8:15 Chairperson’s Welcome And Opening Remarks

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

8:25 Metamaterials For RF Antenna Applications

• Applied R&D of metamaterial-based or metamaterial-inspired RF Antennas
• Utility of metamaterials for military applications
• Ability of metamaterials to enhance or enable RF antenna performance beyond current state-of-the-art

Dr. Bob Simpson
Chief, RF/EO Subsystems Branch
Air Force Research Laboratory

9:05 On The Applications Of Electromagnetic Metamaterials To Military Tactical Communications

• Applications of electromagnetic metamaterials (MTMs) to antennas
• Challenges in application of MTMs to military systems
• Addressing the issues

Dr. Jeffrey Boksiner
Electronics Engineer, Antennas and Spectrum Analysis, Space and Terrestrial Communications
US Army CERDEC

10:30 State-Of-The-Art In Metamaterial Antennas

• Fundamental limitations associated with the design of antennas
• Fundamental concepts of Metamaterials and antenna design
• Performance comparison of Metamaterial and conventional antennas

Dr. Steven R. Best
Principal Sensor Systems Engineer
MITRE Corporation

11:10 Army Electromagnetic Modeling, Simulation And Cosite Analysis

• Full Wave Electromagnetics for On-Vehicle Antenna Placement Optimization
• Hybrid Full Wave & Propagation Analysis Techniques
• GPU Clustering for Quickly Simulating Large Electromagnetic Problems in Full Wave Code

Daniel Duvak
Electromagnetic M&S (EMS) Team Lead, Antenna & Spectrum Division, IAT Branch
US Army CERDEC

1:15 Vendor Panel Discussion: Modeling And Simulation

• Antenna design, placement, and integration on varying platforms
• Antenna design using AMCs, FSS and metamaterials
• Antenna design for MIMO wireless communications and adaptive radar
• Advanced computational tools for enhanced simulation techniques

Panel Moderator:

Dr. David Johns
CST North America

1:55 Affordable And Lightweight Directional Apertures For UAV's

• Advanced aperture designs
• Dielectric lens/prism and multi-horn technologies
• Lightweight, conformal and low power characteristics
• Broadband operation
• Future capabilities for networked systems

Dr. Preston “Chip” Grounds
Director, Electronics, Sensors & Network Research Division
Office of Naval Research

3:05 Round Table Discussion: Public-Private Partnerships For Antenna Technologies

Take part in facilitated roundtable discussions about successful collaboration between government agencies and industry innovators, and how your organization can benefit from future partnerships. If you are an expert in antenna design and business development, and are interested in being a table moderator, contact kristine.cortes@idga.org.

3:45 Broadband Antenna Technology

• Reduced size broadband omnidirectional antennas
• Ultra-broadband antennas
• Broadband and scalable mobile satellite communications

Electromagnetic System Technology Branch, SPAWAR Systems Center

4:25 End Of Day One