2024 Counter UAS Technology Highlights
Enjoyed all aspects from the agenda to the current status and trending topics on the evolving threat.
Very satisfied with the sessions and speakers from the DoD... Great Event!
Well worth the time. This event was well organized and had great speakers.
Conference Chair:
MAJOR GEN USAF-RET JAMES POSS
CEO
ISR Ideas
Former Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for ISR, Headquarters U.S. Air Force
Keynote Speakers:
JAMES “JT” THOM
Acting Executive Director
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Domain Awareness Security Operations (AMO)
MAJOR GENERAL (UKR-AIR FORCE)
BORYS KREMENETSKYI
Defense Attache
Embassy of Ukraine to the USA
THE HONORABLE
DR. DOUGLAS SCHMIDT
Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), Office of the Secretary of Defense OSD/DOT&E
Government Speakers:
DR. ROBERT W. SADOWSKI, SES
U.S Army Chief Roboticist (Roboticist ST), United States Army Combat Capabilities
Development Command
Ground Vehicles Systems Center
COLONEL MIKE PARENT, USA
Chief, Joint Counter sUAS Office Acquisition and Resource Division
MICAH CAMPBELL
Executive Director
UAS & Emerging Entrants Security, AXU Security & Hazardous Materials Safety (ASH)
JEREMY KOFSKY
Senior Fellow
Information Warfare Institute for AI Research Former AI Implementation DoD Fellow, USMC
MAJOR ANDREW DURFEE, USA
Assistant Program Manager, PdM Medium Caliber (PM MAS)
Picatinny Arsenal
MATTHEW SMITH
Supervisory Special Agent, Program Manager Surveillance and Emerging Technologies Unit (SETU)
Federal Bureau of Investigation
JULIAN JAMES ATENCIO
CUAS Program Manager, Office of Science and Technical Information
Los Alamos National Laboratory
U.S. Department of Energy
L. SCOTT PARKER
Deputy Associate Director, Office of Security Programs, Infrastructure Security Division
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
BRANDON YOUNGBLOOD
Group Manager –
UAS Security and C-UAS Integration
FAA
TRAVIS MORAN
Senior Reliability & Security Advisor
Federal Energy and Regulatory Commission (FERC)
DJ SMITH
Technical Surveillance Agent, Unmanned Aerial Systems, Program Coordinator, High Tech Crimes Division
Bureau of Criminal Investigations
Virginia State Police
SENIOR REPRESENTATIVE
National Security Council
U.S. Congress
AMBASSADOR LINCOLN BLOOMFIELD JR.
Stimson Center Chairman Emeritus
Former Assistant Secretary of State, Political Military Affairs, Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
International Security Affairs, U.S. Special Envoy
ANGELISSA SAVINO
Attorney, Office of Law & Policy, National Security Division
U.S. Department of Justice
Government Speakers: DoD Speakers:
WREN RAY
CUAS & Technology Program Manager (Ret-Supervisory Special Agent, Operational Support Unit (STSO)
Office of Investigative Technology (ST)) Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
CARY UNDERWOOD
Executive Director
Southern Nevada Counter Terrorism Center
CAPTAIN JIM BAMBERGER
Branch Chief of Requirements and Analysis
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
TEDDY DAMOUR
National Urban Security Technology Laboratory Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate
BEN SCHUBERT
Staff Member
U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
QUERON THOMPSON
Manager, Program Design and Analytics Division
UAS & Emerging Entrants Security FAA
LUCIAN SIKORSKYJ
Special Advisor for Transborder Policy, National Secuity Council
The White House
COL JOHN WHELAHAN, USA
Executive Director of Transformation
Combined Joint All Domain C2, Partner Nations (CJADC2-P)
XVlllth Airborne Corps 3rd Infantry Div/ 10th Mountain Division
82d Airborne Div/101st Airborne Division
COL SCOTT WENCE, USA
CDR 2 Brigade Combat Team
10th MTN Division
DENE FARRELL
Chief Data Officer
XVIIIth Airborn Corps
GIHAN ORABY
Senior Scientific Technical Manager
Networked Lethality & Systems Readiness
Technical Director, Armaments Center
U.S. Army DEVCOM
CRAIG RIEDEL
Project Manager, Tactical Aviation and Ground Munitions (TAGM Project Office)
PEO Missiles and Space
COL CHAE GAYLES, USA
Acquisition Director
ASA (ALT), Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics & Technology)
Associaton Speaker:
CAPTAIN WOLFGANG KOCH
Aviation Security Chair
Airlines Pilots Association (ALPA)
Industry Speakers:
LISA ELLMAN
Partner, Hogan Lovells
Executive Director, Commercial Drone Alliance
SHAWN S. BULLARD
Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAeS)
Founder, Duetto Group
Specialist in Disruptive Technologies –Policy Integration – Future Risk Assessment
JEFFREY STARR
Chief Marketing Officer
D-Fend Solutions
COLONEL DAWN ZOLDI (USAF-RET)
CEO & Founder
P3 Tech Consulting
LUKE FOX
Founder & CEO, White Fox Defense
Vice Chair, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Drone Committee
DR. MARK MAYBURY
Vice President, Commercialization, Engineering & Technology
Lockheed Martin
Special Government Employee in support of the Defense Science Board
2024 CUAS Speaker Highlights:
Countering the sUAS Threat in the Russian War in Ukraine: Lessons Learned
MAJOR GENERAL (UKR-AIR FORCE) BORYS KREMENETSKYI Defense Attache Embassy of Ukraine to the USA
Counter UAS – Emerging Technologies, Testing and Evaluation Update Army Combat Capabilities Development Command CUAS Robotics Innovation
THE HONORABLE DR. DOUGLAS SCHMIDT Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) Office of the Secretary of Defense, OSD/DOT&E
Federal Aviation Administration – National Air Space Plans Emerging Policies
QUERON THOMPSON Manager, Program Design and Analytics Division, UAS & Emerging Entrants Security FAA
DR. ROBERT SADOWSKI, SES
U.S. Army Chief Roboticist (Roboticist ST) United States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, Ground Vehicles Systems Center
Counter sUAS Technologies for Protecting Critical Infrastructure
L. SCOTT PARKER
Deputy Associate Director, Office of Security Programs Infrastructure Security Division Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
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