Military Airlift: Main Conference Day two September 27th

09.00 Chairman’s Welcome and introductory comments

09.10 French Air Force Air Transport Capabilities: How to mitigate the gap while awaiting the A400m

• Overview of the French Air Force airlift transport fleet between 2012 and 2020
• Dealing with the capability gap which exists due to the retirement of French Air Force C-160 fleet and the delay in delivery of the A400m
• French, UK and German cooperation on contracts and training
• Maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) challenges and international cooperation opportunities post delivery.

Colonel Michel Gallazzini
Chief, A400m project team
French Air Force HQ

09.50 Royal Netherlands Air Force: National airlift and international cooperation

• Overview of the Royal Netherlands Air Force airlift and refuelling fleet
• Current programmes and airworthiness issues
• Airlift and tanker operations in a growing international environment
• Eindhoven Air Base, advantages of EATC location, international cooperation issues
• Maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) challenges and international cooperation opportunities post delivery.

Colonel Bas Pellemans
Commander Eindhoven AB
Royal Netherlands Air Force

11.10 The role of 3 Airlift Wing in coping with airlift demands in the face of non traditional challenge

• Overview of the Polish Airlift
• Lesson learned from commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan
• The future of Polish Airforce airlift - potential areas of activity

Colonel Sławomir Żakowski
Commander 3 Air Transport Wing
Polish Air Force

11.50 Movement Coordination Centre Europe (MCCE) – Coordinating the shared use of multinational strategic transport

• ATARES – Airlift and AAR exchange of services amongst partner nations.
• Operational effect since formation – has nonmonetary exchange proved effective or does it create rather than solve problems?
• Can operations succeed without direct ownership of platforms or are organizations such as HAW or EATC the future?

Lieutenant Colonel Jan Skamfer
Deputy Director
Movement Coordination Centre Europe

13.30 The Allied Movement Coordination Centre (AMCC) – Supporting current NATO strategic airlift operations

• Introducing AMCC : Structure, organisation and capabilities
• Update on Support to current NATO airlift operations I SAF Redeployment planning
• Initiatives for Multinational Sharing of Strategic Airlift
• Highlighting the achievements of 2011/12 and Targets for 2013

Colonel Jennifer Thompson
Chief, Allied Movement Coordination Centre
NATO SHAPE

14.10 Nato Airlift Management Program

• Overview of the Nato Airlift Management Program
• The Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC )
• Casestudy of smart defence throught the C-17 project

Gunnar Borch
Program manager
Nato Airlift Management Program

16.00 The RCAF’s Air Mobility Force - 10 Years in Afghanistan and $8 Billion in Capability Renewal

• Operations Overview - Afghanistan, Libya, Haiti and Beyond
• An overview of the successes and challenges associated with a renewal in the RCAF ’s Air Mobility capabilities (C17 and C130J implementation; A310 MRTT introduction; creation of the RCAF Air Mobility T raining Centre; massive infrastructure projects)
• Priorities for Continuous Capability Evolution (developing leaders, precision airdrop, electronic flight bag, air-land integration, expanding Arctic capabilities)

Colonel Sean Friday
Commander 8 Wing / CFB Trenton
Royal Canadian Air Force

16.40 World Food Programme Presentation focusing on Lift Operations: Highlighting the work of the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service

• Introducing the UNHAS , its structure and current capabilities
• Investigating how the UN manages civ/mil relation - O slo guidelines and MCDA
• Looking back over the major operations of 2011/12
• Current and future requirements – exploring areas for collaboration

Oleh Maslyukov
Air Movement Officer
World Food Program

17.20 Chairman’s Closing Statements

17.30 Closed Conference