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Published by: SMI Publishing, Ltd
Published: Oct. 18, 2006
Table of Contents
- Day 1
- 8.30 Registration & Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Mr Giles Beattie, Partner, PA Consulting Group.
- 9.10 NET ENABLED CAPABILITIES
- Making NEC a reality
- Developing NNEC
- Aims and requirements in applying and defining the role of NEC
- Courses of Action for the delivery of NEC
- NEC in today’s coalition environment
- Lieutenant Colonel Rafael Falagan de la Fuente, Staff Officer, C2 Requirements. MIP PMG (Programme Management Group) Vice-chairman, SHAPE, NATO.
- 9.50 DEMONSTRATING THE VALUE OF NEC/NCW
- Is NEC/NCW worth the investment required to realise its full potential?
- What are the dimensions of NEC/NCW value?
- How should they be measured?
- How is the value of NEC/NCW best demonstrated to different audiences?
- How do we justify investment in NEC/NCW?
- How can the broader impacts implied by NEC/NCW in terms of doctrine, process and organisation be articulated and justified?
- Experimentation, simulation and modelling for value demonstration
- Bill Hodson, Defence and Security Practice, PA Consulting Group.
- 10.30 Morning Coffee
- 11.00 COMMAND AND CONTROL IN THE NEC ERA
- C2 philosophy and systems
- More than technology
- Land environment is different
- Command Vs control
- Colonel Jake Thackray, Ad Networks, CSDC, British Army.
- 11.40 DELIVERING NEC / NCW TO COMPLY WITH DOCTRINAL DEVELOPMENTS
- The Italian approach to transformation
- Review the doctrinal development of NCW
- Look at training and engineering systems in support of NEC/NCW
- Gain insight into the challenges of NEC/NCW programmes and C4iSTAR capabilities
- Discuss the challenge of delivering NEC/NCW
- Rear Admiral Rinaldo Veri, Chief, 3rd Department - General Planning, General Staff, Italian Navy.
- 12.20 A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO NCW
- An Australian Perspective
- Defence and Industry - a New Alliance
- Demonstrating the Future
- Selling the Future to the Warfighter
- Lessons learnt so Far
- Where to Next?
- Mr Darren Lepp, Head of Interoperability, A D F T A.
- 1.00 Networking Lunch
- 2.00 THE FUTURE BATTLEFIELD
- Are we on the right track?
- Overview of NCW
- Where are we now?
- Evaluate battlespace transformation
- What does the future hold?
- Mr John Garstka, Assistant Director, Concepts and Operations, US Department of Defense.
- 2.40 NET CENTRIC WARFARE: LEARNING FROM IRAQ
- Analysis of Operation Iraqi Freedom
- Some benefits of NCW seen in OIF, but benefits not fully realized
- NCW equipment limitations: interoperability, data forwarders, and coalition resources
- TTP/doctrine shortfalls in air and ground operations
- Bits can bite: implementation decisions of individual NCW systems are critic
- Dr Larry Lewis, C N A Representative, Center for Naval Analyses.
- 3.20 Afternoon Tea
- 3.40 EFFECTS-BASED OPERATIONS AND THE REALITY OF WAR
- A useful concept or silver bullet?
- Theorising
- Originating
- Reflecting
- Conceptualising
- Generalising
- Lieutenant Colonel Zoltan Jobbagy, Senior Strategic Plans Officer & Guest Researcher, T N O - F E L / C C S S.
- 4.20 COALITION INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE AND RECONNAISSANCE (ISR) TRANSFORMATION
- Advances and challenges within the network enabled environment
- Cross component/multi-level ISR integration
- Coalition ISR experimentation and concept development
- Concepts for operational and technical integration
- The challenge of multi-layered integration and interoperability
- Options for development and implementation - operational and technical
- Mr John Mahaffey, Senior Scientist, NATO C3 AGENCY.
- 5.00 A FUTURE VISION
- Network defence and security
- Future concepts in network defence
- Security challenges of NCW and operational assurance
- Vulnerabilities and threats in data security
- Trends in information assurance technologies and system design
- Limitations of the available technology and future developments
- Future aspirations for information and IT
- Lieutenant Colonel Grant Morley, Direcorate Command & Battlespace Management/J6 (CBM/J6), Ministry of Defence, UK.
- 5.40 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
- Mr Giles Beattie, Partner, PA Consulting Group.
- Day 2
- 8.30 Registration & Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Mr Giles Beattie, Partner, PA Consulting Group.
- 9.10 ORGANISATIONAL TRANSFORMATION
- People and training
- How are people adapting to new technologies?
- New knowledge, skills and attitudes?
- Training or education?
- New ways of learning
- Expectations
- Commander John Sunderland, NEC Policy, Director General Training & Education, Ministry of Defence, UK.
- 9.50 FINNISH DEFENCE FORCE TRANSFORMATION AND NEC
- FDF development to year 2015
- The Finnish road map to NEC battlespace trends
- FiAF C4IS systems transformation
- FiAF C4IS development
- Network enabled air defense
- Colonel Martti Lehto, Chief, , Finnish Air Force HQ.
- 10.30 Morning Coffee
- 11.00 INFLUENCE OF COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS
- Investigating how transformation will affect battlespace
- How ISTAR - UAV’s are already working?
- Capabilities and performance in the current battlespace
- UAV and UAS systems will assist the new military community
- The future UAV systems
- Wing Commander Andrew Jeffrey, DAS-UAV, Ministry of Defence.
