AIR MISSILE DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY

Day One | 23rd October 2018

08.00 Registration & Coffee

08.50 Chairman’s Opening Remarks Major General (Ret’d) Bohuslav Dvorak, Former Deputy Chief of General Staff, Czech Armed Forces

HOST NATION OPENING ADDRESS:

09.00 Modernising Czech Air Missile Defence Capabilities• Ongoing procurement of VSHORAD, SHORAD, and MSAM systems• Potential new capability development areas: C-RAM, C-UAS, BMD• Lessons learnt from multi-national exercises and looking ahead to

Hungary’s Tobruq Legacy 18 Colonel Jan Sedliacik, Commander of the 25th Air Defence Regiment, Czech Armed Forces

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

09.30 Modernising the Army’s Capabilities to Establish a more Effective and Layared Approach to AMD• The role and priorities for the cross-functional team (CFT) for AMD• The importance of ensuring maximum efficiency of existing systems• Developing communication between THAAD and Patriot assets

for better operational capability and an enhanced picture ofincoming threats

• Ramifications and benefits for the integrated Air and MissileDefence Battle Command System (IBCS)

• Acquiring SHORAD capabilities in 2018 to fulfil requirements Brigadier General Randall McIntire, Cross-Functional Team Lead, Air and Missile Defence, US Army

10.00 Spanish AMD Command Capabilities• Patriot Deployment in Turkey• Spanish approach to AD Cluster generation: the COAAAS family

system Brigadier General Inigo Pareja, Commander, Air Defence Command, Spanish Ministry of Defence

10.30 Morning Coffee

11.00 Ensuring Air Defence Operational Overmatch through Enhanced Future Capabilities• Air and missile defence: a top modernization priority for the US Army• An ever-growing range of threats and operational environment• Unmanned systems, electronic, cyber and directed energy

capabilities, hypersonic weapons• Encouraging collaboration and leveraging of industry knowledge

to identify and develop capabilities Colonel Chad D. Skaggs, Chief, Air and Missile Defense Integration, United States Army Space And Missile Defense Command

11.30 How NATO Air Command and Control System [NATO ACCS] is continuously adapting to its environment? • Better performance and coverage: NATO ACCS architecture

refresh and additional deployment.• Wider asset interoperability: Opened architecture linked with

Ballistic Missile Defence Opportunity.• Preparing Future: Digital Transformation and new CONOPS Mr Wade Thompson, Senior Marketing Manager, ThalesRaytheonSystems

12.00 Sky Sabre: The Future of the UK’s Air Defence Taking the Army from Short to Medium Range• Current air defence capabilities and targeted operational

implementation of Sky Sabre in 2020• Providing an integrated air defence system operated by Army and

Air Force• Meeting medium range threats utilising CAMM Missiles Wing Commander Chris Misiak, Deputy Commander, Joint Ground Based Air Defence, UK MoD

12.30 Networking Lunch

INDUSTRY TECHNICAL BRIEFINGS

13.30 Similarities and Differences in Air Surveillance and GBAD radars • In the past, Air Surveillance (AS) radars and Ground Based Air

Defence (GBAD) radars were quite different. • State-of-the-art requirements for technical and operational

capabilities and corresponding technologies of such modern radars are analysed and compared

• The results of this analysis will be shown and discussed, as well as its effect on users of such systems, such as the Israeli Air Force

Mr Israel Oznovich, Air Surveillance and Defence, Elta Systems

14.00 Providing a Flexible and Modular System for Ground-Based Air Defence• How Diehl meets today’s air threats of short and medium range

rockets, and unmanned aerial systems• Providing adaptability to country-specific C2 systems Mr Andreas Bappert, Technical Director, GBAD Systems, Diehl Defence

14.30 MBDA Multi-Layer Air Defence Solution• Threat reminder• Airborne and Ground based air defence combination • Multi-layer air defence benefitsColonel (Ret’d) Henri Stievenard, Military Advisor, MBDA

15.00 Afternoon Tea

FULL SPECTRUM AIR DEFENCE

15.30 Science and Technology Innovations for Air and Missile Defense Capabilities• Engage First• Expand the Dome• On the Move Dr. Juanita M. Harris, Director, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research Development, and Engineering Center, US Army

16.00 Sponsor Presentation Reserved for MOOG

16.30 Modern French Surface-Based Air Defence Capabilities for National Defence and International Operations• Crotale (NG) SHORAD Missile Systems for Mobile and Fixed-Base

Defence• The successful introduction of the SAMP MAMBA Medium-Range

System• The ops roadmap to IAMD Lieutenant Colonel Manuel Monnin, SBAD Office Division Head, French Air Force

17.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

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AIR MISSILE DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY

Day Two | 24th October 2018

08.15 Registration & Coffee

08.50 Chairman’s Opening Remarks Major General (Ret’d) Bohuslav Dvorak, Former Deputy Chief of General Staff, Czech Armed Forces

