Military Space USA Day 1 | 11th June 2019 08:00 Registration 13:00 Networking Lunch 08:45 Chair’s Opening Remarks Mr. Jay Santee, Vice President, Strategic Space Operations, The Aerospace SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS Corporation 14:00 ‘Chose the Weather for Battle’: Providing a Holistic Approach to Space OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESSES – DELIVERING THE DISRUPTIVE Situational Awareness • An introduction to the 557th – organizational overview & its role within the 09:00 Keynote Address: Creating a More Unified Space Enterprise: SMC 2.0 wider USAF structure • Overcoming program stovepipes by looking at systems horizontally from • SSA considerations for space operations: the demand to provide ‘terra design to production firma’ levels of awareness in the fourth domain • The restructuring process: how to changes business practices to deliver • Analysis of space weather – optimising satellite deployment through capabilities with epic speed • Pushing decision making to the coal-face to streamline procurement analysis and forecasting of the suns emissions processes & successes so far in the next-generation missile warning • Providing future space weather support for commanders to enable constellation decision superiority in space • Harmonizing the Development Corps: the changing role of Development, Colonel Patrick Williams, Commander, 2nd Weather Group, 557th Weather Production, Enterprise and Atlas Corps within SMC Wing, US Air Force • Maintaining and sustaining the changes – ensuring that SMC 2.0 continues 14:30 Architecture Analysis for Enhancing Space Situational Awareness Session Reserved for Lieutenant General John Thompson, Commander, Space and Missile Systems Center, US Air Force* • Why SSA is important: Satellite health, maneuver, and decommissioning activities 09:30 Keynote Address: The Future of the US Space Enterprise – Providing Joint • SSA at GEO, LEO, MEO and HEO orbits – challenges presented by each Capability Around the Globe • Optimizing the mix of ground-based and space-based sensor systems for • The current remit of the 14th Air Force: C2, PNT, launch, SSA and SATCOM SSA • Building a holistic approach to space across all stakeholders: • Use of high-performance computing for optimal SSA architecture analysis collaboration between AFSC, 14th AF and SMC in procuring and • Supercomputing for analyzing risks of large-scale debris fields for LEO delivering space-based enablers for the warfighter • SATCOM as a means to connect the warfighter and provide joint Mr Richard Cobb, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Department of capability Aeronautics and Astronautics, US Air Force Institute of Technology • Integrating commercial COMSATCOM to diversify communications for the warfighter and provide a more resilient network 15:00 Future Research and Development Across the Space Enterprise • Working to utilize new launch capability when providing sovereign • Results of the Haystack Radar W-band Space Surveillance Telescope capability post WGS provision high-res EO capability Major General Stephen Whiting, Commander, 14th Air Force and Deputy • What assets we’ll need moving forward for planetary defence & where Joint Space Component Commander, US Air Force SSA can provide greater protection 10:00 Session Reserved for Gold Sponsor Lockheed Martin • Current R&D at Lincoln Space Surveillance complex & radar data provision for US DoD 10:30 Morning Coffee • Technical updates on sensor systems within the US Space Surveillance Network & success tracking orbital debris POSITION, NAVIGATION AND TIMING Mr Grant Stokes, Head of the Space and Technology Division, MIT Lincoln Laboratory 11:00 Enabling Decisive Army Action Through Effective Position, Navigation and Timing Capability 15:30 Afternoon Tea • An introduction to PEO PNT – our aims, ambitions and processes • Anti-jam antenna capabilities for assured PNT: feedback from testing at CERDEC APAC & INTERNATIONAL UPDATES • VSSO demonstration of remote control of PNT capability & distributed PNT via native implementation on tactical radio 16:00 Hybrid Approaches to the ROK’s SATCOM Capability • Reducing warfighter vulnerabilities by maximizing PNT resiliency across the battlefield • Current capability: LTE services and the need to exploit COMSATCOM • Working with the other branches to optimize the architectures of the services to a greater extent future • Minimising the threat of jamming – developing more resilient and robust Colonel Nickolas Kioutas, PM - Positioning, Navigation, and Timing, PEO communications IEW&S, US Army • Opportunity areas to integrate ROK systems into wider allied SATCOM programmes 11:30 Space-Enabled PNT for Manned and Unmanned Platforms • Developing a holistic approach to space: managing PNT and EO • Current navigation software enhancements