Main Conference Day Two: 26 March 2010
08.30 Coffee And Registration
09.00 Chairman’s Welcome
Christopher Foss
International Armour and Artillery Expert
09.10 Keynote Presentation
US Army Artillery Developments
And Initiatives
- Structural reorganisation of the Field Artillery and Air Defence Artillery in the US Army
- The evolving role of ground fires on the future battlefield
- Key priorities for the US Army’s field artillery
Major General David Halverson
Commanding General US Fires Centre of Excellence and Fort Sill
US Army
Brigadier General Ross Ridge
Commandant
of the Field Artillery School and Chief of Artillery
US Army
10.10 Affordable Precision
- Towards an all-precision family of affordable of Indirect Fire munitions
- Update on Precision Guidance Kit (PGK) for 155mm
- Future projects
Dave Dorman
Vice President, Business Development and Strategy, Advanced Weapons Division
ATK
10.50 Coffee And Networking
11.20 Key Indirect Fire Projects Of The
German Armed Forces
- An outline of the German Joint Fire Support concept and future planning to implement these capabilities
- Precision ammunition projects for cannon artillery and mortars
- Overview of other priorities
Colonel Thomas Falkenberg
Branch Chief, Concept Development, Army Office
German Ministry of Defence
12.00 Precision Fires For Cannon
Artillery: Excalibur
- True precision from cannon artillery comes of age
- System attributes and advantages to the manoeuvre commander
- Relevance in urban Areas and complex terrain
- Results of recent firings
General Kevin Byrnes (Ret’d)
Vice President
The Raytheon Company
12.40 Lunch
Sponsored by ThalesRaytheonSystems
13.40 From A Swedish Perspective: The
Need For Indirect Fire Capability
On The Modern Battlefield
- An examination of mission types and requirements under the backdrop of operational experience
Colonel Rickard Johansson
Commander 9th Mechanised Brigade
Swedish Armed Forces
Lieutenant Colonel Joakim Lewin
Head of Indirect Fire Systems Procurements
FMV Swedish Defence Materiel Administration
14.10 Archer Artillery System: A
Systems Engineering View
Lieutenant Colonel (Ret’d) Nils-Ove Gustafsson
Regional Director Artillery Programmes
BAE Systems Bofors
14.40 Coffee And Networking
15.10 Land 17 Artilllery Replacement
Programme: Effective
Introduction Into Service
- Project background, scope and equipment
- Accompanying issues from across the Artillery Corps
- Training requirements for Land 17 and supporting projects (digitized Battlespace Management and ammunition enhancements)
Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Wood
Commanding Officer, School of Artillery
Australian Army
15.50 Sensors To Combat Asymmetric
Threats – Today And In The Future
- The presentation will cover the use of current technologies and capabilities in the war against asymmetric threats and in support of Artillery
- The authors describe the usefulness of our short-range, 360 deg, high-update rate, sensors that can detect mortars and rockets and provide Sense-and-warn capabilities, as well as Base Protection applications
- The discussion will include what we can expect in the near future – in terms of
- Product / Technology evolution and trends
- Lightweight, multi-mission capabilities
- Defense against UAV and threats of other modes
- Plurality of networked sensors vis-à-vis single, discrete sensor
- Use of multiple sensors for a layered defense approach
- The presentation will provide concepts of sensor systems for the future
Tom Wilson
Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer
SRCTec Inc.
16.30 MAINTAINABILITY, RELIABILITY, FIELD
REPAIR & MAINTENANCE IMPERATIVES
OF FUTURE ARTILLERY SYSTEMS
- Balancing high-tech equipment with higher assurance levels of reliability and maintainability under field conditions
- Examining the system of repair and grouping of repair elements in the gun groups and the missile groups
- Organisational and tactical considerations during actual deployment in various battle conditions
- Desirable characteristics that need to be incorporated in designing the artillery systems and support equipment
Major General Anukul Chandra (Ret’d)
former Additional Director General (Equipment Management), Army HQ
Indian Army
17.10 Chairman’s Closing Remarks And
End Of Day Two