We invite you to attend SPIE Defense+Security 2008, the industry's leading meeting that brings together scientists and engineers from industry, military, and academia. Join top researchers and companies doing cutting-edge work in materials, technology, systems and devices.
The DSS 2008 program offers these exciting highlights:
- The Honorable Jay Cohen, Under Secretary for Science and Technology of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and former U.S. Chief of Naval Research, will speak at a symposium-wide plenary. See details and speaker biography.
- 45 conferences covering the latest technologies and applications for the defense and security community.
- 400+ product exhibition where you can find the most current hardware, interact with exhibitors, and increase your awareness of product developments across the broad spectrum of infrared, sensing, and image technology.
- An education program featuring courses and workshops designed to bring you up to date on the hottest technologies or get you up to speed with the background basics you need.
- An added bonus is that DSS is scheduled the week before Easter this year, making it possible for many families to come along for spring break.
We have a great event in the works and look forward to your participation. Come build your future today by attending DSS 2008.
Dr. Larry B. Stotts
DARPA
2008 Symposium Chair
Dr. Larry B. Stotts is the Deputy Director for the Strategic Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He supports the Director in guiding and directing a team of program managers developing Communications, Networking, Information Operations and Battle Command technologies for Network-Centric Operations (Warfare and Enterprise) and generalized C4ISR. See full biography.
Dr. Ray O. Johnson
Lockheed Martin Corp.
2008 Symposium Co-Chair
Dr. Ray O. Johnson is the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Lockheed Martin Corporation. Dr. Johnson guides the Company's technology vision and provides corporate leadership in the strategic areas of Technology and Engineering. See full biography.
2008 Executive Committee
Sos S. Agaian, The Univ. of Texas at San Antonio
F. Jack Agee, Rice Univ.
Bjørn F. Andresen, Elbit Systems Electro-Optics ElOp Ltd. (Israel)
Roger Appleby, QinetiQ Ltd. (United Kingdom)
Vijayakumar Bhagavatula, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Misty Blowers, Air Force Research Lab.
Howard E. Brandt, Army Research Lab.
J. Thomas Broach, U.S. Army RDECOM CERDEC NVESD
Randall W. Brown, Air Force Research Lab.
Douglas D. Burleigh, Surfside Consulting
Edward M. Carapezza, Univ. of Connecticut and DARPA
David P. Casasent, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Tien-Hsin Chao, Jet Propulsion Lab.
David B. Chenault, Polaris Sensor Technologies, Inc.
Zhongyang Cheng, Auburn Univ.
Hong-Liang Cui, Stevens Institute of Technology
Belur V. Dasarathy, Consultant, Information Fusion Technologies
Peter J. Delfyett, College of Optics & Photonics/Univ. of Central Florida
Sohail A. Dianat, Rochester Institute of Technology
Eric J. Donkor, Univ. of Connecticut
Oliver E. Drummond, Consulting Engineer
Mark Dubinskii, Army Research Lab.
Emre Ertin, The Ohio State Univ.
Wolfgang Fink, California Institute of Technology
Augustus Way Fountain, III, U.S. Army RDECOM ECBC
Gabor F. Fulop, Maxtech International, Inc.
Douglas W. Gage, XPM Technologies
Frederick D. Garber, Wright State Univ.
Patrick J. Gardner, General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products
Thomas George, ViaLogy Corp.
Grant R. Gerhart, U.S. Army TARDEC RDECOM
G. Charmaine Gilbreath, Naval Research Lab.
Dennis H. Goldstein, Polaris Sensor Technologies, Inc.
Jeff J. Güell, The Boeing Co.
Craig S. Halvorson, Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
Russell S. Harmon, U.S. Army Research Office
Michael J. Hayduk, Air Force Research Lab.
Daniel J. Henry, Recon/Optical, Inc.
John H. Holloway, Naval Surface Warfare Ctr., Panama City
Gerald C. Holst, JCD Publishing
Richard T. Howard, NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr.
Sabah A. Jassim, Univ. of Buckingham (United Kingdom)
James O. Jensen, U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Ctr.
Ray O. Johnson, Lockheed Martin Corp.
Ivan Kadar, Interlink Systems Sciences, Inc.
Gary W. Kamerman, FastMetrix, Inc.
Daniel Lehrfeld, Photonic Products Group, Inc.
Paul T. Lewis, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Abhijit Mahalanobis, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control
Andrew Malloy, Naval Research Lab.
Peter L. Marasco, Air Force Research Lab.
Pejmun Motaghedi, The Boeing Co.
Robert Lee Murrer, Jr., Millennium Engineering and Integration Co.
Mark Allen Neifeld, The Univ. of Arizona
Paul R. Norton, U.S. Army Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate
Andrew R. Pirich, ACP Consulting
Salil Prabhakar, Digital Persona Inc.
Kevin L. Priddy, Air Force Research Lab.
Zia-ur Rahman, Old Dominion Univ.
C. Ed Rash, U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Lab.
Raghuveer M. Rao, Rochester Institute of Technology
Stephen E. Reichenbach, Univ. of Nebraska/Lincoln
Arun A. Ross, West Virginia Univ.
Firooz A. Sadjadi, Lockheed Martin Corp.
Theodore T. Saito, Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
Sylvia S. Shen, The Aerospace Corp.
Charles M. Shoemaker, Robotic Research LLC
Alex F. Sisti, Air Force Research Lab.
Larry B. Stotts, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Raja Suresh, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems
Harold H. Szu, Office of Naval Research
Robert J. Tan, Army Research Lab.
Peter Tchoryk, Michigan Aerospace Corp.
John T. Thomas, General Dynamics Canada Ltd. (Canada)
Dawn A. Trevisani, Air Force Research Lab.
Monte D. Turner, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Maarten Uijt de Haag, Ohio Univ.
Vladimir P. Vavilov, Tomsk Polytechnic Univ. (Russia)
Jacques Verly, Univ. de Liège ( Belgium)
Linda M. Wasiczko, Naval Research Lab.
David A. Wikner, Army Research Lab.
Gary L. Wood, Army Research Lab.
Edmund G. Zelnio, Air Force Research Lab.
Michael David Zoltowski, Purdue Univ.
