DAY ONE: Wednesday 23rd June 2010


08.30 Coffee And Registration

09.00 Chairman’s Address And Opening Remarks

Brigadier Philip Pratley (R’td)
Former DEC, CC&II, UK MoD
Principal Conference Chairman

09.10 NNEC: From The Business Space To The Battlespace

  • Process for achieving operational benefits through NNEC
  • Looking to improve NATO C2
  • Goals and objects or CWIX 2010
  • Changing the mindset: Challenges associated with ‘Share to win’ culture change

Major General Jaap Willemse
NNEC ICT Director, ACOS C4I
NATO ACT

09.50 NATO Communication And Information Systems Service Agency (NCSA): Goals And Priorities

  • Building and setting industry requirements
  • Developing information security systems and linking these systems across Afghanistan
  • Supporting Operations

Dag Wilhelmsen
Technical Director
NATO Communications and Information Systems Agency (NCSA)

10.30 Coffee Break & Networking

11.00 Developing NEC In Support Of European Capabilities

  • EDA role in developing capabilities
  • Particularities of EU NEC
  • Efforts to develop NEC in support of CSDP

Marcel Staicu
Networked Enabled Capabilities
EDA

11.40 UK Perspective On NEC: From The Business Space To The Battlespace

  • The UK approach to NEC - Networks, Information, People and Joint Action
  • NEC on current operations - What does it mean for the future?
  • The continuing NEC Challenges across both the Battlespace and the Business Space

Colonel Iain Standen
NEC Programme Office, CIO J6
UK MoD

12.20 MILSATCOM Enabling NCW

  • MILSATCOM`s hallmark: Ubiquity and Security
  • NCW Needs: Coherent C4ISTAR
  • Modelling and Simulation: Enhanced War-fighter Characterisation
  • SDR: Enabling Interoperability for NCW
  • Visions of the Next Generation War-fi eeds

Ray Brough
Head of Sales – UK & NATO
EADS Astrium

13.00 Networking Lunch

Stream A: ISR AND OPERATIONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

Stream B: CNO AND CYBER SECURITY

14.00 Providing ISR Tracks And Data To The Tactical Edge

  • Providing JTACs/JFO an Interactive – Common Intelligence Picture / Common Tactical Picture (I-CIP/CTP) to JTACS/JFOs
  • Supporting CAS and digital CAS missions to identify targets
  • Enhance fratricide avoidance and mitigate civilian casualties

W. H. Roeting
CAPT, USN (Ret), JBAIIC Test Director and NPS Principal Investigator
The Naval Postgraduate School

14.00 Developing CNO And Cyber Security Requirements: The EU Military Experience

  • Understanding the threat and managing the risk
  • International and operational challenges
  • Setting the requirements within a Comprehensive Approach

Wing Commander Chris Stace
CIS Directorate
EU Military Staff

14.40 Lessons Learned From Networking The British Military In Afghanistan

Lieutenant Colonel Alan Mears (Ret’d)
Ops Lead, Joint C2 Capability Integration Facility, Defence Capability Centre
UK MoD

14.40 Cyber Infrastructure Resiliency: Can You Survive Cyber Attack?

  • Simulation of hundreds realistic blended of application protocols
  • Simulation of legitimate application traffic with malicious traffic like DDoS Network Attack up to Application Attack (Malwares, Cross-Site Scripting, SQL Injection,...)
  • Simulation of Email, Webmail, Instant Messenger, Voice over IP for validation of accuracy of Law Interception Solution
  • Simulation of application traffic at live network speeds 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps, 40 Gbps and from thousands of users up to 15 millions of unique simultaneous users

Richard Favier
European Director
BreakingPoint Systems

15.20 Afternoon Tea & Networking

15.20 Afternoon Tea & Networking

15.40 NATO’s Airborne Early Warning Force On Operations

  • Assessing the impact of the NATO E-3A force on operations in Afghanistan
  • Performance of the E-3A within a Joint force structure
  • Creating a C2ISR hub and enabling airspace deconfliction:
  • Managing the demands of an operational deployment within the existing force structure

Colonel Gregory Clarke
ACOS Requirements, NAEW&C Force Command
NATO

15.40 Consequences Of Operating On The Expanded Network

  • Scales of cyber attack and potential financial and strategic consequences
  • Can network security ever be robust and adaptive enough?
  • Can there be a perfect balance between network security and NEC?

John Bumgarner
Research Director
US Cyber Consequences Unit

16.20 NATO Network Enabled Capability (NNEC): Enabling The Development Effects Based Capability

  • Understanding the changes required across the spectrum of defence functions to achieve NNEC goals
  • How can decision making superiority be achieved through networking to achieve common operating pictures
  • Integrating individual and organisational culture into NNEC development to over come the challenge of national security requirements and mindset

Major General Glynn Hines
NATO Headquarters C3 Staff
NATO

17.00 How Can Decision Making From The Business Space To The Battlespace Be Enhanced Through Effective Information Management: The Way Forward

  • How is information management likely to effect force effectiveness as networks are linked
  • How can challenges that arise from information exchange requirements be overcome?
  • How can we enable maximum capabilities through effective systems, technologies and TTPs?

Dr Linton Wells
Distinguished Research Fellow and Force Transformation Chair
National Defence University

17.40 Chairman’s Summary And Closing Remarks

17.50 Drinks Reception sponsored by Astrium Services’ Secure Satcom Systems
EADSEstrium

19.00 Depart For Gala Dinner Sponsored By Northrop Grumman
NorthropGrumman