20 - 23 January, 2025
| London, UK
Day 3 - Procurement & Programmes - 24 JAN
7:00 - 7:30
MORNING REGISTRATION
7:30 - 7:50
MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING
7:50 - 8:00
CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS
General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, KCB, OBE, DL -
DSACEUR (Mar 2014 - Mar 2017),
Conference Chair
8:00 - 8:30
DAY THREE OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS: MODERNISATION EFFORTS OF THE US ARMY
HON Douglas R Bush -
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology,
U.S. Department of the Army
- Mission: Continuously modernize the U.S. Army through the timely development and delivery of overmatch capability to deter adversaries and win our Nation’s wars
- Vision: A premier team of multiple discipline professionals integrated and effectively operating across the spectrum of the Army Modernization Enterprise to ensure land and cyberspace dominance for the United States, our partners and allies
HON Douglas R Bush
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and TechnologyU.S. Department of the Army
8:30 - 9:00
ACTIVE PROTECTION AND THE FUTURE OF SURVIVABILITY FOR ARMOURED VEHICLES
Sponsored by: Aselsan
9:00 - 9:45
NEXT GENERATION COMBAT VEHICLES CROSS FUNCTIONAL TEAM
Major General Glenn Dean -
PEO, Ground Combat Systems (GCS),
U.S. Army
Brigadier General Geoffrey Norman - Director, Next Generation Combat Vehicle Cross Functional Team, U.S. Army Futures Command
- The CFT: An accelerant for assigned transformation priorities
- A formation-based approach to the way we fight
- Soldier-centered approach to prototyping, experimenting, and testing
- Modernizing to enable cross-domain maneuver, overmatch the threat and grow for the future
- Transforming mounted maneuver capabilities to ensure war-winning future readiness
Brigadier General Geoffrey Norman
Director, Next Generation Combat Vehicle Cross Functional TeamU.S. Army Futures Command
9:45 - 10:15
PROTECTED MOBILITY FOR MECHANIZED TROOPS
Toni Töyrylä -
Product Manager, Vehicles,
Patria
- Preparing for mechanized troops’ ground warfare in Europe
o Increasing the production capacity and redundancy
o Security of supply
o Commonality, co-operation and shared capabilities
o R&D to meet the needs
- Learning the lesson - responding to modern threats
o Fight light – mobility is protection
o Importance of mobile camouflage
o Anti-drone capability
- Patria wheeled vehicles to meet today’s needs
Sponsored by: Patria
10:15 - 10:45
HOST NATION KEYNOTE ADDRESS: CHIEF OF THE GENERAL STAFF
General Sir Patrick Sanders KCB CBE DSO ADC Gen -
Chief of the General Staff,
British Army
10:45 - 11:00
FORWARD REPAIR SYSTEM NATO M/22 (FRSN M/22)
Christoffer Gregers Glæsel -
Managing Director,
Glaucus
11:00 - 11:30
MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING
CHOOSE BETWEEN PROGRAMME PRESENTATIONS OR INTERACTIVE GROUP SESSIONS
CONFERENCE SESSIONS: PROGRAMME UPDATES
11:30 - 12:00 DELIVERING THE U.K.'S ARMOURED FORCES Major General Darren Crook, CBE - Director Land Equipment, DE&S - UK MoD
CONFERENCE SESSIONS: PROGRAMME UPDATES
12:00 - 12:30 AVAILABLE FOR INDUSTRY INSIGHTCONFERENCE SESSIONS: PROGRAMME UPDATES
12:30 - 13:00 FACING NEW CHALLENGES, THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE FRENCH ARMY, FROM THE “ARMÉE DE TERRE AU CONTACT” TO THE “ARMÉE DE TERRE DE COMBAT” Major General Alain Lardet - Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans & Programs, French Ministry of Defence
Major General Alain Lardet
Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans & ProgramsFrench Ministry of Defence
CONFERENCE SESSIONS: PROGRAMME UPDATES
13:00 - 13:30 ITALIAN ARMY APPROACH TO FUTURE CAPABILITIES Major General Francesco Olla - Head of III Department (Military Policy and Planning), Italian Army- The current strategic situation and threat landscape
- Upgrade of systems in service and development of new generation platforms (AICS and MBT/MGCS) delivering C2 digitization and information superiority
- Emerging and Disrupting Technologies and the Italian Army’s approach to autonomy
Major General Francesco Olla
Head of III Department (Military Policy and Planning)Italian Army
INTERACTIVE SESSIONS: WARGAME
11:30 - 13:30 PART I: ARMOURED BRIGADE COMBAT TEAMS: HOW WE WILL FIGHTThe aim of this wargame is to explore how mixed fleets of wheeled and tracked vehicles will fight. The wargaming will explore how simulation and modelling can help support decision making.
