number:XPO23-DF10
Join book author Darryl Jenkins as he offers a sneak-peek into the upcoming publication, The Global Handbook of Military Drones, written in collaboration with AUVSI's David Klein with supporting data from AUVSI's proprietary databases. This first volume of a four volume series dives into the technical considerations of using drones for... read more...
Speaker(s)
Session Speaker
Darryl Jenkins
President
Drone Economics, LLC
Tracks:
  • Co-located AUVSI Event

Wednesday, May 10, 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM

Transforming the DoD’s Valley of Death into the Promised Land
  • Room: 403/404
  • Session Number:XPO23-DF09
Operating in parallel with the Legislative Commission on PPBE Reform, the ASMC PPBE Reform Task Force is working to define a set of fundamental principles and policy actions to reimagine the way PPBE produces military capability for the 21st Century. This session will identify the pain points industry currently experiences... read more...
Speaker(s)
Discussion Leader
Brant Brockett
NIWC Pacific Flight Experimentation Director
Naval Information Warfare Center, US Navy
Discussion Leader
Bryan Camacho
Human-Centered Design Strategist
JHU/APL Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
Moderator
Cameron Holt
President & Founder
Holt Consulting Group LLC
Discussion Leader
Kate Kerbel
Senior Design Strategist
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Discussion Leader
Reid McAllister
Defense Strategist Consultant
AUVSI
Discussion Leader
Sarah Rigsbee
Strategist Lead for Human-Centered Design
JHU/APL Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Tracks:
  • Co-located AUVSI Event