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Track 1 Track 2 Track 1 Track 2 Track 1 Track 2 Track 1 Track 2
Continental Breakfast Continental Breakfast Continental Breakfast Continental Breakfast
Special Topics Special Topics Plenary Session FCPC CID WEA IAMD
Mid-Morning Break
Special Topics Special Topics Plenary Session FCPC CID WEA IAMD
Networking Lunch Networking Lunch Networking Lunch Networking Lunch
MS SRM EMW Advanced
Technologies
CW RTNT WEA PISR
Afternoon Break
Early Registration
& Super Bowl Party
KC FUS DE Advanced
Technologies
EW Poster UAS EOLL
Evening Off Evening Off Networking Reception Evening Off
Topic Key
ATAdvanced Technologies
CIDCombat ID
CWCyber Warfare (Threat, Exploitation, Assurance, Attack & Defense)
DEDirected Energy
EMWElectromagnetic Maneuver Warfare (EMW)
EWElectronic Warfare
EOLLExercises & Operational Lessons Learned
FCPCFire Control Platform Capabilities
FUSSensor & Data Fusion
IAMDIntegrated Air & Missile Defense of the Homeland & Operational Forces
KCAccelerating the Kill Chain
MSLive, Virtual, and Constructive Modeling and Simulation
PISRPersistent Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance
RTNTRapid Transition of New Technology to the Warfighter
SRMSensor Resource Management
UASUnmanned & Autonomous Systems (Sensors, Weapons & Platforms)
WEAWeapons, Munitions, & Engagement Alternatives

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Sunday, 5 February 2017
1630 - 2100 Registration
1830 Super Bowl Party
Monday, 6 February 2017
0800 - 0845 Speaker Breakfast for Monday's Presenters
0800 - 0930 Attendee Continental Breakfast
0800 - 1800 Registration Open
Track One
Track Two
Special Topics
Session Chair: Mr. Neeraj Pujara, Air Force Research Laboratory
Special Topics
Session Chair: Mr. Robert Strider, U.S. Army SMDC/ARSTRAT Technical Center
0900 - 0910 Welcome & Announcements Welcome & Announcements
0910 - 0940 Recent Ballistic Missile Threat Observations
Dr. Benny Sheeks, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Fire Control 101
Mr. Ralph Tillinghast, U.S. Army ARDEC
0940 - 1010 Selected Naval Missiles and Threat Trends
Ms. Wendy Wenzlick, Office of Naval Intelligence
1010 - 1030 Morning Break
1030 - 1130 Third Offset Strategy and the AFRL Sensors Directorate Capability Focus Areas
Dr. Michael Eismann, Air Force Research Laboratory
Collaborative Autonomous Systems
Mr. Don Davis, Georgia Tech Research Institute
1130 - 1230 Air Combat Command’s Perspectives on the Air Superiority Kill Chain
Lt Col Brendan Walsh, Air Combat Command
AMIIP: Interoperability Between Cooperative Engagement Capability and Tactical Data Links and its Impact on Navy Integrated Fire Control – Counter Air
Mr. Brian Harris, PEO IWS 6.0
1230 - 1400 Attendee Networking Lunch (Included in Registration Fee)
Guests Welcome for $15.00 (Reserve Spot at NFCS Desk)
Track One
Track Two
Live, Virtual, and Constructive Modeling and Simulation
Session Chairs: Dr. Gary McCown, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific and Mr. Al Riley, Raytheon Company
Sensor Resource Management
Session Chairs: Mr. Roy Ballard, Air Force Research Laboratory and Dr. Katherine Rink, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
1400 - 1405 Session Introduction Session Introduction
1405 - 1425 Mission Engineering Approach to Integrating Multi-Agent Simulations with Virtualized Systems to Assess System of Systems Performance
Mr. David Shuttleworth, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division
Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate, Full Spectrum Sensor Resource Management
Mr. Mark Minges, Air Force Research Laboratory
1425 - 1445 Modeling Analysis for Advanced Threats
Ms. Leah Uftring, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Full Spectrum Sensor Resource Management
Mr. Joseph Brinker, The Boeing Company
1445 - 1505 Using the Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Live-Virtual-Constructive (LVC) Distributed Environment (DE) to Advance and Enable Joint Integrated Fire Control and Events
Ms. Stacy Cordell, TDRS, LLC
Distributed Full Spectrum Sensor Resource Management (FSSRM)
Mr. George Hellstern, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
1505 - 1525 Virtualization Technologies Applied to the Fire Control Loop, A Navy Surface Warfare Experiment
Mr. Dennis Larsen, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division
SRM Results for Active and Passive RF Sensing
Mr. Nathan Nasgovitz, Black River Systems Company
1525 - 1545 Afternoon Break
Track One
Track Two
Accelerating the Kill Chain
Session Chairs: Mr. Jeffrey Ayers, The Boeing Company and Mr. Steven Buckley, Navy PEO IWS 6
Sensor & Data Fusion
Session Chairs: Mr. Roy Ballard, Air Force Research Laboratory and Dr. Katherine Rink, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
1545 - 1550 Session Introduction Session Introduction
1550 - 1610 Accelerating Warfighting Capability Assessment to Enable Rapid Capability Development and Transition
Ms. Paige Rumberg, Naval Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center
Agent-Based Automation for Increased Operational Throughput
Mr. Matt Scarlett, Systems Engineering Group
1610 - 1630 Towards Human Machine Teaming in the Naval Combat Information Center
Mr. Christopher Knowlton, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division
Assessing Performance Bounds for Data Fusion: When Does Fusion Provide Better Estimates?
