Call For Abstracts

Sponsored by the Advanced Technical Intelligence Association (formerly the MASINT Association) in cooperation with The Defense Intelligence Agency and
 The National Ground Intelligence Center

NOTE:  MEETING WILL BE CLASSIFIED SECRET//REL USA GBR CAN AUS

The 2008 Advanced Signatures Technology Symposium (ASTS) will be held at the National Ground Intelligence Center in Charlottesville, VA, 18-20 November 2008.

The annual Signatures symposiums are supported by the Signatures Support Program (SSP), formerly The National Signatures Program (NSP).  The SSP is a joint, multi-agency venture initiated by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), to meet increased customer demands for signature data.  The SSP’s overarching goal is to facilitate access to high-quality signatures for a diverse customer base. To do this, the SSP leverages the full spectrum of signature-related activities  within the Department of Defense (DoD), the Intelligence Community (IC), Industry, and Academia.  These activities include initial collection, processing, development, and detailed analysis.  The program addresses a host of signature types, including acoustic, seismic, radio frequency, infrared, radar, nuclear radiation, and electro-optical. The SSP incorporates other types of signature data, e.g. chemical and biological warfare agents, lasers, and other dynamic phenomena of events and activities that support a wide array of domestic and foreign mission areas. SSP Access is available through http://dt.dia.smil.mil/nsp; and www.nsp.ic.dia.gov.

The theme of the 2008 ASTS is "Signatures for Domain Awareness and the Global War on Terrorism".  The Symposium will focus on current applications of signatures, signature technologies and signature applications to operational and intelligence problems, as well as the development of new technologies and applications to future threats.  Special emphasis this year will be on how Signatures facilitate analysis and operations for Domain Awareness and the Global War on Terrorism.  Domain reness subtends Maritime Domain Awareness¹ and Air Domain Surveillance².
Topics of interest within each of the sessions include, but are not limited to, the following:

IED Signatures: Defeat the Device and Attack the Network

• RF, Thermal, spectral signatures
• Detection of emplaced devices & triggers
• Detection of device fabrication, training, storage locations
• Detection of behavioral patterns, socio-economic patterns, etc

Biometric Signatures

• Intent detection, determination and characterization of crowd    behavior
• Individual recognition, tagging & tracking

WMD Signatures

• Detection, location & characterization of chemical, biological,nuclear & radiological weapons
• Close-access techniques
• Remote sensing methodologies

DEW Signatures

• Detection, location and characterization of lasers and RF weapons
• Emissions from microwave & laser systems
• Atmospheric propagation effects

Domain Awareness

• Maritime Domain Awareness
• Air Domain Awareness
• Integrated and composite signatures

Sessions will be open to attendees from Great Britain, Australia, and Canada.  There will be US-Only sessions as well.

Please see the 2008 ASTS website for complete details on submitting your abstract, registration, and other facts.

http://www.scitor.com/asts/ASTS.html