Conference Program

• • May 14, 2012
    • 11:00 am - 6:00 pmConference Registration OpenRaspet Flight Research Laboratory
    • 12:00 pm - 6:00 pmUAS 101 WorkshopRaspet Flight Research Laboratory
    • 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmIce-Breaker Reception & MicroUAV Flight DemosRaspet Flight Research Laboratory
  • May 15, 2012
    • 7:00 am - 5:00 pmConference Registration Open2nd Floor of the Student Union
    • 7:00 am - 8:00 amContinental Breakfast
    • 8:00 am - 8:15 amWelcome & Introductions
    • 8:15 am - 9:15 amMike Toscano, President AUVSI, Keynote Speaker: Major General James O. Poss, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Headquarters U.S. Air Force
      
    • 9:15 am - 9:30 amBreak
    • 9:30 am - 11:30 amSession I: National Airspace Integration (COA Success Stories)Speakers:
      Jeff Golliver, Kevin Kennedy, Unmanned Systems Integration Solutions, LLC
      Col Dane Powell (Regional Shadow Training Center at Camp Shelby)
      Alvin Brunner, NextGen Branch, UAS & AWOPM, FAA
      Douglas R. Murphy, Southern Regional Administrator, FAA
      
    • 11:30 am - 1:00 pmLuncheon with Research Posters
    • 1:00 pm - 3:00 pmSession II: Successful UAS manufacturing & flight ops: Working with state & local entitiesSpeakers:
      MG (Ret) Buff Blount, Chairman, MAV6 Inc.,
      George Vardoulakis, Vice-President and Senior Program Manager, Tactical Unmanned Systems, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
      Steve Rehermann, Director, Security Assistance Solutions, SELEX Galileo
      Jon Waldrop, Senior Vice-President, Stark Aerospace
      John Langford, President, Aurora Flight Sciences
      
    • 3:00 pm - 3:30 pmBreak
    • 3:30 pm - 4:00 pmGregory A Kern, Chief, Airborne ISR Programs, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
    • 4:00 pm - 5:30 pmSession III:Applications (First Responders)Speakers:
      Michael K. Beebe, CDR USNR (Ret), Medical Robotics and Unmanned Systems R&D Program Manager, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (Use of UAS for Casualty Assessment and Extraction)
      
      Kirk Kloeppel, Borders and Maritime Security Division, Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (SUAS Center of Technology Transition for First Responders)
      
      Douglas J. Koupash, Executive Director of Mission Support for Customs and Border Protection, Office of Air & Marine
    • 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmSymposium DinnerRaspet Flight Research Laboratory
  • May 16, 2012
    • 7:00 am - 5:00 pmConference Registration Open2nd Floor of the Student Union
    • 7:00 am - 8:00 amContinental Breakfast
    • 8:00 am - 8:15 amWelcome and Introductions
    • 8:15 am - 9:15 amKeynote: John Langford, President, Aurora Flight Sciences
    • 9:15 am - 9:30 amBreak
    • 9:30 am - 11:00 amSession IV: Applications (Coastal, Environmental, Ecological)Speakers:
      Jeff Sloan, UAS Program Offic, USGS
      John "JC" Coffey, UAS Program Office, NOAA
      John Perry, CEO, Altavian
    • 11:00 am - 12:30 pmLuncheon with Research Posters
    • 12:30 pm - 2:30 pmSession V: Future of UAS - Future systems and their integration in to operationsSpeakers:
      Dr. John Wissler, Director of Aerospace Systems, Aurora Flight Sciences
      Joanne Gabrynowicz, Director, National Center for Remote Sensing, Air, and Space Law, University of Mississippi School of Law
      Oliver Myers, Mississippi State University
    • 3:00 pm - 3:00 pmAdjourn
    • 3:30 pm - 6:15 pmToursBy invitation only, for more information contact Lori Bruce at bruce@bagley.msstate.edu