THE ONLY FORUM DEDICATED TO IMPROVING INFRASTRUCTURE AS A CENTRAL COMPONeNT TO MILITARY CAPABILITY

11 - 12 December, 2024  | Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, UK

Agenda Day 2

MANAGING THE DIVERSITY OF CHALLENGES ON THE DEFENCE ESTATE

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Air Commodore James Savage

Former Head of Accommodation
UK Defence Infrastructure Organisation

9:00 am - 9:30 am KEYNOTE BRIEFING : ADVANCING THE QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF ESTATE INFRASTRUCTURE

Brigadier Lee Daley - Commander, Defence College of Support, UK Ministry of Defence

•      Managing the diversity of challenges at three UK defence estates

•      Leconfield’s investment into single living accommodation

•      Thinking nationally, instead of regionally for the future of the defence estate

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Brigadier Lee Daley

Commander, Defence College of Support
UK Ministry of Defence

9:30 am - 10:00 am INDUSTRY INSIGHTS: CREATING A MODERN DEFENCE ESTATE

  • Ensuring the ability of our Armed Forces to keep nations safe and prosperous through a defence estate that enhances military capability
  • Creating a defence estate that better supports our military capability, is better quality, and more efficient: planning, operations, maintenance, and modernisation of fixed installations and facilities
  • Meeting the needs of Joint Force 2025, whilst continuing to drive down the cost of operating the estate
  • Delivering a coherent strategy to ensure the necessary reform of its whole estate and to manage all related estate initiatives
  • The planning and delivery of major capital projects and lifecycle refurbishment within an active secure campus.
  •  Next steps for the redevelopment of Capellen and the challenges of office space management in a hybrid working environment
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Sébastien Seguin

Chief of Division, Infrastructure, Facilities and Support Services,
NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA)

10:30 am - 11:00 am MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING

UK RAF COLLABORATION WITH USAF TO FORWARD CLIMATE INITIATIVES FOR THE DEFENCE ESTATE

  • Collaboration with the UK DIO on 6 UK RAF bases
  • Identifying specific resiliency gaps and targeting solutions
  • Supply chain challenges 


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Dr Richard Hartman

Chief Innovation Officer,
US Air Force Office of Energy Assurance

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Lucinda Notestine

Division Chief of Special Projects
US Air Force Office of Energy Assurance

11:30 am - 12:00 pm INDUSTRY INSIGHTS: THE FUTURE OF ADVANCED NUCLEAR ENERGY

  • Portable nuclear microreactor that replaces diesel generators
  • Aligning geopolitical policy with ambition
  • The rapidly evolving energy landscape

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm BOLSTERING CLIMATE RESILIENCE ON RAF ESTATES

  • Path to NetZero by 2050: The UK as a global leader in climate change resilience
  • Re-thinking energy and waste management
  • Ensuring climate resilience without decreasing defence capabilities


12:30 pm - 1:30 pm NETWORKING LUNCH

ENERGY EFFICIENT AND RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm PROJECT PELE: THE US DOD’S MICROREACTOR PLANS

  • Replacing diesel generators
  • Energy resiliency for military forces
  • Energy innovation


2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PANEL DISCUSSION: CHALLENGES FACING CLIMATE RESILEINCE INITATIATIVES

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING

THE MODIFICATION OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

  • Use of AI in a blended learning environment to train soldiers on the defence estate
  • Adaption of infrastructure accordingly
  • Implications for energy and cost efficiency

SSG Sherndale Hinton

Water Traeatment Instructor, Petroleum and Water Department
US Army

William Qiumbayoglen

Supervisory Training Instructor
US Army

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm MAINTAINING AND RENEWING NATIONAL DEFENCE INFRASTRUCTURE

  • Building new housing and rehabilitating existing housing
  • Asset maintenance to improve military facilities
  • Increasing civilian specialises in priority areas to accelerate the improvement of infrastructure