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Call for Papers
Contributions are being solicited for papers and presentations that support a system level view of
Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) at CUI Limited Distribution C/D levels as well as Secret/REL GBR and
Secret/NOFORN. Papers and presentations that provide a mission level perspective of DEW, helping to
provide context to the warfighters, are sought as well. Papers and presentations from a DEW sub-system,
or technology perspective which are focused on transition to operational capability will also be
considered.
Please note that we are encouraging UK participation at this event.
In accordance with the Information Exchange Agreements between the United States and the United
Kingdom governments (MIEM UK-AF-16-0001 [RF DEW IEA] and/or MIEM UK-US-19-0001 [Laser Weapon Systems IEA]),
employees from the United Kingdom government and their affiliated contractors are welcome to participate in
those CUI and classified sessions that have been given approval by the presenter's local Foreign Disclosure
Officers (FDOs).
We ask that all U.S. presenters whose CUI/Classified materials fall under these
agreements submit their presentations to their FDOs or security officers in a timely manner and
seek approval to release to the UK, and to let DEPS staff know when/if their presentation has been
approved before the event.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Laser Weapon Systems (LWS) Programs and Systems
The LWS Programs and Systems sessions will focus on ongoing and upcoming LWS Program and System status. Papers are being sought that:
- Provide details on LWS Programs status and plans to include upcoming test and experimentation.
- Describe platform and subsystem integration progress, issues, and risk reduction
- Discuss recent system-level testing and results
- Provide details for land, air and sea-based LWS deployment status
- Include lower power 1-10kW to higher power 100kW+ systems
- Discuss both conventional but also new and future LWS missions and applications
- Provide overviews on LWS Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (C-UAS) development and capabilities
- Highlights on relevant DE weapon system demonstrations with emphasis on system performance, Concept of Operations (CONOPS), and integration with Command and Control (C2) networks.
High Power Microwave (HPM) Programs and Systems
The HPM Programs and Systems sessions will focus on HPM Program and System status. Papers are being sought that:
- Provide details on HPM Programs status and plans to include upcoming test and experimentation
- Describe platform and subsystem integration progress, issues, and risk reduction.
- Provide details for land, air and sea-based HPM deployment status
- Provide overviews on HPM Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (C-UAS) development and capabilities
- Highlights on relevant DE weapon system demonstrations with emphasis on system performance, Concept of Operations (CONOPS), and integration with Command and Control (C2) networks.
LWS Lethality/Vulnerability and Effects
The Laser Weapon System Lethality sessions will assemble scientists and engineers interested in LWS lethality.
The objectives of these sessions will be to: 1) address lethality requirements for LWS on the battlefield, 2) present results from
testing and modeling & analysis of complex targets, 3) use the forum to inform the LWS community and LWS implementers of recent lethality
work, 4) discuss missions of interest from a lethality viewpoint, and 5) cultivate synergism between the LWS Lethality communities to
effectively transition LWS into the hands of the warfighter. Papers are solicited for the LWS Lethality sessions as described below:
- LWS lethality studies conducted by program offices and other research organizations working in the area of systems engineering and target system
response will be featured. This includes engagement level analysis and system data supporting the development of LWS lethality criteria
for targets of interest.
- Work sponsored by program offices and other organizations conducting experimental as well as theoretical research will be presented. This includes
basic optical, mechanical and thermal investigation on materials, components, and systems. Continuous Wave (CW) and pulsed laser effects will be covered.
HPM Effects
The HPM Effects session seeks presentations describing
- Empirical characterization of targets for current and next generation HPM systems
- Development of predictive models for targets of current and next generation HPM systems
- Analysis of waveforms for emerging HPM systems
- Methods for field characterization of HPM systems (range setups, field sensors, bore sighting)
DEW System Modeling and Wargaming
Laser Weapon Systems and High Power Microwave Directed Energy
technologies are becoming game changers with the potential to create a revolution in air, land, sea,
and space-based military affairs. Wargaming, Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (WM&SA) of DEW at the
mission and campaign levels must be employed to inform novel Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), Concepts
of Employment (CONEMPs), Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), weaponeering, and Command and
Control (C2) capabilities. This session will focus on systems and systems-of-systems efforts using
constructive modeling, virtual simulation with humans in- and on-the-loop, and live wargaming activities
supporting the transition of DEW to the warfighter.
