Focus Day
9:00 am - 9:45 am Welcome Coffee & Registration
9:45 am - 9:55 am Chairman's Welcome Remarks
9:55 am - 10:25 am Emerging Unmanned Threats: The Use Of COTS UAS By Non-State Actors
• Understanding the proliferation and development trends of COTS UAS to better define counter-measures
• Mapping out the employment of UAS by non-state actors – acquisition and modification trends
• Over the horizon – how will sUAS capabilities change in the coming decade and how can we adapt counter-systems to ensure we are prepared for the threat at home and during operations abroad?
10:55 am - 11:25 am Extended Area Protection And Survivability In The Context Of C-UAS R&D
• Briefing on RDECOM’s R&D into C-UAS systems – the EAPS Gun System
• Engagement with industry and opportunities for cooperation in the C-UAS space
• Future of gun-based air defence and next steps for EAPS C-UAS programme
11:25 am - 11:55 am Coffee And Networking
11:55 am - 12:00 am Future Drone Threats: Visual Control Of Small Quadrotors In GPS-Denied Environments
• Why operations in GPS-denied environments are important
• General methods of GPS denied operation and comparison between them
• Current level of automated operation
• Future developments and possibilities
Dr Dr Chang Liu
Aeronautics, Astronautics and Computational Engineering Group, Engineering Centre of ExcellenceUniversity of Southampton
12:25 pm - 1:15 pm R&D Panel: Shaping The C-UAS Enterprise
Speakers:
Colonel Colonel Robert Lukawski PhD PhD Deputy Commanding Officer, Inspectorate for Implementation of Innovative Defense Technologies Polish Ministry of Defence
Hannibal People Project Officer US Army RDECOM-ARDEC
Manfredi Luciano Project Officer, Enhanced Area Protection and Survivability (EAPS) Army Technology Objective US Army
Brigadier General (Retd) Ian Mowat Former Head of Force Protection DE&S
Moderator:
Sqaudron Leader (Retd) Tony Reeves Former Air C2ISR OEU RAF
Colonel Colonel Robert Lukawski PhD PhD Deputy Commanding Officer, Inspectorate for Implementation of Innovative Defense Technologies Polish Ministry of Defence
Hannibal People Project Officer US Army RDECOM-ARDEC
Manfredi Luciano Project Officer, Enhanced Area Protection and Survivability (EAPS) Army Technology Objective US Army
Brigadier General (Retd) Ian Mowat Former Head of Force Protection DE&S
Moderator:
Sqaudron Leader (Retd) Tony Reeves Former Air C2ISR OEU RAF
• R&D and S&T requirements and gaps
• How successful have government-led competitions been in developing viable countermeasures for further trialling?
• Low-cost-per-kill challenges and the need for a multi-role, multi environment capability
• What are the panellists’ organisations focusing on currently? What has worked so far and what hasn’t?
• What are the panellists’ views on the optimal C-UAS solution(s) for near-peer adversaries and non-state actors?
Colonel Colonel Robert Lukawski PhD PhD
Deputy Commanding Officer, Inspectorate for Implementation of Innovative Defense TechnologiesPolish Ministry of Defence
Manfredi Luciano
Project Officer, Enhanced Area Protection and Survivability (EAPS) Army Technology ObjectiveUS Army
