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This presentation examines how artificial intelligence is enabling a fundamental shift in unmanned platform RF architecture — replacing discrete radar, communications, jamming, and ESM payloads with a single integrated low-SWAP multifunctional RF system. The key enabler is AI's ability to switch and orchestrate shared apertures and waveforms across all functions in microseconds, continuously rebalancing mission priorities as the electromagnetic environment evolves. We explore the AI technologies driving this capability — from reinforcement learning-based aperture scheduling to cognitive waveform synthesis — while candidly addressing the core tradeoffs: performance versus resource sharing, switching speed versus reasoning depth, and adaptability versus training data dependency. For drone platforms where every gram and cubic centimeter is contested, AI-enabled multifunctional RF is not an incremental improvement — it is the only architecture that makes full-spectrum capability physically possible.
Course Dates: Monday, October 26, 2026 | 8 AM – 5 PM
Course Location: Water’s Edge Events Center
4687 Millennium Drive, Belcamp, MD 21017
Course Duration: 8 hours
Description: This course is designed to help cybersecurity and IT leaders maximize the value of their cybersecurity programs by aligning people, processes, and technology into an effective and sustainable security operation. Participants will explore the critical components that make up a successful cybersecurity program, with a strong emphasis on protecting organizational data from both internal security risks and external offensive attacks.
The focus of the course is understanding how different cybersecurity disciplines share common goals while addressing distinct threats and challenges. Participants will learn how to communicate cybersecurity value and risk effectively through meaningful reporting to upper management and executive leadership, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
By the end of the course, you will be equipped to build or enhance a cybersecurity program that minimizes risk, optimizes team performance, supports operational efficiency, and delivers measurable value. The end goal is a cybersecurity program that protects data, earns executive confidence, empowers employees, and fosters pride in a job well done.
Who Should Attend:
- Software and Hardware Engineers
- Engineering, IT, and Cyber Security Managers
- Executive Leaders
- Course Introduction and Objectives
- The Most Important Factor: The People
- Technology and Tools
- Processes That Drive Consistency and Success
- Scalability Across Different Organizations
- Core Cybersecurity Focus Areas
- Commonalities and Differences Across Cybersecurity Domains
- Risk Mitigation and Executive-Level Reporting
- Wrap-Up: Building a High-Value Cybersecurity Program
Registration
Registration will open this summer. Registration for the course can be added when registering for Cyber Electromagnetic Activity (CEMA) 2026.
Course Pricing
- Non-Member – $750
- AOC Member – $500
Questions related to pre-summit registration can be directed to Samantha Kim, Professional Development Coordinator, at [email protected].
Instructor
Aram Grigoryan is the Regional Account Manager for Ace Embedded. He has more than 15 years of sales, management, and engineering experience across the aerospace, automotive, and even medical sectors. His technical expertise ranges from hardware-in-the-loop system testing to mechanical hardware development and presently onto real-time embedded technology. Grigoryan serves the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions in providing the latest and greatest in embedded systems technology for military and commercial application.
Course Dates: Monday, October 26, 2026 | 8 AM – 12 PM
Course Location: Water’s Edge Events Center
4687 Millennium Drive, Belcamp, MD 21017
Course Duration: 4 hours
Description: This four-hour course will review the basic operation of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), their vulnerabilities, and the threats and risks associated with overdependence. The development of interference techniques will be discussed, along with their use on the battlefield and in low‑intensity conflict. The role of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) in great power competition and NAVWAR asymmetry will also be covered.
Who Should Attend: Crows interested in the fundamentals of PNT and the intersection of technology, policy, and global power.
Agenda:
- 8:00 – 8:45 AM
- Global Navigation Satellite Systems – The Technology
- 8:45 – 9 AM
- Discussion and Break
- 9:00 – 9:45 AM
- Threats to Satellites, Signals, and Users
- 9:45 – 10 AM
- Discussion and Break
- 10:00 – 10:45 AM
- Alternative PNT Technologies
- 10:45 – 11 AM
- Discussion and Break
- 11:00 – 11:45 AM
- PNT in Great Power Competition
- 11:45 AM – 12:00 PM
- Wrap-up
Registration
Registration will open this summer. Registration for the course can be added when registering for Cyber Electromagnetic Activity (CEMA) 2026.
Course Pricing
Questions related to pre-summit registration can be directed to Samantha Kim, Professional Development Coordinator, at [email protected].
Not a member? Join now and save! AOC Members receive discounts on all courses, free access to all webinars and much more.
Instructor
Dana A. Goward is President of the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation, a public‑benefit scientific and educational charity advocating for policies and systems that protect GPS/GNSS satellites, signals, and users. He has served at sea as a ship’s navigator, as a Coast Guard helicopter pilot, and as the maritime navigation authority for the United States.
He is the recipient of the Air Medal and the Institute of Navigation’s Hays Award for inspirational leadership, is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation, and received the Harrison Award from the International Association of Institutes of Navigation.
Goward served for more than a decade as a member of the President’s National Space‑Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board until its charter expired in 2025.
In honor of Veterans Day, join us for a special webinar, “Evolution of EW,” recognizing the service and contributions of veterans who have shaped the field of electromagnetic warfare.
From the earliest efforts to control and exploit the electromagnetic spectrum to today’s advanced, spectrum-dominant capabilities, electromagnetic warfare has continually evolved alongside the changing character of conflict. This webinar will explore the progression of EW technologies and operational tools used by the military, highlighting how decades of innovation, operational lessons, and emerging threats have driven new approaches to spectrum operations.
Participants will gain insight into how early EW techniques and platforms laid the groundwork for modern systems, as well as how current capabilities are designed to meet the demands of multi-domain operations and increasingly contested electromagnetic environments.
Through historical perspective and technical discussion, this webinar will honor the veterans who pioneered these capabilities while examining the technologies that continue to shape the future of electromagnetic warfare.
Speaker Bio:
Panelists Bio's:
Wayne Shaw is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel who flew in the B-52, B-1B, F-111E and EF-111 and a tour flying with the U.S. Navy in the EA-6B and was a Navy Weapons School Instructor. He flew thousands of hours and hundreds of combat missions over Bosnia and Iraq. For a one-year remote, Wayne ran U.S. Central Command’s EW Coordination Cell in the Middle East. There he balanced EW resources for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His military decorations include two Bronze Stars, four Air Medals and many others.
Dr. Thomas Withington is an award-winning analyst and writer specialising in electronic warfare, radar and military communications; a Research Associate at the Royal United Services Institute and a Senior Non-Resident Associate Fellow at the NATO Defence College. He has written widely on these subjects for a range of specialist and general publications. He also works as a consultant and adviser in these areas for several leading government and private sector clients. Furthermore, Dr. Withington provides regular commentary on security and defence aspects of electromagnetic spectrum use for major media organisations around the world.