SIGE SCHEDULE
Tuesday - September 29, 2026
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 07:30 |
WELCOME
Lacaz Netto Auditorium Hall |
| 09:00 |
Opening Ceremony of the XXVIII SIGE
Lacaz Netto Auditorium Remarks by the ITA Rector Prof. Dr. Antonio Guilherme de Arruda Lorenzi |
| 09:20 |
Opening Lecture
Title: Creation of PPGAO and SIGE, and Technology Scenario Forecasting Speaker: Col. (Ret.) Narcelio Ramos Ribeiro Pioneer in the implementation of Electronic Warfare and Operations Research in the Brazilian Air Force Lacaz Netto Auditorium |
| 10:10 |
Coffee Break
Lacaz Netto Hall / ITA Library (Authorities) |
| 10:40 |
XXVII SIGE Briefing
Presenter: XXVIII SIGE General Coordinator Lacaz Netto Auditorium |
| 11:10 |
Plenary Lecture 1
Title: National Sovereignty vs. the Threat of Kill Switches in Foreign Systems Speaker: Eng. Julio Shidara Affiliation: President of the Brazilian Aerospace Industries Association (AIAB) Lacaz Netto Auditorium |
| 12:10 |
Plenary Lecture 2
Title: Impact of Electromagnetic Spectrum Dominance on Current Conflicts Speaker: Darin W. Nielsen Affiliation: Association of Old Crows (AOC) - Director Lacaz Netto Auditorium |
| 13:00 | LUNCH |
| 13:30 |
REGISTRATION
ITA Fundamental Sciences Building, Room F2-105 |
| 14:20 |
Diamond Lecture — Keysight
Title: Practical Innovations in Testing and Analysis for Eletronic Warfare Speaker: Bruno Duarte Weis Auditorium |
| 15:20 |
Diamond Lecture — EMBRAER
Title: Integrated Architectures for C-UAS Defense: Sensing, Surveillance, and Interception of Unmanned Threats Speakers: Ana Paula Rodrigues and Felicio Harley Garcia Castro Weis Auditorium |
| 16:20 |
Diamond Lecture — AWS
Title: Accelerating Research Development with Security and Compliance in the AWS Cloud Speaker: Rubem Paulo Torri Saldanha Position: Senior Business Development Manager Weis Auditorium |
| From 17:20 |
Icebreaker
First-Floor Hall – Fundamental Sciences Building |
Wednesday - 09/30/2026
SERFA
| Time | Activity – POMPEIA Auditorium |
|---|---|
| 08:00 | Remarks by IEAv |
| 08:40 | LECTURE 1 – Cel Av James de Castro Martins (MD) |
| 09:20 | Coffee Break |
| 09:40 | LECTURE 2 – Col. Silvio Roberto Assunção de Oliveira Filho (OIA-FAB) |
| 10:20 |
Keysight Lecture Title: Spoofing in GNSS Navigation Systems Speaker: Bruno Duarte (POMPEIA Auditorium) |
| 11:10 | LECTURE 3 – Lt. Col. Luiz Claudio Oliveira de Andrade (DSG) |
| 11:50 | LECTURE 4 – Lieutenant Commander Adriano Gomes Pereira (CASNAV) |
| 12:30 | LECTURE 5 – Mr. Cristiano Cunha (DITEC/PF) |
| 13:10 | LUNCH |
| 14:20 | LECTURE 6 – Dr. Ulisses Guimarães and Mr. André Luiz Pereira Valentim (CENSIPAM) |
| 15:20 |
Rohde & Schwarz Lecture Walt Schulte, Applications Engineer Automated Electronic Countermeasure Testing(POMPEIA Auditorium) |
| 16:10 | LECTURE 7 – Capt. Kaio César Lucena Mosinho (COES) |
| 17:20 | Poster Session and Networking Reception |
AI Seminar
| Time | Activity – Lacaz Netto Auditorium |
|---|---|
| 08:30 | Reception and General Instructions – 08:30 to 09:10 |
| 09:40 | Formal Opening Ceremony |
| Time | Activity – WEIS Auditorium |
| 11:10 | MCTI – Prof. Dr. Hugo Valadares |
| 12:10 |
USP – Prof. Glauco Caurin Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the Context of Aeronautical Engineering |
| 13:10 | Lunch – 1 h 10 min |
| 14:20 |
INATEL – Dr. Francisco Martins Portelinha Edge AI and RF Sensing for Cognitive Defense Systems and Critical Communications |
| 15:20 |
Rohde & Schwarz Lecture Walt Schulte, Applications EngineerAutomated Electronic Countermeasure Testing (POMPEIA Auditorium) |
| 16:10 | Prof. Jomar Silva – NVIDIA Developer Relations Manager (LATAM) – AI Agents |
| 17:20 | Poster Session and Networking Reception |
Technical Sessions
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
| Time | Room F2-105 | Room F2-105 or F2-107 |
|---|---|---|
| 08:00 |
Technical Session I – Drones and RPAS 08:10–08:30 |
Technical Session II – Thermal Propulsion, Propellants and Hypersonics I 08:10–08:30 08:30–08:50 |
| 09:00 |
Technical Session III – Artificial Intelligence I 09:40–10:00 |