- 11.40 NEC ENABLED (LAND) COMMAND AND CONTROL INFORMATION SERVICES
- LC2IS currently being fielded in NATO
- NATO Land Command & Control Information Services (LC2IS)
- Example of HQ operational concept and battle rhythm
- LC2IS functionality in support of HQ battle rhythm
- Overview of key C2 information products
- NEC enabled C2 information product exchange capabilities
- Mr Bert Tiems, Chief, Land Systems and Interoperability, Operations Research Division, NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency (NC3A).
- 12.20 Networking Lunch
- 1.20 CHALLANGES TO NCW FROM IRAQ AND METRICS
- Colonel Fred Stein, Senior Mitre Representative, The Mitre Corporation.
- 2.00 DELIVERING COMMAND AND CONTROL IN AN NEC WORLD
- Delivering against legacy and future-legacy constraints
- Capability v. usability
- Challenges of agile deployments
- The 'now-next-later' of C2 delivery
- Mr Chris Suckling, Defence Adviser, Fujitsu Defence and Security.
- 2.40 LEADING FUTURE MULTINATIONAL / COALITION OPERATIONS
- Lead Nation Considerations - The Network and Beyond
- Leading Future Multinational / Coalition Operations
- The Multinational Interoperability Council (MIC)
- The Coalition Operating Environment
- Lead Nation Considerations
- Observations from Recent Events
- Way Forward
- Colonel Charles Pattillo, Chief, Multinational Operations, US Department of Defence.
- 3.20 Afternoon Tea
- 3.40 NATO NETWORK ENABLED CAPABILITY
- The AGS programme
- Programme overview
- Functions and spectrum of operations
- AGS core internal links
- AGS core interoperability
- AGS core external data interfaces
- Current national and industry participation
- Colonel Philippe Margot, AGS3 Chief Engineer, NATO HQ.
- 4.20 SWEDISH R&D PROGRAMMES
- A vision Vs functional perspective
- Overview: NEC R&D
- Experimentation and scientific study
- Sample projects of international interest
- Technology, humans, organizations and cultures
- Conclusions and the way ahead
- Lieutenant Colonel Arne Norlander, Senior Scientist, C2 Systems Division, Swedish Defence Research Agency.
- 5.00 TRANSFORMATION THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION
- The role of NITEworks in support of network-enabled military capability
- Examine new and future challenges
- Discuss how we can breed innovation
- Look at warfighting experimentation
- Identify opportunities for collaboration
- How can we join training and experimentation?
- Chris Durbin, Experimentation Benefits Manager, NITEworks.
- 5.40 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Conference
- *Subject to final confirmation
- Mr Giles Beattie, Partner, PA Consulting Group.
AbstractGiven the divergence between EU and US defence budgets, the military need to consider how to manage the disparity and leverage on new technologies. SMi’s Battlespace Transformation - Realising the value of NEC & NCW, the 8th Annual conference in our acclaimed NCW series will examine the pragmatic and practical actions needed to realise the potential of NEC.
The Programme will address concept, doctrine and implementation issues within NCW, NEC, C4iSTAR and Battlespace management with a view to future effects and benefits on the battlefield
With an exceptional line up of speakers, the conference offers case studies from international programmes, allowing attendees to address their key concerns by drawing on the experience of our expert panel of speakers.
With special presentations from:
- Rear Admiral Rinaldo Veri, Chief, General Planning Department, Navy General Staff, Italian Navy
- Colonel Charles Pattillo, Chief, Multinational Operations Division J-3, Deputy Director for Global Operations, USAF
- Colonel Philippe Margot, AGS3 Chief Engineer, Alliance Ground Surveillance Support Staff, NATO HQ
- Colonel Martti Lehto, Chief, C4IS Systems Division, Finnish Armed Forces
- Colonel Jake Thackray, AD Networks, Command Support Development Centre, Ministry of Defence UK
- Lieutenant Colonel Rafael Falagan, Vice-Chairman, MIP PMG (Program Management Group) & Staff Officer, C2 Requirements, NATO ACT
- Wing Commander Andrew Jeffrey, Directorate of Air Staff-UAV, Ministry of Defence UK
- Lieutenant Colonel Arne Norlander, Senior Scientist, C2 Systems Division, Swedish Defence Research Agency
- Commander John Sunderland RN, NEC Policy, Director General Training and Education, Ministry Of Defence UK
- Major Zoltan Jobbagy, Senior Strategic Plans Officer & Guest Researcher, Ministry of Defence, Hungary & TNO Defence, Security and Safety, Clingendael Centre for Strategic Studies
- John Garstka, Assistant Director, Concepts and Operations, US Department of Defense*
- Fred Stein, C3 Director, The Mitre Corporation
- Dr Larry Lewis, CNA Representative, Joint Center for Operational Analysis
- Mr Bert Tiems, Chief Land Systems and Interoperability Section, Application Development Branch, Operations Research Division, NATO C3 Agency
- John L Mahaffey, Senior Scientist, Command and Control Systems Division, NATO C3 Agency
- Chris Durbin, Experimentation Benefits Manager, NITEworks
- Lieutenant Colonel Grant Morley, Directorate Command & Battlespace Management / J6 (CBM/J6), Ministry Of Defence UK
- Darren Lepp, Head of Interoperability, Australian Defence Force's Tactical Data Link Authority (ADFTA)
The Conference will be chaired by:
- Giles Beattie, Partner, PA Consulting
Benefits of attending:
- UNDERSTAND the value that NEC/NCW can bring
- ASSESS country-specific approaches to NEC
- GAIN a valuable insight into the programmes and developments that are making NEC happen
- EXAMINE concept, doctrine and implementation issues
- NETWORK with key military and industry experts
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