WEST 2019 Sponsorship and Branding Opportunities


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WEST Theater: Producing Unmanned Systems the Navy and Marine Corps Can Employ

  • Room: Hall B - front of 2200 Aisle
Thursday, February 14, 2019: 1:40 PM - 2:40 PM

Speaker(s)

Moderator (confirmed)
CAPT George Galdorisi, USN (Ret.)
Director, Strategic Assessments and Technical Futures
Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific
Panelist (confirmed)
Ray Buettner, Ph.D.
CRUSER Director
Naval Postgraduate School
Panelist (confirmed)
CDR Josh Fagan, USN
Commanding Officer
HSC Weapons School Pacific
Panelist (confirmed)
CDR Edward Johnson, USN
Requirements Officer
MQ-8 Fire Scout
Panelist (confirmed)
Bryan Scurry
Executive Director, Naval Air Forces
U.S. Pacific Fleet

Description

One of the most rapidly growing areas of innovative technology adoption involves unmanned systems. The U.S. military’s use of these systems—especially armed unmanned systems—is not only changing the face of modern warfare, but is also altering the process of decision-making in combat operations. As military unmanned systems have become more autonomous, concerns have surfaced regarding a potential “dark side” of having armed unmanned systems make life-or-death decisions. This panel will address how the military and industry might harness big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning to design unmanned systems to provide the military not with completely autonomous systems, but with systems with augmented intelligence that will offer the “in-the-loop” operator enhanced warfighting effectiveness.


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