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The 2005 Launch and Recovery Conference was an outstanding success drawing the leading experts from around the world to discuss emergent technical issues. The 2008 Launch and Recovery Conference of Manned and Unmanned Vehicles From Surface Platforms represents a unique opportunity for both new participants and those who attended the last conference to present current cutting edge technology, and discuss progress that has occurred over the intervening three years. Unmanned vehicles are increasingly integrated into the day-to-day operations of naval and commercial maritime operations, from ocean platform inspection, to search-and-rescue, to surface and antisubmarine warfare. At the same time, the use of small manned vehicles is also on the rise, whether high-speed boats on Coast Guard ships or helicopters on research vessels. The need to operate both manned and unmanned vehicles from the same platform is of increasing importance, and so the means to quickly and safely launch and recover a wide variety of such vehicles – which are evolving at a rapid pace – is an area of intense research and development in both the naval and commercial maritime sectors as well as academia.
The following launch and recovery topics are of particular relevance:
- Innovative and conventional methods/systems for launch and recover of surface, underwater and air vehicles
- Lessons learned since previous conference
- Improvements to operational capabilities and mission effectiveness
- Simultaneous operations of manned and unmanned craft
- Autonomous recovery operations, guidance systems, night operations
- Issues for systems with reduced or zero deck crew: safety, human factors, training
- Certification, test and evaluation
- Issues related to launch/recovery in higher sea states and higher speeds
- Platform and system flexibility to accommodate differing vehicle types and
future vehicle growth
- Issues on small platforms like fishing vessels and high-speed boats
- Issues for passenger ships
- Issues for Navy and Coast Guard vessels
- General research and development needs and initiatives
A workshop and student poster session is also being planned for this event!
The student poster competition will award cash prizes. |
The 2008 Conference is intended to bring together the people developing these launch and recovery systems, in order to assess the state of the art and emerging trends for systems in the following areas:
- Current State of the Art
- Proven or fully investigated concepts
- Acquisition design integration
- Operational experience gained since the last conference (Lessons Learned)
- Operator guidance and training
More importantly, it will be an opportunity to see and meet the participants in this critical field – military and civilian, theoreticians, developers and users – to build future relationships and continue those already established, that can accelerate and broaden research, development and application.
The expected audience will include:
- Users and operators from the US and allied navies and Coast Guard,
- Users and operators from the offshore and commercial maritime industries,
- Class societies,
- Systems developers and integrators,
- And, academic and laboratory researchers.
We invite participants to give presentations on subjects related to the launch and recovery of vehicles from surface platforms. Vehicles include both manned and unmanned vehicles (e.g., helicopters, rotorcraft, fixed-wing aircraft, RIBs, high-speed craft, tenders, UAVs, USVs, UUVs, etc.).
Surface platforms comprise naval, coast guard, passenger and commercial ships, offshore platforms and other vessels. We will accept either full journal articles or viewgraph presentations, although we prefer both.
CONTINUOUS LEARNING CREDIT (DAWIA)
Note that you may be able to earn Continuous Learning points by attending this event if you are a Department of the Navy certified acquisition workforce member and have met the required Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) certification for your position, you have a biannual Continuous Learning requirement to earn 80 points. For more information on the Continuous Learning policy, go to the DACM website at: http://acquisition.navy.mil/content/view/full/110. Your supervisor must approve all points. If you are eligible to earn Continuous Learning points, you may receive points by attending this event.
We are looking forward to this event and hope you are too as it will be very informative and educational to hear all that is going on with the launch and recovery of manned and unmanned vehicles from surface platforms in May 2008 in Annapolis. |
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