Main Conference Day 2
8:00 am - 8:50 am Registration and Morning Networking
8:50 am - 9:00 am Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
Guy Thomas
Subject Matter Expert, Maritime Domain Awareness and Unclassified SpaceDHS, Science & Technology
9:00 am - 9:45 am Keynote: Expanding the range of communication to accomplish deeper underwater operations
Guy Thomas
Subject Matter Expert, Maritime Domain Awareness and Unclassified SpaceDHS, Science & Technology
10:30 am - 11:15 am Networking Break
11:15 am - 12:00 pm UMS for special operations
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm Looking into the Navy’s UMS R&D strategies for 2019
-Lessons learned from research and development, testing and evaluations from the previous years
-Data quality and accuracy
-How can one vessel be in more than one place at a time?
12:45 pm - 1:45 pm Lunch
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm Increasing the functionality of autonomous underwater vehicles to expand mission set inventory
-From idea to implementation: One vessel serving multiple functions
-Naval weapons and UMS
-Video detection for search and rescue missions
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm Powering and storing energy on the UMS for continual underwater procedures
-Unveiling the subsea power station
-Restoring power underwater
-Energy management and sustainment
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm Chairman's Closing Remarks
Guy Thomas
Subject Matter Expert, Maritime Domain Awareness and Unclassified SpaceDHS, Science & Technology