FUTURE ARMOURED VEHICLE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS 2019Day One | Wednesday 3rd April 2019
8.30 Registration & Coffee
9.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks Mr John Crozier, Technical Partner Urban Canyon Sixth Sense (UC6S), DSTL, UK MoD
KEYNOTE OPENING ADDRESSES
9.10 The Vital Importance of Situational Awareness for modern Infantry Fighting Vehicles• An evaluation of the current British armoured vehicle platforms• How battlefield situational awareness is crucial for armoured
vehicle survivability as well as lethality on the modern battlefield• The future of the British Army’s Armoured Vehicle Fleet Lieutenant Colonel Simon Routledge, SO1 Land Systems, Land Systems Programme, Platforms Division, DSTL, UK MoD
9.50 Digital Situational Awareness through Sensor Technology Development• Maximising digital sensor networks to improve inter-vehicle
communication• Enhancing compatibility through modular digital architecture• Plug and play sensor suites: the ability to integrate sensor
information and deliver a mission defined sensor• Real time digital intelligence gathering and dissemination to
support situational awareness platforms Mr Hans-Josef Maas, Armoured Fighting Vehicles, Vetronics Project Leader, Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment and Information Technology, Bundeswehr
10.30 Morning Coffee
ARMOURED VEHICLE SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
11.00 Improved Open Systems across the Land Environment for Effective Situational Awareness• Optimising Armoured Vehicle crew capabilities whilst reducing the
current training burden• Enhanced interoperability through easier system management • The future of British Armoured vehicle programmes
Mr Keith Smith, GVA Manager, Land Environment Operating Centre, DE&S, UK MoD
11.40 CASTLE: The State of the Art Acoustic Subarray• Acoustic localization of gunshots• Sound ranging• Tracking ground vehicles • Fire control Mr Alex Koers, Co-founder and Director, Microflown AVISA
12.20 Situational Awareness and UAS and C-UAS Operations• How the role of UAS will develop the future of situational
awareness on the battlefield• Calculating how C2IS systems can successfully receive real time
information and data from UAS• Measures for successful counter UAS Major Ola Petter Odden, Development Officer, Combat Lab, Norwegian Army Land Warfare Centre, Norwegian Armed Forces
1.00 Networking Lunch
MILITARY PROGRAMME UPDATES
2.00 Protected Mobility Capability Update• An update on the plan to modernise the New Zealand Defence
Force’s light armoured vehicles, enhancing situational awareness across the fleet
• Maintaining the effectiveness of New Zealand Defence Force’sprotected land mobility capability
• Highlighting the future situational awareness requirements for theNew Zealand Defence Force mechanised capabilities
Lieutenant Colonel Chad Preece, Capability Integration Lead, Protected Mobility Capability Project, NZDF Capability Branch, New Zealand Defence Force
2.40 The Future of Main Battle Tanks in Land Forces • Main battle tanks role in the future security challenges• Situational awareness requirements for the main battle tank of the
Romanian Land Forces• Methods of training crews for maximised situational awareness• Maintenance support achievement for tank structures based on
competence levels Lieutenant Colonel Torcica Valentin, Chief of Armoured Office, Romanian MoD
3.20 Afternoon Tea
3.50 An Assessment of the Infantry Fighting Vehicle Piranha III’s survivability through Situational Awareness Maximisation• An appraisal on the successes and challenges of the Piranha III• Enhancing situational awareness capabilities through
communications and real time intelligence gathering• Future development prospects for the Piranha III Captain-commandant Kristel Mostrey, Material Manager Piranha and Dingo, Belgian MoD
MILITARY PANEL DISCUSSION
PANEL DISCUSSION 4.30 Situational Awareness Requirements for Combat Platforms
in Multi-Domain Battle and the Implications for the End User• Quantifying the value of situational awareness through training,
simulation and joint exercises• Capturing situational awareness needs in platform requirements• Question and answer session with military experts
Moderator: Mr John Crozier, Technical Partner Urban Canyon Sixth Sense (UC6S), DSTL, UK MoD
Lieutenant Colonel Chad Preece, Capability Integration Lead, Protected Mobility Capability Project, NZDF Capability Branch, New Zealand Defence Force
Lieutenant Colonel Torcica Valentin, Chief of Armoured Office, Romanian MoD
Major Ola Petter Odden, Development Officer, Combat Lab, Norwegian Army Land Warfare Centre, Norwegian Armed Forces