Technical Session IV – Thermal Propulsion, Propellants and Hypersonics II |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:20 |
Keysight Lecture Lecture – Keysight Title: Spoofing in GNSS Navigation Systems Speaker: Bruno Duarte (POMPEIA Auditorium) |
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| 11:10 |
Technical Session V – Readiness, Capability and Operational Requirements I 11:20–11:40 |
Technical Session VI – Electronic Warfare I 11:20–11:40 |
| 12:10 |
Technical Session VII – Artificial Intelligence II |
Technical Session VIII – Electronic Warfare II 12:10–12:30 |
| 13:10 | LUNCH | |
| 14:20 |
Technical Session IX – Readiness, Capability and Operational Requirements II 14:50–15:10 |
Technical Session X – Space Technologies and GNSS |
| 15:20 |
Rohde & Schwarz Lecture Walt Schulte, Applications Engineer Automated Electronic Countermeasure Testing(POMPEIA Auditorium) |
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| 16:10 |
Technical Session XI – Artificial Intelligence III 16:50–17:10 |
Technical Session XII – Quantum Technologies 16:50–17:10 |
Short Courses
| Time | Activity – Room F2-103 |
|---|---|
| 08:00 |
Short Course 1 Eng. Leorrorne Roque (EMBRAER) Laser System Safety: From Design to Operation – Best Practices and New Challenges |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break |
| 10:20 |
Short Course 1 Eng. Leorrorne Roque (EMBRAER) Laser System Safety: From Design to Operation – Best Practices and New Challenges |
| 13:10 | LUNCH |
| 14:20 |
Short Course 2 Association of Old Crows Fundamentals of Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA) |
| 17:20 | Poster Session and Networking Reception |
Poster Session
| Time | Activity – First-Floor Hall, Fundamental Sciences Building |
|---|---|
| 17:20 |
Poster Session and Networking Reception ASD |
Thursday - 10/01/2026
SERFA
| Time | Activity – POMPEIA Auditorium |
|---|---|
| 08:00 | Remote Sensing I (Part 1) 1 – Artificial Intelligence in the Armed Forces: A Multidimensional Analysis of AI Adoption by the United States Army, Navy, and Air Force 2 – Super-resolution SAR-based CFAR Vessel Detection: Size, False Alarms, and the Blue Amazon 3 – Vessel Detection in Aerial Images: Creation of the AVOID Dataset and Evaluation of YOLO Models |
| 09:20 | Coffee Break |
| 09:40 | Remote Sensing I (Part 2) 4 – Geospatial Prioritization of Wildfires via Fuzzy TOPSIS: Software Architecture for Operational Support 5 – A PHM Approach to Forecasting Vegetation-Related Risks on Transmission Lines Using Open-Access Remote Sensing |
| 10:20 |
Lecture – Tektronix Title: RF Threat and Response Generation for Electronic Warfare Testing and Validation Speaker: Rodrigo Schneiater – Account Manager (POMPEIA Auditorium) |
| 11:10 | Remote Sensing II 6 – Sensors for Decision-Making: Blind Spots and Sensing Limits in Defense Surveillance 7 – Performance Comparison of SAR Image Formation Algorithms 8 – Hybrid Transfer Learning and Sub-Pixel Ray-Casting Metrology for UAV-Based Pavement Distress Characterization 9 – Combining Convolutional Neural Network with Short-Time Fourier Transform in the Classification of Low Probability of Interception Radar Signals 10 – Experimental 3D Sonar with Point Cloud Clustering for Target Detection 11 – Assessing Urban Safety Perception in the Federal District Using Large Multimodal Models and Street View Images |
| 13:10 | LUNCH |
| 14:20 | Remote Sensing III 12 – Random-Key Optimizers as a Converging Framework for Combinatorial Optimization 13 – Rainfall Forecasting for Supporting Operational Planning of Air Campaigns in the Amazon Region 14 – Autonomous Fire Detection System Using the NAO Humanoid Robot, BLIP Model, and IoT Platform: Applications in Defense Infrastructure Surveillance 15 – SkyWeaver: A Reactive Command-and-Control Platform for Urban Airspace Planning 16 – A Proposal for an Agentic AI Architecture to Support Multi-Domain Decision-Making in the Brazilian Armed Forces 17 – SATERULHA: A Conceptual LEO Mission for a Sovereign Brazilian SSA Capability 18 – Autonomous Orbital Rendezvous: Guidance, Navigation and Optimal Control Coupled 6-DOF with Multisensory Fusion |
