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1. ISR 2014
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• Learn how allied nations are sharing
ISR information to better enhance
capability
• Gain a fare view across the
spectrum from Aerial, Maritime and
Ground ISR
• Listen to international Military
updates on current ISR capabilities
• Bringing together senior military
personal among other stake holders
to create a common voice for the
industry
• Look into technological game
changers of industry as well as
operational needs
Major General (ret) Kenneth Israel, Defence Science Board Advisor,
Office of the Secretary of Defense, Israel Associates
Brigadier General Friedrich Teichmann, Director Geospatial Institute,
Austrian Armed Forces
Dr Toby. P. Breckon, Senior Lecturer in Image Processing and
Computer Vision, Durham University
Dr Clayton Stewart, Visiting Professor, Electrical Engineering, University
College London. Former Technical Director, Office of Naval Research
Global
Group Captain Dilshan Wasage, UAV Wing Commander,
Sri Lanka Air Force
Dr. Peter Lee, Principal Lecturer in Military and Leadership Ethics,
Portsmouth University
Captain Gunnar Borch (ret’d), General Manager, GB Consulting
bvba, Former General Manager of the NATO Airlift Management
Agency
Prof Rafal Zbikowski, Professor of Control Engineering, Cranfield
University
Peter Sapaty, Chief Scientist, National Academy of Sciences of
Ukraine
Major General (ret) George Harrison, Principal Research Engineer,
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Lieutenant Commander Darrell Hannam, ISR Instructor, Royal Navy
PLUS TWO INTERACTIVE POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
Wednesday 9th April, 2014 I Holiday Inn Regents Park, London, UK
Integral Spatial Intelligence in ISR Applications
Workshop Leader: Peter Sapaty, Chief Scientist, National Academy of
Sciences of Ukraine
8:30 – 12:30pm
Novel Approches and Considerations in the
ISR Domain
Workshop Leader: Robert Kerby, ISTAR Deputy Team Leader, 3SDL
1:00 – 5:00pm
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2. ISR|2014
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Day One | Monday 7th April 2014
8.30
9.00
9.10
9.50
10.30
10.50
11.30
12.10
Registration & Coffee
1.30
The Royal Navy's Sea King ASaC
• Recent Airborne ISR Missions
• Advantages of Multi-Mission ISR Aircraft
• The Future of Royal Naval Airborne ISR
Lt Cdr Darrell Hannam, ISR Instructor, Royal Navy
2.10
Space Based Maritime Awareness (SBMDA)
• Automatic Identification System
• Synthetic Aperture Radar
• Electro-Optical SBMDA
• Coordinated commercial satellite operation
Dr Clayton Stewart, Visiting Professor, Electrical Engineering,
University College London. Former Technical Director, Office of
Naval Research Global
2. 50
UAS Integration in the US National Airspace System
• Congressional mandate
• Training requirements
• Equipment needs
• UAS class differentiation
Maj. Gen. George Harrison (ret’d), Principal Research Engineer,
Georgia Tech Research Institute
3.30
Afternoon Tea
3.50
Rights, Wrongs and Drones: Ethical Dilemmas in Remote ISR
• Ethics of ISR in a military context
• Remote ISR and non-combatant right to life
• Protection of UK military personnel’s right to life
• The challenges of extending military remote ISR capability into
a civilian context
Dr. Peter Lee, Principal Lecturer in Military and Leadership Ethics,
Portsmouth University
Future Research Concepts in Autonomous Platform Sensing
Capabilities
• Overview of current autonomous sensing capabilities
• Key insight into ongoing research on this topic
• Paradigm changing concepts of "deployed intelligent sensors"
• Networked capabilities feeding directly into the ISR pipeline
Dr Toby. P. Breckon, Senior Lecturer in Image Processing and
Computer Vision, Durham University
4.30
PANEL DISCUSSION:
What kind of ISR Systems do we need for different combat
environments?
