Integrated Air and Missile Defense Strategies Keeping the Skies Safe

Section I. Political, Strategic, and Scientific Background for Regional IAMD System Interoperability and Integration. 

1. Time is Speeding Up—Reflections on Air Defense. 
Tomasz Jakusz
2. Protecting our Warfighter with IBCS. 
Kenneth Todorov
3. Advanced Fluid Dynamics Education and Research in Strategic Technology Domains at the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics. 
Peter A. Grognard
4. The Issues of Modeling and Simulation of IAMD. 
Josef Časar
5. Robust Resource Allocation for C-UAS Defense: A Reinforcement Learning Approach. 
Piotr Turek, Mateusz Kaszyński, and Jakub Majchrowicz

Section II. Aerial Target Detection, Recognition, and Identification Issues. 

6. Assessments on Drone and Hypersonic Weapons Surveillance Challenges and Their Solutions. 
Istvan Balajti and Laszlo Szilvássy
7. The Invisible Swarm: How to Combine the Radar and Visual Characteristics of UAVs to Minimize Their Recognition. 
Ksawery Krenc
8. Numerical and Experimental Determination of the Radar Cross-Section Values for Air Defense System Performance Evaluation: A Comparative Study. 
Witold Bużantowicz, Marta Walenczykowska, Ksawery Krenc, Adam Kawalec, Branislav M. Ninković, Miodrag S. Tasić, Branko M. Kolundžija, Rafał Przesmycki, Marek Bugaj, and Leszek Nowosielski
9. Simulation-Driven Experimental Testing of Electromagnetic Shielding Properties of Materials. 
Lukasz Nowicki, Marzena Olszewska-Płacha, Janusz Rudnicki, and Małgorzata Celuch
10. To Keep the Skies Safe—Final Conclusions and Remarks. 
Jan Pietrasieński and Witold Bużantowicz

Biography

Adam Kawalec is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Mechatronics, Armament and Aerospace, Institute of Rocket Technology and Mechatronics, Military University of Technology, Poland, where he leads research projects and teaches courses in electronics and signals processing, theory of vibration, field and electromagnetic waves and quantum mechanics. He received an M.Sc. degree in solid state electronics and a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Technical Physics and D.Sc. degrees in electronics and acoustoelectronics from Faculty of Electronics, Military University of Technology, Poland in 1974, 1980, and 2002, respectively. Prof. Kawalec is the author and co-author of more than 300 scientific papers published in international and national journals and conference proceedings and the co-inventor of five patents. In 2024, Prof. Kawalec received an award from the Ministry of National Defense Republic of Poland for significant achievements in the field of implementation activities. He is a member of the Committee on Electronics and Telecommunication, Polish Academy of Sciences, and a senior member of IEEE.

Witold Bużantowicz is the Director of the Institute of Missile Technology and Mechatronics (Faculty of Mechatronics, Armament and Aerospace) at the Military University of Technology, Poland. He is a graduate of the Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland and the Polish Air Force Academy. In 2009, he began his professional service in the 78th Air Defense Regiment as a platoon leader. He took part in several rotations of US Army PATRIOT batteries in Poland. In 2011, after being transferred to the Military University of Technology, he served in many positions, from engineer to assistant professor. Lt Col Bużantowicz is an Expert of the Polish Academy of Science (Space Launch Systems Section), IEEE Member, and Polish Rocketry Society Member. In addition, he is a Raytheon scholarship recipient (2015) and an author of over 40 books, scientific articles and international conference papers. Notably, Lt Col Bużantowicz was awarded the “Aviation Cross of Merit,” the Gold Medal “For Merits to National Defense,” and the Silver Medal “Armed Forces in the Service of the Homeland.”

Marta Walenczykowska serves as an adjunct instructor at the Military University of Technology, Poland, specifically in the Faculty of Mechatronics, Armament, and Aerospace. She graduated in electronics and telecommunications from the Military University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland in 2005 and completed her PhD in telecommunication – digital signal processing at the same university in 2018. Dr. Walenczykowska began her professional career in the field of air defense systems, and after a few years, she transitioned to work related to the IT field. She possesses extensive knowledge in various fields, ranging from radiolocation, electronic warfare, and telecommunications to IT security.