Colonel Dimitar Georgiev

Chief Planning Division Bulgarian Air Force HQ

Colonel Dimitar Georgiev is assigned as Chief Planning Division at the HQ Bulgarian Air Force in Sofia. He is a graduate of the Bulgarian Air Force Academy, class 1997, where he earned his Master Degree in Air Traffic Control and Computer Engineering. As a commissioned officer he received assignments as a Fighter Controller and Air Traffic Controller at 22nd Air Force Base, Bezmer, Bulgaria. In 2007 he has been selected to attend the Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, USA. He graduated in 2008 with a Master Degree of Military Operational Art and Science. His follow-on assignment brought him back to 22nd Air Force Base, Bezmer as a Chief of the Air Traffic Control Center. In 2010, he has been appointed as a Chief of the Military Air Traffic Control, HQ Bulgarian Air Force where he served for two and a half years. In 2012, he received a three-year tour of duty as Bulgarian Air Force Representative at the NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), Mons, Belgium. After his arrival in Bulgaria, he served for ten months as an Air Operations Officer, Operations Division, HQ Bulgarian Air Force. In 2016 he has been selected to attend the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, USA. He graduated in 2017 with a Master Degree of Strategic Studies and later on received his current rank of Colonel and position as Chief Planning Division, HQ Bulgarian Air Force.

DAY ONE - Tuesday 6 April 2021

12:00 PM Chairman's Opening Remarks & Panel Discussion-1: Re-thinking Force Structure and Readiness Levels

• Thinking ahead 5 years: Increased NATO air power capability and Russia’s perspective on NATO air power

• Current and projected force structure and supporting technology; increasing 5th generation aircraft in current fleets

• Enhancing readiness for high-intensity missions and operating in a contested environment

• Decreasing vulnerability to advanced ground-based threats

• Key priorities: SEAD mission, advanced datalinks, AESA radars, munition stocks, electronic warfare

1:00 PM Panel Discussion-2: Collaboration in Sustainment and Support

• Maintaining cutting-edge performance of air platforms over longer life cycles: How has sustainment needed to change over the years as platforms intended to serve for 20-30 years are now in service for 40 ad 50 years?

• How to balance increasing sustainment cost with reliability and safety?

• Lessons learned from the 60-year service of the T-38

• Creating and justifying a sustainment plan resilient to changing budgets, requirements and the industrial supply chain.

• Multinational collaboration and partnerships in enhancing sustainment: Balancing incentives across stakeholders—OEMs and the industrial base, operators, maintenance depots and materiel commands

• Key investment priorities: Leveraging tenets of Industry 4.0: Additive manufacturing in mitigating supply shortfalls; HUMS—enabling near real-time extraction of digital data from key systems; AI & Machine Learning in data analytics; Establishing ways to swiftly source and certify new technologies.

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