Past Event Overview

2009 Symposium Chair Ray Johnson speaks to exhibitors

SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing is the must-attend event for sensing and related technologies for Industrial, Commercial, and Defense applications.

The 2009 meeting saw strong attendance, a record-breaking exhibition, and one of the finest technical programs ever: 6000+ attendees, 500+ exhibitors, and 2000+ papers.

For detailed information about the meeting, see:

 
 
 
 
 
 

View the current SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing event webpage

The 2009 meeting featured presentations by top experts from around the globe:

Symposium Wide Plenary Speaker

 

Norman R. Augustine
Retired Chairman and CEO
Lockheed Martin Corp.
"Re-engineering Engineering"

Hear a podcast of the presentation.


Banquet Honoree and Speaker

 

Professor Kazuo Hotate
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems
School of Engineering
The University of Tokyo


Future Direction in US Government Funding Panel

 

John M. Pellegrino
Chair, US Army Research, Development, & Engineering Command, Sensors Technical Focus Team and Director, Sensors & Electron Devices Directorate, US Army Research Laboratory
See Pellegrino's presentation (3MB PDF).
 

Walter F. Jones
Executive Director, Office of Naval Research

 

Brendan B. Godfrey
Director, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
See Godfrey's presentation on the AOSR (570KB PDF)


SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing provides cutting-edge information on:

Technologies for Defense, Industrial, and Commercial Applications

 
  • Emerging Technologies
 
  • Unmanned, Robotic, and Layered Systems
 
  • Displays
 
  • Space Technologies and Operations

Sensing and Systems

 
  • Imaging including IR, Radar, Passive Millimeter-wave, and Terahertz
 
  • Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear and Explosives (CBRNE)
 
  • Biometric
 
  • Laser
 
  • Fiber Optic
 
  • Nanosensors
 
  • Biomimetics
 
  • Sensor Platforms

Sensor and Data Analysis

 
  • Image and Data Processing
 
  • Visual Analytics
 
  • Situation Management
 
  • Information Systems and Networks

Symposium Chairs and Committee Members:

 

Dr. Ray O. Johnson
2009 Symposium Chair
Dr. Ray O. Johnson is the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Lockheed Martin Corporation
  Dr. Michael T. Eismann

2009 Symposium Co-Chair
Dr. Eismann is the Technical Advisor for the Electro-Optics Sensor Technology Div., Air Force Research Lab.

2009 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)

Mehdi Anwar, Univ. of Connecticut

Roger Appleby, QinetiQ Ltd.(United Kingdom)

Stephen B. Balakirsky, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Sergey I. Balandin, Nokia Research Ctr. (Finland)

Brandon W. Blackburn, Raytheon Co.

Misty Blowers, Air Force Research Lab.

Howard E. Brandt, Army Research Lab.

J. Thomas Broach, U.S. Army Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate

Christopher D. Brown, Ahura Scientific, Inc.

John F. Buford, Avaya Inc.

James A. Buford, Jr., U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Ctr.

Douglas D. Burleigh, Surfside Consulting

Joe C. Campbell, Univ. of Virginia

Edward M. Carapezza, Univ. of Connecticut and DARPA

David P. Casasent, Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Kaunglin Chao, USDA Agricultural Research Service

Tien-Hsin Chao, Jet Propulsion Lab.

Steven L. Chodos, Boeing-SVS, Inc.

Joseph L. Cox, Missile Defense Agency

Richard A. Crocombe, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.

Thomas W. Crowe, Virginia Diodes, Inc.

Brian M. Cullum, Univ. of Maryland/Baltimore County

Belur V. Dasarathy, Consultant, Information Fusion Technologies

Peter J. Delfyett, Jr., College of Optics & Photonics/Univ. of Central Florida

Daniel D. Desjardins, Air Force Research Lab.

Michael J. DeWeert, BAE Systems

Nibir K. Dhar, Army Research Lab.

Sohail A. Dianat, Rochester Institute of Technology

Ralph B. Dinwiddie, Oak Ridge National Lab.

Armin W. Doerry, Sandia National Labs.

Eric J. Donkor, Univ. of Connecticut

Mark A. Druy, Physical Sciences Inc.

