PRE CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS: Tuesday 22nd June 2010

09.30 - 12.30 Workshop A: NETWORK ENABLED OPERATIONS IN SUPPORT OF IRREGULAR WARFARE

Led by:

Fried Stein
Distinguished Principal Engineer
MITRE

• What are the new network requirements to support Hybrid Warfare?
• What are the major coalition challenges ?
• What new technologies are needed or being used on the battlefield

Fred is a MITRE Distinguished Engineer for Net Centric Operations. He is a retired Army Colonel, who commanded from company through brigade and served as the J6 for Operation Support Hope in Rwanda and Operation Enduring Freedom in Bosnia. He then served on the Joint Staff J6 as Deputy J6 and took part in the initial work on NCW theory. After co-authoring the first book on Network Centric Warfare, he joined MITRE and moved to Ft. Hood, Texas to be part of the team that fielded information technology to the first digital division. Since then, Fred has written and spoken worldwide on NCW providing classes to Japan, India, Germany, Portugal, Netherlands, Poland and several Middle East countries. He supported the OSD Office of Force Transformation and authored a case study on the AF / SOF team in Western Iraq. Currently he is supporting the Army’s Central Test and Support Facility, CTSF, at FT Hood and spends time at the National Training Center and Joint Readiness Training Center observing units training for deployment and providing his observations to the CTSF, HQ DA and various Program Executive offices, PEO. Fred’s newest interest is in trying to understanding the culturial shifts occurring in the Information Age and their impact on decision makers and how Complexity is impacting operations. He has presented presentations on these subjects to conferences and audiences in India, Brussels (NATO NC3A), Prague, Japan and Singapore and Australia as well as Army and Joint PEOs. His online Blog is entitled “Confessions of a Digital Immigrate”

13.30 - 16.30 Workshop B: NETWORKING THE OODA LOOP

Using 'Observe, Orient, Decide, Act' as a framework for understanding how to yield benefits from NCW, this Focus Day will introduce methodologies for designing and managing networks. Technical, social and information networks and the means for creating them will be explored for each OODA stage through interactive lectures and exercises. Themes to consider throughout the rest of the conference will be raised

Led by:

The workshop will feature a core presentation on:

Understanding the impact of the “Learning competition” in COIN and Irregular warfare – understanding understanding in the battlefield Irregular warfare is inherent in contemporary conflicts, whereas an important dimension requiring militaries to become adaptive is what the COIN Field- Manual of US Army coined as the “Learning Competition”. The ability of a military to “out-learn” its adversary is essential, especially in COIN or versus terrorist networks that act as a “Complex Adaptive System” and are intuitive ‘learning organization’. This presentation will use contemporary case studies of recent operations successfully implementing vehicles to cope with real-time learning capabilities, enabling military leaders to be agile and militaries to be adaptive. The impact of on Operations and on military Strategies is explored, as well as future requirement from force structure, training and education.

• Understand the ‘learning competition’ in COIN and in irregular warfare
• Learn from recent conflicts and operations how to become adaptive in real-time
• Formulate the impact for your organization for future training and education to prepare for the future
• Identify ways to “network the hierarchy” to accelerate innovation and learning faster and more effectively

Karen Carr is a Chartered Psychologist, with degrees in Psychology (MA, Edinburgh) and Ergonomics (MSc, Birmingham), and an MoD-sponsored PhD in Experimental Psychology. Before joining Cranfield University at Shrivenham, Karen spent 21 years in defence industry, initially carrying out human factors research. Karen became Head of the Human Factors department in BAE Systems before taking on the role of Director of Capability in Head Office. In November 2006 Karen joined Cranfield University at the Defence Academy to develop the new Centre for Human Systems, which takes a multi-disciplinary approach to developing and operating organisations of humans and technology.

Dr. Gil ad Ariely is the CKO (Chief Knowledge Officer) and senior researcher at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) of Lauder School of Government Diplomacy and Strategy, at The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya; Dr. Ariely is a leading expert on managing operational knowledge in critical environments, crisis management and emergency preparedness, terrorism and security studies. He consulted on knowledge methodologies, futures foresight, operational learning and Intellectual Capital to Government and Industry organizations around the world. Dr. Ariely helped install cutting-edge methodologies, structures and concepts of operational knowledge management as interagency interoperability vehicle for command & control, and for lessons-learned mechanisms. Dr. Ariely is a Lt. Colonel (ret.) with 20 years of experience. He initiated and helped inaugurate the field of Operational Knowledge Management in the IDF Ground Forces since 2001, was the first acting CKO (Chief Knowledge Officer) of the Ground Forces IDF, and has written the Army’s first doctrine book on Learning during operations, and operational knowledge management.

He is a founding member of ICTAC (International Counter Terrorism Academic Community), a member of BIOPoM research Center at the University of Westminster London, a member of the Proteus USA group, and of ERGOMAS (European Research Group on Military and Society).

He serves on editorial boards of academic journals on Knowledge, and on advisory boards of various public sector organizations. Dr. Ariely is an Associate Fellow of ICSR (International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence), at King’s College London.