Accurately Engaging Time Sensitive Targets In The Joint Environment

Engaging time sensitive targets remains a major challenge for force commanders. Balancing speed and quality of targeting in the current joint and coalition operating environment is an ongoing issue and capability gaps are continually identified. The future of targeting, battlespace management and C2 technologies and procedures will be based on the feedback of military thinkers from a range of nations. These officers will be meeting in London on the 20th and 21st May 2008 to discuss the current status and future of TST at this year’s Sensor To Shooter and Time Sensitive Targeting conference.

Who will you meet and who is speaking?

The Sensor-To-Shooter conference series is attended by senior military officers responsible for requirements, doctrine and current procedures for identifying and prosecuting targets. International experts confirmed as speakers for the 2008 conference are:

• Colonel Ross Roberts (USMC), Commander, Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team, US Joint Forces Command
• Colonel David Neuenswander (Ret’d), Air Force Liaison Officer, Joint Air Ground Operations Division, Combined Arms Doctrine Directorate (CADD), Training and Doctrine Command, US Army
• Lieutenant Colonel Eamonn Welch, SO1 Fire Coordination Operations, HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps
• Lieutenant Colonel Chris Stock, SO1 Joint Effects Tactical Targeting System, British Army
• Lieutenant Colonel Leo van Bruggen, Chief Plans and Tasking, Combined Air Operation Command (2), NATO
• Lieutenant Colonel Alan Mears (Ret’d), Operations Lead, Joint Command and Control Capability Integration Facility (JC2CIF), Defence Capability Centre (DCC) Shrivenham, UK MoD
• Major Mark Winston-Davis, DS Modelling and Simulation, Defence College of Management Technology
• Major Anthony Stone, Air-Ground Operations Team, Air Combat Command, US Air Force
• Ted Hom, Product Director, Fire Support Command and Control Battle Command, US DoD
• Miguel Rodriguez, Senior Operations Analyst, NATO Air Command and Control System Management Agency
• Stew Miller, Director Advanced Programmes, Northrop Grumman
• Dr. Stuart Dowling, Lecturer Electronic Systems, Defence College of Management Technology
• Professor Kevin Knowles, Head of Aeromechanical Systems, Defence College of Management Technology
• Jonathan Searle, Defence College of Management Technology
• Wing Commander Andrew Brookes (Ret’d), Aerospace Analyst, International Institute of Strategic Studies
• David Reid, Senior Consultant Combat Systems, Systems Consulting Services Ltd

Organisations represented at previous Sensor-To-Shooter conferences include:

Dassault Aviation Northrop Grumman Canadian Forces Air Warfare Centre Royal Air Force Canadian Department Of National Defence Swedish Armed Forces NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Force Boeing Integrated Defence Force QinetiQ BAE Systems Insyte Raytheon Thales General Dynamics Canada EADS CASA German Army Swiss Air Force Norwegian Battle Lab and Experimentation ITT Defence UAE Armed Forces DSTL

US DoD UK MoD Singapore Armed Forces • British Army US Air Force Selex Sas NATO C3 Agency Lockheed Martin UK Saab Microwave Systems NATO JAPCC Austrian MoD Belgian Defence Staff Finnish Defence Forces MBDA France NATO ARRC HQ Elbit Systems Kongsberg FMV Royal Netherlands Army Air Warfare Centre

What are the conference highlights?

• The Commander of USJFCOM’s Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team (JFIIT) will reveal how the US military is tackling the interoperability and training challenges for joint TST
• The Joint Fires Branch of HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps will provide insight into the techniques employed during the ISAF mission and the UK’s Defence Capability Centre (DCC) will describe how this lessons have been incorporated into a new Command and Control Integration Centre
• The Subject Matter Experts from the UK’s Joint Effects Tactical Targeting System (JETTS), the US Army’s Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS) and NATO’s Air Command And Control System (ACCS) will offer in-depth assessment of the programme features and capabilities

Afternoon Sessions Hosted by the UK’s Defence College of Management Technology

This full afternoon of briefings is designed to ensure you have a complete understanding of the technological developments that are impacting the kill chain, including:

• The Digital Battlespace
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
• Warfighting Experimentation

If you are not yet ready to register, feel free to request a reminder nearer the time .

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