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Published by: SMI Publishing, Ltd
Published: May. 20, 2004
Table of Contents
- Day 1
- 8.30 Registration and Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Major General (Ret’d) Bill Robins, Independent Consultant, Bill Robins Ltd.
- 9.10 INFORMATION AND DECISION ARCHITECTURES
- Lessons learned from previous conflicts
- Contributors to information superiority
- Transforming superior information into "superior knowledge and decisions”
- Human dimension of information warfare - Doctrine and process - Organisational structure - Operational concepts - Training and expertise
- Key gaps in technology and doctrine
- Experiences from the Gulf
- John Stenbit, Assistant Secretary for Defense (Networks and Information Integration)/ Chief Information Officer, US Department of Defense .
- 9.40 THE RACE FOR INFORMATION SUPERIORITY
- A crucial factor in the modern battlespace
- What is information superiority?
- Importance of winning the information war
- Information superiority strategy and goals
- Situation assessment, mission analysis, mission planning
- Ongoing situational awareness - location, intent and activity of friendly/adversary forces across the battlespace
- The importance of information assurance
- Problems of information integration
- The shift in organisational, doctrinal and technological practices and the way ahead
- Major General James Bryan, Commander / Vice Director, Joint Task Force - Computer Network Operation /Defense Information Systems Agency .
- 10.20 ENHANCING MILITARY CAPABILITIES THROUGH INFORMATION AND DECISION SUPERIORITY
- The requirement and implementation
- UK Vision - tempo, decision superiority, Network Enabled Capability
- Conceptual guidelines
- Lessons from recent operations
- Development of command and control
- Implementation - shared situational awareness, ISR and CIS
- Training and people
- Evaluation and experimentation
- 11.00 Morning Coffee
- 11.20 HUMAN FACTORS
- The use and misuse of information in action
- A human-centric framework: why the human element is critical
- Information and the cognitive domain
- Situational awareness and sensemaking
- Information requirements and analysis
- Common pictures and shared awareness
- Information trust, mistrust and distrust
- Human measurement in experimentation
- Barry McGuinness, Principal Scientist, Human Factors Department, BAE SYSTEMS Advanced Technology Centre.
- 12.00 INFORMATION ASSURANCE
- Protecting information networks in US Marine Corps
- What are the requirements? Why is IA important?
- IA policy framework
- IA interoperability
- Security best practices for general threats
- Successful IA strategies
- Current initiatives in the USMC
- The roadmap
- Ray Letteer, Senior Information Assurance Manager and Head, Information Assurance Branch, US Marine Corps .
- 12.40 Networking Lunch
- 2.00 INFORMATION MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES
- Obstacles and hindrances to successful information management
- The importance of effective information management
- System integration and interoperability
- Commonality of standards
- Data access and aggregation
- Legacy systems
- Scalability
- What can be done to mitigate these challenges?
- Dr Marion Ceruti, Scientist, SPAWAR.
- 2.40 COMMUNICATIONS IN MODERN COMBAT
- Information dissemination in the Gulf
- Communications in Operation Telic - the end user perspective
- Delivering a UK operational strategic communications architecture
- Military versus Commercial Off-The-Shelf solutions
- Shortcomings - problems with communications traffic, especially imagery - information exchange between contingent forces - information exchange between UK and US forces - limitations of information management tools
- Lessons learned
- The road ahead
- Squadron Leader Graham Kyte MBE, SO2 CIS and Space, Air Warfare Centre RAF Waddington.
- 3.20 Afternoon Tea
- 4.00 COMMAND DECISION SUPPORT IN THE NEC AGE
- Summary of existing CSIS IPT systems (e.g. RNCSS, RAFCCIS, JOCS)
- Evolving command decision capability towards the NEC vision - developing the ‘real’ Joint Operations Picture - technology refresh of the existing systems - Future Common Command System (FCSS) Technology Demonstrator - Joint Command and Control Support System (JC2SS) Program
- Meeting the Allied Interoperability Challenge
- Commander Michael McCourt RAN, Delivery, Acceptance and Capability Exploitation Functional Manager, Maritime Projects Manager, Defence Procurement Agency.
- 4.20 IMPLEMENTING INFORMATION SUPERIORITY
- Real world issues
- Existing applications and improving network performance
- Integrating and improving terrestrial/fibre infrastructure
- Implications of increased use of ISR and UAV systems
- IP or not IP - what protocol to use for military networking?
- New technologies and applications
- Mike Holdsworth, Satellite Product Manager, Metrodata.
- 5.00 Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
- Day 2
- 8.30 Re-registration and Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Paul Kennedy, Independant Consultant, Information Systems and Management Services.
- 9.10 USING COMMUNICATIONS CAPABILITY TO REDUCE LATENCY IN THE KILL CHAIN
- Colonel Michael McCullough, Director of Technology, Air Force Communications Agency .
- 9.40 JOINT TACTICAL RADIO SYSTEM
- Radio Frequency from a new perspective
- The JTRS concept
- Trans-platform, trans-service, trans-frequency - a tactical, operational and strategic capability
- The benefits of switching from hardware-intensity to flexible multi-mode software
- Tailoring JTRS to meet specific operational needs
- Upgrade insertion and integration
- Flexibility
- Challenges
- The way ahead
- Colonel Charles Whitehurst, Director, Global Communications & Information, Air Force Command and Control & Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center, US Air Force.
