UAS East for DoD and Government

Prior Guest Speakers from UAS EAST 2018 Included:

BOEING KEYNOTE
REAR ADM. (USN-ret) DONALD “BD” GADDIS, Senior Director, Autonomous Systems, Boeing “MQ25A Stingray Carrier Based
UAS Capabilities”

INSITU KEYNOTE
JON DAMUSH, Chief Growth Officer, Insitu “Emerging UAS Platforms & Capabilities”

KEVIN JOHNSON, Chief, Requirements and Analysis Division ISR Operations Directorate, OUSD(I) and JOHN "MIKE" STAMP, ISR Analyst, Redhorse Corporation "USD(I) Group 2/3 UAS Study”

COLONEL (USAF-RET) STEPHEN “LUX” LUXION, Executive Director, ASSURE FAA Center of Excellence for UAS, Mississippi State University “ASSURE UAS Program & Capabilities”
COLONEL JEREMY FIELDS, USAF, Chief, Reconnaissance Operations, A2XO “RPA Needs, Capabilities & Requirements for Air Force ISR ”

COLONEL JEFFERY PATTON, USAF, 49th Operations Group Commander “MQ-9 Innovative Training Methods”

LTC DAVID BENJAMIN, USA, Medium Altitude Endurance Product Manager, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Program Executive Office, U.S. Army Aviation, Redstone Arsenal "Army PM UAS Platforms, Testing, Plans and Programs"

MATTHEW SOUTH, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division Unmanned Systems IPT Lead “NAWCWD UxS Capabilities
and Opportunities”

MAJOR CHASE "MILK TOAST" THOMPSON, USMC, UAS Capabilities Integration Officer, HQMC Capabilities Development & Integration “Current & Future UAS Needs,
Requirements and Capabilities"

MARK DOMBROFF, LeClairRyan “The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018”  

JOSEPH SMITH, Acting Director, Warfighter Support Office (TAW), IT Services Directorate, (T), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, (NGA) “ARTEMIS INITIATIVE”

COLONEL (USAF-ret) CHRIS PEHRSON, Vice President, Strategic Development, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. “UAS in the Future Security Environment”

DR. JAVID BAYANDOR, Founder and Director, CRashworthiness for Aerospace Structures and Hybrids (CRASH) Lab, Dept of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo - The State University of New York Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University at Buffalo - The State University of New York “Highly Detailed Real-world UAS Crashworthiness Modeling and Predictive Capabilities” 

OLEG VORNIK, Chief Executive Officer, DroneShield “Counter UAS Capabilities for Defense”

CHUCK GASSERT, Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E), Global ISR Knowledge Management Integrated Projects Team Chair, Office of Naval Intelligence Liaison for PMW-120 "DCGS UAS Capabilities"

LT COL (USAF-ret) PETER “PEPE” LEHEW, Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. Senior Consultant to AFRL Center for Rapid Innovation “Trends in UAS Development and Learning
from Others”

PAUL G. STANKIEWICZ, Force Projection, Sector, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory “General Methods for Autonomy Test and Evaluation”  

DR. HANS MUMM, Victory Systems, Author & Entrepreneur, Futurist and Former Army Intelligence Officer “Integrating Autonomous Systems; Drones-
Artificial Intelligence and the Human Race…Can They Co-Exist?”

DAVE PETERSON, President & CEO, Fenix Group, Inc. "Tactical communications for UAS"
DR. ROBERT WALTERS, Senior Scientist, Packet Digital “Developments in Commercial
UAS Airspace”