MEECC Main Session

 

Monday, May 16, 2005

 

 

0700   0800   BREAKFAST

0800   0820   Opening of MEECC – Introductions

0820   0915   Keynote Speaker – Brigadier General Ted F. Bowlds, Deputy for Acquisition, Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC), Air Force Material Command (AFMC)

0915   1010   Principal Speaker – Ted J. Glum, Director of the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA). Reporting directly to the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Material Readiness.

1010   1030   Break

1030   1200   User Panel – Embedded Electronics in the Military: today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities. Jim Robles, Sr. Technical Fellow, Boeing, Stephen Cecil, Sr. Electronics Engineer, NSWC Crane, Dr. C. Douglass Locke, President, Locke Consulting LLC. Ray Gorka, Sr. Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin - Maritime Systems and Sensors Div.

1200   1330   Meet the Sponsors/Lunch

1330   1500   Industry Advocates Panel - Embedded Electronics in the Military: today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities. Dr. John Zolper, Dir. Microsystems Technology Office - DARPA, Brad Curran, Analyst Frost & Sullivan, Glen Logan, Lt Col.Ret., Senior Systems Engineer, American Systems Corp., DoD Open Systems Joint Task Force

1500   1520   Break

1520   1650   Supplier Panel - Embedded Electronics in the Military: today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities. Andrew P. Leuthe, Director Product Marketing, Titan Advanced Products & Design, Peter Robinson, Mgr. Business Development, AMD, Rich Jaenicke. Mercury Computer, Director Product Marketing.

1650   1700   Notices and important Information

1730   1830   Meet the Sponsors – Refreshments

1830   2000   Ask the Panelists – Buffet.  An opportunity for the panelists and our attendees to exchange information.

 


Tuesday, May 17, 2005

 

Track 1 – CoolCon™ (morning and afternoon)

 

 

Organization

Speaker

Title

0830

0840

MEECC

 

Welcome to CoolCon

0840

0950

Cray Inc.

Greg Pautsch

Worst-case Cooling in High-end Computing

0950

1030

Lytron

Kathryn Whitenack

The INEMI Thermal Roadmap

1030

1050

Break

 

 

1050

1120

Lytron

Kathryn Whitenack

Thermal Analysis

1120

1135

Parker Hannifin

Rex Harvey

VITA-50 Cooling Spec update

1135

1200

Mercury Computer

Randy Banton

Cooling methods for V-48 update

1330

Meet the Sponsors/Lunch

 

 

 

1330

1405

ISR

Dave Tilton

Spray Cooling Update

1405  

1440

Innovative Research

Kanchan Kelkar

Thermal Analysis Modeling

1440

1500

Break

 

 

1500

1530

nanoCoolers

Mick Wilcox

Liquid Metal Cooling

1530

1600

 AMD

Chris Parr

New Ideas for System Management Techniques

1600

 

Close of CoolCon

 

 

 


Track 2 – DMEA (morning), Conferences & Associations (afternoon)

 

 

Organization

Speaker

Title

0800

0810

DMEA

Doug Casanova

Introduction

0810

0840

DMEA

Keith Bergevin

Effective Method to Replace an Aging Microprocessors – Based Subsystems with no Impact to Mission Software.

0840

0910

Northrop Grumman

Steve Buss

Parts Obsolescence Stimulates Technology Refresh

0910

0940

Honeywell Inter.

Michael Pyne

Reducing Weapons System Procurements Costs Through Open Systems Architectures

0940

1010

DMEA

Vance Anderson

Will technology bite back?  Looking at new impacts on DoD microelectronics

1010

1030

Break

 

 

1030

1100

Raytheon

George Lawton

AN/GPN-22 Precision Approach Radar Transmitter Upgrade

1100

1200

Panel Session

All Speakers

Transformational Opportunities in Military Electronics

1200

1330

Meet the Sponsors/Lunch

 

 

1330

1350

CMSE

Leon Hamiter

Executive overview and conference update

1350

1430

SISO,NMASTC&DCVC

Warren Katz

Executive overviews and update on organizations activities – SISO    DCVC

1430

1500

VSO

John Rynearson

Update on activities affecting the military market.

1500

 

Close of Track 2

 

 

1500

1700

 

 

Editorial meetings between the sponsors and industry editors.

 

 

 


Track 3 – New Embedded Products (morning), Mil Program Update (afternoon)

 

 

Organization

Speaker

New Product Announcement

0800

 

Pentek

 

Announces Blazingly Fast Data-Capture and Processing Board with 2 GHz Sampling Rate

 

 

Radstone

 

Announces AXIS Advanced Multi-Processing Integrated Software

 

 

Aitech

 

New radiation-tolerant, space-qualified 3U CompactPCI SBC provides performance increase of up to 5x at significantly reduced cost

 

 

Elma

 

Announces new conduction cooled ATR enclosures

 

 

TEK Microsystems, Inc. and QinetiQ

 

Announcing Quixilica Callisto VXS-1 the only VXS-based processing platform to provide FPGA processing at the core of the system

1000

 

SBS Technologies

 

Announces New Conduction-cooled PCI Mezzanine Card with FPGA Configurable Multiple I/O Functions

 

 

Mercury Computer Systems

 

Introduces the RACE++ Series MYRIAD -4130 Conduction-Cooled Carrier Board

 

 

SKY Computers

 

Announces Plans for Family of VXS Systems

 

 

Thales

 

Adds Powerful Storage Feature to PowerNode3 Compute Node Single-Board Solution

 

 

Curtiss-Wright

 

Introduces Rugged, Compact 20-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch System

 

 

ACT/technico

 

Announces and Demonstrates 2eSST System Platform

1200

1330

Meet the Sponsors/Lunch

 

 

1330

1400

COTS Journal

Warren Andrews

DoD Budget, changes and affects on the Embedded Market.

1400

1430

Military Embedded Sys.

Chris Ciufo

Update and industry impact of two major Mil Programs

1430

1500

Military & Aero. Elect.

John Keller

Update and industry impact of two major Mil Programs

1500

 

Close of Track 3

 

 

1500

1700

 

 

Editorial meetings between the sponsors and industry editors

.