7:15 AM Registration and Coffee

8:15 AM Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks

Dr. Joseph R. Guerci , IEEE Fellow, IEEE Warren D. White Award, IDGA Advisory Board Member

8:30 AM Continuous Improvement of Military Antennas

Major General Nick Justice , Assistant Military Deputy to the Assistant Secreta, US Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology

9:15 AM Successful Antenna Integration on Military Platforms

Bill McGinn , Technical Manager, ANSYS

10:00 AM Networking Break

10:45 AM Revolutionary Antenna Concepts

Vincent Sabio , Program Manager, DARPA

11:30 AM Allegany Ballistics Lab: Sensor Test Target System

Deran S. Eaton , System Design Engineer, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division

12:15 PM Lunch

Roundtable Discussion

1:15 PM Next Generation Smart Antennas

Tom Weller , Associate Dean for Research, Electrical Engineering Department, University of South Florida College of Engineering

Doug White , Principle Member of the Technical Staff, Draper Laboratory

2:00 PM VSAT and MOUS for Antennas

Dr. Steven Weiss , Team Leader, Antennas, Sensors & Electron Director, US Army Research Laboratory

2:45 PM Networking Break

3:30 PM Aviation and Ground Antenna Technology at CERDEC

Mike Breckenridge , Electrical Engineer, Aberdeen Proving Ground, CERDEC

4:15 PM Small & Conformal Ultra Wideband Apertures with Code Division-based Digital Beam Forming

Professor John L. Volakis , Director, Electrical & Computer Engineering Departement, ElectroScience Laboratory, The Ohio State University

5:00 PM Conference Wrap-up Session