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Conference Documentation: Air Mission Planning (2010)

SMI Publishing, Ltd
June 9, 2010
SKU: SMI2771814

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Mission planning for diverse and complex air operations remains a key challenge in order to maintain operational effectiveness. The modern aviator has always required efficient ground based mission planning in place; however, they increasingly need effective onboard tactical decision tools in order to deal with an unfolding situation and enjoy the full operational picture.

Assessing a wide range of military, commercial and humanitarian operations, Air Mission Planning will allow you to analyse the latest operations and experiences in delivering strategic, tactical and operational mission planning for air operations. With a range of presentations, take the opportunity to learn both national MOD and NATO perspectives and requirements.

Network with a senior line up of speakers and ensure that your organisation is at the forefront of providing fully interoperable mission planning systems and support to air operations.

DAY 1
8.30 Registration & Coffee
9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks: Major General (Ret'd) George Harrison, Associate Director, Georgia Tech Research Institute.
9.10 OPENING ADDRESS: Information Age Operations: Full Spectrum ISR Integration; From the past to the future: permissive, contested, and denied environments; Global integrated ISR fusion: who, what, where, and how?; The integration challenge: airspace, sensors, data; The tactical challenge of information age ISR: organisations, personnel, and capabilities; Major General James Poss, Director, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Strategy, Integration and Doctrine, US Air Force.
9.50 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Airpower in NATO's Operations: The Political-MIlitary Dimension; NATO's widening operational spectrum; The search for responsiveness and agility; Constraints and opportunities; Airpower's role in a transformed Alliance; Diego Ruiz-Palmer, Head, Planning Section, Operations Division, NATO HQ.
10.30 Morning Coffee
10.50 A3/A5 Division: UK Current Operations: Effective use of air power; Planning for UK air operations within the joint environment; Air Commodore Michael Jenkins , HQ Air Command, High Wycombe, UK.
11.30 Coalition Operations from a Czech Perspective: Czech air operations and lessons learned; As NATO has expanded, what cross-domain solutions have emerged?; Classification and security issues; Overall interoperability issues; Colonel Libor Štefánik, Commander of the 22 Air Base in Sedlec - Vícenice, Czech General Staff.
12.10 Networking Lunch
1.30 NATO Air Command and Control: Covering the role of the NATO Air Component Commands; The function and organisation of NATO Air C2 and how it is applied to the NATO Response Force; Expeditionary Air Ops from a static location; Wing Commander RAD Greene, Chief Special Projects, A3 Division, NATO Air Component Command Izmir.
2.10 Mission Planning for Helicopter Operations: Mission planning at the tactical level; Lessons learned from the front line; Thoughts for the future; Colonel Richard Leakey , Commander, UK Joint Aviation Group Afghanistan, Joint Helicopter Command.
2.50 Afternoon Tea
3.10 Contractor Support for Deployed Air Operations: Importance of contractor support for deployed air ops; How to improve the environment allowing air forces to operate; Planning factors funding and time; Multinational air bases require multinational support arrangements; NAMSA's role supporting deployed air ops; Jeroen Koevoets , Senior Procurement Officer , NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency.
3.50 On-Demand Mission Planning (A Revolutionised Approach): Warfighters need information about an unfolding situation that is complete, accurate, detailed and timely; Mission planning must be adaptive to the threat -85% of all targets require a re-tasking capability; Multi int and fusion are critical to resolve fleeting targets in complex environments; Tight time constraints require an open and adaptive mission planning system; Commercial products and gaming industry technologies can contribute to effective mission planning; Precision weapons will require automated mission planning mensuration techniques; Major General (Ret'd) Kenneth Israel, Former Assistant Secretary of Defence for Airborne Reconnaissance, and Director of the Defence Airborne Reconnaissance Office, US Department of Defence.
4.30 NATO ACCS: Mission Planning in NATO: Mission planning overview; Managing airspace; Managing C2 resources; Odie Evans, Principal Operations Consultant, Combined Air Operations Centre, Office of Primary Responsibility , NATO Air Command and Control Management Agency .
5.10 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
5.20 Post Conference Networking Drinks Reception Sponsored by Thales
DAY 2
8.30 Registration & Coffee
9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks: Major General (Ret'd) George Harrison, Associate Director, Georgia Tech Research Institute.
9.10 XPlan 5.0 - Mission Software for Planning and Execution on the Land, in the Air and on the Sea: How XPlan builds on the heritage of PFPS; How XPlan relates to the Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS); XPlan interoperability with legacy PFPS, JMPS and other planning tools; DoD community development, Sourceforge.mil and XPlan; Colonel Paul Hastert, Director of ISR Innovation, US Air Force.
9.50 Mission Planning System Interoperability: The need for interoperability; The challenges with dissimilar systems supporting various aircraft roles; Data interface standards; Managing the transfer of data between systems; Candidate architectures; Richard Sharp, Senior Marketing Manager, Air Systems Division, Thales.
10.30 Morning Coffee
10.50 INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSION: What can be done to improve the Common Operating Picture in Afghanistan?; Major General (Ret'd) Kenneth Israel, Former Assistant Secretary of Defence for Airborne Reconnaissance, and Director of the Defence Airborne Reconnaissance Office, US Department of Defence.; Wing Commander RAD Greene, Chief Special Projects, A3 Division, NATO Air Component Command Izmir.; Colonel Paul Hastert, Director of ISR Innovation, US Air Force.; Air Commodore Michael Jenkins , HQ Air Command, High Wycombe, UK.
11.50 Integrated Aerospace Mission Planning Capability - Tactical - A Canadian Air Force Perspective: Implementation of a Common Mission Planning capability - myth or reality; Flight planning vs tactical mission planning; Mission planning environment; Major Aline Lamontagne, Head, Integrated Mission Planning Aerospace Capability, Canadian Forces .
12.30 Networking Lunch
2.00 The Mobility Air Force Challenge - Planning and Flying Through Civilian Controlled Airspace: Strategies to comply with CNS/ATM airspace constraints; Effective use of aeronautical data to optimise route planning; Development and implementation of automated route optimisation systems; Achieving the goal of route automation; Colonel Edward Rosado, IMA, Requirements Division, Directorate of Strategic Plans, Requirements and Programmes, Air Mobility Command.
2.40 The Introduction of Tactical Decision Tools to Airborne Battlefield Helicopter Mission Planning Systems: The Onboard Mission Planning Systems Baseline; What tactical decision tools?; Development and assessment of decision tools; The operational benefit; Andrew Webster, Technical Lead, Rotorcraft Mission Systems, QinetiQ.
3.20 Afternoon Tea
3.40 Joint Force Air Component Command (JFACC) and the Future Technological Environment: Will C2 always be the core JFAC matter?; Lieutenant Colonel Andre Baudino , Chief of Current Section, French Standing JFACC, French Air Force.
4.20 Mission Planning for Assymmetric Warfare: Adaptive planning techniques; Mission planning software as a force multiplier; Modern software tools for asymmetric warfare; Lieutenant Colonel (Ret'd) Dean Wild, Mission Planning Software Consultant, Wildfly Solutions.
5.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two

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