• Type of ISR platforms - Air/Land/Sea/Joint
• Strategic vs. operational vs. tactical level
• Combat Cloud: A new ISR paradigm
• Situational Awareness in a "Contested Environment"
Group Captain Dilshan Wasage, UAV Wing Commander,
Sri Lanka Air Force
Brig. Gen. Friedrich Teichmann, Director Geospatial Institute,
Austrian Armed Forces
Dr Clayton Stewart, Visiting Professor, Electrical Engineering,
University College London. Former Technical Director, Office of
Naval Research Global
Major General Kenneth Israel (ret’d), Defence Science Board
Advisor, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Israel Associates
Networking lunch
5.10
Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
Chairman's Opening Remarks
Major General Kenneth Israel (ret’d), Defence Science Board
Advisor, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Israel Associates
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Global ISR Dominance - Seek, Sight and Strike
• Rebalance ISR Capabilities to Prevail in Changing
Environments: (Permissive, Contested, Highly Contested Areas)
• Normalize Cyber, ISR and Social Media Operations - Building a
"Combat Cloud"
• Stregthen "Integration, Collaboration and Partnerships" - Sum is
more than the Parts
• Revolutionize Analysis and Exploitation Capabilities- Common
Relevant Operational Picture
• Enabling Non Traditional ISR (NTISR) Assets for Full Spectrum
Conflicts (F-35, SBIRs, Social Radar)
• Refine ISR Objectives: Information Centric, InterDependent
and Functionally Aligned
• Affordability - Key Driver for Persistent ISR
Major General Kenneth Israel (ret’d), Defence Science Board
Advisor, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Israel Associates
GeoIntel products and how they support the decision
making cycle for/in missions: Discussion from a national
perspective
• Geo in the decision making cycle for missions
• Product portfolio of a Geo Service Provider
• Critical aspects for the national GeoIntel Service Provider
• Potential users and the distribution of GeoIntel products
• How does a small neutral country solve the Geo-requirements
for missions
Brig. Gen. Friedrich Teichmann, Director Geospatial Institute,
Austrian Armed Forces*
Morning Coffee
SENSOR PLATFORMS
Bio-inspired sensing for autonomous operation of sensor
platforms
• Key ISR challenge: Deluge of sensory data
• Mitigation of the deluge of sensory data: Relevance Filtering
• Bio-inspired approach to Relevance Filtering: Perceptual
attention
• Bio-inspired approach to Relevance Filtering: Sparse, overcomplete representations
Prof Rafal Zbikowski, Professor of Control Engineering, Cranfield
University
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Day Two | Tuesday 8th April 2014
8.30
Registration & Coffee
12.10
Networking lunch
9.00
Chairman's Opening Remarks
Major General Kenneth Israel (ret’d), Defence Science Board
Advisor, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Israel Associates
1.30
Emerging ISR Technologies, Platforms, Architectures, and C2
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
MAJIIC2 Project Update
• Results from latest MAJEX
• Relations with NATO AGS Programme
• Relationship with Chicago JISR Initiative
• Relationship with other NATO
• Relationship updated NATO JISR Policy
Joe Ross, Technical Manager, NATO Communication and
Information Agency *
9.10
Unmanned Maritime Systems for Tactical ISR - Market Potential
and Program Outlooks Across Three Domains
• UUVs - Mine Warfare and More (Sea Fox, Knifefish, LDUUV)
• Unmanned Surface Vessels - moving to modular designs
(Common USVs in the US and UK)
• Tactical Shipboard UAVs - fixed wing and rotary trade-offs
Bob Nugent, Defense Business Strategy Advisor, Guardian Six
9.50
10.30
Lessons in ISR Interoperability – a UK SME in a US programme,
integrating RAF sensors
• An overview of the Common Geopositioning Services
Programme
• Why did the US DoD need to reach out to the Coalition?
• What went well….and what went less well (where the lessons
really reside)
• Outcomes and some thinking to the future
Tony Reeves, ISTAR Team Leader, 3SDL
• The transformation of C2 of ISR
• Precision Navigation and Timing
• Multi-National ISR; global ISR technology trends; and integration
and interoperability in a Coalition Environment
• Trends in ISR-related processing, exploitation, and analytics
Aaron Blow, Chief Engineer, Joint and Service Programs, MITRE
2.10
11.30
Integration of ISR with advanced command and control for
critical mission applications
• Spatial Grasp Technology (SGT) for intelligent management of
distributed dynamic systems
• Global awareness and tracing multiple mobile objects in
Spatial Grasp Language (SGL)
• Expressing command intent and automated command and
control in SGL
• Advantages of SGL before existing battle management
languages for international missions
• Transition to unmanned systems under unified control provided
by SGT
Peter Sapaty, Chief Scientist, National Academy of Sciences of
Ukraine
Unmanned Air Surveillance in Counter Insurgency Operations:
Experience from Sri Lanka
• Introduction
• Importance of Air Reconnaissance
• UAVs in LIC and Drone surveillance technology
• Unmanned Air Surveillance for counter Insurgency operation in
Sri Lankan Conflict
Morning Coffee
10.50
• The future of ISR in an age of fiscal austerity
• Introducing tactical drones in Sri Lanka
• Conclusion
Group Captain Dilshan Wasage, UAV Wing Commander,
Sri Lanka Air Force
2.50
Multinational Cooperation in Weapon Systems
– Why is it so difficult?
• Before Smart Defence
• Smart Defence / Pooling & Sharing
• Achievements
• Why is it difficult?
• Ways to overcome the difficulties/challenges?
• Potential Future Developments
• What can Industry do?
