Airborne ISR 2013 Confirmed Speakers:

Swiss Air Force
Major Daniel Böhm
Chief Unmanned Aerial Systems Pilot
Swiss Air Force
French Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel Christophe Fontaine
Deputy Commander, UAV Squadron “Belfort”
French Air Force
European Union Satellite Centre
Dererk Hatton
Crisis Support and Situation Assessment Operations Division
European Union Satellite Centre
NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA)
John Mahaffey
Senior Scientist, Capability Air Development - 5
NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA)
Turkish Air Force
Captain Mehmet Çolak
UAV Coordinator, UAV & ISR Division
Turkish Air Force
Frontex
Mr. Zdravko Kolev
Research Officer
Frontex
Cranfield University
Professor Antonios Tsourdos
Head of the Centre for Autonomous Systems
Cranfield University
Cranfield University
Professor Rafał Zbikowski
Professor of Control Engineering
Cranfield University
Dr. Mike Cathcart
Group Lead, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Electro- Optical Systems Laboratory
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Italian Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel Gino Bartoli
Chief, ISR Branch
Italian Air Force
ELTA Systems Ltd.
Captain (N) Gideon Landa (ret)
General Manager, Airborne Systems and Radar Division
ELTA Systems Ltd.
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
Zvi Yavin
Director, Airborne ISR Systems
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
German Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel Roland Runge
Head, Offensive Air, Tactical Air Reconnaissance & UAS Division
German Air Force
French Army
Colonel Gilles Randreau
Commander, 61st Artillery Regiment
French Army
Polish Armed Forces
Colonel Mariusz Jachol
Chief, Imagery Intelligence Development Branch, J2 Division
Polish Armed Forces

Enhancing ISR Capability to Ensure Total Domain Awareness

Welcome to Airborne ISR 2013!

Over the last 8 years, Airborne ISR has become the Europe’s foremost event for the Airborne ISR industry with directors and operators of Air ISR technology from both military and industry coming together to discuss the most prevalent issues of the time. With in-depth asset analysis and examination of how best to achieve future ambitions it seeks to give both requirement and operational updates.

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Airborne ISR 2013 will enable you to

  • Advance your knowledge as to how the world’s leading ISR practitioners are striving to make sure the right data reaches the right person at the right time with program updates and operational feedback
  • Analyse the development of manned and unmanned ISR platforms and sensors to understand how data will be disseminated to critical PED nodes in the future
  • Gain a holistic view of the airborne ISR domain by looking beyond the sensors and platforms with a focus on future systems that will be able to ingest multi-source data and make sense of it

Video

United States of AmericaRear Admiral Norman Hayes, US NAVY: Combining international knowledge
RADM Hayes speaks honestly and enthusiastically about the opportunities available to allied forces as we work towards countering current ISR shortfalls. He also discusses the need for trust between multi-national partners in sharing information, and the new requirement to rely on each other for effective operational reconnaissance. Read more

Article

Filling-the-ISR Filling the ISR Gaps: Technology, bureaucracy and democracy in the world of airborne ISR
At present, the United States Air Combat Command (ACC) has listed the need to develop and manage airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance as and immediate priority. How do we know? We spoke to Colonel David ‘Toro’ Torres-Laboy, the head of project integration at the ACC, following his address at a recent conference on air power in irregular warfare. He spoke candidly about what he believes is holding the field back…[Read more]

Key Military Organisations You Will Meet in 2013

  • Royal Air Force
  • US Army
  • Polish Armed Forces
  • French Army
  • French Air Force
  • USAF
  • USMC
  • USAF Europe
  • Swiss Air Force
  • Royal Danish Air Force
  • Turkish Air Force

Airborne ISR Post Conference Workshops: 28 February 2013

Future ISR Through Multiple Autonomous UAS

Led by: Cranfield University

Hyper-Spectral and Multi-Spectral Imaging, Processing, and Analysis

Led by: Georgia Tech Research Institute

What makes the Airborne ISR series a must attend event?

“The panels were great. Smart people from the audience were asking good questions.” Major Michael Ruiz, USAF
“Very good panel and well balanced between MoD/OEM”Pierre Manual Jacob, Thales Belgium

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