IEEE Dayton Section
Hosts NAECON 2008
On 16-18 July 08, the IEEE Dayton Section hosted
the National Aerospace Electronics Conference at the Holiday Inn
in Fairborn, Ohio.

Banquet Keynote Speaker Dr. Pieter A.
Frick Oakland University
Dr. Robert L. Ewing, Air Force Research Laboratory,
Dr. Hoda S. Abdel-Aty-Zohdy, Oakland University and Ms. Barbara
L. Frantom, Air Force Research Laboratory were the General Co-Chairs.
Dr. Gary B. Lamont, Air Force Institute of Technology and Dr.
Chris Papachristou, Case Western University were the Technical
Co-chairs.

Ms. Pasala accepting the Research Visionary
Award for
her father, Dr. Krishna Pasala
NAECON, started in 1948, is the oldest and premier
IEEE Conference representing research in all aspects of theory,
design, and applications of aerospace systems and sensors.
With over a 100 paper presentations
and close to 200 people in attendance, NAECON 2008 explored new
research and contributions for core intelligent aerospace sensor
integration in the following areas:
• Innovative Aerospace Technology,
• Intelligent Sensory Exploitation and
• Wireless & Information Interoperability.
The conference began a series of, “NAECON Grand
Challenge Problems” in the area of surveillance with the next
NAECON topic challenge, “Signals of Opportunity”, to be jointly
scheduled with the Nanotechnology Conference in April 2009, where
several finalists will be selected for both scholarship awards
and presentation at NAECON in July 2009.
The NAECON conference is sponsored by the IEEE Aerospace
and Electronics Society, and the IEEE Dayton Section. Dr. Krishna
Pasala received the Research Visionary Award for 2008, representing
innovative contributions to the field of radar processing.
Catty Wampus & the Beseda
Dancers Perform at the NAECON ‘08 Banquet
For the NAECON banquet the well known Catty Wampus
band featuring Celtic violins and Beseda Dancers from the Dayton
area performed. The Beseda Dancers have performed at the World
and presented an informal instructional polka – where anyone in
the audience can participate (and the Catty Wampus members did
great as well as the guest speaker!).

We thank Charles, Barbara, Oksana, Audra Cerny
Ron, Ryan, Heather, DJ, Allison, Kyle Kline Jim Ward Helena Gerrard.
Highlights of NAECON 2008
Keynote Speaker: Joe Sciabica, Executive Director,
AF Research Laboratory “Universal Situation Awareness Layered
Sensing a “compelling vision””
Banquet Speaker, Pieter A. Frick, Oakland University
“Some Near Term Challenges and A little Nostalgia”
Plenary Speaker: Paul McManamon “Unexploited Observables,
revisited, in context of Performance Based Sensing & Layered Sensing”
Plenary Speaker: Joel C. Sercel, California Inst.
of Tech. “Technical Methods of Intelligence for the 21st Century”
Tutorial Topics (Chahira Hopper, AF Research Lab.,
Chair)
• Terahertz and Near-Millimeter-wave Technologies and Aerospace
Applications
• Software Defined Receivers for GPS
• Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
• Information Fusion Systems Evaluation
Session Chairs:
Collaborative & Cognitive Processing; Bill McQuay, AF Research
Laboratory
Computational Modeling; Seng Hong, AF Research
Laboratory; Robert Penno, University of Dayton
Innovative Sensing; Frank Hopkins, AF Research
Laboratory
Reconfigurable Computing; Kerry Hill and Al Scarpelli,
AF Research Laboratory
Information Fusion; Kevin L. Priddy, AF Laboratory
Layered Sensing & Autonomous UAVs; Charles Cerny,
AF Research Laboratory
Image Processing; Yuan Zheng, The Ohio State University
Wireless Exploratory Intelligent Sensory; Chahira
M. Hopper, AF Research Laboratory Dayton Area Graduate Studies
Institute
(DAGSI) Presentations/ Posters; Dr. Elizabeth
Downie
The NAECON Executive
Steering Committee was formed to provide oversight
and technical direction for future NAECON conferences. NAECON
Executive Steering Committee met on Wednesday night (16th July)
to review plans for NAECON 2009, The General Chair of the Steering
Committee is Maj General (Ret) Lou Ferraro, Dayton Coalition with
Steering Committee Members; Elizabeth Downie, Dayton Area Graduate
Studies Institute, Odgers Everett, Greentree Group, Tim Gaffney,
Aviation Consultant, Shane Imwalle, Woolpert LLP, Bob May, Senior
Executive Service Board of Trustees, Larrell Walters, Director
of Technology Partnerships for IDCAST, and Joe Zeis, Dayton Development
Coalition and Misoon Mah, AF Office of Scientific Research.
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