| 16:50 |
Closing Ceremony of the XXVIII SIGE (POMPEIA Auditorium) |
| 17:00 | Closing Reception |
AI Seminar
| Time | Activity – WEIS Auditorium |
|---|---|
| 08:00 | Short Course – Software Engineering with AI Agents – Maj. Douglas |
| 09:20 | Coffee Break – 20 min |
| 09:40 | Short Course – Software Engineering with AI Agents – Maj. Douglas |
| 10:20 |
Lecture – Tektronix Title: RF Threat and Response Generation for Electronic Warfare Testing and Validation Speaker: Rodrigo Schneiater – Account Manager (POMPEIA Auditorium) |
| 11:10 |
ITA – Prof. Paulo André Generative AI and Its Applications |
| 12:10 | Dr. Fábio Cocchi – The Survival Algorithm: Cyber Resilience and Sovereignty in the Age of Offensive AI |
| 13:10 | Lunch – 1 h 10 min |
| 14:20 | ILA – Capt. Gonçalves – Machine learning for intermittent demand forecasting of aircraft spare parts |
| 15:20 | DTI – Maj. Oliveira – Multi-agent framework for penetration testing in Operational Technology |
| 16:10 | Closing Remarks |
| 16:50 |
Closing Ceremony of the XXVIII SIGE (POMPEIA Auditorium) |
| 17:00 | Closing Reception |
Technical Sessions
Thursday, October 01, 2026
| Time | Room F2-105 | Room F2-107 |
|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | Technical Session XIII – Signal Processing, Radar and Electronic Warfare (08:00–09:00) 08:10–08:30 |
Technical Session XIV – Innovation (08:00–09:00) |
| 09:00 | Technical Session XV – Advanced Materials, Composites and Radiation Effects (09:00–10:00) |
Technical Session XVI – Simulation and Applied Computation in Defense (09:00–10:00) 09:00–09:20 09:20–09:40 09:40–10:00 |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:20 |
Lecture – Tektronix Title: RF Threat and Response Generation for Electronic Warfare Testing and Validation Speaker: Rodrigo Schneiater – Account Manager (POMPEIA Auditorium) |
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| 11:10 | Technical Session XVII – Sensors and Field Monitoring I (11:10–12:10) 11:40–12:00 |
Technical Session XVIII – Decision Support Systems I (11:10–12:10) 11:20–11:40 |
| 12:10 | Technical Session XIX – Systems Engineering and Operations Planning (12:10–13:10) 12:30–12:50 12:50–13:10 |
Technical Session XX – Decision Support Systems II (12:10–13:10) 12:10–12:30 |
| 13:10 | LUNCH | |
| 14:20 | Technical Session XXI – Sensors and Field Monitoring II (14:20–15:20) |
Technical Session XXII – Decision Support Systems III (14:20–15:20) |
| 15:20 | Technical Session XXIII – Applied Computational Simulation (15:20–16:20) 15:20–15:40 |
Technical Session XXIV – Decision Support Systems IV (15:20–16:20) 15:40–16:00 |
| 16:20 |
Versatus Lecture Versatus HPC 01/10 – 4:20 PM Title: What is HPC and how Brazil contributes to its development Speaker: Eiji Kawahira – Director of Product Development and Marketing |
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| 16:50 | Closing Ceremony of the XXVIII SIGE(POMPEIA Auditorium) | |
| 17:00 | Closing Reception | |
Short Courses
| Time | Activity – Room F2-003 | Activity – Room F2-106 |
|---|---|---|
| 08:00 |
Short Course 3 Dr. Guilherme Moreira (ITA) Secure Enterprise AI: Querying Data with Local Models |
Short Course 4 Rubem Paulo Torri Saldanha – Senior Business Development Manager |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:20 |
Short Course 3 Dr. Guilherme Moreira (ITA) Secure Enterprise AI: Querying Data with Local Models |
Short Course 4 Rubem Paulo Torri Saldanha – Senior Business Development Manager AWS for Research |
| 13:10 | LUNCH | |
| 14:20 |
Short Course 5 Title: Trustworthy AI: Safety, Resilience, and Validation of Artificial Intelligence for Critical Environments Speaker: Rodrigo Costa – Sales Specialist CANCELED! |
Short Course 4 Rubem Paulo Torri Saldanha – Senior Business Development Manager AWS for Research |
| 16:50 |
Closing Ceremony of the XXVIII SIGE (POMPEIA Auditorium) |
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| 17:00 | Closing Reception | |
AI Workshop (EVENT CANCELLED)
ISSN : 1983-7402 (Proceedings)
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