Mr. Terry Ogle, Georgia Tech Research Institute
1630 - 1650 Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning within the Fire Control Arena
Mr. Ralph Tillinghast, U.S. Army ARDEC
OPERA: Multi-Sensor Saliency Fusion and Information-Theoretic Sensor Tasking
Dr. Mark Kolba, BAE Systems
1650 - 1710 Softkill Weapon Coordination for Ship Defense
Mr. Michael Molignano, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Data Fusion for System Level Discrimination
Mr. Andrew Varecka, Raytheon Company
Special Topics, cont. Special Topics, cont.
1710 - 1740 NORAD and USNORTHCOM J8: Science & Technology
Col Paula Hamilton, NORAD and USNORTHCOM
LEAP - Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Radio Frequency Direction Finding (RFDF) and Geolocation Lessons Learned
Mr. J. Brad Power, Air Force Research Laboratory
Tuesday, 7 February 2017
0800 - 0845 Speaker Breakfast for Tuesday's Afternoon Presenters
0800 - 0930 Attendee Continental Breakfast
0800 - 1800 Registration Open
Plenary Session


0900 - 0915 Opening Remarks & Posting of the Colors
Moderator: Ms. Ruth Moser, Director, Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate
0915 - 0950 Keynote: Major General Roger W. Teague
Director, Space Programs, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, Washington, D.C.
0950 - 1025 Missile Defense Agency: Mr. Keith Englander
Director for Engineering, Missile Defense Agency
1025 - 1100 Army: Mr. Richard De Fatta
Acting Director, Future Warfare Center SMDC/ARSTRAT
1100 - 1125 Morning Break
1125 - 1200 Navy: Ms. Margaret Palmieri
Director, Integrated Fires, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
1200 - 1235 Marine Corps: Ms. Jeannette Evans-Morgis
Deputy Commander, SIAT, Marine Corps Systems Command
1235 - 1430 Attendee Networking Lunch
Sponsored by Lockheed Martin Corporation
Guests Welcome for $15.00 (Reserve Spot at NFCS Desk)
Track One
Track Two
Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare
Session Chairs: Mr. Glenn McLeod, Lockheed Martin Corporation and Ms. Penny Moran, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division
Advanced Technologies
Session Chairs: Dr. Gary Somers, Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems and Mr. Ralph Tillinghast, U.S. Army ARDEC
1430 - 1435 Session Introduction Session Introduction
1435 - 1455 Revising Sun Tzu: Changing the Precepts of Warfare using Breakthroughs in Electromagnetics
Mr. John Gray, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division
GMTI Data Exploitation for SWAP Limited Radar Systems
Mr. Matthew Shuman, Air Force Research Laboratory
1455 - 1515 Information Power and Maneuverability
Dr. Tod Schuck, Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems
Polarimetric Co-Location Layering: A Practical Algorithm for Mitigation of Low Grazing Angle Sea Clutter
Ms. Molly Crane, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
1515 - 1535 Softkill / Hardkill Coordination for the Surface Navy
Dr. George Foster, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division
Antenna Instantaneous Bandwidth Extension with an AESA and Hyper Spectral Fingerprinting and Identification and Early Warning of Aircraft DNA
Ms. Sherry Barone, Raytheon Company
1535 - 1555 Naval Integrated Fires Experimentation
Mr. Michael O'Gara, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific
Distributed MIMO Radar Data Processing Architectures
Dr. Kellie McConnell, Georgia Tech Research Institute
1555 - 1625 Afternoon Break
Track One
Track Two
Directed Energy
Session Chairs: Mr. Glenn McLeod, Lockheed Martin Corporation and Ms. Penny Moran, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division
Advanced Technologies, cont.
