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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