INTERACTIVE SESSIONS: EMERGING TECHNOLOGY
11:30 - 13:30 EXPEDITIONARY MAINTAINANCE: OPPORTUNITIES TO INCREASE VEHICLE AVAILABILITY AND RELIABILITY Arend Brünjes - Product Manager Test Rigs -Defence-, RENK Test System GmbHMartin Schmurr - Sales - Military Test Systems, RENK Test System GmbH
Alexander Champion - Project Manager, Additive Manufacturing, DE&S - UK MoD
Martin Schmurr - Sales - Military Test Systems, RENK Test System GmbH
Heavy equipment requires constant maintenance and repair. In the mission area, however, only limited possibilities are available for this. A reproducible and validated quality statement about the material used is not possible. Only the number of vehicles used and those that failed in the field is documented.
This is where situation-adapted and mobile test rig technology can provide a decisive advantage:
- Quality monitoring of vehicles in use
- Quality control of repaired components or vehicles
- Increased reliability due to reproducible condition monitoring
- Increased availability thanks to shortened logistics
In combination with other support services such as vehicle-integrated monitoring systems, mobile workshop solutions or additive manufacturing processes for wear parts, mobile test rig technology offers great opportunities to increase the performance of mobile forces.
The workshop shall give an insight into modern chances of stationary and mobile test rig technology and work out the necessities and requirements in an open discussion, which result in the best possible use in the mission area
Sponsored by: Renk Test Systems
INTERACTIVE SESSIONS: ROBOTICS
11:30 - 13:30 NETWORKING NEW AND LEGACY PLATFORMS Colonel (US Army) Timothy Wright - Assistant Head of Research & Experimentation, Future Force Development, Army Futures, British Army HQThe requirement to introduce Robotic and Autonomous Systems at scale has been validated, and while uncrewed Systems are rapidly developing and improving, the first focus is rightly on the networks they will integrate into. Future systems will need to be designed to integrate, and will be expected to integrate, into the network in the most user friendly way. This workshop will examine the trade-offs and the challenges in achieving this and share different perspectives across the following areas:
- Network architecture and design; from open source to bespoke and sovereign code
- Processing; in the cloud, on the edge, platform, command unit, or elsewhere? What are the bandwidth, power, and security implications?
- Quality versus quantity, the benefits of exquisite versus low-cost, and applique systems.
- Commonality drives down barriers and costs but may constrain capability. What elements need to be unique and what should be commons?
Colonel (US Army) Timothy Wright
Assistant Head of Research & Experimentation, Future Force Development, Army FuturesBritish Army HQ
INTERACTIVE SESSIONS: AUTHOR INSIGHTS
11:30 - 13:30 SPIRAL SYSTEM CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT Colonel Nat Haden - Commander, Understand Group, Headquarters Field Army, British Army HQThe Field Army looks 3 years ahead within the constraints of defined programmes and existing vehicles. This requires a more agile approach to deliver the best capability for the soldiers of today. How do you best gather this feedback from end users and translate that into capability?
- How do you build vehicles that are futureproof?
- How do you upgrade an existing vehicle?
- What is the most effective end user feedback mechanism?
- Balancing the need of today’s fight while retaining capability for contingency operations
13:30 - 14:30
LUNCH AND NETWORKING
CHOOSE BETWEEN PROGRAMME PRESENTATIONS OR INTERACTIVE GROUP SESSIONS
CONFERENCE SESSIONS: PROGRAMME UPDATES
14:30 - 15:00 AUSTRALIAN ARMY ARMOURED VEHICLE PROGRAMMES Major General Jason Blain - Head Land Systems Division, CASG, Australian Defence Force- LAND 400 Phase 3 – Infantry Fighting Vehicle replacement programme
- LAND 400 Phase 2 – Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle replacement programme
- LAND 907/8160 – M1A2 SEP V3 and ABV/CEV Vehicle Projects
CONFERENCE SESSIONS: PROGRAMME UPDATES
15:00 - 15:30 NEW GENERATION RECONFIGURABLE ARMOURED VEHICLE DRIVER TRAINING SIMULATORS Dr Peter J Meikle - Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Universal Motion Simulation (UMS)
CONFERENCE SESSIONS: PROGRAMME UPDATES
15:30 - 16:00 AFTERNOON KEYNOTE: TACOM PRIORITIES Brigadier General Michael B. Lalor - Commanding General, US Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command- TACOM is a Major Subordinate Command of Army Materiel Command, manages the Army's ground equipment supply chain
- This constitutes about 60 percent of the Army's total equipment. If a Soldier drives it, shoots it, wears it or eats it, we sustain it
- Readiness: Our workforce includes highly skilled and uniquely qualified professionals, from engineers and industrial artisans to senior logisticians and business analysts
- Our largely civilian workforce is critical to building Army readiness around the world
Brigadier General Michael B. Lalor
Commanding GeneralUS Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command
INTERACTIVE SESSIONS: WARGAME
14:30 - 16:00 PART I: ARMOURED BRIGADE COMBAT TEAMS: HOW WE WILL FIGHTThe aim of this wargame is to explore how mixed fleets of wheeled and tracked vehicles will fight. The wargaming will explore how simulation and modelling can help support decision making.
