Joint Battlespace Digitization: Analysing Command Battlespace Management (2002)

Due to the success of our previous digitization events and the continuing growth in this field, SMi are once again organising this event to explore the latest developments of Command Battlespace Management. This conference will enable delegates to better understand the multinational joint digitisation environment.

Utilise this opportunity to explore the latest technological advancements in this subject area and fulfil your knowledge requirements in just two days. This conference will ensure that you are strategically placed to maximise the benefits of digitization and interoperability. And what's more you will profit from the experience provided by the international panel of military and industry experts. Just take a look at the speaker presentations detailed in this brochure to see how else this event will benefit your organisation.

DAY ONE

Registration and Coffee

Chairman's Opening Remarks

Colonel (Ret’d) Jeremy Barrett, Head of Strategic Development, Hi-Q Systems.

SYSTEM INTEGRATION

Integration of marine air ground task force battlespace management systems

Operational Objectives · Expeditionary deployment & sustainment, situational awareness, speed & agility, flexible planning & execution

Challenges · Interoperability · Footprint · Affordability · The technology chase · Training & maintenance

Meeting the challenges · Integration approach · Acquisition strategy

Colonel Hughes USMC, Program Manager-MAGTF Operations Centers, Marine Corps Systems Command.

NCW

Network centric warfare

Conceptual model for network centric warfare

Concepts for leveraging the network to develop an Information Advantage

Sources of combat power

NCW: The evidence

John Garstka, Chief Technology Officer, US DoD, Office of Force Transformation.

RADIO

Joint tactical radio system, a seamless digital interface

Applications, a maze of protocols

Spectrum bandwidth available

Interoperability defined

Technology available today

Colonel Michael Cox, Deputy Director, Joint Tactical Radio System, Joint Program Office.

Morning Coffee

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

Intelligence information management in Nato-fighting information overload

Symptoms and effects of information overload in NATO’s intelligence information systems

Intelligence information overload and the OODA loop

· NATO’s effective intelligence information management strategies Intelligence sharing between nations and NATO commands-avoiding duplication of effort · Just-in-time intelligence delivery · Intelligence information push instead of pull · Software agents · NATO’s meta-data standards and information discovery through meta-data searches

Emerging intelligence information management systems in NATO

Dr Klaus Muller, Special Advisor on Intelligence and Functional Area Systems, NATO C3 Agency.

DATA - THE KEY TO INFORMATION SUPERIORITY

Data Exploitation

Handling the unexpected and the fog of war

Availability and performance

Explicite and extensible semantics

Platform independence

Confidentiality and integrity

Battlefield resilience

Major Mark Gidney, SO2 (W) Concept Development I, Army Data Services.

Lunch

GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY FOR THE NETWORK CENTRIC WARFARE

New paradigm for wideband digital connectivity: robust and flexible worldwide capacity

The value of global satcoms for wideband C4ISR applications

Satcoms in support of network centric warfare

Universal situational awareness bandwidth requirements

Some examples of existing deployments using Intelsat space segment

The future: wideband and broadband satellite applications in support of the commander anywhere

Eugene Staffa, Business Development Manager, Intelsat.

WORKING TOWARDS INFORMATION SUPERIORITY: APPLICATION COHERENCE FOR DIGITISATION PROGRAMMES

A Method for Coherently Defining Requirements for Future Command and Control Information Systems

Business processes of the UK Army: the Army Activity Model

Assessing application coherence across the digitisation programme

Coherent development of new systems by exploiting the AAM: a Case Study based on the Joint Fire Support BISA

Validating user requirements

Kees Van Harperen, , Hi-Q systems.

Afternoon Tea

COMMAND IN THE DIGITIZED ERA

The future of the command post in an era of reduced decision times

Designing future applications and infrastructures to support a digitized environment

The command post of the future

Integrating command and control into a joint battlespace

Enhancing situational awareness and faster decisions

Understanding the needs of your front line soldier

The challenge for developing joint command systems

Donald Willis, President, Command System.

TRAINING CHALLENGES

Digital training challenges; technology and operations

Not business as usual

Switchology versus information use

Initial, unexpected results

Lessons learned

What is next

Ronald Munden, Vice President and Division Manager, Camber Corporation.

Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

DAY TWO

Re-registration and Coffee

Chairman's Opening Remarks

Julian Ranger, Managing Director, STASYS.

THE UK LAND DIGITIZATION BATTLEFIELD PROGRAMME

An overview

The capability growth to enable advanced joint war fighting

A vision for digitization of the land battlespace

The implementation process- the theoretical versus the practical

Real time information: how far away is the UK

The joint and International dimension

Future digitization plans

Brigadier Sheldon, Director, Land Digitization, MoD.

IMPLEMENTATION

Implementation of the uk’s digitization programme

Concept of acquisition and delivery

Expanding BOWMAN to core digitization

Limiting factors of the LAND component

The key elements and functionality of BOWMAN and Digitization Stage 2

The plan to deliver the system and convert the UK Armed Forces

Concepts for the evolution of further stages, post initial roll-out

Brigadier Peter Sharpe, Deputy IPT Team Leader, BOWMAN & Digitization, MoD.

CHALLENGES

Air domain digitization challenges

Delivering solutions at lightning speed

Improving the timeliness and quality of information

Challenges in delivering information

Integration of information with the human

Research at QinetiQ

Martin Ferry, Technology Chief, Information Fusion, QinetiQ.

Morning Coffee

A DIGITISED WORLD

The Netherlands

An architecture-led approach to system development

Challenges for the effectiveness of digitization

NCW: Answers to new threats?

Nearby-Future directions

ROLF 2010

A Swedish command post of the future for the digitized battlefield

The problem facing the commander: Too much information

The need for new ways of displaying information

The need for new ways of working with the information

ROLF 2010: a Swedish command post of the future

Decision support in ROLF 2010

Experience from exercises and experiments with ROLF 2010 Mark I

Professor Berndt Brehmer, Professor of Command and Control Decision Making, Vice President, Swedish National Defence College.

Lunch

AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVES ON JOINT BATTLESPACE DIGITIZATION

Examining the current implications, research and progress within the Australian Defence Forces

Current Australian programs leading to a joint digitized system

Systems engineering, architecture and supporting management processes required to support a JDS

Conceptualisations for a joint digitized system and its relationship to tri-service and joint requirements

Implications to command & control and new potential capabilities

Dr Jennie Clothier, Research Leader Joint Systems, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australian DoD.

JUNGLE DIGITIZATION

The challenges of digitization in the jungle

The jungle environment and its effect on digitization platforms · Differences between achieving digitization in jungle and other environments · Effects of the jungle on digitization equipment and platform performance · Raising tempo-difficulties for command and control in the jungle

Key challenges · Completing the mission -Does Digitization afford sufficient advantage -What happens when it all goes wrong · Power · Propagation · Hardware endurance and sustainability · Platform sustainability · Mapping in the jungle and the utility of GPS

Meeting the challenge · Cost v requirement · Timely provision of capability

Major Jeremy Levine, Officer Commanding, Jungle Warfare Wing.

Afternoon Tea

SYSTEMS CAPABILITIES

GCCS C4I family of systems capabilities

Future plans

Advanced visualisation

Data and ISR integration

Multi-secure level operations-including security and releasability levels

Data fusion and correlation- including intelligence and tactical data sources

Captain Will Rodriguez, Programme Manager, Naval Command and Control Systems, COMSPAWARSYSCOM, PMW-157.

Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Conference