7th Annual Patuxent Defense Forum

7th Annual Patuxent Defense Forum
co-sponsored by The Patuxent Partnership and The Center for the Study for Democracy, St. Mary's College of Maryland

“The Future of Conflict: The Ethics of Robotic Defense and Unmanned Warfare”

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

8:00am Check-in & Continental Breakfast, Campus Center

8:30am Welcome & Introductions, Cole Cinema
8:45am Remarks, VADM Joseph Dyer, USN (ret), iRobot Corporation

9:15am          Panel I:           The Future of Technology and Remote Warfare
                        Moderator:    VADM Joseph Dyer, USN (ret)
                        Panelists:      RADM Timothy Heely, USN (ret), Cobham LLC - Warfare
                                            by Remote Control
                                            Noel Sharkey, University of Sheffield - The Proliferation of
                                            Military Robots, Autonomy and Military Necessity
                                            Jack Thomas and Timothy Dunigan, SAIC - Ethical
                                            Dilemmas of Unmanned War

11:45pm Lunch, Great Room, Campus Center

1:15pm          Panel II:          Unmanned Systems and International Law
                        Moderator:    Dr. Matthew Fehrs, Assistant Professor, Political Science
                                               Department, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
                        Panelists:      Michael Noone, Catholic University, Columbia School of Law -
                                               We Need to Talk About Hal: Legal Liability Issues in Aerial
                                               Robotic Warfare
                                           Guy Seidman, Radzyner School of Law - Unmanned but not
                                               Unminded: Legal Constraints

2:45pm          Panel III:         Frameworks for Determining Ethical Limits for Remote
                                                           Systems
                        Moderator:    Dr. Michael Cain
                        Panelists:      Peter Asaro, The New School, International Committee for
                                               Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) - Human Rights and the
                                               Limits of Autonomous Lethality
                                           Benjamin Farley, New Organizing Institute - Drones and
                                               Democracy: Missing Accountability
                                           Mary Manjikian and Wendi Lawson See, Regents University -
                                               Responses to Critiques of Unmanned Weapons

5:00pm Reception and Dinner, The State House Green Historic St. Mary’s City

Speaker: Lieutenant General John C. Koziol, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Intelligence) for Joint and Coalition War fighter Support; and Director of the Department of Defense Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Task Force, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., view bio HERE

St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Campus Center, Cole Cinema, St. Mary’s City, MD
Directions click HERE. Campus Map click HERE

Registration: $75.00

Meals complimentary to our attendees (thank you to our PDF sponsors).

Advance registration and payment required.

Payments must be received by April 18, 5pm to confirm your registration.

Sorry no refunds.

If you prefer to pay by check, please send it payable to The Patuxent Partnership, 21789 North Coral Drive, Suite 2C, Lexington Park, MD 20653.
Questions call 301-866-1739 x303.

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