Conference Day Two: Wednesday 20th February 2008
08.30 Coffee And Registration
09.00 Chairman’s Welcome And Introduction
09.10 Technology And Tradeoffs In Building High-Power Microwave (HPM) Systems
- Review of the available technology for realising HPM systems
- Alternative paths for building HPM systems
- Evaluating the tradeoffs in capability, size and mass
Dr. John Swegle
Consultant
Savannah River National Laboratories
09.50 Recent Advances In Directed Energy Weapons
- Short historical overview of DEWs
- The present capability of DEWs
- Advances in DEW science and technology
- Future DEW capability
- Policy implications for DEWs
Dr. J. Douglas Beason
PhD, Associate Laboratory Director (Threat Reduction)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
10.30 Coffee And Networking Break
11.00 Directed Energy Weapons And NATO Transformation
- Defining why directed energy weapons matter to NATO
- Where NATO is focusing its efforts
- Possible applications for NATO
- How NATO determines requirements
- How DEWs fit into this model
- Issues for future development
Brendan Wilson
Joint Forces Analyst, Force Planning Directorate
NATO HQ
11.40 Bridging The Knowledge Gap For Directed Energy Weapon Systems
- Identification of the problem
- Understanding DE systems and capabilities
- Safety and collateral damage
- Overcoming the knowledge gap
Dr Michael Cathcart
Chief, Remote Sensing Group, Principal Research Scientist
Georgia Technology Research Institute
12.20 Networking Lunch
13.50 Pulsed Power Sources For Radio Frequency And HPM Generators
- Compact pulsed power sources
- Autonomous, explosively-driven pulsed power sources
- Novel technologies
Dr. Bucur Novac
Senior Lecturer
Loughborough University
14.30 Laser Guided Energy (LGE®) Applications For The 21st Century
- Introducing the concept of Laser Guided Energy
- Discussing why Laser Guided Energy is a different kind of directed energy approach
- Urban Warfare Applications of Laser Guided Energy
Rear Admiral (ret.) Tom Donaldson
Senior Vice President of Business Development and Government Relations
Applied Energetics
15.10 Coffee And Networking Break
15.40 Evaluation Of European DEW Technology And Resistive Sensor Applications
- Current European facility updates of DEW developments
- Measuring the strength high power pulses
- Identifying resistive sensors for measuring microwave radiation
Dr. Rimantas Simniškis
Senior Research Associate, Microwave Laboratory, Semiconductor Physics Institute
PFI
16.20 Non-Lethal Acoustic Weapons: What Are They? Will They Work?
- What is a NL acoustic weapon?
- Anecdotal and Manufactures' Claims
- Bio-acoustic Effects
- Hearing Injury Standards for NL Acoustic Weapons
- Are NL acoustic weapons feasible?
- Will they work?
Dr Nicholas C. Nicholas
Chief Scientist
Penn State University
17.00 Chairman’s Summary And End Of Conference
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