Main Conference Day 2: Wednesday, September 30, 2009

7:30 Registration And Coffee

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

9:45 Networking Break

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

GeneralAtomics

11:50 Lunch

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

2:20 Networking Break

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