and their operational use within the MQ-1C Grey Eagle program constellations within the wider network of platforms • Utilizing PNT in degraded environments – key considerations Lieutenant Colonel Yun Kyong Sung, C4I Interoperability Officer, J6, • Integration of GPS and vision measurements for navigations in PNT ROK JCS challenged environments • Where unmanned warfare can develop with current technology gradients 16:30 MilSatCom In Contested & Denied Domains : APAC Region Mr Arlen Biersgreen, Space Systems Engineer, AFRL Sensors Directorate, • Protected SATCOM : Providing on the move adaptive capability for US Air Force* dispersed forces • COTS SATCOM: Integrated greater protection features & possibility of FUTURE CONCEPTS AND CAPABILITY future adaptation by defence forces • Bandwidth as a Key Enabler: Correlation with protected and secure 12:00 Session Reserved for Gold Sponsor SATCOM • Assured Operation in Denied and Contested Domains : Risk Mitigation 12:30 The Advanced Concepts Division: Delivering End-to-End Capabilities for the Future Warfighter through Enhanced ground segment • Defining the needs of the terrestrial warfighter: the SATCOM led joint • Ka band high-throughput satellites : Reliance vs bandwidth assurance enablers we require Colonel Kapil Jaiswal, Director, Directorate of System Applications, • Future technology development within the evolving WGS and AEHF Directorate General of Signals, Indian Armed Forces programs – what is being integrated to WGS 11 & 12 • Ground synchronization within communications on the move (COTM) – 17:00 Chair’s Closing Remarks delivering architectural approaches to provide continuous capability Mr. Jay Santee, Vice President, Strategic Space Operations, The Aerospace • Assessment and acquisition methodologies to integrate COMSATCOM into the space communications enterprise Corporation Mr Joseph Vanderpoorten, Chief, Advanced Concepts Division, Space and Missile Systems Center, MILSATCOM/Advanced Concepts, US Air Force *Subject to Final Confirmation www.asdevents.com - www.asdevents.com/event.asp?id=20330 Military Space USA Day Two | 12th June 2019 08:00 Registration NETWORK ENABLED APPROACHES TO SATCOM 08:45 Chair’s Opening Remarks 13:30 Getting Bandwidth to the Warfighter: Streamlining Acquisition of SATCOM Colonel Russell Teehan, Portfolio Architect, SMC, AFSPC, US Air Force • The 91 contracts DISA has for commercial satellite communications – our current COMSATCOM connectivity OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESSES • What getting connectivity to the warfighter quicker will mean for future battlefield commanders • Exploring the opportunities to establish a core network to provide on-demand 09:00 Keynote Address: The Mobile User Objective System – Providing SATCOM for capability and quickly meet bandwidth demands the Navy • The narrowband communications within MUOS (Mobile User Objective System) • Contract surges and blanket purchase agreements as tools to streamlining and recent approval for its expanded operation procurement approaches • Utilizing COMSATCOM capability through the Wideband Code Division Multiple • Improvement within the ‘art of the possible’: exceeding the 17-business day Access (WCDMA) waveform turnaround for task orders • The Navy’s unique challenge: exploiting BLOS (beyond line of sight) SATCOM capability Ms Demaryl Singleton, Infrastructure and Development Division Chief, DISA • Timelines for MUOS roll out in the first quarter of 2019 • Marine Corps adoption of the system and ensuring interoperability of MUOS SMALL SATELLITE’S & LAUNCH MOVING FORWARD portable radios with ship-based equipment Session Reserved for PEO Space, US Navy 14:00 Transforming Future Space Propulsion 09:30 Keynote Address: Developing High-Payoff Space Technologies to Support the • Current architectural approaches in propulsion system design & ambitions for Warfighter next generation systems • The role and remit of the Space Vehicles Directorate: launch, on-orbit systems • Generating thrust from ionic liquid – providing a safe & lightweight propulsion & communication links system • Operating in the 4th domain: developing systems for a contested and • Deorbiting assets to minimise space debris & ensure that future utilisation of the congested environment domain remains sustainable • Driving innovation across all mission areas: current work supporting PNT, SSA, • Current R&D into further optimisation of thrust to power ratio’s – how to draw space-based ISR & SATCOM additional power • Applying the core values of the AFRL to overcome technology challenges • What next? Where future propulsion technology is set to develop moving within future space Colonel Eric Felt, Space Vehicles Directorate, RV Director, US Air Force Research forward Laboratory* Dr Natalya Bailey, CEO and Co-Founder, Accion Systems 10:00