1625 - 1630 Session Introduction Announcements
1630 - 1650 A Systems Engineering Approach to the Employment of High Energy Lasers (HELs) in a Multi-Platform Engagement Scenario
Ms. Bonnie Johnson, Naval Postgraduate School
Raising the Bar for Tactical IRSTs
Mr. Patrick McCusker, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
1650 - 1710 Sustainable Power Loading for Integrated Combat Energy (SPLICE) to Support Electric Weapons Deployment
Dr. Jaclyn Baron and Mr. Eric Schroeder, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division
A Bayesian Track-Before-Detect Algorithm for Very Long Range Air-to-Air Infrared Target Detection
Mrs. Candice Vollweiler, SRI International
1710 - 1730 High Power Microwave Weapon Modeling, Simulation & Analysis
Mr. James Sewell, Air Force Research Laboratory
Maritime Infrared Search and Track (IRST) Integrated Engagement Analysis
Mr. Andrew Dahlberg, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
1730 - 1750 Overview of the Integrated Weapons Environment for Analysis (IWEA) Laser Weapons Model and Tactical Rule-Based Entity Controller (TRBEC)
2d Lt John Becker, Air Force Research Laboratory
Tactical Advantages of Beam-Forming Millimeter Wave Systems
Mr. George Kannell, LGS Innovations
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
0800 - 0845 Speaker Breakfast for Wednesday's Presenters
0800 - 0930 Attendee Continental Breakfast
0800 - 1730 Registration Open
1720 - 1900 Networking Reception
Sponsored by Raytheon Company

Track One
Track Two
Fire Control Platform Capabilities
Session Chairs: Mr. James Cech, Georgia Tech Research Institute and Ms. Bonnie Johnson, Naval Postgraduate School
Combat ID
Session Chairs: Mr. Ronald Henry, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems and Mr. Jesse Hodge, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division
0900 - 0905 Session Introduction Session Introduction
0905 - 0925 Hypervelocity Fire Control Sensor
Dr. Daniel Clancy, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Evolution of Combat Identification in the Information Age
Mr. William Treadway, U.S. Navy CIDCO
0925 - 0945 The Evolution and Future of Fire Control Software Graphical User Interfaces
Mr. Gilbert West, U.S. Army ARDEC
DEVIANT: Real-Time SAR and ATR Processing of Gotcha 2 Data
Mr. David Oostdyk, Georgia Tech Research Institute
0945 - 1005 Aegis Weapon System (AWS) Baseline (B/L) 9 with Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) 5.1 Capabilities
Mr. Wayne Dietel, Pugh Associates, LLC
DEVIANT: Real-Time Sparse Bayesian SAR ATR for Gotcha 2 Data
Mr. Brett Ballard, BAE Systems
1005 - 1025 Low Cost Sensing in Highly Contested Environments
Mr. David Curtis, Air Force Research Laboratory
Bistatic Combat Identification
Mr. Ryan McGinnis, Matrix Research, Inc.
1025 - 1055 Mid-Morning Break
Fire Control Platform Capabilities, cont. Combat ID, cont.
