Main Conference Day One: 25 March 2010
08.30 Coffee And Registration
09.00 Chairman’s Welcome
Christopher Foss
International Armour and Artillery Expert
09.10 Future Requirements For The
UK’s Artillery Capabilities
- Outlining key requirements and plans for the UK’s Indirect Fire and Joint Fires capabilities
- Lessons from operations and impact on current projects
- What does the future look like for the British Army’s artillery
Colonel Greg Cole
Indirect Fire Systems, Equipment Capability Deep Target Attack
UK MoD
09.50 UK Artillery In Current
Operations
- Update of UK artillery in Afghanistan
- Key challenges and priorities for the British artilleryman
- Typical mission scenarios
- Lessons Learned from operations
Colonel Mike Ross
Assistant Director Capability, HQ Director
Royal Artillery
10.30 Coffee And Networking Break
11.00 Delivery To Operations
- Developing an artillery system of systems
- Delivering the Joint Fires Integrator system as a UOR
Representative from Artillery Systems Project Team, DE&S
UK MoD* (Pending final approval)
11.40 From Call-For-Fire To Effect
- The effect of urban, high-clutter environments and asymmetric Warfare on sensor design
- Next Generation Targeting with EQ-36: Vision to Mission
- Bringing fires into the network: Integrating with Army Battle Command System
- Delivering effects: The need for longer range, targeting fleeting targets and enhancing mission flexibility
- Towards a family of precision missiles matched to the target
- Outlook for the future
Colonel Jackson “Lee” Flake (Ret’d)
EQ-36 Programme Director
Lockheed Martin MS2
Scott Arnold
Vice President, Tactical Missiles
Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control
12.20 Lunch
13.40 COMMAND & CONTROL OF WEAPON
LOCATING RADARS
- Radar site evaluation
- Presentation of Common Land Picture
- Target presentation and evaluation
- Data handling and presentation, multiple sensors
- Fire Support Coordination Measures
- Message Handling
- Sense & Warn functionality
- Field and Classroom Training Systems
Bård Frostad
Director Business Development, WLS
Saab Microwave Systems
14.20 US Marine Corps Fire Missions In
Afghanistan
- Overview and capabilities: Artillery battalion deployment in Jan ‘09
- Typical missions: Distributed and Conventional warfare
- Feedback: M777, GMLRS, Excalibur
- Feedback from the EFSS deployment
Colonel Anthony Johnson
Commanding Officer Marine Corps Artillery Detachment Fort Sill
US Marine Corps
15.00 Developing A Target Acquisition Battery For The Portuguese Army
- Moving From A Platoon Level Unit To A Battery Level Unit And The Reasoning Behind This
- Key Plans For Structural Reorganisation And Equipment
- Challenges And Suggestions
Lieutenant Colonel Mendias Dias
Deputy Commandant, Artillery School
Portuguese Army
15.40 Coffee And Networking Break
16.00 CAESAR Deployment In
Afghanistan By The French Army
- Preparation for deployment
- Deployment and Full Operational Capability
- Integration in the FOB
- First operational feedback
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Major Emmanuel Deveaud
Fire support coordination cell officer in Afghanistan
French Army
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Lt-Colonel Olivier Fort
Head of doctrine & prospective studies, French Artillery School
French Army
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16.40 Deployment Of New Artillery
Systems: The Industry Point Of
View
- Deployment of CAESAR
- Deployment of the 105 LG1 MKIII
Pascal Dubois
Artillery Systems Sales Director
Nexter Systems
17.20 Chairman’s Closing Remarks And
End Of Day One
17.30 Coaches Leave Conference Venue
For Armoury House
18.00 Cocktail Reception At Armoury
House
Sponsored by Saab
