Day One: 20th May 2010

08.30 Registration And Coffee

09.00 Chairman’s Welcome

09.10 An HQ Air Command Perspective Of Air/land Integration And Joint Fire Support In Theatre Level Planning

  • Air Integration into the Land Battlespace
  • Land Integration into the Air Battlespace
  • Key lessons from recent operations
  • Airspace deconfliction considerations

Air Commodore Mike Jenkins
ACOS A3/A5, Air Command
Royal Air Force

09.50 Hq Level Perspective On Joint Fire Support

  • Structural considerations and Lessons Learned at HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps
  • Developments from the last 12 months
  • The integration of lethal and non-lethal fires
  • Future work and considerations for the fires community

Group Captain Neale Dewar
Deputy Head, Joint Fires and Influence Branch, HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps
NATO

10.30 Coffee And Refreshments

11.00 Key US Air Force Efforts In The Realm Of Air/land Integration

  • The Joint Air Ground Integration Cell Concept And Plans For Roll-Out
  • Other Close Attack Branch Projects
  • Key Projects Relating To Irregular Warfare

John Allison
Senior Analyst, JAGIC Project Team, Joint Integration Division Air Combat Command
US Air Force

11.40 Breaking The Stovepipes

  • Breaking the stovepipes through Link 16 and future implications
  • Emerging technologies and likely applications
  • Ground to air gateways
  • Integrating today’s deployed systems with tomorrow’s architectures

Bob O’Meara
European Marketing Director, C3i Systems
Rockwell Collins

12.20 Networking Lunch

13.30 The Canadian Joint Fires Support Technical Demonstrator Programme

  • Project background, sponsors and intentions
  • A developing Operating Concept for Canadian Joint Fire Support
  • The future vision and key milestones

George Prudat
Joint Battle Lab Manager and Joint Fires Support TDP Project Manager
Canadian Forces Experimentation Centre

Lieutenant Colonel Sylvain Gagné
Director of Land Requirements (Fire Support, Surveillance and Target Acquisition)
Canadian DND

14.10 Air/land Integration And Joint Fire Support: A Royal Artillery Perspective

  • The RA’s unique role in A/LI
  • Training considerations for UK’s Joint Fires capability
  • Analysis of the training systems employed and efforts to generate realistic training within budget

Lieutenant Colonel Martyn Armstrong
Chief Instructor Joint Fires, HQ Director Royal Artillery
British Army

14.50 Coffee And Refreshments And Equipment Demonstration From The British Army

15.20 Joint Training Techniques And Challenges

  • US Joint Forces Command’s Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team (JFIIT)
  • Replicating a realistic and rigorous environment for joint warfighters
  • Integrating assets and bridging the gaps between services to form one well-synchronised fires team
  • Assessing major exercises and feedback for senior leadership

Colonel Michael Reed
Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team
US Joint Forces Command

16.00 Developing A/LI For The French Armed Forces

  • The Contemporary Operating Environment
  • The integration of Air Power in land forces operations
  • Joint Training and Joint Fires

Lieutenant Colonel Jean-Marc Brenot
CAS Expert - Mission Preparation Centre
French Navy

16.40 End Of Day One

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