Poster Session

Session Chairs: Mr. Jeffrey Ayers, The Boeing Company, Ms. Janet Kasmer, Boeing and Dr. Gary McCown, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific

Accelerating the Kill Chain

Two-Objective Optimization of Weapon-Target Assignment with Collateral Damage Consideration
Dr. Zbigniew Bogdanowicz - U.S. Army ARDEC

Origin to Destination Tracking in Operational Environments
Mr. Ryan Elwell - U.S. Army CERDEC I2WD

Advanced Technologies

Distributed MIMO Radar Data Processing Architectures
Dr. Kellie McConnell - Georgia Tech Research Institute

Naval Surface Ship Integrated EO/IR Sensor System and Fire Control Model
Dr. Timothy Miller - Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory [Selected]

TBM Battlespace Improvements using Modernized Signal and Data Processing Techniques
Mr. Ryan Nichols - Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems

Optimal Communication of Information for Warfighter Fire Control Benefit
Dr. Hector Ortiz-Pena - CUBRC, Inc.

Lasercomms System for Mobile Terrestrial Applications
Ms. Katherine Souza - Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

Reconsidering Autonomy - From Human Hands to Automation
Mr. Richard Wright - Raytheon Missile Systems

Combat ID

Novel Signal Processing for Airborne Passive Synthetic Aperture Radar
Dr. Matthew Ferrara - Matrix Research, Inc.

Air Force Combat Identification Technologies
Mr. Andrew Freeman - Air Force Research Laboratory

Signature Reduction in the Near IR and Visible Regions
Dr. Frederick Long - U.S. Army ARDEC

Universal Advanced Threat Detection (Argos) & Threat-Indiscriminant Countermeasure Toolkit (MIRAGE)
Mr. Nicholas Moy - U.S. Army CERDEC I2WD EWAGS

Advanced Threat Tiger Team
Mr. Nicholas Moy - U.S. Army CERDEC I2WD EWAGS

Big Data and Deep Learning Analytics for Improving Combat ID: Evidence and Potentials
Dr. Ying Zhao - Naval Postgraduate School

Cyber Warfare (Threat, Exploitation, Assurance, Attack & Defense)

Common Pedigree Service
Dr. Jeffrey Dunne - Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

Towards a Decision Support System for Cybersecurity Assessments
Mr. Alexander Fielder - U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Software Dominance
Mr. William La Cholter - Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

Multilayered Community Detection in Covert Networks
CPT Ryan Miller - United States Military Academy

Traffic-Based Model Generation
Mr. Baltazar Santaella - U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Agile Cybersecurity: A Modest Proposal
Mr. Marc Santoro - Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division

Directed Energy

Airborne High Power Microwave System Effects Based Tool
Mr. Wilfredo Padilla-Vargas - Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division

Architecture Development Supporting Tactical Energy Management to Enable Operational Employment of Directed Energy Weapons
Mr. Eric Schroeder - Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division

Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare (EMW)

Considering Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare in Integrated Targeting Methods for Naval Fires
Dr. Andrew Christianson - Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division

Electronic Warfare

HPRF PRN Waveform Processing in an Air-to-Air Multi-Target Environment
Ms. Sherry Barone - Raytheon Company

Reactive DRFMs in FCS Environments, A CONOPS View
Mr. William Crespo and Mr. Jaime Galvan - Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division

Exercises & Operational Lessons Learned

Black Dart 2016 Maritime Operation
Mr. Jeff Mitchell - Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

Fire Control Platform Capabilities

Developing a Common Hardware Architecture for Towed Artillery Fire Control Systems
Mr. Kenneth Eng - U.S. Army ARDEC

Autonomous Cross-Platform Multi-Sensor Coordination and Data Fusion for Tactical Reconnaissance
Dr. Thomas Walls - Naval Research Laboratory

Integrated Air & Missile Defense of the Homeland & Operational Forces

Examination of Fundamental Kill-Chain Relationships in Multi-Tiered IAMD Architectures
Mr. Joseph Uzdzinski - Lockheed Martin [Selected]

Patriot Interoperability - Enhancing the Foundation of Air and Missile Defense
Mr. Thomas Wiley - Raytheon Company

Live, Virtual, and Constructive Modeling and Simulation

Aegis Ship System Concept (SSC) Workload
Dr. Elizabet Haro - Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division

Persistent Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance

Microsatellite Tracking of Emerging Threats: Chickadee
Dr. Steven Prutzer - MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Sensor & Data Fusion

Fusion for Multiple Biased Sensors for Weapon Systems Engagement of Multiple Targets
Dr. William Blair - Georgia Tech Research Institute

Advanced Decision Architectures for Discrimination Data Fusion
Ms. Olivia Brown - MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Performance Estimation of Automatic Target Recognition for Underwater Mine Countermeasures
Dr. Daniel Cook - Georgia Tech Research Institute

Sensor Resource Management

Cue Generation for Tracking Missiles with OPIR Sensors
Dr. Peter Shea - Black River Systems Company

Unmanned & Autonomous Systems (Sensors, Weapons & Platforms)

Decentralized Coordination of Autonomous Systems for Fleet Defense
Mr. Dan Griffith - MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Assessment of Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Boost-Phase Intercept of Ballistic Missiles
Mr. Samuel Lacinski - MIT Technology and Policy Program

Weapons, Munitions, & Engagement Alternatives

A Study on Developing Guidance Algorithms to Improve Performance against Maneuvering Tactical Ballistic Missiles
Mr. John Shirley - U.S. Army AMRDEC SSDD