Conference Day One: 28 November 2012

09.00 – 09.10 Chairman’s Opening Remarks

09.10 – 09.40 Operational Capability Overview: RAF Sentry E-3D

• Operational challenges of the E-3D Airborne radar
• Understanding and detecting the threat
• Diversity and flexibility - The future requirements of AEW

Squadron Leader Dave Smathers
Plans and Exercises
8 Squadron, RAF

09.40 – 10.10 ABM - NAEW from Present to Future: An AWACS operators view

• Presenting the capabilities and recently acquired capabilities of the NATO E-3A component
• Result of NATO mid-term (NMT) upgrades
• Modifications identified out of present operations and future operational challenges
• Requirements for further modifications
• Interface of AWACS in future operations with the intended acquisition of Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) systems
• Importance of AWACS in future of ABM operations

Colonel Werner Nemetschek
Chief of Staff, E3A Component
NATO

10.10 – 10.40 Quartz Crystal Oscillator Performance In Vibratory Environments

Steve Fry
Engineering Manager
Greenray Industries

Adtech Ceramics And Its Capabilities In Hermetic Packaging Solutions For High Reliability Microelectronic Applications.

Bill Minehan
President
AdTech Ceramics

11.10 – 11.40 Airborne Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) Radar Technology

• Current state of the art of airborne Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar (including brief overview of key world-wide programmes)
• Benefits and opportunities provided by airborne AESA radar
• Overview of UK airborne AESA technology development
• Discussion of key applications and exploitation opportunities (inc. fast jets & UAVs)
• The road ahead – beyond radar, RF, Comms, ESM

Dr Stephen Moore
Radar Team Leader, Joint Systems Department
DSTL

11.40 - 12.10 Captor- “The In-Service (M-scan) radar for Eurofighter Typhoon”; introducing improvements for multiple customers

• The M-Scan capabilities of the Captor radar for Eurofighter Typhoon
• The Euroradar consortium and customer base
• Reliability improvements and the flexibility of software upgrades
• Differences between the 6 user nations
• Areas where E-Scan will provide the most capability improvement

William Stuart
Chief Engineer (Euroradar)
SELEX Galileo

12.10 - 12.40 Selex AESA Systems to Upgrade Fighter Platforms – Typhoon case study

• Brief overview of basic AESA benefits
• Detail of programme progress and challenges
• Feedback from AESA in active service

Mark Smith
Radars Capabilities Manager
Selex Galileo

13.40 – 14.20 Raytheon’s Family of Tactical AESA Radars; how tactical AESA radar is “changing the game”

• Why AESA vs. legacy MSA tactical radar
• Raytheon’s Tactical AESA radars
• What AESA brings to the Warfighter
• Operational and Supportability Benefits of an AESA

Arnie Victor
Director, Strategy & Business Development in Tactical Airborne Systems
Raytheon

14.40 – 15.00 Advanced Concepts and Algorithms for Modern Radars

• A brief overview of some of the recent developments in radar signal processing algorithms
• Very High resolution SAR
• Ground Moving Target Indication (GMTI): STAP-GMTI and SAR-GMTI
• Multi-target tracking
• Intent Inference and Syntactic Tracking
• Advanced Radar Control Algorithms for Phased array radar illustrated with results obtained from processing airborne and spaceborne radar data.

Dr. Bhashyam Balaji
Defence Scientist
DRDC

15.30 – 16.10 EDA activities in Radar: Initiatives, challenges and opportunities

• Overview of the EDA
• EDA Projects in the field of Radar
• Challenges faced by the radar community
• Opportunities of collaboration in the EDA framework

Dr. Ignacio Montiel-Sanchez
Technology Project Officer
European Defence Agency

16.10 – 16.50 Radar Target Classification

• Introduction to Radar Target Classification
• Classification of static and moving targets
• Target classification by natural echolocating systems
• Applications (HRRPs, SAR, micro-Doppler)

Dr. Alessio Balleri
Radar Lecturer, Cranfield Defence and Security
Defence Academy of the United Kingdom

16:50 – 17:00 Chair’s Close and End of Day One