SMi Group's 5th annual Air Mission Planning conference returns to London this June

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Air Mission Planning JUNE
Air supremacy through superior systems:
SMi presents the 5th Annual conference and exhibition…
Interoperability, strategy and future planning
HOLIDAY INN REGENTS PARK I LONDON I UK
2ND- 3RD
2014
EXPERT SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Lieutenant General Sergei Drozdov, First Deputy
Commander, Ukraine Air Force
George Harrison, Associate Director,
Georgia Technology Research Institute
Andrew Grey, Helicopter Programme Manager,
European Defence Agency
Diego Ruiz Palmer, Special Advisor to the NATO
Secretary General, NATO HQ
Sean Bell, UK Defence Growth Lead,
Hewlett-Packard
Francesco Agresti, Commander ITA Joint Task Force,
Italian Air Force
Gunnar Borch, Owner and General Manager - Former
General Manager of the NATO Airlift Management
Agency, GB Consulting bvba
Bill Powers, Research Fellow,
Warfighting Laboatory
Benjamin George, Squadron Leader,
Australian Air Force
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Benefits of attending:
• Develop strategies and integration techniques to ensure you
remain at the forefront of planning knowledge and
technology with 2 days of presentations, panel discussions and
interactive workshops.
• Expert speakers from senior military strategists and technical
experts from across the globe
• Network with delegates from leading militaries, coalition
organizations and industry during the series of networking
breaks, lunches and discussions
PLUS AN INTERACTIVE HALF-DAY POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
4TH JUNE 2014 I HOLIDAY INN REGENTS PARK, LONDON,, UK I 9.00-12.30
Mission planning for UAS: Current and Future Capabilities
Workshop Leader: Dr. Bill Powers, Research Fellow, Futures Assessment Division, Futures Directorate, Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities
www.airmissionplanning.co.uk
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2. AIR MISSION PLANNING 2014
www.airmission
DAY ONE I 2ND JUNE 2014
8.30
REGISTRATION & COFFEE
9.00
Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Diego Ruiz Palmer, Special Advisor to the NATO
Secretary General, NATO HQ
9.10
OPENING ADDRESS
Air Mission Planning post-Afghanistan - a strategic-level view
• Lessons learned from joint operations in Afghanistan
• Implications of the transition from a “deployed NATO” to a
“prepared NATO”
• Airpower’s role on the way to 2020 and beyond
Diego Ruiz Palmer, Special Advisor to the NATO
Secretary General, NATO HQ
9.50
PANEL:
Developing an air force capable of handling future threats
• Developing an interoprable air force
• What are the requirements for the future you need to be
planning for now?
• How can you look to integrate systems and processes
Joe Kay, Co-owner/Director,
Effective Direction
Bill Powers, Research Fellow,
Warfighting Laboatory
10.30
MORNING COFFEE
10.50
Mission Support - Defence's critical enabler
• Robust Mission Planning capability
critical to exploiting information
battlespace
• Technology remains defence’s core
asymmetric advantage
• Big data, ambiguity and tempo
characterise future battlespace
• Agile, flexible and dynamic Mission Support solutions
Sean Bell, UK Defence Growth Lead,
Hewlett-Packard
13.30
The pilot’s perspective: Do modern planning tools augment live
operations?
• Working with systems: What is it like working on operations
with current planning tools?
• Effective integration with flight technologies, what was most
effective and what needs improvements
• Advances to help pilots: What should be considered when
looking at future systems
Neil Sierens, DFC, former AAC, Aviation and Defence
Consultant, Yorvick Aviation
NEAR-TERM MISSION PLANNING: PREPARING PLANNING
CAPABILITIES POST AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ
14.10
Multinational Cooperation in Weapon Systems Why is it so difficult?
• What is Smart Defence / Pooling & Sharing
• Why is multinational cooperation so difficult to achieve?
• What does Industry want and what can industry do?
• Potential way ahead future developments
Gunnar Borch, Owner and General Manager - Former
General Manager of the NATO Airlift Management
Agency, GB Consulting bvba
15.10
AFTERNOON TEA
15.40
Integrating Mission Planning into Training System Design
• The increasing value of Mission Planning tools
• How much, how soon and in what form
• Competing priorities - Training and Operational
• Certification Considerations of Mission Planning Systems
• Aeronautical Data Considerations of Mission Planning
Systems
• Including Mission Planning Aspects in Aircraft Safety
Assessments/Cases
Benjamin George, Resident Pilot,
DUAL
Royal Australian Air Force
PRESENTATION
Derek Reinhardt, LIFCAP Engineer,
Royal Australian Air Force
11.30
Operational mission planning experiences
• Experiences in Afghanistan
• Challenges with Joint operations
• Learnings and advances required with systems
Francesco Agresti, Commander ITA Joint Task Force,
Italian Air Force
16.20
The Realities of mission planning on operations
• Real mission planning experiences
• Helicopter-borne assault operations
• Challenges of multi nation mission planning
Richard Leakey, DIIFALG Station Commander,
Joint Helicopter Command
12.10
NETWORKING LUNCH
17.00
CHAIRMAN'S CLOSING REMARKS AND CLOSE OF DAY ONE
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8.30
REGISTRATION & COFFEE
9.00
Chairman’s Opening Remarks
George Harrison, Associate Director,
Georgia Technology Research Institute
9.10
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Armed Forces of Ukraine in international operations
• The main areas of cooperation between Ukraine and foreign
countries in the military sphere
• The tasks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the international
operations
• Conditions and factors affecting the use of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine in the international operations
• The impact of the experience of local wars and armed
conflicts on the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Lieutenant General Sergei Drozdov, First Deputy
Commander, Ukraine Air Force
9.50
Future military aerial systems: Moving from manned to
automated to autonomous
• Integrating UAV’s into an effective air force
• Cutting edge developments in systems and how mission
planning tools will have to adapt
• Developing a future military power: Requirements and
expectations
Bill Powers, Research Fellow,
Warfighting Laboatory
10.30
MORNING COFFEE
11.00
Mission Support Systems: What can we need to do now to take
advantage of coming technology?