Captain-commandant Kristel Mostrey, Material Manager Piranha and Dingo, Belgian MoD
5.10 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One Mr John Crozier, Technical Partner Urban Canyon Sixth Sense (UC6S), DSTL, UK MoD
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FUTURE ARMOURED VEHICLE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS 2019Day Two | Thursday 4th April 2019
8.30 Registration & Coffee
9.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks Mr John Crozier, Technical Partner Urban Canyon Sixth Sense (UC6S), DSTL, UK MoD
KEYNOTE OPENING ADDRESSES
9.10 Enhancing Situational Awareness Across US Armoured Vehicle Fleets
• The current initiatives to enhance all-round visibility• Enhancing space-based intelligence gathering and
dissemination in supporting armoured vehicle deployments• Achieving crew-centric designs through enhanced cross-
platform integration Colonel (ret’d) Mike McCarthy, Deputy to the Commanding General, Maneuver Support Center of Excellence, United States Army
9.50 Utilising Effective Trials and Inter-Agency Cooperation for Optimal Situational Awareness
• Trialling and implementing manned and unmannedoperations for maximum situational awareness on the battlefield
• Enhancing mounted and dismounted communications forinstantaneous information dissemination
• Assessing and overcoming the current challenges tooptimising situational awareness capabilities faced by British
Army Armoured Vehicles Speaker Session Reserved for ATDU, UK MoD
10.30 Morning Coffee
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS PROGRAMME UPDATES
11.00 Understanding the Driving Requirements for Future Armoured Vehicle Situational Awareness • Elicitation of the driving requirements for full situational
awareness• The essential role of architecture and associated technologies• Assessment of situational awareness solutions and future
challenges Mr Daniel Ota, Team Lead Platform Capability Integration, Fraunhofer FKIE
11.40 Reserved for Sponsor
12.20 Discussing Potential Future Developments in Platform Situation Awareness (SA) Capability and the Critical Importance of Electronic Architectures with the Land Data Model (LDM) for Situation Prediction• Perception, Comprehension and Prediction – closing the loop
on dynamic SA• Exploiting generic architectures and the Land Data Model• SA within the GVA/NGVA approach – the advantage of the
generic awareness picture• Modular SA and electronic control – man and machine agent
teaming, the building blocks for future combat platforms Mr John Crozier, Technical Partner Urban Canyon Sixth Sense (UC6S), DSTL, UK MoD
1.00 Networking Lunch
CAPABILITY AND TECHNOLOGY BRIEFINGS
2.00 APS Data Flow and the Advantages for Situational Awareness• Successful system integration across British armoured fleets• Harnessing the biproduct of APS system data to enhance
situational awareness capabilities • An update on the ICARUS and MEDUSA programmes
Mr Richard Hooper, Principle Vetronics Engineer, DSTL, UK MoD
2.40 Situational awareness on the battlefield with indirectly controlled systems• Various roles of optionally manned, remote and autonomous
systems• New human/machine interface possibilities Mr Pasi Niemela, Chief Engineer Product Management, Patria Land Systems Oy
3.20 Afternoon Tea
3.50 An Update on the Advancements in the Fields of Vetronics and Situational Awareness • Development of threat detection sensors and how to faster
inform vehicle crew members of incoming threats• An in-depth analysis of how vetronics will work to link the
fundamental sub-systems in any Armoured Fighting Vehicle • The future of vetronics and situational awareness Professor Merfyn Lloyd OBE, Visiting Professor, Vetronics Research Centre
VETRONICS AND GVA EXPERT PANEL DISCUSSION
PANEL DISCUSSION4.30 Open Vetronic Architecture Development
for Infantry Fighting Vehicles• Operational requirements for Open Reference Architectures• An update with regards to NGVA and NGVA alignment• Architecture question and answer session with military and
agency experts Moderator: Mr John Crozier, Technical Partner Urban Canyon Sixth Sense (UC6S), DSTL, UK MoD
Mr Hans-Josef Maas, Armoured Fighting Vehicles, Vetronics Project Leader, Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment and Information Technology, Bundeswehr
Mr Keith Smith, GVA Manager, Land Environment Operating Centre, DE&S, UK MoD
Mr Daniel Ota, Team Lead Platform Capability Integration, Fraunhofer FKIE
Professor Merfyn Lloyd OBE, Visiting Professor, Vetronics Research Centre
5.10 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two Mr John Crozier, Technical Partner Urban Canyon Sixth Sense (UC6S), DSTL, UK MoD
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