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Call for Papers
Contributions are being solicited for papers and presentations that support a system level view of Directed Energy Weapons (DEW). Papers and presentations that provide a mission level perspective of DEW, helping to provide context to the warfighters, are sought as well. Papers and presentations from a DEW sub-system, or technology perspective which are focused on transition to operational capability will also be considered. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Warfighter Operated Systems
DEW systems that are being or are programed to be operated by the warfighter (PEVS, SSL-TM, HELMET, THOR, HELWS, AHEL, SHiELD) - Across the department of defense there are a number of programs placing full systems and demonstrators into the hands of our warfighters for operational assessment, testing or deployed capability. Only papers and presentations discussing systems that have had clear warfighter interactions and feedback will be considered for the topic area.
Technology Demonstrator Systems
The community continues to push the technology to more difficult platforms and new mission sets. Directed Energy Systems that demonstrate technologies at this prototype level are invited to provide papers and presentations describing these efforts. (RFVS, VIPER, GBAD, HELCAP, SHiELD)
Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems
Both High Power Microwave and High Energy Laser Weapons Systems provide potential solutions to counter this increasing threat. This topic area will be co-chaired by members of both technology area and seeks papers and presentations that describe system level approaches to this threat in terms both the warfighter and Directed Energy Professional can appreciate.
Industrial Base
As the Services and Agencies ramped up multiple programs over the past few years, Industry has been challenged to meet the demand signal. This topic seeks papers and presentations that provide potential or realized solutions to meet these challenges, and production level Directed Energy Capabilities being delivered to the warfighter. Specific industrial base limitations that should be explored include large High Energy Laser optics, Beam Directors, conformal antenna designs, hard tube sealed Sources, Solid State Radio Frequency Sources.
High Energy Laser Source Scaling
As new tactical weapons have become a reality for the warfighter, there is a continued demand for increased range and an extension of target sets that HEL weapons can address. This has resulted in recent investments into power scaling of weapon systems and subsystems to meet these more challenging missions. The topic seeks papers and presentations that describe full laser weapon or major subsystem analysis or development efforts directly related to HEL source power scaling including but not limited to weapon system trades and engagement analysis, laser source development, power and cooling systems to meet increased demands, and beam control and director challenges.
Operational Employment
As multiple services place capability into the hands of the warfighter, weaponeering, logistical, legal, policy, CONOPS, TTPs and operational challenges must be overcome. This topic seeks papers and presentations that describe efforts to overcome these challenges, including but not limited to Warfighter Training, Directed Energy Weapon Initial Operational Employment Review and Approval Process (DEWRAP), Collateral effects analysis, weaponeering and targeting procedure development, maintenance and logistics mechanisms.
Operational Requirements and Mission Level Analysis
The Operational Community often makes decisions based on capability gaps observed by live forces and resulting from mission-level analysis efforts. These analytical efforts combine the current and planned state of laser technologies with an understanding of operational tactics and threat strategies to produce a holistic understanding of how proposed systems will impact the battlefield. The efforts rely on the use of mission-level modeling and simulation assets and common analytical practices to assess how present day operational performance will be impacted by future systems. This topic seeks papers and presentations that illustrate recent and ongoing mission analysis and Modeling and Simulation in which Directed Energy is being "played." Special consideration will be given to papers and presentations that provide the Directed Energy Professional with guidance on decomposing top-level and operational requirements into system, subsystem and component level requirements.
High-power Joint Electromagnetic Non-Kinetic Strike
This marque High Power Microwave Weapon Demonstrator program demonstrates collaborations across two services, multiple industrial partners and partnership external to the Department of Defense. This topic area seeks papers and presentations on the Systems level operational analysis, requirements development, system engineering and design, as well as sub-system performance and design as it contributes to the system level mission.
Solid State Laser - Technology Maturation
This marque High Energy Laser Weapon System program has completed a transformation from a Science and Technology Demonstrator to a Prototype Capability. The early Science and Technology efforts have bought down risk in subsystem technologies already being adopted by other programs. This topic area seeks papers and presentations describing the system design, demonstrated system performance and lessons learned in the transition from Science and Technology Demonstrator to a Prototype Capability.
Non-Lethal Directed Energy Weapon Prototypes - Operational Assessments
Several NL DEW system prototype will undergo both extended operational assessment in 2019/2020 as well as support a number of limited military user assessments (LMUAs) and warfighter workshops. These NL DEW prototype systems range from: (1) next-generation Active Denial Technology (ADT) demonstrators, (2) ultra-short pulse laser systems for non-lethal laser induced plasma effects; (3) Radio Frequency - High Power Microwave Vehicle/Vessel Stopper systems; (4) compact focused acoustic and dazzling lasers for long range hail, warn, and suppression; (5) advancements to NL DEW subsystems and components (e.g. HPM sources, prime power, modulators, antennas, and thermal management systems) to enhance system performance and reduce overall system size, weight, power consumption, thermal cooling and cost (SWAP/C2). Only papers and presentations discussing these NL DEW system prototypes and the significant enhancement of NL DEW system performance and reduction in SWAP/C2 will be considered for the topic area.
Note that all persons wishing to present at the Directed Energy Systems Symposium will be required to submit an abstract.
(See Submission Instructions section below.) Important dates for presenters are listed in the table below.
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25 September
- Abstracts due
- 4 October
- Authors notified of acceptance
- 29 October
- Classified Presentations due with release forms
*Unless otherwise arranged with Tisha
- 31 October
- Unclassified Presentations due with release forms
- 15 November
- Papers due with release forms
- 18-22 November
- DE Systems Symposium
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Submission Instructions
General information on the submission of abstracts, presentations, papers and release forms is provided here. Presentations and papers will be considered
for acceptance at Distribution Limitation C and at Secret levels.
