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Communications Research Innovation Across

Commercial and Military Boundaries

Panel Organizer and Moderator: Navid Yazdani

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Panel: Dr Wayne Phoel, DARPA

Mr Mark Rich, Google Dr David Love, Purdue

Dr Bryan Robinson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

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Panel Focus:

• Trends in communications research

• Explore what is being done in the

Government/Military and what is being done in

Commercial R&D

• Discuss ways that Government/Military and

Commercial R&D can better leverage one another

Panel Format:

• 10 min Intro

• 10-15 min Presentation from each panelist

• 45 min Q&A

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Government R&D Centers

National Laboratories

Industry Laboratories

University Research

Research Organizations:

DARPA Purdue

MIT Lincoln Laboratory Google

Organizations on the Panel

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Origins of transformational comm systems:

Computer – DoD – ENIAC (US Army/UPenn)

The Internet – DoD - ARPANET (DARPA/BBN)

SATCOM – DoD - Sputnik, Courier 1B (US Army/SSL)

Wireless Communication – various

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US

China

Russia

Saudi Arabia

France

UK

Germany

Japan

India

South Korea

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Computing, Internet, Software, Electronics, Telecom

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Computing, Internet, Telecom

Healthcare

Auto

Industrials

Chemicals and Energy

Consumer

Aerospace and Defense

Other

Global R&D Spending: $647B

Sources:http://www.consultancy.uk/news/944/strategy-rd-spending-reaches-highest-level-in-2014

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• Understanding what Military and Commercial R&D

groups are doing today

• Are there better ways for Military R&D to leverage the

huge commercial R&D efforts?

• Are there better ways for Commercial R&D to

leverage Military R&D in developing the next

transformation?

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Dr. Wayne Phoel joined DARPA in 2013 as a Program Manager for the Strategic Technology Office. His work focuses on developing technology to enable robust and resilient wireless networks for tactical users. The corresponding research seeks to provide the users with critical information when it is needed despite link and network dynamics, which can be due to either natural effects or actions of an advanced adversary. Prior to joining DARPA, Dr. Phoel performed original research in anti-jam radio frequency (RF) communications, and led the design and prototyping of protected satellite and airborne network technology.

Dr. Wayne Phoel Program Manager DARPA

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Mr. Mark Rich is a Technical Project Lead in Google's Advanced Technology and Projects Group leading research into advanced radio architectures. He joined Google in September 2014 after completing a four-year assignment as a Program Manager in DARPA's Strategic Technology Office. While at DARPA, Mr. Rich developed and led communications programs distributed MIMO technologies, use of commercial development processes for military systems and advanced radio architectures. Mr. Rich previously managed the Systems Engineering Department at Atheros Communications before its acquisition by Qualcomm.

Mr. Mark Rich Technical Project Lead, Advanced Technology and Projects Group Google

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David J. Love received the B.S. (with highest honors), M.S.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Since August 2004, he has been with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, where he is now a Full Professor and recognized as a University Faculty Scholar. He is a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher and an IEEE Fellow. He has authored over 75 journal papers and holds 24 issued US patents..

Dr. David Love Professor School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue

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Dr. Bryan Robinson is an Assistant Group Leader in the Optical Communications Technology Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he leads numerous efforts to develop technologies and systems for future near-Earth and deep-space free-space optical communications. He was the lead systems engineer for NASA’s first demonstration of laser communications, the Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration. Dr. Robinson received his BS, MEng and PhD from MIT.

Dr. Bryan Robinson Assistant Group Leader Optical Communication Technology Group MIT Lincoln Laboratory

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Q&A Ground Rules:

• Mix of questions from the moderator and questions

from the audience

• Ask the panelists short questions

– Don’t pontificate

• Not all panelists need to respond to every question

– If they don’t have anything to add, they should not

• It’s OK to disagree but be respectful