June - No meeting
May 20, 2008: "Defending Aircraft The Old-fashioned Way: With Lead and Men" by Albert McMahan and Henry Hughey, Georgia Chapter of the Eighth Air Force Historical Society, who are a former tail gunner and ball turret gunner, respectively, during World War II. They were the original "aircraft defensive systems" for the Air Force. Click here for more information on WWII Eighth Airforce
Some Past Speakers (click on photo for larger image)
April 24, 2008: "EA-18G Growler Program Overview" by CDR Mike VanGheem, EA-18G Chief Engineer, PMA-265, the F/A-18 and EA-18G program office, Pax River, Maryland
March 25, 2008 --
"An Editor's Perspective on a Changing EW Market" by
John Knowles, Editor, Journal of Electronic Defense
February 27, 2008 - "NSWC Crane's Support of US National Strategies: EW/IO, Special Missions, Strategic Missions" and "Maritime EW Division" by Lawrence White, Division Manager, Maritime Electronic Warfare (EW) Systems, Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division and Dave Jenkins, Electronic Warfare Officer
December 11, Tuesday --
"EW
Sustainment" by Col Tim Freeman, USAF,Commander, 542 EW Sustainment Group
November 29 -- Peachtree Roost 30 Year Celebration (click here)
October 23, 2007 -- "Wideband Apertures" by Dr. Lon Pringle and "University Chair Program (UCP)" by Dr. ROBERT W. RICE, Signature Technology Laboratory, GTRI
September
18, 2007 -- "Airborne Electronic Attack: Battle Management" by Nick Myers,
Northrop Grumman Corporation
August 21, 2007 - Major (Dr.) George Roelke,
AFRL/SNRA
"Electronic Warfare Research & Capabilities at AFRL's Radio Frequency Sensor
Assessment Branch"
July 24 - LTC Michael Brown on "FCS 101" Network Systems Integration/Army Future Combat Systems
June 28, 2007 - "NATO EW" by Rod Beard, GTRI
May
23, 2007 -- "EW Programs in the Systems Analysis Branch/Electronic Systems
Division of GTRI" by Mr. Tim Floyd, Branch Head and "RF aspects of
Netcentric Warfare" by Dr. Jack Landgren, Project Director
April 19,
2007 -- "Phoenix Air Group Operations" by Steve Christopher and Dent Thompson,
VP, Phoenix Group Inc.
February 20 - Capt. William Chubb, .Program Manager;
Advanced Tactical Aircraft Protection Systems (PEO(T)/PMA272)
President John Gray thanking Capt. Chubb
November 14, 2006 -- "EMS Overview" by Marty Broadwell, VP of Programs and Biconical Antennas for ECM Applications" by Dr. Don Black. Hosted by EMS, Inc at EMS. Also Marty
October 18, 2006 -- "Spectral Combat" in Today's Operations by Dr. Wittstruck, as the Chief Systems Engineer for United States Army’s Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors (PEO IEW&S), Ft. Monmouth, NJ
September 19, 2006
--
"Army ASE: Today and in the Future"
by
Ray
Pietruszka, Deputy Army PD ASE (Huntsville, AL)
August 22, 2006 -- "Tactical Air EW: Past, Present and Future," by Rear Admiral Grady Jackson, USN Retired.
May 2006 --
"Smart Cable Saga" by Lt. Col. Keith Bearden, 542d Combat Sustainment Support
Squadron Commander, Robins AFB, Georgia
April 18, 2006 --
"Protecting Aircraft Against Infrared and
Electro-Optical Threats" by Joe Koesters, Branch Head, AFRL/SNJW
(Electro-Optical (EO) Countermeasures Technology Branch ),
WPAFB, Ohio
March 28, 2006 -- "Dual Polarized Slot
Arrays and Their Application" by Dr. Mike Guler, Technical Fellow, EMS
Technologies Inc, Atlanta, GAclick
here for slide presentation
President
John Gray congratulating Pete Allor
President
John Gray congratulating speaker Amy Jones
Mike Barks and President John Gray
President
John Gray and Larry LawsonDecember 11, 2003 -- "Top Ten Reasons Why Software Projects Fail" by Dr. Steve Cross, Vice President, Georgia Tech and Director, GTRI Director
October 21, 2003 -- October 21, 2003 -- "Electronic Attack (EA)
Development Initiatives in the Air Force Research Laboratory - Advanced Threat
Alert and Response (ATAR)," by Rod Perry, ATAR Program Manager for the
Sensors Directorate, AFRL, WPAFB, Ohio
Rod
Perry and Tom McDermott, President of the Peachtree Roost
September 16, 2003 -- "AFSOC EW
Reprogramming and Specific Emitter ID" by Sam Neal, HQ AFSOC ECSF, Robins
AFB
President
Tom McDermott congratulating speaker Sam Neal
August 19, 2003 -- "EW
Transformation Counter Air Defense Systems (CADS) ROADMAP" by
Lt. Col Ricky A. Sowell, Deputy Chief, EW/Survivability Division, ACC/DRK --
Langley AFB
Program
Chairman Bob Zimmer presenting appreciation plaque to Lt. Col. Sowell
June 18, 2003 -- "AOC
Awareness Briefing" and "Installation of 2003-04 Peachtree Roost
Board" by Austin "Pepper" Thomas, Vice
President and President Elect, Association of Old Crows, and
Manager of Domestic and International EW Requirements, Integrated Systems,
Northrop Grumman
New
President Tom McDermott presenting and congratulating Pepper Thomas with an
appreciation plaque.