INTERACTIVE SESSIONS: EMERGING TECHNOLOGY
13:30 - 15:00 EXPEDITIONARY MAINTAINANCE: OPPORTUNITIES TO INCREASE VEHICLE AVAILABILITY AND RELIABILITY Colonel Andy Elliott - DACOS Equipment Through Life Support, HQ Field Army, British ArmyArend Brünjes - Product Manager Test Rigs -Defence-, RENK Test System GmbH
Martin Schmurr - Sales - Military Test Systems, RENK Test System GmbH
Alexander Champion - Project Manager, Additive Manufacturing, DE&S - UK MoD
INTERACTIVE SESSIONS: ROBOTICS
13:30 - 15:00 OPEN ARCHITECTURES TO DELIVER RAS CAPABILITY TO THE WARFIGHTER John Crozier MSc SEDC, MINCOSE - Principle Vetronics Systems Engineer, Platform Systems Division, Dstl - UK MODCommonality reduces cost and is critical for nations to deliver mass on the battlefield. Learn how this be extended to RAS and how remote platforms can be joined digitally. Can networks and radios cope with the data generated? How can digital and physical architecture, and human interfaces combine to deliver RAS as a combat capability? After defining the problem space, attendees will discuss:
John Crozier MSc SEDC, MINCOSE
Principle Vetronics Systems Engineer, Platform Systems DivisionDstl - UK MOD
INTERACTIVE SESSIONS: AUTHOR INSIGHTS
13:30 - 15:00 UK’S LAND MOBILITY PROGRAMME (LMP) Mr Simon Dewdney - Operations and Optimisation Lead, VST, DE&S – UK MODMr Mark Goode - Director Land Mobility Programme, British Army HQ
Colonel David Potts - Deputy Hd FCSS, DE&S – UK MOD
Colonel Peter Cowell - AH Tech Design Authority, LEOC, DE&S – UK MOD
Colonel Jeremy Johnson - AH Protected Mobility, Vehicle Support, Land Environment Operating Center, DE&S - UK MOD
In-service platforms including Wolfhound, Mastiff, and Ridgeback protected mobility platforms, the Panther and Foxhound 4x4s, the tracked Bulldog FV430, as well as utility platforms such as the Coyote, Jackal, Land Rover, and Pinzgaue are to be consolidated to around 5 designs under the Land Mobility Programme (LMP) which has £2.2bn budgeted over 10 years.
PART 1: Land Support Solutions
- Mr Simon Dewdney, Operations and Optimisation Lead, VST, DE&S – UK MOD
- Mr Mark Goode, Director Land Mobility Programme, British Army HQ
- Colonel Timothy Allison, Operations Support Team Leader, VST, DE&S – UK MOD
- Representative LIOS, DE&S, - UK MOD
PART 2: Land Mobility Programme Mission System Primacy
- Colonel Peter Cowell, AH Delivery Design Authority, LEOC, DE&S – UK MOD
- Colonel Jeremy Johnson- AH Protected Mobility, VST, DE&S – UK MOD
Colonel Jeremy Johnson
AH Protected Mobility, Vehicle Support, Land Environment Operating CenterDE&S - UK MOD
16:00 - 16:30
AFTERNOON COFFEE AND NETWORKING
16:30 - 17:00
INDUSTRY LEADERS’ PANEL DISCUSSION: HOW TO IMPROVE INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY CHAINS BETWEEN NATIONS
Brigadier Matt Wilkinson -
Head of Vehicle Support Team,
DE&S – UK MOD
The Ukraine war has many lessons for NATO, but one of the key lessons is the need to rethink the linkage between its force planning and its defense industrial base. Some of these lessons reinforce the lessons of past national, NATO, and EU studies. Some illustrate the need to take a new approach to shaping the industrial base of NATO states and their strategic partners, and some are tied to the need to look beyond defense and to look at the national and collective trends in terms of grand strategy.
Discussion topics may include:
- How can NATO take advantage of economies of scale by specializing production in different nations?
- Would collaboration across NATO nation’s supply chains reduce problems in interoperability and enhance effective alliance-wide modernization efforts?
- What are the risks to national resilience of the division of labour between nations?
- What can be done to surge capacity of munitions and attritable assets by NATO Cooperation?
17:00 - 17:30
ADAPTING TO REMAIN THE NATION’S FORCE OF DECISIVE ACTION
Brigadier General Michael J. Simmering -
Armor School Commandant,
U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence
Brigadier General Michael J. Simmering
Armor School CommandantU.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence
17:30 - 18:00
CAF STRATEGIC PLANS FOR THE ONGOING DEVELOPMENT OF AN ARMOURED CAPABILITY
Brigadier General Andre Demers -
Chief of Staff, Strategic Capability Development,
Canadian Army
Colonel Fraser Auld - Director of the Royal Canadian Armour Corps, Canadian Armed Forces
