DAY TWO: Thursday 24th June 2010

09.00 Chairman’s Address And Opening Remarks

09.10 HQ Theatre Troops: Ensuring Capability In NEC Operations, The British Army Experience

• Providing key capabilities in ISTAR and Communications, integrating these capabilities into operations
• Operational commitments from ISAF to disaster relief operations:
• Understanding the challenges faced in operating in a NEC environment
• Understanding the evolving operational environment to ensure mission effectiveness

Brigadier Alan Hill
Commander, 11 Signal Brigade
British Army

09.50 NCW: A Key Enabler For The Warfighter

• Critical to support current and future NATO operations
• Available to support EU/other operations
• A key building block for & critical component of NATO Response Force
• A key enabler for NATO Network Enabled Capability
• Will enhance operational effectiveness of national tactical assets
• Will be an important contributor to civilian applications – humanitarian/disaster relief, search & rescue operations, civilian protection

John Brooks
President
Northrop Grumman International, Inc.

11:00 The Perfect Storm: Securing the Cloud

Join LTG Steven Boutelle, Former CIO US Army To Hear His Insights On Cloud Computing.

• What is Cloud Computing from the government and commercial perspective?
• What should concern us?
• How do we protect it?

LTG Steven Boutelle (US Army ret)
Vice President, Business Development, Global Government Solutions Group
Cisco

11.40 Improving Coalition Interoperability: Challenges And Opportunities

• Current operational reality
• Reflections on US-UK experimentation
• The way forward

Brigadier Justin Maciejewski
Commander, 12th Mechanised Brigade
British Army

13.30 NATO Interoperability Standards Programme: Overcoming Issues Of Interoperability & Standardisation

• Outlining the primary policy initiatives in the NATO Standardisation Agency and the end goals that will determine future coalition warfighting efforts
• Specific challenges of existing networking efforts and how policy and current standardisation efforts can help
• The way ahead: Operating to make the alliance more interoperable in the NEC environment

Cesare Balducci
Deputy Director, Branch Chief, Policy and Coordination
NATO Standardisation Agency

14.10 Operating In An Opposed Network Environment

• The need to develop the ability to operate in oppossed network environments
• This includes developing next generation protected space communications as well as terrestrial alternatives for a variety of airborne assets.
• Requirement to establish a better balance between passive and active warfare in the electromagnetic spectrum and ensure our forces are trained and configured for realistic, communications degraded environments

Colonel David “Driver” Fahrenkrug
Director, CSAF’s Strategic Studies Group
USAF

14.50 Afternoon Tea & Networking

15.30 C4ISR test And Evaluation: Insuring Information Management Down To The Tactical Level

• Data analysis and visualisation products on: Force XXI Battle Command Brigade Below (FBCB2)
• Blue Force Tracking: Air and Land and coalition integration challenges

Andrew Pahutski
Chief, C4ISR Division, Test Technology, Aberdeen Test Centre
US Army

16.10 Re-Conceptualizing The RMA and NCW: From The “Revolution In Military Affairs” To The Evolution In Military Knowledge

• Uncover the evolution in concepts from RMA to transformation, from NCW to Knowledge Centric Warfare or Battle-Management, from COIN or irregular-warfare to ‘hybrid’ warfare.
• Track the social construction of military concepts such as NCW or
• Hybrid and their origins.
• Bridge the epistemological gap between disciplines and communities of practice
• Accelerate innovation and learning faster and more effectively than adversary networks
• Gain foresight into future conceptual directions and challenges emerging from current conflicts and emerging challenges

Dr Gil Ariely
Chief Knowledge Officer and Senior Researcher
The Institute for Counter –Terrorism (ICT), Israel

16.50 Chairman’s Summary And Close Of Conference

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