1030 REGISTRATION & WELCOME BREAKFAST
1130 DEFENCE IQ WELCOME
Hannah Croft, ISR Programme Manager, Defence IQ
1140 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS
Matt Roper, Chief, Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, NCI Agency
1150 A VIEW ON NATO’S CURRENT AIRBORNE EARLY WARNING CAPABILITYb NATO’s global ISR missionb Major challenges facing the NAEW&C Force in today’s global threat environmentb A view on the future AWACSb Foreign adversary airborne early warning and control aircraft investment and implications for NATO
Air Commodore Andrew Martin, Deputy Commander, NATO Airborne Early Warning & Control Force
1220 DELIVERING NATO’S FUTURE AWACS b Update on the AFSC programmeb Successes and lessons learnt so farb NSPA role in concept development and deliveryb Work with industry and S&T communities so farb Focus for 2019-2020: results from November 2018 Industry Day
Dr Cagatay Soyer, Alliance Future Surveillance & Control Project Manager, NATO Support and Procurement AgencyMatthew Gillis, Deputy Head of Section for ISR, NATO Defence Investment Division
1300 LUNCH & NETWORKING
1400 DELIVERING NATO’S CYBER DEFENCE CAPABILITY IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION b Leading the development and implementation of cyber defense policy across NATOb Challenges for thinking about and articulating future cyber defence technologiesb Working with industry to be creative in capability development
Christian Liflander, Head of Section, Cyber Defence, NATO
1430 MOVING AWAY FROM THE PLATFORM, TOWARDS THE CAPABILITYHow can we improve thinking beyond the constraints of existing technologies, relationships and processes to design a capability requirement that will be more relevant, more effective, more transformative for use across the full spectrum of conflicts in the future, and across multiple domains?b Moving beyond platform-centric modes of thinking (‘more battery power, lighter, smaller’) to capability-focused
frameworks (‘gives the ability to do…. this’) - encouraging new forms of thinking (critical, design, commercial) in requirements design and conceptual capability thinking
1520 AFTERNOON TEA
1600 SPOTLIGHTS: INNOVATORS IN ISR & C2This year we will be bringing together innovators from start ups, SMEs and non-traditional defence companies from across Europe and North America to get some unique insights into the new technologies that could well transform the way that the ISR and C2 communities operate in the future. A S&T Panel will be moderating the sessions, offering their thoughts on how OEMs and government leaders can leverage these systems and software effectively and integrate them into their concept and requirements design processes.
Our Innovators include:
1730 CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS
Matt Roper, Chief, Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, NCI Agency
ANNUAL VIASAT COCKTAIL RECEPTION
FOCUS DAY TUESDAY 12TH MARCH 2019
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FOCUS DAY TUESDAY 12TH MARCH 20191520 LEGO SERIOUS PLAY WORKSHOP (INVITATION ONLY)
LEGO Serious Play is currently used in corporate and academic institutions throughout the world and is grounded in the theories of constructivism (we learn when our experience and ideas interact) and constructionism (we learn when physically making an object).
LEGO Serious Play works because through this engaging medium attendees are able to:b Perform divergent thinking (embracing creativity and spontaneity);b Generate ideas individually as well as in a group (you can be twice as
productive if you come up with ideas alone);b Spend time playing thereby unlocking their fullest imagination (adults
need to rediscover the lost art of play in order to access innovative solutions);
This unique workshop hosted and led by Andy Priestner, Trainer & Consultant, will bring together senior leaders to urge creative thought processes on the subject of requirements design, future force development and capability concepts.
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SENSOR FUSION & ISR TECHNOLOGY AIRBORNE EARLY WARNING
1430 REPUBLIC OF KOREA ISR R&D PRIORITIESb ADD focus on Airborne ISR today and tomorrowb Major challenges in developing systems that can support
future warfighting needsb Priority areas and investment into disruptive technology like AI
Dr Sanghee Kim, Director of ISR, Korean Agency for Defense Development
FIXED WING, ROTARY & UNMANNED AIRCRAFT CAPABILITY MIX FOR NATIONAL & REGIONAL ISRb Royal Jordanian Air Force aerial ISR assets today and future plans
b Core priorities for the Air Force nationally and as part of a regional coalition
b Outlining the optimum capability mix for ISR operations in permissive and no-permissive, contested and contested aerial environments
Major General Yousef Al-Huneiti, Commander, Royal Jordanian Air Force
MAIN CONFERENCE DAY ONEWEDNESDAY 13TH MARCH 20190745 CHAIRMAN’S BREAKFAST HOSTED BY RAYTHEON (INVITATION ONLY)
0745 REGISTRATION & COFFEE
0845 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS
Matt Roper, Chief, Joint ISR, NCIA
0855 RAYTHEON WELCOME ADDRESS
0900 TRANSFORMATION IN THE UK’S ISTAR FORCEb The transformative role of the Protector fleetb Operational readiness of the P8b RAF ISTAR force in future, denied and hostile airborne environments
Air Commodore Ian Gale, Assistant Chief of Staff Capability Development C2ISR, HQ Air Command
0930 ADVANCED BATTLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
1000 SENIOR LEADERS’ PANELARE WE POSTURED FOR THE FULL SPECTRUM OF CONFLICT? How do we balance our force structure and capabilities to ensure that we can penetrate and persist in a highly contested, peer environment, whilst maintaining our advantage in humanitarian/peace operations or permissive, counter-terror or insurgency missions?Implications for aircraft acquisitions:b A light ISR aircraft need for permissive environments? b A move away from exquisite or ‘big wing’ aircraft? b The relevance of AEW&C aircraft?b Adoption of unmanned, or manned-unmanned networks of aircraft?
