Unmanned Aerial Systems Focus Day: Monday, October 15, 2012
7:45 Registration and Coffee
8:45 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
9:00 Employing UAS in the Asymmetric Maritime Environment
- Way ahead for UAS in the maritime environment
- Leveraging UAS capabilities to assist in combating transnational organized crime
- Future payload capabilities for the asymmetric maritime environment
Ted J Venable
Counter Illicit Trafficking Program Manager
Commander U.S. Naval Forces South and U.S. Fourth Fleet
9:45 Border Efforts in Unmanned Aerial Systems
- How we’re building the nation’s largest fleet of domestic surveillance drones
- Challenges and justifications for using unmanned aircraft
- Utilization for Border Patrol Aerial Photography
Jeremiah Gertler
Specialist in Military Aviation
Congressional Research Service
10:15 Networking Break
11:00 Small Unmanned Aerial Systems
- Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems: applications in law enforcement and border security
- The future for UAV/UAS as it relates to border security
- Technological challenges
Alan S Frazier
Assistant Professor
Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences University of North Dakota
11:45 Recent Progress in Airborne and Ground-Based Sense and Avoid Technology
- Recent approaches in surveillance and avoidance algorithm technologies
- Benefits of an open service-oriented architecture test bed for sense and avoid
- Various approaches to sense and avoid and their respective benefits
12:30 Lunch
1:30 FAA Unmanned Aircraft Program Update
- Integrating UAS into the national airspace system by September 30, 2015
- Understand current FAA efforts and certification for unmanned systems
- Look at regulations and policies
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Richard Prosek
Manager, Unmanned Aircraft Program Office
FAA
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Randy Willis
Acting Manager, Unmanned Aircraft
Systems Group FAA
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2:15 Current and Future Potential for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
- Current UAS status
- Vision and roadmap
- Acquisition challenges in a fiscally constrained environment
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3:00 Networking Break
3:45 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in a Homeland Environment
- Overview of CBP’s MQ-9 fleet and border protection missions
- Guardian maritime version MQ-9, update and current operations
- CBP MQ-9/Guardian in national incident response
Paul F Nelepovitz
President, Saguaro Chapter
Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International
4:30 IR Sensors and Surveillance in UAS Fleet
- Understand the use of advanced IR sensors for imaging on the border
- An infrared approach “Eyes in the Sky”
- Applications for maritime surveillance, detection and tracking
Dr. James Wilson
Senior Scientist
Jove Sciences, Inc.
5:15 End of UAV Focus Day