Abstracts

The Undersea Warfare Division of NDIA invites you or someone in your organization to submit an abstract for consideration for agenda placement in the Technical Sessions of the 2019 Undersea Warfare Technology Spring Conference. This conference concentrates on the Navy's key core competency mission of countering submarine and mine threats to the free and open flow of sea borne commerce and to the conduct of power projection from the sea.

Abstracts must be UNCLASSIFIED DISTRIBUTION A!

Abstracts should clearly describe advances in undersea warfare technology areas and apply to one (or more) of the seven technical areas listed below:

• Aviation USW
  Desired technical subjects cover the broad areas of signal processing, human factors, training, undersea capable weapons, sensors, man-machine interface, littoral and large area search as well as the networking required to make all of this happen

• C4I & Combat Systems
  Focuses on Communications, Information Exchange, Data Fusion and Command and Control enablers for the ASW Kill Chain F2T2EA (Find, Fix, Track, Target, Engage and Assess)

• Mine Warfare
  Addresses threats, programs, operations, CONOPS, and future technologies across the MIW spectrum of mine hunting, mine sweeping, neutralization, command and control, mining and other areas of interest

• Undersea Sensors
  Abstracts submitted to this section should relate to the following: underwater acoustic transduction and acoustic sensor arrays, electro-optic sensors, magnetic sensors, electrostatic sensors, chemical sensors, gravity sensors, signal processing, test and evaluation, operational use/sea test results, and theoretical studies

• Undersea Vehicles
  Focuses on both large and small hull undersea vehicles (both manned and unmanned) and unmanned surface vehicles. Technical subjects cover the broad areas of weapons, unmanned vehicles, defensive systems and hull, mechanical and electrical systems

• Warfighter Performance
  Addresses evolving operational needs and solutions in the area of USW Warfighter Performance which employ a combination of components such as technology, HSI, Serious Games, Virtual Worlds, and other emerging concepts. Presentations in this session will address approaches that effectively combine cross discipline techniques and methodologies to provide real capability to the Warfighter across all USW Warfare Domains/Enterprises (i.e., Submarine, Surface, Air, and MIW Enterprises)
  
   

HOW TO SUBMIT
Abstracts must be submitted online at http://application.ndia.org/abstracts/9260/

Be sure to address the following in your submission:

1. What topic is to be addressed and why it is important;
   
2. How the topic relates to the theme ("Undersea Dominance through Integrated Cross Domain Manned and Unmanned Systems");
   
3. How the method/approach addresses the topic;
   
4. How mature the research/development is;
   
5. The results that are to be expected;
   
6. The type, significance, and importance of the results;
   
7. A 2-3 sentence summary of your abstract to include in the agenda.

Please submit your abstracts no later than Friday, January 18, 2019.

All abstracts will be reviewed and chosen for the program by Thursday, February 14, 2019.

Contact Macon Field at mfield@ndia.org  with any questions.