- 10.20 MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE TACTICAL ARMY
- An overview of Army Science and Technology programs focused on providing tactical global communications
- Mobile networking
- Sensor networking
- On the move antennas
- SATCOMs
- Charles Strimpler, Deputy Director, Space & Terrestrial Communications Directorate, US Army RDECOM Communications-Electronics Research Development & Engineering Center.
- 11.00 Morning Coffee
- 11.20 THE CHALLENGES OF CHANGE
- The scale and pace of change for the UK Land Environment
- Colonel Alec Bain MBE, Colonel Command and Control Development Centre (C2DC), Land Warfare Centre - MoD UK.
- 12.00 ROLE OF ISR IN INFORMATION SUPERIORITY
- Providing sensor capabilities to the US Army - enhancing the ground commander's ability
- Current technologies
- Mission and vision of PEO IEW&S
- Sensor interoperability
- Technology trends for the future
- Richard Wittstruck, Chief Systems Engineer and Programs Officer, PEO IEW&S, US Army.
- 12.40 Networking Lunch
- 2.00 DELIVERING THE ROYAL NETHERLANDS ARMY THEATRE INDEPENDENT TACTICAL ARMY AND AIR FORCE NETWORK (TITAAN) PROJECT
- Key factors in the development of the system and the transformational capabilities
- Why is TITAAN needed in the RNLA?
- How is TITAAN being developed?
- Results - what has been achieved?
- Lieutenant Colonel Jan van de Pol, Project Manager, TITAAN Team, Royal Netherlands Army.
- 2.40 LEVERAGING COALITION PARTNER INVOLVEMENT
- Enabling co-operative RDT&E to deliver interoperable solutions to the coalition warfighter
- Making co-operative programs work
- Co-operative RDT&E success stories
- Dealing effectively with potential challenges
- Colonel Cecilia Tyler, Deputy Director, Coalition Warfare, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics).
- 3.20 Afternoon Tea
- 3.40 BRIDGING GOVERNMENTAL AND CIVILIAN SECTORS FOR INFORMATION SUPERIORITY
- Satellite solutions for information transfer
- Utilisation of commercial infrastructure
- Expanding existing technology for the warfighter
- Provision of customised services
- Gerard Donelan, Head of Government Services, ASTRA.
- 4.20 CONSTRUCTS FOR GLOBAL FORCE MANAGEMENT
- An application level strategy for integrating battle command information across disparate systems
- Model-Based Battle Command
- Force structure pulls everything together
- Devil’s in the details - nodes and links
- Default operational force structures
- Identification and time - key discriminators
- Reaching consensus - the hard part
- Dr Sam Chamberlain, Computer Scientist, US Army Research Laboratory .
- 5.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Conference
AbstractNew technology has sparked a profound revolution in military affairs and Information Superiority is a key transformational element reshaping the modern military. Having relevant data in comprehensible formats at one’s disposal first is a central goal in military operations. However, information provides the competitive advantage only when it is effectively translated into superior knowledge and decisions. Clearly a technological solution is not enough; warfighters must be able to decide and act quicker than opponents and this requires organisational and doctrinal innovation, the necessary training and experience as well as the appropriate support tools.
Information and Decision Superiority; Enhancing Military Capabilities will focus on Information Superiority as a means of providing commanders with more reliable information, in formats they can use, enabling them to make better decisions within the opponent's decision loop. The conference will provide an overview of the current situation; where the problem lies, key gaps in the information needs of the modern warfighter, and the role information superiority has played in recent conflicts.
The speakers will analyse how information superiority translates into greater situational awareness and decisive strategic advantage, giving way to decision superiority. The event will take into account decision, surveillance, intelligence superiority as well as protection (i.e. Information Operations), human factors and integration of technologies.
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING :
- IDENTIFY key gaps in the information needs of the modern warfighter
- ANALYSE the role information superiority has played in recent conflicts
- EXAMINE the recent debate on achieving decision superiority
- EVALUATE the benefits of translating information superiority into superior knowledge and decisions
- EXPLORE the challenges of Information Operations and integration
Including valuable contributions from:
- John Stenbit, Assistant Secretary for Defense (Networks and Information Integration)/ Chief Information Officer, US Department of Defense
- Major General James Bryan, Commander, Joint Task Force - Computer Network Operation, Vice Director, Defense Information Systems Agency
- Brigadier Nigel Jackson, Director Command & Battlespace Management/Defence J6, Ministry of Defence UK
- Colonel Charles Whitehurst, Director, Global Communications & Information, Air Force Command and Control & Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center, US Air Force
- Colonel Michael McCullough, Director of Technology, Air Force Communications Agency
- Colonel Cecilia Tyler, Deputy Director, Coalition Warfare, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, (Acquisition, Technology and Logistics)
- Commander Michael McCourt RAN, Delivery, Acceptance and Capability Exploitation Functional Manager, Maritime Projects Manager, Defence Procurement Agency
- Lieutenant Colonel Jan van der Pol, Project Manager, TITAAN team, Royal Netherlands Army
- Squadron Leader Graham Kyte MBE, SO2 CIS and Space, Air Warfare Centre RAF Waddington
- Richard Wittstruck, Chief Systems Engineer and Programs Officer, PEO IEW&S, US Army
- Charles Strimpler, Deputy Director, U.S. Army Communications & Electronics Research, Development & Engineering Center, Space & Terrestrial Communications Directorate, US Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM)
- Ray Letteer, Senior Information Assurance Manager and Head, Information Assurance Branch, US Marine Corps
- “Information Superiority is a leading transformation element reshaping our military today, enabling the military commander to make better decisions, based on more reliable information, within his opponent's decision loop."
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