4th DoD Unmanned Systems Summit

DSI’s DoD Unmanned Systems Summitis designed as an educational and training “Town Hall” forum, where thought leaders and key policy-makers across military and civilian organizationscan come together for actionable discussions and debate. The Summit will offer a full spectrum viewpoint towards air/land/sea systems.

*The phrase “unmanned systems” is used to collectively refer to all robotic systems that may be remotely piloted or contain a level of autonomous tasking, and operate on land, sea, air and space domains

ARMY:

MG Robert Dyess, USA, Deputy Director, Army Capabilities Integration Center, TRADOC

LTC Christopher Downey, USA, UAS Division Chief, DCS G3/5/7 (DAMO-AV)

Mr. Bryan McVeigh, PM, Force Projection, PEO CS&CSS

NAVY/ Marine Corps:

RADM Robert Girrier, USN,  Director, N99 Unmanned Weapons Systems Directorate, OPNAV

BGen Julian Alford, USMC, Commanding Officer, MCWL, Futures Directorate, and Vice Chief of Naval Research

RDML Lorin Selby, USN, Commander, NSWC, NAVSEA

Dr. Lawrence Schuette, SES, Director of Research, ONR

Mr. Steve Olson, Unmanned Systems Autonomy Lead, OPNAV N99

AIR FORCE:

Mr. Jeffrey Eggers, SES, CTO, DCS ISR, AF/A2

Dr. Reid Melville, Strategy Lead for UAS across Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)

Including:

Air Cdre S D Ellard, Head of Unmanned Air Systems, Defence Equipment & Support Organisation, RAF, UK MoD

LtCol Scott Heristch, USAF, Joint Staff, J-8

MajGen(ret) Marke "Hoot" Gibson, Senior Advisor, UAS Integration, FAA

DSI’s DoD Unmanned Systems Summit allows for  military users, civilian, and academia across the unmanned systems spectrum to come together to learn, discuss, debate, and help advance  several key areas within the  community such as:

1. Fusion warfare, the combat cloud, and future implications for the unmanned ISR  community
2. Autonomy research and activity and human- machine teaming
3. Improving communication systems within and amongst land, sea, air and space systems
4. Opportunities to improve commonalities and interoperability, including integrating and standardizing open architectures
5. Tailoring existing policies and requirements to support processes for unmanned systems
6.  Improving onboard data processing for ISR
7.  Activities with MUM-T
8.  Improving power, endurance and efficiency
9.  Cyber and EW considerations
10.  Latest FAA discussions regarding UAS in US airspace  and creating a UTM