Day Two Main Summit: Wednesday, September 22, 2010

8:00 Registration & Coffee

8:45 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

9:00 ARCIC Keynote: Building A Highly Sustainable Future Ground Force

  • Global reach of US ground forces burdened by its logistics system designed fortheatre-level combat
  • Unacceptable “tooth-to-tail” (mission vs. support) ratio
  • New concept for flexible, sustainable force to conduct distributed full-spectrum operations

Colonel Paul Roege
Operation Energy Integrator, ARCIC
US Army

9:45 G-8 Perspective: The Army’s Modernization Plan – Real Solutions For Today

  • Policy analysis of the 2010 Modernization Plan
  • Cost and sustainability of the Army in the next 3 years
  • Acquisition reform in capability development

Tom Lanagan
Director, Army Study Program Management Office
Army G-8

10:30 Networking Break

11:15 Increasing Survivability Through Advanced Night Vision Systems

  • Warfighter perspective of night vision needs
  • Current programs and challenges needed to advance night vision modernization
  • Future requirements integration to the modernization plan

Tom Conway
Senior Engineer, Night Vision/Reconnaissance
Surveillance & Target Acquisition Program Office

12:00 Modernizing Communication: Dynamic Spectrum Access And Future Initiatives

  • Current and future needs for DoD spectrum access
  • Lessons learned and challenges faced
  • Using the spectrum more effective for the ground force

Howard McDonald
Team Lead – DSA, Defense Spectrum Organization
Defense Information Systems Agency

12:45 Warfighter Perspective: Warfighter Panel

Learn which new technologies and platforms would be the most useful in the theater with a boots-on-the-ground perspective from US Army and US Marine Corps who are recently returned from theater.

1:15 Lunch

2:30 Current Initiatives And Potential Use Of Electromagnetic Acceleration Of Projectiles

  • Overview of the development railguns and the potential for widespread use
  • Advancements in plasma-driven railguns
  • Special demonstration of the weapons utility

Dr. David Wetz
Institute for Advanced Technology
The University of Texas in Austin

3:15 Networking Break

4:00 Modernization Efforts In Lightweight Materials For Soldiers To Vehicles

  • Reactive armor to increase survivability
  • Self-healing polymers and metals
  • Reactive armor and material advancement

Dr. Pradeep Rohatgi
Director, Composites Center
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

4:45 End Of Summit

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