- DAY 1
- 8.30 Registration and Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Dr Kristy Murray, Director, Joint ADL Co-Laboratory.
- Wing Commander (Ret'd) Mike Russell, Business Area Manager Training Support & Director, Systems Consultants Services.
- 9.10 OPENING ADDRESS
- Collaborative inter-service mission planning - Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS)
- Collaborative development effort between the Navy, Air Force, Army, Marine Corps and Special Operations Command
- Provision of a framework to support coordinated mission planning within and between the services including coalition partners
- Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment (DII COE), C4ISR and Joint Technical Architecture (JTA) compliant
- Program objectives; ease of use, versatility, integration and cost-effectiveness
- Reducing development, migration and life cycle costs through extensible components, common processes and automated tools
- Software migration currently used in TAMPS and AFMSS
- Single entry point for weapons planning
- Commander Edmundo Bellini, JMPS Multi-Service Program Manager, Naval Air Systems Command, US Navy.
- 9.40 UNIT LEVEL MISSION PLANNING
- Planning, rehearsal, execution and monitoring on the digital battlefield
- Combined Arms Planning and Execution Monitoring System - the newest addition to the US Army's Stryker Brigade Combat Team's mission planning capability
- Mobile Command and Control - a real-time, collaborative mission planning and execution C2 system "hub" for on-the-move command and control of sensors, forces, and effectors
- Update on US - German coalition C2 experimentation
- 10.20 AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO AIR DEFENCE MISSION PLANNING
- Development and integration for integration
- Dr Gerhard Krejci, President, ECTA.
- 11.00 Morning Coffee
- 11.20 MISSION PLANNING FOR PRECISION GUIDED MUNITIONS
- Precision Guided Munitions Planning Software (PGMPS)
- J.D.Walker, Business Development Manager, Northrop Grumman.
- 12.00 ESC's FOREIGN MILITARY SALES (FMS)
- USAF based mission planning systems
- Steve Cote, Deputy Systems Program Director, FMS Mission Planning Branch, Electronic Systems Command, US Air Force.
- 12.40 Networking Lunch
- 2.00 IMPACT OF THE ENVIRONMENT ON OPERATIONS
- Presenting the Recognised Environmental Picture (REP) for mission planning
- Environmental impact on joint operations
- Generating the REP
- Distributing and sharing the picture
- Interface to legacy systems and networks
- Lessons learned
- Gaining environmental advantage
- JJ Bowley, Business Manager, TENET Defence.
- 2.40 MISSION LOGISTICS SUPPORT
- Strategic planning and optimal logistics support
- Improving short and long-term operations planning
- Reliance placed on IT to successfully plan, execute and analyse operations
- Optimising mission logistics support
- Strategic Network Design (SND) to test and validate solutions
- Logistics planning; generation and application
- Reducing reaction time for unforeseen situations
- Jeff Holmes, Senior Vice President, Government, Aerospace & Defense, Manugistics.
- 3.20 COMMERCIAL HIGH-RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY FOR INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE AND RECONNAISANCE APPLICATIONS IN MISSION PLANNING
- Mr Noam Zafrir, Vice President Marketing & Sales, ImageSat International.
- 4.00 Chairman's Closing Remarks Followed by Afternoon Tea
- Close of Day One
- DAY 2
- 8.30 Re-registration and Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Dr Kristy Murray, Director, Joint ADL Co-Laboratory.
- Wing Commander (Ret'd) Mike Russell, Business Area Manager Training Support & Director, Systems Consultants Services.
- 9.10 OPENING ADDRESS
- Distributed Mission Operations and DESERT PIVOT
- Distributed Mission Operations (DMO) and synthetic battlespace relationships
- The DMO Center of Excellence (DMOC)
- DESERT PIVOT exercise objectives
- DESERT PIVOT and the synthetic battlespace
- Future of DESERT PIVOT
- Lieutenant Colonel Ron Wiegand, Commander, Detachment 4, Air Force Command and Control Training and Innovation Group (AFC2TIG), Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, US Air Force.
- 9.40 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
- Bringing mission rehearsal requirements and solutions together - the UK experience
- Current use of simulation in support of UK land and joint training and mission rehearsal
- Agreed UK definitions - campaign planning, mission rehearsal, scenario specific training
- Future themes - AVTS, JTOC, BC2T, Deployable TES, impact of digitisation and ISTAR, reach-back
- Issues - connectivity, need for distributed training, accreditation, metrics, terrain data, speed vs fidelity
- The potential future
- Dr Gerhard Krejci, President, ECTA.
- 10.20 CREATING A CANADIAN NATIONAL M&S/SE FRAMEWORK
- Developing synthetic environments - the Canadian initiative
- Objectives and strategic plan
- Policy, standards and requirements
- Operational collaborations
- Maximising efficiency and effectiveness
- HLA and interoperability
- Research
- Stephane Albert, Marketing Manager, Military Training and Simulation, CAE.
- Dr Andrew Vallerand, Head, Synthetic Environment Co-ordination Office, Department of National Defence, Canada.
- 11.00 Morning Coffee
- 11.20 MISSION PREPARATION: A SYNERGY WITH MISSION PLANNING
- Delivering the Virtual Battlespace in UK joint training
- Overview of the UK Joint Warfare Training Centre
- The requirement for a virtual battlespace in exercise Sarif Sareea II
- Meeting the requirement - challenges and planned solutions
- The reality
- Summary and conclusions
- Dr Kristy Murray, Director, Joint ADL Co-Laboratory.
- Wing Commander (Ret’d) Mike Russell, Business Area Manager Training Support & Director, Systems Consultants Services.
- 12.00 JOINT VIRTUAL BATTLESPACE (JVB)
- Advances and development
- The JVB framework
- Modelling network centric warfare
- System of systems modelling
- Capability goals
- Current capability
- Collaborative effort - challenges
- Major Richard Schwarz, Technical Manager, Joint Virtual Battlespace, Joint Precision Strike Demonstration Project Office, PEO IEWS, US Army.
- 12.40 Networking Lunch
- 2.00 SPECIAL ADDRESS
- Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL)
- Why ADL?
- Challenges
- Goals and objectives of US Department of Defense (DOD) ADL program
- Department of Defense ADL prototype program
- Ongoing prototypes
- Lessons learned
- Future of ADL
- Dr Gerhard Krejci, President, ECTA.
- 2.40 VIRTUAL AT SEA TRAINING
- Advances in training, planning and mission rehearsal
- Naval surface fire support training in synthetic 3D battlespace
- Live-fire training independent of traditional land-based ranges
- Non-firing proficiency training and assessment anywhere, anytime
- More efficient use of time on ranges and during fleet exercises
- Long-term goal is an organic training capability for all units
- First step toward joint training, planning and mission rehearsal
- Captain (Ret'd) Michael Dunaway, Program Manager, Human Systems S&T Department, Office of Naval Research.
- 3.20 NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE NEW STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENT
- Simulation for mission rehearsal
- Challenges
- Transformational technologies for mission rehearsal simulation
- Advanced, high functionality visualization
- Simulation of contemporary training scenarios
- Increased speed and flexibility in implementing simulations
- The way forward
- Dr Gerhard Krejci, President, ECTA.
- 4.00 Chairman's Closing Remarks followed by Afternoon Tea
- Close of Conference
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