CDEW Technologies
The CDEW Technologies session will include classified and unclassified sessions
focused on identifying, assessing, and countering threats posed by LWS and HPM on and off the battlefield.
This track presents a singular opportunity at the Symposium for
defense industry representatives, military officers and operators, information analysts, academia, and
government officials to enter into collaborative discussions. Conference paper submissions for the C-DEW
track may address research, development, testing, or evaluation of various forms of countermeasures to
threats posed by Directed Energy Weapons. Papers are being sought that address:
- Shielding, absorptive, and reflective techniques, including narrow and/or broadband highly
reflective materials, metamaterials, structures, or coatings
- Methods and procedures for assessing or thresholding hardening technologies and countermeasures to DEW, including standards (non-destructive or destructive)
- measurement of coatings, structures, and materials
- Personnel protection from DEW effects (Open or Classified) including eye protection, low power lasers (e.g. pointers) against personnel, sensory overload (auditory or nervous system), and laser safety (covering environment/health/safety (EHS) factors)
- Mitigating the effects of high power LWS or HPM on targeting functionality and systems
- Electronics hardening (devices, components, or subsystems)
- Detection, identification, assessment, and geolocation of DEW threats and weapons (Open or Classified, Foreign and Domestic)
- C-DEW system or subsystem concepts, modifications, and technical solutions
- Tactical evasion (flight path, sensing)
- Software compensation, error sensing, or error correction
DE Bio-effects
The directed energy bioeffects session for this year’s Systems Symposium will
focus on the development of personnel risk assessment data and approaches for directed energy weapon
employment. The session will address topics which are enabling the deployment of systems, with a clear
understanding of collateral hazards, how risks are communicated, and answering policy-related questions.
The scope of the session includes the following topics:
- Parameterization of directed energy bioeffects through experimentation to inform probability of injury or other effect to enable analysis
- Approaches for quantifying risk to personnel in a context familiar to the operational community
- Mapping bioeffect outcomes to mission impact, and how directed energy bioeffects may map into a vulnerability assessment process, including model-based systems engineering for failure analysis
- Modeling, simulation, and analysis tools (physics-level through mission-level) available for the quantification of risk and collateral effects
- Radiometric models which provide predictive dosimetry to personnel exposed
- The transition from deterministic occupational exposure standards to probabilistic risk assessments
- Laboratory and range data summaries which provide verification and validation of modeling and simulation tools
- Navigating the approval processes for test and for employment
Unclassified papers and presentations are sought at Distribution A, C and D levels.
DEW System Manufacturability, Readiness and Sustainment
As prototypical DEW systems move into the hands of the warfighter out in the real world,
reliability issues arise. In order to have a successful Program of Record in the future the Industrial Base
needs the ability to manufacture at scale while maintaining readiness and sustainment metrics. The objective
of these sessions will be to explore: 1) realized reliability issues and appropriate mitigations, 2) Industrial
Base efforts to enable production at scale, 3) the readiness drivers for DEW systems, and 4) sustainment activities
both in the field and at depot facilities. Contributions consistent with these purposes are solicited, especially
in the topic areas listed below.
- Minimize logistics train for consumable materials
- Efforts to maximize open architecture implementation
- Defining line replaceable units (LRUs)
- Efforts to maximize field repairs
- System degradation considerations during transportation and storage
- Component reliability studies
Laser Technology for Space Applications
Contributions are being sought in support of the new Laser Technology for Space
Applications focus area, the purpose of which is as follows.
- Introducing the Space Mission to the laser community for awareness and education.
- Reveal how laser technology is currently being used for Space applications.
- Cross-germinating air, maritime, and ground missions with the Space mission could reveal
synergistic laser technology solutions.