Henry H. Du, Stevens Institute of Technology

Mark Dubinskii, Army Research Lab.

Achyu K. Dutta, Banpil Photonics, Inc.

Emre Ertin, The Ohio State Univ.

Xudong Fan, Univ. of Missouri/Columbia

Nicholas F. Fell, Jr., Army Research Lab.

Wolfgang Fink, California Institute of Technology

Augustus W. Fountain, III, U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Ctr.

Gabor F. Fulop, Maxtech International, Inc.

Douglas W. Gage, XPM Technologies

Frederick D. Garber, Wright State Univ.

Patrick J. Gardner, Western Carolina Univ.

Günter Gauglitz, Univ. Tübingen (Germany)

Thomas George, ViaLogy PLC

Grant R. Gerhart, U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Ctr.

G. Charmaine Gilbreath, Naval Research Lab.

Jeff J. Güell, The Boeing Co.

Craig S. Halvorson, Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

Russell S. Harmon, U.S. Army Research Office

Paul R. Havig, Air Force Research Lab.

Chadwick T. Hawley, National Signature Program

Michael J. Hayduk, Air Force Research Lab.

Daniel J. Henry, Recon/Optical, Inc.

John H. Holloway, Jr., Naval Surface Warfare Ctr.

Gerald C. Holst, JCD Publishing

Weilin Hou, Naval Research Lab.

M. Saif Islam, Univ. of California/Davis

Mark A. Itzler, Princeton Lightwave, Inc.

Gabe Jakobson, Altusys Corp.

Sabah A. Jassim, Univ. of Buckingham (United Kingdom)

Bahram Javidi, Univ. of Connecticut

Ivan Kadar, Interlink Systems Sciences, Inc.

Gary W. Kamerman, FastMetrix, Inc.

Alex A. Kazemi, The Boeing Co.

Moon S. Kim, USDA Agricultural Research Service

Bernard C. Kress, Univ. Louis Pasteur (France)

Paul E. Lewis, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Robert A. Lieberman, Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc.

Abhijit Mahalanobis, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control

Peter L. Marasco, Air Force Research Lab.

Pejmun Motaghedi, The Boeing Co.

Stephen Mott, Sensors Directorate, Air Force Research Lab.

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

Teresa H. O'Donnell, Air Force Research Lab.

Andrew R. Pirich, ACP Consulting

D. Marshall Porterfield, Purdue Univ.

Stephen G. Post, Missile Defense Agency

Salil Prabhakar, DigitalPersona, Inc.

Kevin L. Priddy, Air Force Research Lab.

Zia-Ur Rahman, Old Dominion Univ.

Kenneth I. Ranney, Army Research Lab.

Chung-Hye Read, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Stephen E. Reichenbach, Univ. of Nebraska/Lincoln

William Ribarsky, The Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte

Arun A. Ross, West Virginia Univ.

Firooz A. Sadjadi, Lockheed Martin Corp.

Sylvia S. Shen, The Aerospace Corp.

Charles M. Shoemaker, General Dynamics Robotic Systems

Jung-Young Son, Daegu Univ. (South Korea)

Šárka O. Southern, Gaia Medical Institute

Raja Suresh, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems

Venkataraman S. Swaminathan, U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command

Harold H. Szu, Naval Surface Warfare Ctr.

John Tudor Thomas, General Dynamics Canada Ltd. (Canada)

William E. Thompson, Air Force Research Lab.

William J. Tolone, The Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte

Dawn A. Trevisani, Air Force Research Lab.

Shu-I Tu, USDA Agricultural Research Service

Monte D. Turner, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Randal W. Tustison, Raytheon Co.

Eric Udd, Columbia Gorge Research

Maarten Uijt de Haag, Ohio Univ.

B.V.K. Vijaya Kumar, Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Tuan Vo-Dinh, Duke Univ.

Anbo Wang, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ.

Linda M. Wasiczko Thomas, Naval Research Lab.

James W. Wells, General Motors Research Lab.

David A. Wikner, Army Research Lab.

Hai Xiao, Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology

Edmund G. Zelnio, Air Force Research Lab.

Michael David Zoltowski, Purdue Univ.