1055 - 1100 Announcements Announcements
1100 - 1120 Radar Signal Processing for Denied Access
Mr. Mark Hammond, Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems
Combat Identification Waveform Efficiency Improvement
Dr. Pierre Jean-Laurent, Raytheon Company
1120 - 1140 Digitizing M119A2 Howitzers
Mrs. Kumari Yalamanchili, U.S. Army ARDEC
Reinforcement Learning for Modeling Large-Scale Cognitive Reasoning
Dr. Ying Zhao, Naval Postgraduate School
1140 - 1200 Future Integral Target Engagement Systems (FITES)
Mr. Terence Rice, U.S. Army ARDEC
Air Force Combat Identification
Mr. Andrew Freeman, Air Force Research Laboratory
1200 - 1220 The Influence of Variable Winds on Direct Fire Engagements
Mr. Tomas Bober, U.S. Army ARDEC
Algorithm for Multiple Targets for FM-CW Radars
Dr. Brian Marks, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
1220 - 1400 Attendee Networking Lunch (Included in Registration Fee)
Guests Welcome for $15.00 (Reserve Spot at NFCS Desk)
Track One
Track Two
Cyber Warfare (Threat, Exploitation, Assurance, Attack & Defense)
Session Chairs: Ms. Janet Kasmer, The Boeing Company and Mr. Douglas Ousborne, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Rapid Transition of New Technology to the Warfighter
Session Chairs: Mr. Clyde Elliott, U.S. Army SMDC/ARSTRAT and
Mr. William Maselko, Northrop Grumman Corporation
1400 - 1405 Session Introduction Session Introduction
1405 - 1425 Moving Target Cyber Defense III - A Cyber Resilient Framework
Mr. Mark Byrkit, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Cross Domain Fires - The Return of Coastal Artillery
Mr. David Musgrave, U.S. Army ARDEC
1425 - 1445 DEFACTO
Mr. William La Cholter, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Efficient Parameter Selection for Large Ballistic Missile Defense Simulations
Dr. Austin Jones, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
1445 - 1505 Deep Learning for Cyber Threat Modeling and Real-Time Situational Awareness
Dr. David Noever, PeopleTec
DARWIIN Model Based Development of System of Systems Interfaces
Mr. Keith Godwin, Torch Technologies, Inc.
1505 - 1525 Discovering and Disrupting Dark Networks
CPT Ryan Miller and CPT Scott Warnke, United States Military Academy
Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Mission Planning (MP) Tactical Advancements for the Next Generation (TANG) Rapid Prototyping Efforts
Ms. Lynn Reggia, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
1525 - 1555 Afternoon Break
Sponsored by The Boeing Company
Electronic Warfare
Session Chairs: Mr. Richard Moran, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division and Mr. Douglas Ousborne, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Poster Session
Session Chairs: Mr. Jeffrey Ayers, The Boeing Company;
Ms. Janet Kasmer, The Boeing Company; and Dr. Gary McCown, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific
1555 - 1600 Session Introduction ALL posters will be on display through the evening reception in this track from 1555 - 1900.

Please wait until Wednesday to vote on best poster so that you have a chance to view all posters. Votes are due at 1700 on Wednesday.
1600 - 1620 The Electronic Warfare Community of Interest
Mr. Marvin Potts, Air Force Research Laboratory
1620 - 1640 Analytical Modeling of Electronic Attack vs. Ideal Detection Processing in Highly Integrated Air Defenses
Dr. Mark Smith, Georgia Tech Research Institute
1640 - 1700 Real-Time Fratricide Avoidance for Electronic Attack Engagements
Ms. Sarah Lichtman, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
1700 - 1720 Wideband RF Receiver for Fire Control
Mr. Omar Ramos, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division
1720 - 1900 Networking Reception
Sponsored by Raytheon Company
Thursday, 9 February 2017
0800 - 0845 Speaker Breakfast for Thursday's Presenters
0830 - 0930 Attendee Continental Breakfast
0800 - 1720 Registration Open
Track One
Track Two
Weapons, Munitions, & Engagement Alternatives
Session Chairs: Mr. Joseph Deroba, U.S. Army RDECOM CERDEC I2WD and Mr. John Warnke, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Integrated Air & Missile Defense of the Homeland & Operational Forces
Session Chairs: Mr. Stanley Schroeder, Lockheed Martin Corporation and Dr. Karla Spriesterbach, Missile Defense Agency
0900 - 0905 Session Introduction Session Introduction
0905 - 0925 Patriot Interoperability - Enhancing the Foundation of Air and Missile Defense
Mr. Michael Manning and Mr. Thomas Wiley, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems
Trends in Large Scale Systems-of-Systems for Multi-National Missile Defense
Dr. Tod Schuck, Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems
0925 - 0945 Advanced Interceptor Trade Space Against Emerging Threats
Dr. Brandon Bale, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Phenomenology Based X-Band Cyclic Discrimination for BMD
Dr. Tod Schuck, Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems
0945 - 1005 Adaptive Data Visualization for Generation of Doctrine
Ms. Megan Kozub, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division
High Altitude Airship's Contribution to National Defense
Mr. Richard Hojnacki, Black River Systems Company
1005 - 1025 Methodology for Range-Dependent Lethality Assessment of Cruise Missile Threats
Mr. Nicholas Fezie, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
“Any Sensor – Any Weapon” Interoperability for Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) – Reframing the Anti-Coordinated Raid Problem under 3rd Offset Strategy Capability Requirements
Dr. Stephen Woodall, IERUS Technologies, Inc.
