Main Day 1
8:00 am - 8:50 am Registration & Morning Networking
8:50 am - 9:00 am Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
9:00 am - 9:45 am Driving Directed Energy Test Capabilities to Expedite DE Operational Fieldings
- Current lines of initiatives for Directed Energy at PEO STRI
- Maturing and transitioning DE test technologies: current needs and capabilities sought
- Expediting the fielding of DE capabilities into Warfighter hands: necessary next steps
Colonel Richard Haggerty
Project Manager, Instrumentation, Targets, Threat Simulators, and SOF Training Systems (PM ITTS)PEO STRI, U.S. Army
9:45 am - 10:30 am Ensuring Battlefield Dominance of Infantry and Ground Forces via Advanced Lethality
- Delivering multi-domain battle dominance through advanced SHORAD capabilities
- Opportunities to utilize mobile DE weaponry for anti-drone, anti-missile laser system operations
- Considerations on DE’s role in multi-domain operations: potential use cases
10:30 am - 11:15 am Networking Break and Demo Drive
11:15 am - 12:00 pm Leveraging Directed Energy Technologies & Capabilities to Meet Current and Future Army Needs
- Army S&T efforts to bolster utilization of DE capabilities
- Opportunities to leverage DE to counter rapidly emerging threats
- Driving Army lethality initiatives: necessary next steps
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm Executing the DE Experimentation Campaign: Update on Experimentation Efforts with 704th Test Group”
- Combined Test Force construct
- Experimentation methodology
- Supporting rapid development and prototyping
12:45 pm - 1:45 pm Lunch
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm Raytheon Speaking Session
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm Updates on the Joint Laser Systems Effectiveness Joint Test Program
- Updates on JLaSE and J-FLaME joint feasibility study
- Challenges associated with collateral damage estimate and weaponeering for DEL in the joint battlespace
- Desired capabilities needed to support the integration of HEL for joint operations
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm Driving International Collaborative DE RDT&E with Israel for Improved Defense Capacities
- Update on the United States-Israel Directed Energy Cooperation Act
- Collaborative opportunities to bolster DE capacities for both USA and Israel
- Understanding regional defense needs and effects of emerging threats on Israel
