the only conference to discuss the operational and technical Capability of radar
June 28 - 29, 2023
| Hilton Syon Park, London, United Kingdom
Conference Day Two - 29 August 2019
8:30 am - 9:00 am
REGISTRATION & COFFEE
9:00 am - 9:10 am
CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS
9:10 am - 9:50 am
FORTHCOMING IMPLEMENTATION, ADVANCES AND CHALLENGES OF NATOS AIR COMMAND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM (ACCS)
• Understanding current NATO ASACS & C2 sites across Europe, and managing sites across national controls
• Identifying barriers to coherent ACC within the existing force structure, and practical steps to mitigating these control challenges
• Bringing homogeneity in NATO’s C2 for enhanced battle management capability
• Developing and implementing new systems to enable full Air C2 on offensive and defensive operations
9:50 am - 10:30 am
CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES FOR RADAR COUNTERING SMALL UAS
• Discussion on recent trends in monitoring small UAS using radar
• Additional points on Micro-Doppler phenomenology and how this can support target classification
• Some experimental results from academic literature, in particular birds vs UAS & payload estimation
10:30 am - 11:10 am
MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING
11:10 am - 11:50 am
ADS OPERATION IN THE EW SPACE
• Understanding where radar system capability exists within Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (EMSO) for the military
• Demonstrating how the military currently responds to the challenges from the EM spectrum through reduced bandwidth operations
• New radar systems development to combat the rapidly expanding Electromagnetic spectrum and the implications of larger networked systems
• Building an effective model for operations in the EM spectrum
11:50 am - 12:30 pm
PANEL DISCUSSIONS: WHAT IS THE GREATEST THREAT TO OPERATIONS WITHIN THE EW SPACE?
• How should we understand the EW space? Is the continuous environment combining cyber, sensors and radar systems most appropriate, or is this overly complex?
• What are the strengths and vulnerabilities of operating under the continuous environment model?
• What defines system cognition in CEMA?
• How is EW changing? What are the implications for the radar specialist?
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
NETWORKING LUNCH
1:30 pm - 2:10 pm
ARCHITECTURES FOR COGNITIVE RADAR
• Identifying the three ingredients basic to the constitution of cognitive radar: intelligent signal processing, feedback from the receiver to the transmitter, preservation of the information content of radar returns
• Modelling the Bayesian approach to target detection through tracking
• Comparisons with bat echolocation; a physical realization of cognitive radar
• Applying these theories to cognitive radar in the military environment
2:10 pm - 2:50 pm
PROGRESSIONS IN QUANTUM RADAR
• Demonstrating current research progress into deployable quantum radar systems
• Measuring quantum radar capabilities against conventional radar systems
• Advantages of Quantum in countering next generation stealth technology
• Anticipating the timelines for Quantum Radar systems being deployable for military air defence forces
2:50 pm - 3:30 pm
AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING
3:30 pm - 4:10 pm
AESA RADARS – WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
Dr Thomas Withington -
Electronic Warfare, Radar and Military Communications Specialist,
Consultant
• Understanding AESA technology developments d since inception
• Contributions of Gallium Nitride in improving AESA performance
• Advances in signal processing and artificial intelligence to enhance AESA radars capability
• Realising genuine cognitive AESA radars, and the contribution of these sensors to future conflict
Dr Thomas Withington
Electronic Warfare, Radar and Military Communications SpecialistConsultant
4:10 pm - 4:50 pm
ENABLING TECHNOLOGY FOR DEPLOYABLE SPACE ANTENNAS
• Developing enabling technologies for deployable space technologies
• Viability of SAR antennas for Earth observation and UHF SATCOM.
• Modelled advantage in adaption; defining future EW and Radar systems in the cognitive age
