Main Conference Day One - Tuesday, March 30, 2010

7:00 Registration And Coffee

8:00 IDGA Welcome Remarks

8:05 Chairperson's Opening Remarks

8:15 6th Generation Air Power

Applications of regular/irregular, manned/unmanned air power
Importance of maintaining military aircraft tools, precision and superiority

Dyke D. Weatherington
Deputy Director, Unmanned Warfare, Portfolio Systems Acquisition
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology

9:05 Realization Of The Airborne Network

Past, present, future
Architecture to support manned/unmanned operations in the battle space
Key technical enablers

Doug Bowen
Engineering Fellow
L-3 Communications

10:00 Networking Break In Expo Hall

10:50 Army Unmanned Aircraft System Overview And Operational Uses

Product overview: how UAS are employed
Manned/unmanned teaming and the Army
Interoperability

Colonel Gregory Gonzalez
Project Manager
Unmanned Aircraft Systems Project Office

11:40 Plenary Panel: Aging Of Combat Aircraft Fleet

The role of accelerated damage in aging aircraft capabilities
Assessing the reliability and maintainability of current aircrafts
Meeting maintenance requirements

Rear Admiral Vincent L. Griffith
U.S. Navy, Commander
Defense Supply Center Richmond

Captain Andrew L. Lewis
Commander
Carrier Air Wing Three

12:15 Lunch In Expo Hall

Track A: Fixed Wing Development, Procurement, Modifications & Contracts	Track B: Rotorcraft Capability, Versatility & Deployability	Track C: UAS/UAV Operations & Systems Developments
1:20 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Procurement JSF acquisition management Multi-role capabilities Sustainment methodology Captain John "Snooze" Martins Director, Air Vehicle, F-35 Lightening II Program Office	1:20 U.S. Army Utility Helicopters Current production of UH-60M Black Hawk & UH-72A Lakota Fielding and modifications Status of deployed fleets and projected path ahead Colonel Neil Thurgood Project Manager, Utility Helicopters Program Executive Office Aviation	1:20 Optionally Piloted Vehicles Qualifying an OPV Targeting a niche market What's next? Jeff Goldfinger L-3 Communications
2:10 Transitioning From Joint Cargo Aircraft To C-27J Intro to the C-27J program Program structure How the Army and Air Force are working together to implement Sec Gates guidance Colonel Mark A. Foringer Program Manager, C-27J, 866th Aeronautical Systems Group Wright Patterson Air Force Base	2:10 CH-47F Chinook: Army's Heavy Lift Capabilities off the production line What's new? Types of modifications added Training developments: upon return from Iraq and Afghanistan MAJ Jennifer Newsome APM, Ch-47F Program Executive Office, Aviation	2:10 Unmanned Aircraft: Achieving Commonality Across The Services Quick Reaction Capability (QRC) Units System upgrades: increasing range, endurance, payload flexibility Commonality and enhancing battlefield awareness Lieutenant Colonel Kevin K. Messer Product Manager, Medium Altitude Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems Project Office

Track A: Fixed Wing
Development, Procurement, Modifications & Contracts

Track B: Rotorcraft
Capability, Versatility & Deployability

Track C: UAS/UAV
Operations & Systems Developments