Group Captain Roberto Da Cunha Follador, Head, Brazilian Aeronautical Commission in EuropeAir Commodore Ian Gale, Assistant Chief of Staff Capability Development C2ISR, HQ Air CommandMajor General Andreas Kraak, Special Assistant COM AIRCOM for Multi Domain C2, NATO DACCC
1045 MORNING COFFEE & NETWORKING
1125 ACHIEVING AN INTEGRATED AIR DEFENCE CAPABILITY VIA MANNED AND UNMANNED ISR ASSETSb Pakistan’s air defence challenges todayb ISR assets in an air defence frameworkb Unmanned capabilities in congested airspaces
Air Marshal Zaheer Ahmad Babar SI(M), Deputy Chief of Air Staff (Air Defence), Pakistan Air Force
1155 DESIGNING, DELIVERING & INTEGRATING ISR CAPABILITIES FOR A MULTI-DOMAIN ERA
b The multi-domain conceptb Innovations in system integration for the ISR community
1225 MDC2 IN A MULTI-NATIONAL FRAMEWORKb MDC2 translated in an international, coalition arenab U.S. Air Force approach to integrating space and cyber into its operationsb Major challenges in creating the infrastructure necessary for multi-domain C2
Major General Andreas Kraak, Special Assistant COM AIRCOM for Multi Domain C2, NATO DACCC
1255 EXPERIENCE A NEW PERSPECTIVE; PUSHING PERFORMANCE LIMITS
1325 LUNCH & NETWORKING
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MAIN CONFERENCE DAY ONEWEDNESDAY 13TH MARCH 20191500 RAYTHEON’S FIVE CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY ENABLERS
FOR MDC2b Open systems architectureb High-speed secure networkb Multi-sensor data fusionb AI and machine learningb Resilient systems and GPS
EARLY WARNING ADVANTAGE IN THE ASIA PACIFICb E-2D Advanced Hawkeye procurement programme:
extended sensor coverage and data linksb JASDF requirements for ISR and strategic early warning
assetsb Unique challenges associated with monitoring in the Asia
Pacific
Colonel Kensuke Fujihata, Weapon System Program Division, Defense Planning & Policy Department, Japan Air Self Defense Force
1530 DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY IN C2 AND ISRWhat are the impact of disruptive technologies such as hypersonics and artificial intelligence on airborne ISR and C2, particularly relating to decision-making and the OODA loop? How do we enable cross-domain thinking and C2? How can we utilise technologies in data science to inform observation and orientation?
Dr Dirk Zimper, Director, Defence Research, German Aerospace CenterDongwoo Lee, Principal Researcher, Korean Agency for Defense Development
NEW ZEALAND’S STRATEGIC C2 ASSETSb The RNZAF P-8 projectb Current P-3K2 operationsb NZDF C4ISR working group priorities
Wing Commander Glen Graham, C4ISR Working Group Lead, Capability Branch, New Zealand Defence Force
1615 AFTERNOON TEA
1645 GETTING THE INFORMATION TO THE RIGHT PLACE – EXAMPLES OF C2 & ISR FAST RESPONSE PROGRAMS
1715 SUPPORTING TACTICAL INTELLIGENCE ARMS OF THE SPANISH ARMY, NAVY AND AIR FORCEb Role and responsibility of CIFASb Major challenges for providing early warning of global crises b The exploitation and dissemination of operational and strategic intelligence to support the joint forces
Lieutenant Colonel Diego Mancilla Sanchez, Chief ISR Systems, Spanish Armed Forces Intelligence Center (CIFAS)
1745 SPECIAL MISSION AIRCRAFT AND UAVS INTEROPERABILITY FOR ISR – OPERATIONAL RATIONALE AND IMPLEMENTATION PRINCIPLES
1815 CLOSING REMARKS AND END OF CONFERENCE DAY ONE
ANNUAL SAAB COCKTAIL RECEPTION
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MAIN CONFERENCE DAY TWOTHURSDAY 14TH MARCH 20190800 REGISTRATION & COFFEE
0900 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS
Jeff Portlock, Former Chief of Staff, Air Command, RAF
0910 BRAZILIAN AEROSPACE INDUSTRY & FUTURE AIRBORNE PROGRAMMESb Brazilian defence industrial cooperation and requirements development for airborne assetsb Current requirements and defence relationships with international industryb The Amazon Surveillance System
Air Vice-Marshal Paulo Ricardo Laux, Brazilian Air Force
0940 REDEFINING THE ISR VIDEO TRIANGLE
Mark Rushton, Business Development Manager, United Kingdom & Ireland, VITEC
