Conference Day Two
8:15 am - 8:45 am REGISTRATION & COFFEE
8:45 am - 9:00 am CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS
9:00 am - 9:40 am HOST NATION ADDRESS: FUTURE UK JOINT EFFECTS CAPABILITY
9:40 am - 10:20 am INCREASING PRECISION, REDUCING THE BURDEN
Sponsored by: Raytheon
11:00 am - 11:40 am FRENCH ARTILLERY: LESSONS LEARNED FROM RECENT AND CURRENT OPERATIONS & DEFINING THE WAY FORWARD
Brigadier General Michel Ledanseur - Commandant, School of Artillery, French Army• Arty and Air Power today
• Insights and lessons learnt from French operations in the Middle East and Africa
• Transitioning away from COIN: range considerations, training, and network protection for peer conflict
10:20 am - 11:00 am MORNING COFFEE & NETWORKING
10:00 am - 10:30 am STRONG, SECURE, ENGAGED: CANADIAN ARMY MODERNIZATION
Colonel J.M.A. (Marc) LaFortune - Director of Artillery, Canadian Armed Forces• The Strong, Secure, Engaged policy and the core modernization priorities for the Canadian Army today
• The implications for the Army’s Artillery Force
• Integrated Soldier System Project (ISSP)
2:10 pm - 2:50 pm ARTILLERY SOLUTIONS FOR MODERN WARFARE
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm THE FUTURE OF REPUBLIC OF KOREA ARMY'S ARTILLERY
12:20 pm - 1:15 pm NETWORKING LUNCH
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm ENGAGING TARGETS IN DEGRADED OR DENIED ENVIRONMENTS
• How is the Army training to engage poorly located/moving hard targets in a gps degraded/denied environment?
• 155mm Artillery Ammunition modernization programme
• Opportunities for closer integration of weapons systems and sensors with allies in Europe
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm HIGH MOBILITY ARTILLERY
Sponsored by: SAAB
4:00 pm - 4:40 pm SPANISH FIELD ARTILLERY: REALITIES AND CHALLENGES
Lieutenant Colonel Felix Sanchez Lailla - Chief Instructor of Field Artillery & Spanish Representative to ISG IF (NAAG, NATO), Spanish Army• Defining the right mix of land fires to support light, medium and heavy forces across a range of operations
• Integration, interoperability and inter-changeability across NATO forces
• Review of ISTAR capability across the Spanish Army
Lieutenant Colonel Felix Sanchez Lailla
Chief Instructor of Field Artillery & Spanish Representative to ISG IF (NAAG, NATO)Spanish Army
2:50 pm - 3:20 pm AFTERNOON COFFEE & NETWORKING
4:00 pm - 4:40 pm SWEDISH FIRES & LONG RANGE SURVEILLANCE ENHANCEMENT
Lieutenant Colonel Niklas Edelsvärd - CO, Artillery School,, Swedish Armed Forces• Training and equipping Sweden’s artillery forces for new threats
• Giraffe 4a radar and Arthur system acquisition: what does this offer Swedish Army capability?
• Allied joint fires and Close Air Support exercises
4:00 pm - 4:40 pm WEAPON LOCATING RADAR FOR MANOEUVRE WARFARE
Sponsored by: SAAB
4:00 pm - 4:40 pm SMART DEFENCE: HOW CAN THE ARMY WORK WITH INDUSTRY TO DELIVER CAPABILITY MORE EFFECTIVELY?
· Organisational culture and strategic thinking in Army programme offices today
· How can the Army work with Industry more effectively, so that they can enhance capability rather than simply replace it?
· Cost-informed requirement setting through the prism of munitions purchases
- Thoughts on standardisation and mutual frameworks for munitions development