8:15 Welcome & Chairpersons Opening Remarks

8:30 Near & Long Term Technology Needs To Combat The IED Threat

• Current efforts & partnerships
• R&D advancements for Homeland Security
• Logistics and force design

Dr. Starnes Walker
Director of Research, S&T Directorate
Department of Homeland Security

9:15 Center For Army Lessons Learned: Defeat The Device - US Army Center For Lessons Learned

• Best theater performance
• Change in landscape, change in mission
• How lessons change the strategy to defeat IED threats

Scott A. Blaney
Senior Military Analyst, Center for Army Lessons Learned
Combat Analysis Branch

10:45 Attack The Network: Defeating IEDs By Defeating The Source

• Conventional weapons destruction
• Programmatics for humanitarian mine action
• Small arms, light weapons and munitions destruction

Col Yori R. Escalante. USMC
Deputy Director for Programs
Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement

11:30 NGA Efforts In C-IED

• Terrain visualization
• The silent and continuous war

Ralph M. Erwin
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Liaison to TRADOC Fort Leavenworth

1:30 US Homeland And Urban Operations Outlook

• Lessons learned from urban attacks
• Domestic efforts in prevention and protection
• Future in C-IED initiatives

Patrick Race
Counter Terrorism
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

2:05 Limitations Of Neutron-Based Explosives Detection Systems

• Inherent physical limitations
• Signal-to-noise ratio in a given system
• Straight IED elemental analysis

Dr. Philip C. Womble
Professor, Applied Physics Institute
Western Kentucky University

3:15 IED Detection Challenges And Opportunities

• Protecting US interest from IED attack
• How IED attacks are successful
• What is needed now to defeat IEDs

Alan E. Preizer
US Army
Kuwait

4:00 Self Healing Materials That Defeat The IED Threat

• Reactive armor to increase survivability
• Self-healing polymers and metals
• Reactive armor and material advancement

Dr. Pradeep Rohatgi
Director, Composites Center
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee