Today’s EW combat systems are expensive and likely to remain in the DoD’s inventory longer as downturned budgets struggle to procure replacement systems. To ensure these systems remain effective, both performance insertion and cost reduction will be critically important to EW’s future. This conference will discuss in depth how all the Services and other DoD agencies insert performance enhancements into legacy systems. We will discuss cost reduction concepts including combat systems integration, and use, as a case study, the Navy’s new product-line approach to improve the vertical integration of its EW systems.

We encourage you to participate in this conference and receive several perspectives on how DoD systems are sustained, to include how combat systems integration, and other initiatives can help the EW mission. We need these perspectives to not only survive in a challenging fiscal environment, but also help EW missions contribute more to our critical national defense mission.

Specific Topics Include:

• Industry support to EW sustainment
• EW sustainment for Navy Crane Maritime, Air Force, Navy Aviation
• Dahlgren working capital fund for equipment sustainment
• Real time spectrum operations and operational testing
• Framework for assessing cost and technology (FACT)
• Next generation submarine EW system architecture
• DoD strategies to decouple EMS/EW combat systems from platforms
• Combat systems spiral development/Aegis combat systems baseline (ACB)
• Government and industrial training to sustain EW systems
• Commercial life cycle electronics education

Noted Speakers Include:

Congressman Rob Wittman, Virginia’s First Congressional District, 112th Congress
CAPT John Green, Program Manager, Airborne Electronic Attack and EA-6B program office (PMA-234)
Mr. Carl Siel, Technical Director, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division

Learn More About the Conference Here
View the Updated Agenda Here

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