Note that it is the responsibility of the lead author to obtain all approvals and releases for
submitted abstracts, presentations, and papers. All submitted materials including unclassified presentations
must be appropriately marked for security classification as well as identification of any distribution restrictions.
Additionally, please identify the presenter (if different from the lead author) and update contact information.
Abstracts
The abstract deadline has passed.
Late abstracts will only be accepted if previously arranged with the topic area or Symposium chair. Additional questions about abstracts may be directed to Chris Behre at christopher.behre@navy.mil,
the Symposium chair.
Authors will be notified on or before 4 October of acceptance of their paper for presentation and/or publication.
Note: While an automated email is sent confirming receipt of your abstract, some military
domains may block delivery of such an email. If you do not receive email confirmation, you may check
this online listing of submitted abstracts.
This listing is dynamically generated based on abstracts received at the time the page is displayed and author permissions (granted when submitted).
If the title of your abstract, or the assigned Abstract ID, is contained in this listing, it has been received by DEPS.
Presentations and Papers
In order to assemble the presentations for the symposium in a timely manner, authors are
required to submit the sponsoring Program Office approved versions of
classified presentations no later than 29 October and unclassified presentations no later than 31 October. Any
presentation received after this date is subject to not being presented at the discretion
of the technical committee.
Should you be unable to submit your Classified presentation by 29 October, you must coordinate with Tisha Mangold directly at (505) 248-8209.
Authors are encouraged to submit papers as well as presentations. Submitted papers may, upon author
approval, be forwarded for consideration by editors of the Journal of Directed Energy,
a peer-reviewed publication.
Papers are due on or before 15 November and should be submitted in either Microsoft
Word format, which is preferred, or Adobe Acrobat format (pdf file). Specific format
instructions can be found on the following link: Journal Author
Instructions with the following exceptions: no page limit, single space paragraphs, double space between paragraphs
and integrated figures and tables. Include full information (including address, phone,
fax, and email) for corresponding author. It is the authors' responsibility to ensure that
the paper has not been published, nor under consideration, elsewhere.
Note that all submitted materials, including unclassified presentations, must be appropriately
marked for security classification as well as identification of any distribution restrictions.
Specific instructions for submitting presentations, papers and release forms will be provided here soon.
UNCLASSIFIED SUBMISSIONS
Unclassified, public release (Distribution A) presentations and papers that are less than 5MB in size can be sent electronically
to Carolyn Bowman at graphic@deps.org. Unclassified presentations and papers that are Distribution C or D,
contain embedded videos, or are more than 5MB in size can be mailed on a CD to the following address or uploaded to a secure file transfer site such as AMRDEC.
DEPS Graphics
7770 Jefferson St. NE
Suite 440
Albuquerque, NM 87109
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Unclassified presentations must be received by 31 October 2019; papers by 15 November 2019.
CLASSIFIED SUBMISSIONS
Classified papers and presentations can be mailed via either US Postal Service registered mail or
via FedEx to the address below.
Please be sure and use the correct address depending on the mail option you are using.
FedEx Mailing Option
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US Postal Service Registered Mail Option
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Outer envelope:
DE-JTO
Attention: Document Control
801 University Blvd. SE, Suite 209
Albuquerque, NM 87106
Inner Envelope
DE-JTO
Attention: Tisha Mangold
801 University Blvd. SE, Suite 209
Albuquerque, NM 87106
When sending Fed-X, please mail at least 7 days prior to the appropriate due date to ensure on time delivery.
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Outer envelope:
DE-JTO
Attention: Document Control
P.O. Box 4880
Albuquerque, NM 87196-4880
Inner Envelope
DE-JTO
Attention: Tisha Mangold
P.O. Box 4880
Albuquerque, NM 87196-4880
When sending via USPS, please mail at least 14 days prior to due date to ensure on-time delivery.
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Please mail classified submissions NLT 22 October in order to guarantee receipt by 29 October.
**If unable to meet the 29 October deadline, contact Tisha Mangold directly at (505) 248-8209 to make other arrangements.**
Please ensure packaging on outer envelope does not display individual names or security classification; display
only destination and a valid return address. Remember also that the CD as well as the actual file(s) must be appropriately
marked. See Security Markings below. Example CD markings are as follows:
(U) This Is My Story, Date, Classified
By: (person name, office symbol, and title that is creating the document)
Derived From: (what documents were used to classify the document)
Declassify On: (date the document can be declassified)
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All Classified presentations must be received by 29 October 2019 and Limited Distribution presentations must be received by 31 October 2019 (unless other arrangements have been made via Tisha Mangold (505) 248-8209); papers by 15 November.
Please be sure and mail classified submissions in sufficient time to ensure delivery by the advertised due date.
Release Forms
Release forms are required for all papers and presentations submitted to the 2019 DE Systems Symposium.
These Microsoft Word release forms can be completed electronically, then
printed for signature and submission. It is the responsibility of the lead author to obtain all approvals and releases for
submitted presentations and papers. Submission instructions are provided on the form itself. Forms are due at the same time
as the corresponding presentation/paper.
Note that poster papers are considered presentations and the presentation release form
should be used in those cases.
Presentation Release Form
Paper Release Form
Security Markings
Classified materials must be marked In Accordance With DoD 5200.1-R, Sections 5.2,
5.3 and 5.4, and Executive Orders 12958 and 13526 "Classified National Security
Information." All classified presentations must include the classified by or derived from information, as
well as the "declassify on" date.
Last updated: 30 September 2019
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