- Many laser systems are being tested in the field. The military laser testing community follows
DoDI 3100.11 (Management of Laser Illumination of Objects in Space). Understanding the importance
of the policy, and when, and how the policy is enforced is of great value to the laser testing
community.
DE Non-Lethal Weapons
Non-Lethal Weapons provide active means below lethal effects that temporarily
impair, disrupt, delay, or neutralize targets across all domains and all phases of competition and
conflict. This session is interested in DE technologies that provide non-lethal defense across the
entire detect-to-engage continuum. Papers are solicited in the following topic areas:
- DE NLW program review and status update
- DE NLW for access control and area denial
- DE NLW for clear-a-space without entry
- DE non-lethal and lightweight payload design
- Innovative DE NLW delivery method
- Novel DE NLW system and platform integration
- Distributed and cooperative DE NLW system to enhance the effectiveness.
- Navigation deterrence and counter mobility
- Disruptive Gray-Zone technology concepts
- DE enhanced underwater NLW technology
- Integration of sound, light, biological and psychological effects
- Integration of DE-NLW into unmanned and/or autonomous systems
Submission Instructions
All persons wishing to present at the Directed Energy Systems Symposium are required to submit an abstract
via the online abstract submission form below.
Important dates for presenters are listed in the table below.
*We are encouraging UK participation at this event. Please plan your presentations accordingly and obtain FDO approval if necessary.
General information on the submission of abstracts, presentations, papers and release forms is provided here.
Specific information on sending presentations and papers will be provided here soon. Presentations and papers will
be considered for acceptance at CUI C/D and Secret levels.
*Note: It is the responsibility of the lead author to obtain all approvals and releases for
submitted abstracts, presentations, and papers. All submitted materials including unclassified presentations
must be appropriately marked for security classification as well as identification of any distribution restrictions.
Additionally, please identify the presenter (if different from the lead author) and up-to-date contact information.
| Important Dates for Presenters |
30 August
- Abstracts due
- 13 September
- Authors notified of acceptance
- 21 October
- ALL presentations and release forms due
- 18 November
- Papers due with release forms
- 18-22 November
- DE Systems Symposium
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Submitting Abstracts
All persons wishing to present at the 2024 DE Systems Symposium must submit an abstract for consideration to be received by DEPS
on or before 30 August 2024.
DEPS utilizes an online abstract submission system so that we may better track abstracts and plan a successful program.
Only unclassified, public release material may be entered online. Should you need to submit an
abstract that is CUI in nature, please follow the instuctions below.
- Unclassified, Public Release abstracts should be submitted in their entirety online. Authors nearing the submission deadline who do not yet have
release approval should submit a place-holder abstract prior to the deadline and then add the abstract body once release approval is obtained.
- Authors with limited distribution or classified abstracts should submit a place-holder abstract (including title, expected classification/distribution of
the presentation, and contact info) so that an Abstract ID can be assigned, and then make arrangements with the symposium chair for providing their restricted material.
During the online submission process, authors may choose whether or not to display their abstract title on the DEPS website. Access to the full abstract content is
limited to those abstracts for which the author has submitted a simple, online abstract release form which will be available from their MyAccount page after the abstract
is submitted.
>>> Submit your Abstract Here <<<
*Remember, only Unclassified, Public Release information may be
entered into the DEPS database.
Authors will be notified on or before 13 September of acceptance of their paper for presentation
and/or publication.
Please contact webmaster@deps.org with any technical issues regarding
abstract submission. Subject matter questions regarding abstracts should be directed to a member of
the
symposium technical committee.
Note: While an automated email is sent confirming receipt of your abstract, some military
domains may block delivery of such an email. If you do not receive email confirmation, you may check
this online listing of submitted abstracts which may provide
insight into the technical program. This listing is dynamically generated based on abstracts received at the
time the page is displayed and author permissions (granted when submitted).
If the title of your abstract, or the assigned Abstract ID, is contained in this listing, it has been received by DEPS.
Last updated: 8 August 2024
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