1010 JSTARS & MULTI-DOMAIN C2b USAF C2 priorities and challenges todayb JSTARS in today’s fight b Major challenges faced by the 461stColonel Ed Goebel, Vice Commander, 461st Air Control Wing, USAF
1040 MORNING COFFEE & NETWORKING
1120 THE UK MODERNISING DEFENCE PROGRAMMEb Building a balanced portfolio to counter today’s threats and tomorrow’s high end fightb Working with international partners and allies as well as independentlyb Future of the SDSR processb UK leadership in space, cyber and air and strategic partnerships with UK industry
Rt Hon Dr Julian Lewis, Chairman, Defence Select Committee
1150 SPECIAL MISSIONS AIRCRAFT OVERVIEW – WHY THE PLATFORM MATTERS
Richard Nevitt, Director of Government Business Development & Capture, Gulfstream Aerospace
1220 ANNUAL INDUSTRY LEADERS PANEL:DELIVERING CAPABILITY TO THE WARFIGHTER IN A TIME OF RAPID TECHNOLOGICAL AND GEOPOLITICAL CHANGEb NATO forces are focused on joint ISR and multi-domain C2: how is industry adapting to this doctrine?b How are industry’s approaches to hardware and software development changing?b Airborne ISR is too airmen and women intensive: how is industry working to lighten the physical and cognitive burdens
impacting the ISR community today?b AI convergence: and industry view on AI and its integration into ISR and C2 capabilities
1310 LUNCH & NETWORKING
CYBER & RESILIENCY UNMANNED AUTONOMY & AERIAL SURVEILLANCE
1410 UNDERSTANDING MILITARY ECOSYSTEM INTERACTIONS WITH THE CYBER DOMAINb How do military processes, particularly relating to C2 and ISR, interact with the cyber domain?
b How has our understanding of the domain evolved and matured?
b How successful have we been at integrating cyber defence and offence thinking into existing doctrine and capabilities?
Air Commodore Tim Neal-Hopes, Head Joint User C4ISR & Cyber, UK Ministry of Defence
SURVEILLANCE IN CONTESTED AIRSPACE b Operating in a congested aerial environment: the challenges for C2 and target acquisition
b Enhancing intelligence use to prevent terrorist attacks and improve stabilisation procedures – the role of OSINT
b The growing reliance on air power in the fight against ISIS
Colonel Ali bin Khalifa Al-Khlaifa, Bahrain Defence Force
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MAIN CONFERENCE DAY TWOTHURSDAY 14TH MARCH 20191440 DELIVERING NATO’S CYBER DEFENCE CAPABILITY IN
THE AGE OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION b Leading the development and implementation of cyber defense policy across NATO
b Challenges for thinking about and articulating future cyber defence technologies
b Working with industry to be creative in capability development
César Pérez Vázquez, Manager - Critical Systems and C2 Networks, ISDEFE
BELGIAN SPECIAL WARFARE AVIATIONb Belgian Special Forces aviation programme’s roadmap and core objectives
b Future integration into Belgian force structureb Challenges with C2 for autonomous unmanned systems
Captain Jan Weuts, Head of R&D, Belgian Special Forces
1510 BUILDING NETWORK RESILIENCE, CYBERSPACE MANOUEVERABILITY & SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
b Discussing the idea of cyberspace manoeuvrability/freedom of movement
b How can we improve the conduct of cyberspace collection activities (bots, sensors, data crawlers); data visualization for battlespace awareness/C2; and data aggregation for analysis?
b Red team analysis: understanding the capabilities of our foreign adversaries
Brad Bigelow, Principal Technical Advisor, SHAPE DCOS CIS and Cyber Defence (CCD), NATO SHAPE César Pérez Vázquez, Manager - Critical Systems and C2 Networks, ISDEFE
MANNED-UNMANNED INTEGRATED TEAMS & C2 – PERSISTENT ATTACK & RECONNAISSANCE
b Command and control issues with manned-unmanned teamsb Considerations for new unmanned acquisitions and their integration into airborne operations
b Future MUM-T software investmentb MUM-T and combat aircraft
Captain Jan Weuts, Head of R&D, Belgian Special ForcesColonel Ali bin Khalifa Al-Khlaifa, Bahrain Defence Force
1600 CLOSING REMARKS AND END OF CONFERENCE
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