8:15 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

Dr. Joseph Guerci
Consultant, IEE Warren D. White Award Recipient 2007
IDGA Advisory Board Member

8:25 Military Antennas And Their Application To Radar Systems

• Breakthroughs in phased-arrays and radars
• Adaptive MIMO antennas and MIMO radar
• Multifunctional antennas and cognitive radar

Dr. Joseph Guerci
Consultant, IEE Warren D. White Award Recipient 2007
IDGA Advisory Board Member

9:05 Army Tactical Vehicular Antennas

• Development of small, multi-functional, rugged antennas
• Conformal Antennas

Dr. Rony Shahidain
Antenna Technology & Analysis Branch, Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate
US Army CERDEC

10:30 Regulatory And Technical Issues For Next-Generation Radio Networks

• Dynamic capabilities within radios and radio networks
• Cognitive systems for radios and robots and the importance of enhanced antenna design
• Next generation communications technologies

Dr. Paul Kolodzy
Former Senior Spectrum Policy Advisor, Office of Engineering and Technology, FCC and President
Kolodzy Consulting

11:10 Client Case Study By General Atomics

1:00 Future Developments In Cognitive Antennas And Radios

• Integration of antennas, software radio, and machine intelligence
• Software radio architecture as applied to military antennas
• Cognitive radio architecture and its impact on military antenna design

Dr. Joseph Mitola
III, VP for the Research Enterprise
Stevens Institute of Technology

1:40 Antenna Design And Integration For C4I Initiatives

• Current and future C4I initiatives
• Plans and requirements for deploying antennas on C4I platforms
• Enhanced antenna design for superior RF communication

Kurt Fiscko
Communications Program Office, PEO C41
SPAWAR

2:50 RF Design And Applications

• Analysis and design of mobile antennas and arrays as applied to various platforms
• Use of metamaterials for ideal antenna performance
• Developments and advancements for antenna miniaturization

Professor John Volakis
Chope Chair Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department and Director, ElectroScience Laboratory
Ohio State University

3:30 Antenna Pattern Synthesis In Operational Environments

• Electromagnetic compatibility-based constraints
• Independent component analysis approach to image sharpening in the presence of atmospheric turbulence

Dr. Wasyl Wasylkiwskyj
IEEE Fellow, Professor of Engineering and Applied Science
George Washington University

4:10 End Of Main Conference