PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Unmanned Vehicle Applications -‐ UAS & Beyond 2013 24 Feb – 26 Feb 2013 PLATINUM SPONSORS
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Sunday, 24 February 2013 – MCEC
Time
Topic
10:00 – 14:00
Registration
13:00 – 13:10
Welcome
Dr. KC Wong, President, AUVS-‐Australia and Peggy MacTavish, Executive Director, AUVS-‐Australia
13:10 – 13:45
Australia’s opportunities in UAS for Industry
Dr. KC Wong & Dr. Dries Verstraete, University of Sydney
13:45 – 14:25
ResQu
Dr. Duncan Campbell / Brendan Williams – ARCAA, Australia
14:25 – 14:50
Challenges Facing the Australian Civil UAS Industry
Dr. Reece Clothier, RMIT, Australia
14:50 – 15:15
Dr. Anthony Finn, GAD UniSA, Defence & System Institute on Atmospheric Tomography, Australia
15:15 – 15:30
Tea
15:30 – 15:55
Tracking the movement of biological threat agents in the atmosphere with UAVs
David G. Schmale III, Ph.D., Food Safety & Plant Biosecurity, Virginia Tech, VA, USA
15:55 – 16:20
TerraLuma: Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for environmental remote sensing and aerial surveying applications
Dr. Arko Lucieer, Senior lecturer, School of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia
16:20 – 16:45
Out Back Challenge 2012
Dr. Jonathan Roberts, CSIRO, Australia
16:45 – 17:10
Defence’s Unmanned Systems procurement policies and practices
Peter Smith, Bartonvale, Australia
18:30
Speakers Dinner – Sponsored by IAI – Malat Division & Intercorp Pty.LTD
Presenter
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Monday, 25 February 2013 – MCEC
Time
Topic
07:00 – 10:00
Registration/Continental Breakfast
09:00 – 09:20
Senator’s Welcome
09:20 – 09:30
AUVS-‐Australia Welcome Dr. KC Wong, President, Peggy MacTavish, Executive Director, AUVS-‐Australia
09:30 – 10:15
Key Note Address
LT GEN David Morrison, AO, Chief of Army, Australia
10:20 – 10:50
Manned and unmanned aircraft – the future mix options
Air Marshal Errol McCormack, AO (Ret’d), Australia
10:55 – 11:15
Tea
11:15 – 11:55
Navy -‐ The Pathway to RADM Mark Campbell, CSC, RAN, Australia an Integrated Unmanned Capability Lunch Key Note John McCormick, Director of Aviation Safety, Civil Aviation Safety Authority, Australia
12:15 – 13:30
Presenter
The Hon. Senator David Johnston, Liberal Senator for Western Australia Shadow Minister for Defence
13:30 – 14:05
Operational Update SHADOW 200 & Future Employment Concept Post-‐Afghanistan
LT COL B. Galvin, “Bede”, Commanding Officer 20 STA Regt, Australia
14:10 – 14:45
Air Force Operational RPA Experience-‐ Lessons Identified
WGCDR David Riddel, Firepower Aerospace Development Branch, Capability Development Group, Australia
14:25 – 14:55
Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA)
Gregory Miller, Northrop Grumman BAMS Triton
15:00 – 15:20
Tea
15:25 – 16:00
Operational Support SHADOW 200 & Future Developments
Major Keirin Joyce, Logistics Commander 20 STA Regt, Australia
16:05 – 16:45
Operational use of Nano UAS
Petter Muren, M.Sc. CEO Prox Dynamics, Norway
16:50 – 17:25
ICAO Unmanned Aircraft (UASSG) Developments
Jim Coyne, Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), Australia
17:30 – 17:35
Closing Remarks
Dr. KC Wong, President, AUVS-‐Australia
18:00
Cocktail Party – Hilton Lounge
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Tuesday, 26 Feb 2013 – Avalon
Time
Topic
09:00 – 09:15
Welcome
Presenter
09:15 – 09:50
ASTRAEA and beyond -‐ UAS operations in civil airspace
Dr. Andrew Lucas – AOS Group, Australia
10:00 – 10:35
Multi-‐mission RPA
John Porter -‐ General Atomics
10:40 – 11:15
Delilah & Advanced Tactical Air Launched Decoy (ATALD)
Yoav Ben-‐Ari – Israel Military Industries Ltd (IMI)
11:20 – 11:55
MQ-‐8 Fire Scout: A Program Overview and Update and Bat UAS Overview
Michael Fuqua, Northrop Grumman, BAMS Program
12:00 – 12:55
Lunch
13:00 – 13:35
Open Source UAS – Are they the way of the future?
David Skinner, BASK Industries
13:40 – 14:15
The Global State of the Unmanned Systems Market
Peter Bale, AUVSI
14:20 – 14:55
Automated target detection of low signature targets in the maritime environment
Simon Olsen, Sentient
15:00 – 15:35
Mavinci Sirius 1 fixed wing UAS
Gavin Docherty – UAS Position Partners, Australia
15:40 – 16:15
Testing -‐ Antarctic
Jack Kormas, Aerosonde, Australia
Closing Remarks
Dr. KC Wong, President, AUVS-‐Australia
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