1025 - 1055 Mid-Morning Break
Weapons, Munitions, & Engagement Alternatives, cont. Integrated Air & Missile Defense of the Homeland & Operational Forces, cont.
1055 - 1100 Announcements Announcements
1100 - 1120 Design Considerations for a Rifle Mounted Optical Fire Control System
Mr. Thomas Saitz, U.S. Army ARDEC
Battle Management Aids: Concepts for the Navy
Ms. Bonnie Johnson, Naval Postgraduate School
1120 - 1140 UAV Defense using an Air Vortex Cannon
Mr. David McDonnell, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
ABT Propagation in a Multi Asset Environment
Mr. Byrne Norman, Torch Technologies, Inc.
1140 - 1200 Integrated Weapons Environment for Analysis (IWEA) Kinetic Energy Weapon Effectiveness
Mr. Eric Scarborough, Air Force Research Laboratory
IAMD Engagement Planning and Monitoring to Counter the Advanced Maneuvering Threat
Mr. Timothy Wilson, Torch Technologies, Inc.
1200 - 1220 Advanced Target Analysis Capability (ATAC)
Mr. Kim Allen, Applied Research Associated, Inc.
Long-Range Doppler-Spread Clutter Mitigation in Over-the-Horizon Radars
Dr. Monica Montanari, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
1220 - 1400 Attendee Networking Lunch (Included in Registration Fee)
Guests Welcome for $15.00 (Reserve Spot at NFCS Desk)
Weapons, Munitions, & Engagement Alternatives, cont. Persistent Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance
Session Chairs: Mr. Mark Longbrake, Black River Systems Company and Ms. Penny Moran, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division
1400 - 1405 Announcements Session Introduction
1405 - 1425 Bias Corrected Tracking System
Mr. Dale Klamer, Black River Systems Company
Exploitation and Application of Space-Based Persistent Sensing as a Force Enhancer
Mr. Michael Greenhagen, Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
1425 - 1445 AFRL’s Fast-Running Penetration Modeling Research
Ms. Keri Bailey, Air Force Research Laboratory
Multistatic OTHR for Deep & Persistent ISR of Time Critical Targets
Mr. Harry Bascom, Black River Systems Company
1445 - 1505 Government Ballistic Solver
Mr. Domenick Rosato, U.S. Army RDECOM ARDEC
VADER Gen2 Capabilities and Impacts from Army to Homeland Security
Ms. Kristen Pickelsimer, U.S. Army PM-SAI and Mr. Ryan Tintner, Northrop Grumman Corporation
1505 - 1525 Developing Warhead Characteristics with Respect to Target Lethality
Mr. David Hogg, Air Force Research Laboratory
Latest Results from AFRL's Gotcha 2 Radar System
Mr. Alex Boytim, Air Force Research Laboratory and Mr. Alex Gross, KEYW Corporation
1525 - 1555 Afternoon Break
Unmanned & Autonomous Systems (Sensors, Weapons & Platforms)
Session Chairs: Dr. Barry Alexia, Rockwell Collins; Dr. Gary Somers, Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems; and Mr. Ralph Tillinghast, U.S. Army ARDEC
Exercises & Operational Lessons Learned
Session Chairs: Mr. Steven Buckley, Navy PEO IWS 6 and
Dr. Stephen Woodall, IERUS Technologies, Inc.
1555 - 1600 Session Introduction Session Introduction
1600 - 1620 Countering the Adversary with Unmanned Undersea Vehicles
Ms. Jennifer Pels, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific
Sensor Week 2016 Outbrief
Mr. Frank Pugliese and Mr. David Schoch, 46 Test Squadron - Project Chicken Little
1620 - 1640 Futures Assessment Asia-Pacific Undersea Capabilities and Implications for U.S. Undersea C4I Systems of Systems
Ms. Jennifer Pels, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific
Aegis BMD Flight and Ground Test 2016 Summary
Mr. Brent Ouellette, Lockheed Martin Corporation
1640 - 1700 Small Loitering ISR on Miniature Air-Launched Decoy (SLIM) System Engineering Analysis
Mr. William Moore, Defense Engineering Corporation
FY16 USS Dahlgren Naval Research and Development Establishment Kill-Chain Demonstration
Ms. Melissa Smith and Dr. Christopher Weiland, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division
1700 - 1720 Leveraging Onboard UAV Acquired Acoustic Data to Enhance Situational Awareness
Mr. David Alvord, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Direct Lay Laser for Nighttime 60mm Mortar Engagements
Mr. James Ireland, U.S. Army ARDEC
1720 Adjourn