Conference Day One: Wednesday, November 18, 2009

7:15 Registration And Coffee

8:00 Welcome And Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

8:15V-22 Osprey Tiltrotor High Speed Medium-Vertical Lift

  • OIF operations across service lines
  • OEF operations across service lines
  • Joint service projections for future missions
  • International V-22 Osprey tiltrotor applications

Col Greg Masiello
USMC, Program Manager, PMA-275
V-22 Osprey

8:55 Rotary Wing Update

  • Current operations (OIF, Air Ambulance, humanitarian assistance)
  • MH-53E support (Pacific Partnership, AMCM, POTUS & VIP support)
  • Future helicopter challenges (MH-60S / MH-60R Tactical Integration, maritime dominance)

CAPT Steven R. Schreiber
USN, Commander
Helicopter Sea Combat Wing Atlantic

9:35 Networking Break

10:20 Expansion Of CG Helicopter Roles And Missions Topics

  • Airborne use of force
  • Rotary wing air intercept
  • Maintaining proficiency in an expanding mission environment

CAPT Steven Truhlar
USCG
Commanding Officer Aviation Training Center Mobile

CDR Pete Mingo
USCG, Chief, Training Division
Aviation Training Center Mobile

11:00 Taking The Industry's Pulse: An Interactive Presentation From Northrop Grumman

See how your peers, customers, and suppliers view the trends and future of military rotorcraft:

  • Interoperability
  • System Architecture
  • And Much More!

Ron Bell
Manager Advanced Programs
Northrop Grumman Corporation

Glenn Greathouse
Director Business Development, Situational Awareness Systems
Northrop Grumman Corporation

11:40Moving Toward Expeditionary Agility: The Next Generation of Marine Light/Attack Helicopters

  • Status of currently deployed fleet
  • H-1 upgrade program
  • Future helicopter challenges

Col Harry Hewson
USMC, Program Manager
Marine Light/Attack Helicopters

12:20 Lunch

1:30 US Army ARH Program Undergoes Major Shift

  • Kiowa Warrior (KW) life support 2020
  • Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter update

LTC Russell Dunford
USA, Deputy Project Manager
Armed Reconnaissance Helicopters

2:10 Manned/Unmanned Common Architecture Program (MCAP) Development And Network Centric Flight Tests

  • MCAP overview
  • Expected improvements over currently fielded mission processing architectures
  • Mission equipment integration approach
  • Network centric experimentation: results and future activities

Dale Johnson
Deputy Director Systems Integration, Aviation Applied Technology Directorate
US Army

2:50 Networking Break

3:35 Army Medevac At The Crossroads

  • Operations in OEF
  • Force Mod updates
  • Requirements for V-22

COL Robert Mitchell
USA, Director
Army Medical Evacuation Proponency

4:15 NACRA: Fighting the Future – Avoiding the Rotorcraft Gap

  • Findings of NACRA's strategic study of the path to 2030 (the future is not carved in stone)
  • Candidate courses of action to avoid the 2030 rotorcraft gap
  • Time critical efforts we should be pursuing
  • NACRA's initiatives

Doug Isleib
Director
Naval Aviation Center for Rotorcraft Advancement

4:55 End Of Day One