• Relevant technologies and how these are now being driven
from external sources
• Development of the UK 2012 Mission Support Systems (MSS)
strategy
• How can advances be coordinated
• Technologies that are on the horizon
Joe Kay, Director & Co-Owner,
Effective Direction Ltd
11.40
Managing and planning joint helicopter missions
• National interoperability benefits and challenges
• Training while fighting
• Operational and cost benefits of joint missionspose for
planners?
Andrew Grey, Helicopter Programme Manager,
European Defence Agency
AIR MISSION PLANNING 2014
DAY TWO I 3RD JUNE 2014
12.20
NETWORKING LUNCH
13.50
The role of the JFACC in air operations
• Infrastructure of the JFACC
• Challenges of planning
• Challenges of executing deployable air operation centres
A Ahmet Tosun, First Lieutenant,
Turkish Air Force
Fatih Buyruk, First Lieutenant,
Turkish Air Force
DUAL
PRESENTATION
TAKING A LOOK BEYOND 2020: FUTURE OF ARIAL MISSIONS
14.30
Air / Land UAV missions
• Overcoming challenges of integrated mission planning
• Experiences within Afghanistan
• Interoperability between forces
Charles Tardy-Joubert, Major,
French Army
15.10
AFTERNOON TEA
15.30
UAV integration with mission plans
• Planning unmanned missions
• Key experiences from operations
• Advances in UAV mission planning systems required
Dilshan Wasage, UAV Wing Commander,
Sri Lanka Air Force
16.10
History and the Future – Perspectives on Mission Planning
• Mission planning in the ‘60’s
• Preparation for the Gulf War
• Mission planning today
• What’s next and what’s needed
George Harrison, Associate Director,
Georgia Technology Research Institute
17.00
CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS AND CLOSE OF DAY TWO
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4. FULL-DAY POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
8.30am – 12.30pm I 4TH JUNE 2013
HOLIDAY INN, REGENT PARK I LONDON, UK
Mission planning for UAS:
Current and Future Capabilities
Overview
UAS mission planning is essentially the same as for
any manned aircraft but there are several
necessary considerations due to the nature of UAS
command and control: Extended transit time,
extended loiter time, payload(s), airspace
integration, multiple missions in a single sortie,
control of the platform, lost contact procedures,
threats, countermeasures, level of automation,
possibility of autonomous operations, loss of
aircraft This workshop will explore these factors
and how they affect both planning and execution
across the range of military operations.
Why you should attend
• In depth knowledge on integrating UAV into
Mission Planning Systems
• Future proof your strategies
• Benefit from the enhanced networking time
with colleagues and peers
Agenda
08.30
Registration
10.00
Session 2: UAS planning in an A2/AD
environment
09.00
11.00
12.00
Session 1: Conventional planning
Session 3: UAS planning in irregular
warfare
Session 4: UAS planning for HA/DR
About the Workshop Leader:
Dr. Bill Powers, Research Fellow, Futures
Assessment Division, Futures Directorate,
Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities
A Research Fellow at the Potomac Institute for
Policy Studies’ Center for Emerging Threats and
Opportunities
supporting
the
Deputy
Commandant for Combat Development and
Integration’s Futures Assessment Division in
Quantico, Virginia. He served 33 years in the
Marine Corps, retiring as a Colonel. He flew the A4 Skyhawk and F/A-18 Hornet, served in Viet Nam
and Desert Storm, and commanded a battalion,
a squadron and a group. He has a dual Bachelor’s
degree in Economics and Political Science, a
Master of Science in Business Administration, and
a doctorate in Organizational Leadership.
About the organisation:
Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities: an
internal Marine Corps think tank dedicated to
developing new ideas and concepts in direct
support of the Deputy Commandant for Combat
Development
and
Integration
and
the
Commanding General of the Marine Corps
Warfighting Laboratory. This support covers the full
spectrum of combat development-related
missions and tasks, to include the assessment of
future threats and adversaries and associated
geographic, environmental, economic, and
demographic conditions that may influence the
development of future war fighting concepts,
experimentation, and required capabilities.

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CONFERENCE: 2ND – 3RD JUNE 2014 | HOLIDAY INN REGENTS PARK, LONDON | UK
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