October 19-21, 2020 l Digital Summit
Digital Day 1
9:00 - 11:50
Webinar Begins / Meeting Setting
11:50 - 12:00
Chairperson Opening Remarks
Major General (Ret.) Al Shoffner -
Founder, Shoffner & Associates,
Former Commanding General, Fires Center of Excellence
Major General (Ret.) Al Shoffner
Founder, Shoffner & AssociatesFormer Commanding General, Fires Center of Excellence
12:00 - 12:30
Update on Army DE Programs
Craig Robin, PhD -
Director, Directed Energy Project Office Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office,
Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office
High energy lasers engage at the speed of light and provide multiple vectors to respond to constantly evolving threats, as they reduce the logistics trail associated with conventional kinetic weapon systems. For these efforts and more, the Army is executing a new path forward for delivering new weapons from laboratories to combat units to enable training, theater operations, and continuous feedback.
- DE-MSHORAD lines of effort
- HPM initiatives
- Technology maturation challenges for future Force insertion
Craig Robin, PhD
Director, Directed Energy Project Office Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies OfficeArmy Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office
12:30 - 13:00
Raytheon Sponsored Session
13:00 - 13:30
AFC CFT Directed Energy Lines of Effort
Brigadier General Brian Gibson -
Director, Air & Missile Defense Cross Functional Team,
Army Futures Command, US Army
Brigadier General Brian Gibson
Director, Air & Missile Defense Cross Functional TeamArmy Futures Command, US Army
13:30 - 14:00
Morning Networking Break & Meetings
14:00 - 14:30
Assessing, Promoting & Protecting the Industrial Base to Enable Directed Energy Capability Proliferation
Dr. Chris Michienzi (ST) -
Chief Technology Officer,
DASD, Industrial Policy and Office of the Under Secretary for Acquisition and Sustainment
The Industrial Policy office supports the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment by providing detailed analysis and in-depth understanding of the increasingly global, commercial, and financially complex industrial supply chain essential to our national defense. This session will highlight the ongoing technological efforts to support DE industrial policy support efforts and aims.
- Developing DoD policies for the maintenance of the US directed energy defense industrial base
- Ensuring robust, secure, resilient & innovative industrial capabilities for future Warfighter requirements
- Support to directed energy tech development strategy
Dr. Chris Michienzi (ST)
Chief Technology OfficerDASD, Industrial Policy and Office of the Under Secretary for Acquisition and Sustainment
14:30 - 15:00
Transitioning DEWs to the Warfighter
Jeffrey Boulware -
Technical Director and Deputy Division Chief,
Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense Organization (JIAMDO)
Colonel Charles E. Jones - Division Chief, Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense Organization, US Joint Chiefs of Staff J8
The impetus to making DE more readily available for operations across the Armed Services lies in getting these technologies into the hands of Warfighters. In doing so, the DoD has reviewed their acquisition strategies, development efforts and technology aims to bolster this long since supported technology into the near-term time frame.
- Rapid prototyping efforts to eye areas for improvement
- Ensuring DoD survivability for Warfighters from DE near-peer threats
- Initial feedback from Warfighters
Jeffrey Boulware
Technical Director and Deputy Division ChiefJoint Integrated Air and Missile Defense Organization (JIAMDO)
Colonel Charles E. Jones
Division Chief, Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense OrganizationUS Joint Chiefs of Staff J8
15:00 - 15:30
Afternoon Networking Break & Meetings
15:30 - 16:00
Sponsored Session Opportunity
16:00 - 16:30
Advancing Integration of DE Weapons across Naval Platforms
Erin Kampschroer -
APM Ship Integration, Electric Ships Office,
PEO Ships
- Meeting the unique power system integration challenges for DEWS
- Developing next-generation power and energy architectures of Naval utilization of DEWs and SSLs
- Enabling Naval distributed lethality: necessary next steps
