Conference Day Two: Wednesday 9th February
07.45 – 08.25 Coffee And Registration
08.25 – 08.30 Chairman’s Opening Address
Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely
MORNING SESSION: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE EQUIPPING PROCESS
08.30 – 09.00 Austrian Army Force Development And The Fielding Of The ASCOD Infantry Fighting Vehicle
Brigadier General Norbert Huber
Director, Force Development Division
Austrian Ministry of Defence
09.00 – 09.30 Developing An Integrated Infantry And Armour Force Structure To Meet The Challenges Of The
Modern Battlefield: Lessons Learned From Iraq And Afghanistan
General William Scott Wallace (Ret’d)
Former Commanding General, Training and Doctrine Command
US Army
09.30 – 10.00Italian Army Armoured Vehicle Fleet Development
Brigadier General Salvatore Farina
Deputy Director, Battlespace Capability, Policy & Plans
Italian MOD
10.00 – 10.30 Equipping Your Forces With The Right Level Of Protection: Case Study: The Canadian Light
Armoured Vehicle Upgrade Programme
Lieutenant Colonel Alan Bolster
Director, Land Requirements
Canadian National Ministry of Defence
10.30 – 11.15 Coffee And Networking
11.15 – 11.45 Meeting The Demands Of The Operational Force: The Norwegian Army’s Support To Isaf Deployed
Troops
- Planning and developing the force to support deployments
- Developing the training and operational fielding of combat units and capabilities
- Identifying capability and technology gaps for deployed operations
- Creating the right business case for boosting defence investment
Major General Per Sverre Opedal
Chief of Staff
Norwegian Army
11.45 – 12.15 Contracting Flexibility: The Boxer Programme’s Experience In Leveraging External Expertise To Manage
The Commercial Aspects Of Armoured Vehicle Procurements
Jurjen Hoeskstra
Programme Manager, Boxer Programme
OCCAR-EA
12.15 – 12.45 Advance Protection Solutions For Modern Armoured Vehicles: New Possibilties To Balance High
Level Protection, Mobiltiy And Payload
Ulf Deisenroth
Founder and CEO
IBD Deisenroth
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12.45 – 14.15 Networking Lunch
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14.15 – 14.45 Balancing Ambition With Realism: The
US Ground Combat Vehicle Programme
And The Development Of Cutting Edge
Systems
- Understanding political level issues that drive procurement speed and the implications for programme development when moving beyond the limits of readily available technology
- To what extent is an 80% “good enough” solution appropriate to field on a long term programme or should the emphasis be on a “100% perfection” end goal
- Managing industry’s ambition and interests to produce realistic targets and schedules
- Incorporating excess capacity for future upgrades to what you can’t provide today
Ted Maciuba
Chief, Mounted Requirements Division, Manoeuvre Centre of Excellence
US Army
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14.15 – 14.45 Modification Of In Service Fleets:
Redesigning US Army Stryker Hulls To
Counter The Ied Threat
- Integrating capabilities that may have been acquired outside of the original strategy vision for an army
- Incorporating protection beyond the IED threat and inclusion of weapons effects that will work outside of the COIN environment
- How crucial is the question of weight and where can we envisage using heavy wheeled vehicles in the future
Colonel Robert Schumitz
Director, Stryker Brigade Combat Team
US Army
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14.45 – 15.15 Attaining The Must Have Capabilities In
The Selection Of Requirements
- Performance of Stryker vehicle hulls in Iraq and Afghanistan and the vulnerabilities that have necessitated a redesign
- Analysis of other in service V-shaped hulls and their success in mitigating the worst effects of IED blasts
- Engineering challenges in the retrospective redesign of hull shapes and the effects on transmission and suspension systems
- Improved blast testing and evaluation of upgraded vehicles to accelerate operational fielding
- Assessing the trade-offs of protection, payload and performance on the redesigned vehicles
Major Steen Holm Iversen
Chief of Lessons Learned
Danish Army Combat Centre
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14.45 – 15.15 Assessing The Survivability Of Vehicles
To Withstand Current Threats: The
Israeli Experience
- Feeding back analysis support in evidence based decision making
- Understanding the potential impacts of high kinetic energy explosions against subsystems and components
- Defeating a “hard to find, easy to kill” threat
- Performance of vehicles in blast testing and the role of test results in reducing IED vulnerability
- Beyond crew survivability, prioritisation of maintenance of function immediately after an attack
Lieutenant Colonel Oren Giber
Head Survivability System Branch, Land Systems Division
Israeli Ministry of Defence
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15.15 – 15.45 Multi Role Armoured Vehicles That
Provide Flexible Mission Options For
The Military Customer
Andrew Simpson
IVECO Defence Vehicles
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15.15 – 15.45 User And Industry Perspectives On
Kinetic Energy And Explosively Formed
Penetrator Protection For Light And
Medium Armoured Vehicles
RUAG
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15.45 – 16.30 Afternoon Tea And Networking
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AFTERNON SESSION: DEVELOPING CAPABILTIES IN MOUNTED COMBAT PLATFORMS
16.30 – 17.00 Maximisation Of Turret Capabilties For The British Armed Forces
Paul Pointer
Turrets and Weapon Systems Specialist, Combat Tracks Group, Defence Equipment and Support
UK MoD
17.00 – 17.30 The Indian Army’s Lethality Upgrades To Armoured Fighting Vehicles
Major General Anukul Chandra (Ret’d)
Former Head of Combat Vehicles Procurement
Indian Army
17.30 - 18.00 Can Upgraded Lethality Effects Provide An Interim Solution To The Procurement Of New Vehicles?
Lieutenant Colonel Andy Stephens
SO1 Explosive Ordnance, Defence Academy of Management and Technology
UK MoD
18.00 Chairman’s Summary And Close Of Conference