Main Conference Day One: Wednesday, July 11, 2012
8:00 Registration and Coffee
8:45 Chairperson’s Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 Opening Keynote: Winning the War Together: Developing Integrated Battle Command Systems to Ensure Heightened Situational Awareness and Maneuver Capabilities for ISAF Forces
- EO C3T efforts to deliver improved tactical
- Communications to soldiers for more effective operations
- The rollout of web-based mission command
- Win-T incremental rollout
Major General Lee S Price, USA
PEO, Command
Control & Communications Tactical (C3T)
9:30US Army Keynote: FORSCOM: Logistically Sustainable Forces
- Current and future FORSCOM initiatives
- Future vehicle capabilities and technologies
- Needs and opportunities for industry partners
Brigadier General John P. O’Connor
Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4
US Army
10:00 Exhibit Hall and Networking Break
10:30 OEM Strategy War Room: An All Encompassing Military Vehicle Platform Design
- Understand the needs of the original equipment manufacturers themselves
- Hear their unique and differing perspectives on the future of global vehicular assets
- Integration priorities and requirements for success
- Evolving capabilities and future technologies for Warfighter support
Session Moderator:
J. Michael Ryskamp (ret)
Former Assistant Director
PEO Integration
Panelists:
Christopher Cardine
Scientist for Tank Technologies Engineering, Development and Technology
General Dynamics Land Systems
Michael Micucci
VP Expeditionary Programs
Textron Marine and Land Systems
Bipin Shah
System Engineer
Ford Motor Company
11:15 Power Cooling for Soldier Motivation & Survivability and
Auxiliary Power for Cooling & Silent Mode Operations
- Human factor -key element in tank warfare
- Cooling / environmental control for sustenance & survivability, within
- Auxillary power - support for cooling & added firepower in silent mode
- Development & design elements in meeting tropical challenges of cooling & power
Nagarajan Sridharan
CEO
Fedders Lloyd Corporation LTD
12:00 Exhibit Hall and Lunch
Choose Either Track A or Track B
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Track A: RESET
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Track B: Foreign Keynotes
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1:00
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USMC Vehicle RESET Program Update: MTVR/LVSR
- Overview of USMC replacement vehicles
- Mission objectives for the MTVR/LSVR
- Short and medium-term strategies for the MTVR/LSVR Program
Bryan Prosser
Program Manager
PEO Land System Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) (ACAT-1C) and Logistics Vehicle System Replacement (LVSR)
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India Keynote: Asymmetric and Hybrid Warfare - Lessons Learnt from the South Asian Experience
- Increasing range, lethality and accuracy of armoured vehicular forces
- Assessing future developments in asymmetric warfare
- Strategic development of vehicle doctrine and technology in the Indian Army
Lieutenant General JP Singh (ret)
Deputy Chief of Army Staff
Indian Armed Forces
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1:30
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Skydex Technologies Latest Advancements
- Blast mitigating flooring for military vehicles
- Absorbing energy to reduce injury or fatigue
- Limiting the energy force transmitted through an object
Peter Foley
Chief Technology Officer
Skydex Technologies
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UAE Keynote: Armored Vehicles: Current and Future Initiatives at Streit Group
 Rehan Majeed
Brand Manager
Streit Group FZE
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2:00 Exhibit Hall and Networking Break
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2:45
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Support Priorities for Global Warfighter Readiness and Sustainment Operations
- DLA strategic focus areas including Warfighter support enhancement, stewardship excellence and workforce development
- DLA forward plans for retrograde, RESET and redistribution
- Improving logistics supply and integration chain management
Colonel Jeffrey Vieira
Director, Land Operations
DLA
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Israeli Keynote: The Differences in Symmetric and Asymmetric Conflicts
- Importance of active protection systems in Asymmetric conflicts
- Basic survivability objectives
- Snap shots of APS around the world
 LTC Maxi Blum (Ret)
Israeli Defense Forces
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3:15
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Oregon Sustainment Maintenance Site Initiatives to Improve Logistical Core Competencies
- OSMS and the Soldier
- OSMS impacts on RESET
- Efficient supply support for the Warfighter
Colonel Mark Rathburn
OSMS General Forman
Oregon Sustainment Maintenance Site
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Canada Keynote: The LAV Upgrade Project
- Upgrade project: current challenges and lessons learned
- How potential future operations affect development
- Research, development and deployment: future opportunities
 Major Pierre Larivee
Project Director
LAV III
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3:45 Self Healing Armor for Military Vehicles
- Understanding how transparent armor is affected by operational environments
- Test results from the Naval Research Lab study of delaminated transparent armor
- Potential low-cost solutions for reconstituting failed transparent armor
- How the military can practically implement these solutions in the field
Dr. Marriner Merrill
Multifunctional Materials
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
4:30 Chairperson’s Summary, Exhibition Action Items and Closing Remarks
5:00 Exhibit Hall Cocktail Reception (Open to ALL Attendees)
6:00 End of Day One (Sessions from 4:00-6:00 are held in the Exhibit Hall Presentation Theater)