Day One Agenda: 6th March 2013
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08.30 Coffee and Registration
09.00 Chairman’s Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Recent Developments in Major DES Programs
09.10 The United States Army and Boeing’s HEL Mobile
Demonstrator Program
Michael Rinn
Vice President and Program Director
Boeing Directed Energy Systems
09.50 Geometrical Coupling – the MBDA approach towards the short-term implementation of laser damage weapons against hard-to-kill targets
Thomas Hagen
Future Systems Program Manager
MBDA Germany
10.50 Networking Coffee Break
Infrastructure Protection
11.20 Infrastructure Assessment and Protection from
RFDEW Environments
Senior Representative from QinetiQ
“Directed Energy Weapons and Electromagnetic Environmental Effects” Department
12.00 The Threat of High Power Microwaves to
Infrastructure
Dr Libor Palisek
Senior Scientist
VOP CZ
12.40 Networking Lunch
The Challenge of Utilising Directed Energy
13.50 Antenna Options for Radiating High-Power Microwaves
Dr David Giri
HPM Consultant and Recipient
of the 2006 IEEE John Kraus Antenna Award
14.30 An Update from the ISL on the Analysis of the Physics
of Laser Interaction
Dr Ruediger Schmitt*
Senior Scientist, Laser Technology
Institute of Saint Louis (ISL)
15.10 Networking Coffee Break
15.40 Explosive Pulsed Power for Directed Energy Systems
Dr Larry Altgilbers*
Explosive Pulsed Power Program
US Space and Missile Defence Command
16.20 Roundtable: Overcoming Developmental Challenges
of Directed Energy
17.00 Chairman’s Comments