Special Events
Please Plan to Attend These Events
Awards Banquet: Tuesday 6:00 p.m. At the conference reception and banquet, the AESS Radar Systems Panel will present its 2002 Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award. The IEEE will present its annual Warren D. White Award for excellence in radar engineering. New IEEE fellows will also be honored and credentials presented.
Exhibitors Luncheon: Tuesday 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. Participants are invited to a buffet lunch in the exhibition area as guests of the exhibitors. Take this opportunity to get a first look at the technical exhibits and meet the corporate sponsors.
Exhibitors Reception: Wednesday 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. Cocktails and light dinner will be served while you view the exhibits. This is another opportunity to browse the latest products and services and make contact with their developers.
See also the Advance Program
and the Paper Summaries
Banquet Presentation:
Homeland Security- A History and Future
Dennis H. Quine
Mr. Dennis Quine of the Aerospace Corporation provides a timely presentation during a Banquet Dinner and awards presentation on Tuesday, April 22. He provides an overview of the 200-year history of homeland defense challenges and a perspective on our national responses. This historical perspective provides the foundation for understanding the challenges of the new era of terrorism with weapons of mass destruction, and the new kinds of problems homeland defense must address in the 21st century.
Watching the Horizon: Surveillance Grand Challenges in Support of Homeland Defense
For decades "surveillance" in support of protection of North America has focused on looking for fast-moving metallic objects (airplanes and missiles). With the demonstration of terrorist asymmetric attacks, the role of surveillance in support of homeland defense must expand dramatically.
We now have to monitor, in support of active and timely defense, a whole array of things coming into North America that were previously considered benign: cargo shipping, immigrants (legal and illegal), legal visitors in cars and trucks, small aircraft, small boats, postal packages, even electronic attacks through the Internet. Our capability to keep track of all these potential attack modes is severely limited today: e.g.; the Customs Service only inspects about 2% of incoming shipping. However, with biological and suitcase nuclear weapons now possibly in the terrorist inventory, even small packages can do considerable damage.
The challenges to surveillance capabilities run across the gamut: technology, organization of operations, data evaluation, and support to defensive operations. The presentation proposes we think in terms of "Surveillance Grand Challenges", and apply systems engineering approaches to addressing some non-traditional areas for defense surveillance, such as immigration and cross-border traffic monitoring.
Mr. Quine is a retired Air Force Lt. Col. He was with General Research Corporation from 1984 to 1988, and has been at the Aerospace Corporation since 1988. He conducts support studies and analysis for several classified national space programs, and is also conducting analysis of homeland defense/security issues under the Corporate Strategic Initiative. In addition, Mr. Quine develops and conducts in-house courses on homeland defense at Aerospace Corporation.
Mr. Quine has a B.S. in Mathematics from Florida State University, and M.S. in Engineering Physics from Air Force Institute of Technology, and an M.S. in Systems Management from USC. Currently, teaches mathematics courses for American Military University over the Internet.
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