Day Two: 21st May 2010

08.30 Registration And Coffee

09.00 Chairman’s Welcome

09.10 Interdiction And Close Air Support: The Evolution Of A Complex Relationship

  • Origins of the airman’s preference
  • Developing ideas on operational art
  • The problem with insurgencies

Dr Joel Hayward
Dean
Royal Air Force College Cranwell

09.50 The Way Forward For Air/land Integration In The UK

  • Identifying the technological, training and operational challenges facing the provision of Joint Fire Support
  • Lessons Learned and recommendations from the UK’s study into A/LI: Project Coningham-Keyes Phase 2
  • Future work and the road ahead

Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Gray (British Army)
Staff Officer, Joint Air Land Organisation
UK MoD

10.30 Coffee And Refreshments

11.00 Nato Air/land Integration Study

  • Examining the overall A/LI process
  • The critical need for closer coordination between the services from a strategic perspective
  • Identifying options for future operations

Lieutenant Colonel Eric Bogaards
Subject Matter Expert - Manned Combat Air
NATO JAPCC

11.40 Enabling Technology: The Fielded Norwegian Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) Programme

  • An operator’s perspective from ISAF and mission scenarios
  • FAC/NAV capabilities
  • Discussing the Network Connectivity and Joint Fires tools

Major Lars Rissmann
Joint Fires Cell
Norwegian Army Special Operations Command

12.20 Networking Lunch

13.30 Joint And Time-Sensitive Targeting

  • Case study material
  • B-2 Spirit mission experience

Lieutenant Colonel Tony Monetti
B-2 Instructor and Evaluator
US Air Force

14.10 Equipment Capability Review And Integration Challenges

  • ISTAR capability developments
  • Battle Management systems
  • The impact of ROVER III for deployed forces
  • Integration considerations

Ian Knowles
Managing Director
Communications Solutions

14.50 Coffee And Refreshments

15.20 Canadian Training Capabilities For Joint Fire Support

  • Developing live training capabilities and facilities for both Canadian and coalition forces
  • Incorporating multiple assets (e.g. Airborne Early Warning/C2, ISTAR, SEAD) into ground attack training
  • The Goose Bay range as a venue for close air support training

Captain Mike Pelletier
Staff Officer
Canadian Forces

16.00 The Role Of Air Platforms In Joint Fires

  • Are aircraft the place for commanders?
  • Examining the role of air platforms in the era of precision and discrimination, combined with the accuracy of new non-line-of-sight weapons
  • What determines the manned / unmanned mix?

Bill Sweetman
Editor-in-Chief
Defence Technology International

16.40 Chairman’s Summary And Close Of Day Two