• Conclusion
Gunnar Borch, General Manager, GB Consulting bvba, Former
General Manager of the NATO Airlift Management Agency
3.30
Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two
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4. HALF-DAY POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP A
WEDNESDAY 9th APRIL 2014
Holiday Inn, Regent Park, London, UK
8:30 – 12.30pm
Integral Spatial Intelligence in
ISR Applications
Workshop Leader:
Peter Sapaty, Chief Scientist,
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Overview:
The known failures of intelligence in world hot points and related
operations against terrorism and insurgency often result from
incapability of piecing together multiple scattered facts and
seeing the global picture. This should be done not only at but
rather ahead of real time to win and survive. Comprehensive
scientific analysis of these processes will be presented and a new
intelligent, parallel, and distributed networking technology will
be revealed that can effectively solve asymmetric problems in
dynamic and hostile environments. The approach is based on
holistic and gestalt principles rather than traditional
interoperability organizations, allowing us to grasp integral
spatial solutions on top semantic level while engaging available
human and technical resources not before but rather during
evolution of missions and goals. Exemplary ISR-related scenarios
expressed in a special high-level language and oriented on
both manned and unmanned solutions will be exhibited
confirming viability of the approach offered. Other discussed
applications will include human-robot interaction, cooperative
robotics, electronic and cyber warfare, command intent and
advanced command and control, as well as distributed missile
defence.
Programme:
8.30
Registration & Coffee
9.40
Spatial Grasp Technology (SGT)
• Expressing semantics of complex operations in
distributed environments in high-level Spatial
Grasp Language (SGL)
• Networked implementation of distributed SGL
interpreter oriented on coordination of large
distributed systems
• Expressing command intent and advanced
command and control in SGL
9.00
10.30
11.00
11.50
12.30
How the real world can be organized
• Traditional atomistic, agents-based world vision
and system management
• Holistic, gestalt-related comprehension of
complex systems and advantages of its
application in civil and military areas
Coffee Break
Distributed ISR scenarios in SGL
• Penetration, creation, analysis, and impact of
distributed infrastructures
• Global awareness and targets collection by
spreading spatial intelligence
• Simultaneous tracing and analysis of multiple
mobile objects
Other SGT applications
• Collective robotics and unified transition to fully
unmanned systems
• Electronic and cyber warfare
• Distributed integrated air and missile defence
End of workshop
About the workshop host
Dr Peter Sapaty (educated in power networks & missile control),
Chief Research Scientist, Director of Distributed Simulation and
Control, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, is with networking for 45
years. Except Ukraine, worked in Germany, UK, Canada and
Japan as Alexander von Humboldt awardee, project leader,
research professor and invited professor, created and chaired
special interest group on Mobile Cooperative Technologies within
Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) project in the US. Invented
high-level distributed control technology used in different
countries and resulted in a European Patent and two John Wiley
books, with the third one in progress. Published more than 160
scientific papers worldwide on distributed system organizations.
Current areas of interest: models and languages for coordination
and simulation of distributed dynamic systems with application in
cooperative robotics, emergency management, command and
control, and infrastructure protection. Peter regularly served as
workshop organizer, sessions chair, keynote and invited speaker at
scientific and defence conferences in the UK, US, Japan, Portugal,
Spain, Germany, Singapore, India, and Turkey. His bio is in Marquis
Who’s Who in the World and Cambridge Outstanding
Intellectuals of the 21st Century.

5. HALF-DAY POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP B
WEDNESDAY 9th APRIL 2014
Holiday Inn, Regent Park, London, UK
1:00 – 5:00pm
Novel Approches and
Considerations in the
ISR Domain
Workshop Leader:
Robert Kerby, ISTAR Deputy Team Leader, 3SDL
Overview:
The workshop will combine a rare mix of technical
understanding and operational experience to provide
delegates with an insight into the latest ISR issues facing
both users and the industry at large.
Programme:
1.00
Registration & Coffee
1.30
Current ISR challenges -nThe problem as we
see it
An opening session on where the ISR domain is
today and mitigating the problems of
tomorrow.
2.00
Operations of the future from an ISR context
3.30
Networking break
3.30
Group exercise
4.30
Round table discussions and presentations
5.00
End of workshop
What does ISR look like in the future
operational environment?
Collaborative working and intelligence fusion
Maximising ISR capability with a smaller budget
About the workshop host
Robert is the Deputy Team Leader ISTAR at 3SDL Ltd and
has an interesting mix of military and commercial
experience in the Defence and Security fields. He has 10
years’ industry experience, most of which has been in
Defence and Security project, account and
stakeholder management roles.
He is currently
engaged in a number of Coalition-focussed ISR projects
across defence including cultural and organisational
change and Urgent Operational Requirement (UOR)
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) stakeholder work. His
operational experience has been in the field of imagery
intelligence, including strategic analysis and
development of tactical Full Motion Video analysis.
Rob has extensive and continuous training and
workshop experience in the ISTAR domain. His training
style focusses on student participation, allowing them to
form their own conclusions when discussing often highly
complex subjects. His delivery is not about ‘death by
PowerPoint’; but instead the focus is on real-world
experience and its application through dynamic
workshops, exercises and discussions.

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