Advancing CUAS Capability to Meet the Ever-Changing UAS and sUAS Threat
Adversarial UAS and sUAS represent an ever-evolving, low cost, high reward asset for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and lethal attacks on U.S. personnel, assets, infrastructure and interests. These small threats have abruptly upended traditional considerations for planning across the Joint Force as a result of increased proliferation and complexity, requiring frequent review of ongoing efforts and challenges across the UAS & sUAS ecosystem.
As UAS and sUAS technologies and methodologies continue to advance at a rapid pace, it presents unique challenges to the Department and Military's ability to effectively respond at the point of need. This requires an examination as to how CUAS capabilities are being integrated across the entire Military, Industry, Academia and International spectrums.
As such, the DoD has met and continues to meet this evolving threat vector with swift innovation, synchronization with materiel and non-materiel solutions, to include leveraging relationships with allied nations and partners, as a means to address this threat to the Homeland, host nations, and contingency locations.
As technology and systems evolve, this strategy will require ongoing assessments to ensure the Department keeps pace, and for this reason we are pleased to host our partners at our upcoming Summer Counter UAS Summit. We look forward to collaboration, connecting, sharing and learning with you this August/September to continue conversations as to meeting and defeating UAS and sUAS threats.
We look forward to you joining us at the United States' most preeminent CUAS Summit!
2021 Focus Areas to Include:
- Multiple Operator Perspectives
- Overview of CUAS Deployments
- State and Local Police Perspectives
- Airport Protection Strategies
- The Synchronization of UAS and Missile Defense
- Training Integration Efforts & Strategies
Counter UAS Expert Speakers Include:
Event Moderator
- Brigadier General (R) David P. Komar, Former Director of Capabilities Developments Directorate ARCIC, US Army
2021 Speaking Faculty
- Colonel Greg Soulé, Director, Acquisition & Resources, Joint C-sUAS Office
- Colonel Jennifer L. Schulke, Director, Army Capability Manager, Air Defense Artillery Brigade, (ACM-ADA-BDE), U.S. Army Fires Center of Excellence & Fort Sill, Oklahoma
- Colonel Tony Behrens, Incoming Deputy Director (Seated 1 JULY), Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense Organization (JIAMDO)
- Daniel Roberts, UAS Manager, 7th Army Training Command
- Thomas Adams, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI cUAS Program Manager, Federal Burea of Investigation
- Tim Bennett, Air Domain Awareness, Science & Technology Directorate Department of Homeland Security
- Joseph Mazel, Associate General Counsel Unit Chief, Operational Technology Law Unit, Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Kevin M. Jinks, Senior Counsel, Office of Legal Policy, U.S. Department of Justice
- Julie Dickerson, Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Office of Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice
- Shannon McCormick, Special Operations Supervisor, CBP Program Manager, U.S. Customs and Borders Protection
- Todd R. Craig, Chief, Office of Security Technology Federal Bureau of Prisons
- Ezequiel Cedillo Jr., Assistant Chief, CBP Law Enforcement Operations Directorate, U.S. Customs and Borders Protection
- Russell Cihal, UAS & C-UAS Lead, Air Base Defense Chief Technology Integration Officer, Integration Lead C-UAS, U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa
- Supervisory Special Agent Bryce Herket, cUAS Program Manager, Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Department of Justice
- Dr. Parimal “PK” Kopardekar, Director of NASA Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Elizabeth Soltys, Unmanned Aircraft Systems Security Program Advisor, Federal Aviation Administration
- Daniel Jones, Detective, Tampa International Airport Police Department
- Joel “Cash” Castillo, Unmanned Aircraft Systems/Robotics Autonomous Systems, OUSD(A&S)A/Platforms and Weapons
- Davis Hackenberg, Advanced Air Mobility Project Manager NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- DJ Smith, Technical Surveillance Agent, High Tech Crimes Division, Bureau Of Criminal Investigations, Virginia State Police
- Tpr. Michael Darrow, Acting UAS/C-UAS Team Supervisor, Michigan State Police Aviation
- Michael Young, Supervisory Special Agent, Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program Manager, Emerging Threats and Technologies Unit, Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, Federal Bureau of Investigation
- SGT. Bradley May, Air Support Unit, Pasadena Police Department
- Dr Houbing Song, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Director, Security and Optimization for Networked Globe Laboratory (SONG Lab), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
- Vince Tur-Rojas P.E, Director, Security Management, Pentagon Force Protection Agency
- Percy Johnson, Director, CBRN Protection Division, Pentagon Force Protection Agency
- Sarah Jacob, Program Manager, sUAS Security Program, Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Brian Keith, Protective Security Advisor, Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Richard Mogavero, Senior Project Manager, Nuclear Energy Institute
- Terry DiVittorio, General Manager, North America, D-Fend Solutions
- Jeffrey Starr, Chief Marketing Officer, D-Fend Solutions
