Main Conference Day One
7:50 am - 8:40 am REGISTRATION & COFFEE
8:40 am - 8:50 am CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS
8:50 am - 9:00 am RAYTHEON WELCOME ADDRESS
9:00 am - 9:30 am INNOVATION IN THE UK’S ISTAR FLEET
· The future mission of the E-7 AEW&C aircraft
· The transformative role of the Protector fleet
· Shadow upgrades to protect the platform from future threats
· RAF ISTAR’s perspective on the MDC2 concept
9:30 am - 10:00 am Four Star Lead Partner Keynote from Raytheon
Sponsored by Raytheon
Sponsored by: Raytheon
10:00 am - 10:30 am IMPROVING AIR FORCE LETHALITY AND ENHANCING THE JOINT AND COALITION FIGHT
· Advancing efforts for design, integration and capability development across the Total Force for multi-domain concepts
· Identifying the ways and means to guide resourcing priorities, improving Air Force lethality & enhancing the joint and coalition fight
· “Designing” the long-term future of the entire Air Force
Brigadier General James Cluff
Deputy Director for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Operations, US Joint StaffUS Department of Defense
10:30 am - 11:20 am STRATEGIC LEADERS’ PANEL: A DIGITIZED FORCE, PREPARED FOR GLOBAL THREATS: INTELLIGENCE AND DETERRENCE IN THE 2020’S
At the start of this new decade, we invite senior leaders from the airborne C2ISR community to reflect on the past ten years – the most profound geopolitical, technological and intellectual changes – and offer some thoughts on what challenges may lie ahead for this community and how they see the airborne C2ISR force structure evolving in the 2020’s.
· Chaos and complexity - new discourses on deterrence, decision-making and disruptive technology
· Sci-fi futures – considering the geopolitical, technological and strategic trends emerging today
· Climate crisis – future missions for the joint force against a backdrop of water scarcity and environmental degradation
· The strategic futures of Europe, the U.S. and NATO and the technological initiatives of Russia and China
11:20 am - 11:50 am MORNING COFFEE & NETWORKING
11:50 am - 12:20 pm C2ISR CHALLENGES IN EUROPE
· C2 priorities and challenges for NATO in eastern and northern Europe
· Ukraine’s approach to integrating space and cyber into its operations
· Major challenges in creating the infrastructure necessary for multi-domain C2
12:20 pm - 12:50 pm SAAB KEYNOTE
12:50 pm - 1:20 pm AIRBORNE ISR IN THE MIDDLE EAST ARENA
· Royal Jordanian Air Force aerial ISR assets today and future plans
· Core priorities for the Air Force nationally and as part of a regional coalition
· Outlining the optimum capability mix for ISR operations in permissive and no-permissive, contested aerial environments
1:20 pm - 1:50 pm IAI ELTA KEYNOTE
Sponsored by: IAI Elta Systems
1:50 pm - 2:50 pm Lunch and Networking
2:50 pm - 4:20 pm ENABLING TRANSFORMATION: JADC2 TRACK HOSTED BY L3 HARRIS
2:50 pm - 3:20 pm PUTTING MDC2 INTO PRACTICE: HOW THE AIR COMPONENT INTEGRATES WITH SPACE AND CYBER
- Insights from recent training exercises on MDC2
- 505th priorities for the 2020s following DOD budget increases into R&D
- From a personnel perspective, how is the USAF recruiting and retaining a workforce equipped for air-space-cyber thinking?
3:20 pm - 3:50 pm L3 HARRIS KEYNOTE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENABLING JADC2
3:50 pm - 4:20 pm MDC2 IN A MULTI-NATIONAL FRAMEWORK
· MDC2 translated in an international, coalition arena
· The data architecture – combat cloud – technology developments underpinning MDC2 realisation
· Understanding how to prosecute effects across domains, within an alliance framework
· Learning to work with coalition partners, local organisations
Lieutenant Colonel Bart Hoeben
C4ISR/Head of Air Command & ControlRoyal Netherlands Air Force
2:50 pm - 4:20 pm FUTURE ISR SENSORS TRACK HOSTED BY RAYTHEON
2:50 pm - 3:20 pm BUILDING A JOINT, MULTI-DOMAIN ARCHITECTURE: FRANCE’S C4ISR ROADMAP
· French Air Force C4ISR long-term acquisition priorities
· Assessing the role of cloud computing in the future operating environment
· Enabling real-time communication, collection, and distribution of data
· Augmenting force through future unmanned, semi-autonomous, and autonomous aircraft
3:20 pm - 3:50 pm RAYTHEON’S FIVE CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY ENABLERS
3:50 pm - 4:20 pm FUTURE ISR SENSORS
- Developing capability for operating in the contested and degraded environment
- Sustaining a real-time intelligence picture
- Away from platform-centric and towards capability-centric approaches to ISR
- How are advances in sensors enabling improved battlespace management and ISR?
4:20 pm - 4:50 pm AFTERNOON TEA
4:50 pm - 5:20 pm GENERAL ATOMICS KEYNOTE
5:20 pm - 5:50 pm NATO AGS RAPID IOC: LEVERAGING INNOVATION, AI, DATA & CONNECTIVITY TO ACCELERATE NATO CAPABILITIES AT THE SPEED OF RELEVANCE
• Delivering an integrated system for NATO ground surveillance
• Aircraft ferry to Initial Operational Capability (IOC)
• Utilizing creative solutions and Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA)-unique systems
• NATO AGS Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (PED
5:50 pm - 6:20 pm VITEC KEYNOTE
Sponsored by: VITEC
6:20 pm - 6:50 pm PROVIDING THE BRITISH ARMY WITH ISTAR CAPABILITY
· Update on challenges and priorities of the British Army Watchkeeper Force
· Utilising unmanned platforms for enhanced ISR coverage and battlefield situational awareness
· Accelerating data dissemination for real time exploitation
