DIRECTED ENERGY PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY


UK/US Directed Energy Workshop
18-22 July 2022 Swindon, United Kingdom


 

General

Workshop Contacts



Attendee Info

Location & Hotel

Short Courses



Presenter Info

Call for Papers

 
A Joint UK-US Workshop 

This Workshop series was specifically designed for Secret U.S. and U.K. discussions and presentations, under bilateral exchange agreements between the U.S. and U.K. governments.

[NOTE: Release of this information is authorized to the Department of Defense (DoD), The Ministry of Defence (MOD), and their affiliated contractors in accordance with MIEM UK-AF-16-0001 (RF DEW IEA) and/or MIEM UK-US-19-0001 (Laser Weapon Systems IEA).]

Progress in the development and application of high energy laser and high power RF directed energy weapon (DEW) technologies for military missions were explored in this workshop. It extended the
Defence Academy in Shrivenham
series of bilateral meetings, the most recent of which was the 2019 UK/US DE Workshop.

Participation in the UK/US DE Workshop was limited to American and British citizens with the proper visit request on file with the appropriate government offices.

Quick breakdown of what took place:

  • Tuesday AM invited plenary speakers
  • RF DEW technical sessions
  • Laser DEW technical sessions
  • Professional development short courses
    • Introduction to High Energy Laser Systems
    • Introduction to HPM Systems
    • Atmospheric Laser Propagation
    • HEL Deconfliction
    • HEL Modeling
    • HEL Lethality Science
    • HPM Effects and Data Collection
    • Beam Control for Laser Weapon Systems
    • Systems Engineering for DE Systems
  • Exhibits
  • Tuesday evening welcome reception and tours to Oxford and the ORC at Southampton University

If you are interested in receiving a copy of the final Workshop agenda, please email office@deps.org.


Location & Accommodations

The workshop hotel was the Swindon Marriott Hotel, Pipers Way, Swindon, United Kingdom, telephone: +44-1793-512-121.

Short Courses were held at the hotel Monday and Friday and workshop technical sessions were held at the Defence Academy in Shrivenham.


Security

The UK/US Directed Energy Workshop was held at a Secret level and limited to U.S. and U.K. citizens with the necessary visit request on file with government offices.


Call for Papers

The Workshop Committee solicited contributions for the technical program. Selection of contributions for the program were based on the review of abstracts.

Abstracts were solicited in all areas of
RF DEW, with special consideration having been given to these topics:

  • Weapon Concepts and Military Utility
  • System Engineering and Integration
  • Components and Technologies
  • Electronics Effects Testing and Analysis
  • Instrumentation, Testing and Evaluation
  • Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis
  • Protection Methods and Technologies
 

Abstracts were solicited in all areas of Laser DEW, with special consideration having been given to these topics:

  • High Energy Laser Technologies
  • Beam Control Technologies
  • Laser Weapon Concepts and Military Utility
  • HEL Systems Engineering and Integration
  • HEL Effects and Testing
  • Modeling and Simulation

Abstracts were also solicited for our Joint Sessions (RF and Laser), with special consideration having been given for these topics:

  • Overarching Issues and Lessons Learned for US DOTMLPF-P or UK TEPIDOIL (e.g. Safety/Legal/Policy/Doctrine)
  • Operational Constraints and Interoperability
  • DEW C2 (Command and Control), Tracking, Targeting, and Sensors Commonality
  • Intermediate Force Applications
  • Counter UAS Applications



Important Dates for Attendees

  20 May 2022
Abstracts due

  3 June 2022
U.S. Request for International Visit (RFV) forms due

  10 June 2022
US Authors notified of acceptance

  24 June 2022
ALL RELEASE FORMS DUE

  30 June 2022
U.S. papers and presentations requiring FDO approval by Danny Stewart due

  8 July 2022
U.S. security clearances due
U.K. presentations and security clearances due

  18-22 July 2022
UK US DE Workshop

  22 July 2022
Papers due with release forms

Abstracts

The abstract submission period is closed.


Workshop Contacts
 
 RF DEW Co-Chairs:    
 Martin Hubbard, DSTL MHubbard@dstl.gov.uk
Ryan Hoffman, ONR ryan.hoffman@navy.mil
 
 Laser DEW Co-Chairs:    
 Kevin Burrett, DSTL KBurrett@mail.dstl.gov.uk
Dr. Nick Morley, AFRL nicholas.morley@us.af.mil
 
 
 Workshop Coordinator:    
 Cynnamon Spain +1 505-998-4910 Cynnamon@deps.org
 
 Payments and Receipts:    
 Dawn Gutierrez +1 505-998-4910 Dawn@deps.org
 
 Security:    
 Kat Gonzales +1 505-998-4910 Kat@deps.org
 
 Short Courses and Technical Program Coordinator:    
 Cristina Crowson Cristina@deps.org
 
 Presentations and Release Forms:    
 Carolyn Bowman Graphic@deps.org




 
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