Conference Day Two
8:00 am - 9:00 am Registration and Welcome Breakfast
9:00 am - 9:10 am Chairman's Opening Remarks
9:50 am - 10:50 am Light Forces In The Future Conflict – Lethality In A Future Peer Fight
• Future combat power concepts
• ‘Multi-domain operations’ doctrine and preparing for a near-peer fight
• Developing targeting technologies for faster, more effective engagements in preparation for urban warfighting
• The highly dispersed tactical unit as a combat power asset
10:00 am - 10:30 am Fire Support Planning & Execution In The Future Battlespace
• Building a shared awareness of fires capabilities across the joint force
• Training in integration, interoperability, and the information dissemination
• Major fires challenges facing the Air Naval Gunfire Company
10:50 am - 11:20 am Morning Coffee and Networking
10:20 am - 11:00 am Special Forces Weapons Tactics, Training And Requirements
CDT Tom Hey - 3D Advisor, Belgian Special Forces• Belgian Special Forces training – airborne ops, weapons and target acquisition
• Special operations tactics in hostile, congested land environments
• Future requirements for mortars and indirect fire capabilities
11:50 am - 12:30 pm Indirect Fire In Support Of Special Operations
Major Cristiano Refi - 4th Ranger Regiment, Italian Army• The concept of operations for the Monte Cervino
• Mortar capabilities used by the Ranger Regiment
• Streamlining mission command, training for time sensitive target planning with a focus on engaging high value targets
3:10 pm - 3:50 pm Light Lethality – The Czech Special Forces 60mm Mortar
First Lieutenant David Horak - Special Forces Support Center, Czech Special Forces• Czech Special Forces 60mm mortar capability – operational challenges, lessons learnt
• Future indirect fire weapons needs to adapt to more hostile operational environments
• Operating as part of a coalition land force in Europe
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch and Networking
1:50 pm - 2:30 pm Surveillance Of Precision Guided Munitions
Patricia Alameda - Mortars and Common Fire Control Systems Division, RDECOM-ARDEC• RDECOM Project on PGM
• Other emerging technologies in mortar systems and munitions
• U.S. Army R&D priorities
1:30 pm - 2:10 pm Project Scorpion – French Arty Update
• Scorpion land vehicle acquisition
• PGM development
• Operational challenges facing French Artillery today
2:00 pm - 2:40 pm Belgium’s 81mm Mortar Programme & Operation Challenges
Lieutenant Peter Ghys - Mortar Section, Belgian Armed Forces• 81mm acquisition project (2020-2030) timeframe
• Critical challenges: mobility, shorter delays for mortar setup
• Digitization (north finder, data communication at mortar)
• Range and precision