New
Peachtree Roost Board after installation by Pepper Thomas
April 22, 2003 – “Submarine EW
Support for the 21st Century -- the Way Ahead” by Paul Gross, Deputy Program
Manager, Submarine Sensor Systems Program Office, NAVSEA
President
Russ Stanton presenting and congratulating Paul Gross with an
appreciation plaque.
March 26, 2003 – Scalable Data Exploitation Systems by David Toms, Director, Business Development, Mercury Computer Systems, Inc
February 11, 2003 – “NATO
Themes And Issues In Today’s World,” LtCol Eugene Herrera (USMC) and
LtCol Hendrik van der Gaag, Netherlands Army
January 21, 2003 Joint Strike
Fighter – Current and Future
EW Systems, by Mr. Tom Burbage, Executive Vice President and General
Manager, Joint Strike Fighter
September 26, 2002 -- “Time Critical Targeting, Geolocation and Multiple Target Tracking,” by Dr. Phil West, GTRI
August 27, 2002 – “HQ USAF Perspective on EW,” Colonel Thomas F. Fleming, Deputy for Electronic Warfare, Directorate of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Headquarters Air Force
June 18, 2002 - "Software
Engineering at the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center," Dr
Tom Christian Deputy Chief of Software Engineering WRALC,
Robins Air Force Base, Georgia
Program
Chairman Bob Zimmer presenting and congratulating Dr. Christian with an
appreciation plaque.
Officers
Mike Willis, Jean Sands, John Gray -- Speaker Col. Andersen -- James Corbett,
and Bob Zimmer
April 23, 2002 - "Support
Equipment &Vehicles Product Group Manager (SE&V PGM) Overview," Susan J.
Voveris, Col., USAF, WR-ALC/LEA, Warner Robins, GA
Bob
Zimmer congratulating Col. Voveris and presenting her with an appreciation
plaque
March 1, 2002 - " CAF EW/Survivability
Roadmap," Col. Christopher L. Glaze, Chief, EW/Survivability
Division, Hdq. ACC, Langley AFB, VA
Col . Chris
"Bulldog" Glaze, Colonel, Chief, Electronic Warfare/Survivability
Division admiring the appreciation plaque presented by President Russ Stanton
Feb 19, 2002 - "Phased
Array of Phased Arrays (PAPA)," Paul McManamon, Project Director, AFRL/SNJ,
WPAFB
President
Russ Stanton and Jeff Kemp, Chairman of IEEE-MTT-PGAP congratulate Dr.
McManamon in a joint meeting of the Peachree Roost and the IEEE Microwave Theory
and Techniques/Antennas and Propagation
Jan 17, 2002 - "Understanding IR and
RF Surface-to-Air Missile Engagement Outcomes Using Hardware-In-The-Loop
Testing,"LtCol Seth D. Shepherd (USAF), Director, Air Force Electronic
Warfare Evaluation Simulator Ft. Worth, TX
President
Russ Stanton congratulating Lt. Col. Shepherd
Dec 18, 2001 - "Trial Mace XI," Rod Beard, Manager, Air National Guard Program Office, Electronic Systems Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology
Nov 7, 2001 - "EW Roadmap & Applied Technology Council Process," Col. Larry D. Strawser , Deputy Director, AFRL/SN, WPAFB, Ohio
Program
Chairman, Bob Zimmer Presenting Col. Strawser with Certificate of Appreciation