Colonel Simon Pope

Commander, UAS Group UK Ministry of Defence

Colonel Simon Pope is Commander of the British Army's UAS Group. Commissioned into the Army Air Corps in 2002, he has served across a range of operational roles as a helicopter pilot and Joint Terminal Attack Controller, with multiple overseas deployments including Iraq, Afghanistan and wider global operations. He has held command appointments including command of 659 Squadron and a Joint Air Wing. Colonel Pope attended the Advanced Command and Staff Course (psc(j)) and has held staff roles in capability development and C4ISR in the MOD. He has a PhD from King's College London and assumed command of the UAS Group in 2025.

DAY ONE: TUESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER

2:30 PM ACCELERATING BRITISH ARMY LETHALITY THROUGH UAS

• Rapid transformation of British Army lethality through mesh enabled reconnaissance strike networks and the accelerated fielding of weaponised and

ISTAR UAS

• Applying battlefield lessons beyond Ukraine to deliver networked, survivable, high tempo effects in contested electromagnetic environments

• Scaling Army UAS for coalition operations, balancing speed, sovereignty and resilience while aligning with NATO interoperability standards

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