NET-CENTRIC APPROACHES TO AIR DEFENCE

09.00 Establishing a Net-Centric, Plug and Play Air Defence Capabilities for the US Armed Forces• Creating common architecture and interfaces to enable full

integration of command, fire and sensor systems into a joint network

• Outlining the IBCS: plans and opportunities• Enabling faster combination of US and allied systems and

information for fast responses to detected air threats Colonel Phil Rottenborn, Programme Manager Integrated Air and Missile Defence, US Army

09.30 Countering Evolving Threats: French IAMD Approach• SAMP MAMBA Enhancements/ Aster B1NT Program• EW and Multi-Function Radars perspective• Looking to the future; considering options and integration for C-UAV

(micro/mini) and C-RAM to protect vital infrastructure and troops Lieutenant Colonel Yannick Willer, GBAD /TBMD Programme Officer, French Air Force

10.00 Session Resereved for Sponsor

10.30 Morning Coffee

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN UPDATES

11.00 Tobruq Legacy 2018: Key Lessons Learned for the Hungarian Air Force and Allies• Tobruq Legacy 2018- outline of the exercise hosted in Hungary• Feedback and lessons learnt: improving interoperability and

collaboration between allies• Hungary’s role in the NATO Integrated Air and Missile Defence

System (NATINAMDS) - providing RAT-31DL radar support Lieutenant Colonel Tibor Matyi, Deputy Commander SAM WING 12 ‘Arrabona’, Hungarian Defence Forces

11.30 The Future of Lithuanian Air Defence: The Lithuanian Integrated Surface Based Air Defence System (LISBADS)• Achieving technical interoperability through acquisition and

collaboration• Acquiring NASAMS to meet timeframe and capability requirements• Strengthening partnerships within the Baltic-Nordic region while

achieving interoperability amongst NATO nations Major Vaidas Simaitis, Commander of the Air Defence Battalion, Lithuanian Air Force

12.00 Countering UAVs from the Technical and Operational Perspective• General introduction to the problem• “C-UAV” operational aspects• “C-UAV” technical aspects• Experiments at UoD Brno: results and analysis• Conclusion and discussion Colonel (Ret’d), Assoc. Prof. Ph.D., Miroslav Kratky, Senior Lecturer, Department of Air Defence Systems, University of Defence Brno, Czech Republic

12.30 Adapting AMD Operations to the Near Peer Threat• Move from defending against simple complex integrated attack• Multi-domain operations amidst a spectrum of air and missile threats• Renewed focus on concealment, deception, survivability, and

resilience• New vision for an sensor architecture for air and missile battle Thomas Karako, Senior Fellow, International Security Program/Director, Missile Defence Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies

13.00 Networking Lunch

COLLABORATION AND INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN ALLIES

14.00 Enhancing Connectivity and Interoperability between Allies to Benefit Future NATO Missions and SBAD Forces• (Technical) Challenges within NATO’s IAMD system of systems• The desired end-state - wishful thinking or a realizable future?• Possible ways ahead - dos and don’ts (prudent thinking) Lieutenant Colonel Thorsten Stratemann, Staff Officer SBAD/ TMB/ BMD, Training and Exercises, NATO Combined Air Operations Center, Uedem

14.30 US Air Defence Capabilities in Support of Allied and NATO Operations• Encouraging technical interoperability amongst allies to strengthen

European AMD capabilities• Interoperability and open architecture within European AMD forces• Integrating IBCS with plug and play architecture and extended

range capabilities for enhanced European AMD protection Mr Peter Woodmansee, HQ U.S European Command Missile Defense Program Manager, United States European Command (US EUCOM)

15.00 Afternoon Tea

INDUSTRIAL PERSPECTIVES

15.30 How Future GBAD Systems will Meet Multiple Threat Types Simultaneously • Ensuring effective coordinated development of sensors, effectors,

and C2 systems• Implementing networked GBAD systems to support open architecture • Lockheed Martin capabilities including SkyKeeperIan Spillane, Chief Engineer, Mission Support, Lockheed Martin

INDUSTRY PANEL 16.00 How Industry Can Provide Flexible and Long Term

Solutions to Evolving Air Defence Requirements• Designing a common architecture and interface to encourage

interoperability between future and next-generation assets• Flexible in air control capabilities• Future technologies in development to detec and react to

safeguard allied airspace Major General (Ret’d) Bohuslav Dvorak, Former Deputy Chief of General Staff , Czech Armed Forces

Ian Spillane, Chief Engineer, Mission Support, Lockheed Martin

Mr Andreas Bappert, Technical Director, GBAD Systems, Diehl Defence

Colonel (Ret’d) Henri Stievenard, Military Advisor, MBDA

16.30 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two

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