SMi Group's Close Air Support 2017

PLUS AN EXCLUSIVE HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPTuesday 6th June 2017, Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, UK

Close Air Support Collective Training and the Changing Role of Simulation12.15 - 5.30

Led by Mr Nick Sparks, Principal Consultant, Air Land Integration Ltd

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BENEFITS OF ATTENDING: • Deliberate the broad spectrum of capability areas for

successfully CAS delivery, including air land integration, joint ISR and targeting, C2 and battle space management, training, platforms and weapon systems

• Hear key national updates from the UK, US, French, German, Italian, Netherlands and Czech Armed Forces

• Gain an insight into the technology enabling the next generation of close air support, examining advanced simulation, sensors, command and control and munitions at the heart of close air targeting and delivery

• Examine live and synthetic close air support training with a dedicated pre-conference workshop covering future concepts and approaches to leveraging simulation

• Cover requirements for the strengthening of interoperability within a coalition environment: Feedback from NATO Air Commands ongoing efforts as well as leading multi-national exercises, such as Ample Strike 2016/17

CHAIRMAN: Air Commodore Paddy Teakle, Deputy Commander, NATO

AEW&C Force Command, NATO

EXPERTS SPEAKERS: Colonel Dietmar Felber, Chief, Joint Fire Support and Indirect Fire

Branch, Army Concepts and Capabilities Development Centre, German Army

Colonel Zdenek Bauer, Deputy Chief of Staff, Air Operations, Czech Air Force

Lieutenant Colonel James Krischke, Chief, Forward Air Control Capabilities Section, Air Command, NATO

Lieutenant Colonel Thierry Aguilar, Digitally Aided Close Air Support Program Offi cer, Fighter Equipment, French Air Force

Lieutenant Colonel Shawn Basco, Senior Military Assistant to the Deputy Chairman, NATO, United States Marine Corps

Lieutenant Colonel Andrea Olivieri, Precision Guided Munition Subject Matter Expert, Combat Air Branch, Joint Air Power Competence Centre, NATO

Lieutenant Colonel Marco Ruggeri, 132nd Squadron Commander, 51st Wing, Italian Air Force

Lieutenant Colonel Luca Restelli, Chief, Forward Air Controller Section, Air Ground Operations School, Italian Air Force

Wing Commander John Leighton, Commanding Offi cer, Air Platform Protection Test & Evaluation Squadron, Royal Air Force

Major Rick Keeson, SO2 Effects, Attack Helicopter Force Headquarters, Joint Helicopter Command

Major Nader Samadi, Commander, German Air Ground Operations School, French/German Air Ground Operations School, German Air Force

Major Nicholas Dimitruk, Course Chief and Standardization Offi cer, TACAIR Expeditionary Warfare Training Group Pacifi c, United States Marine Corps

Squadron Leader Tim Brown, Offi cer Commanding, Advanced Training Squadron, School of Aerospace Battle Management, Royal Air Force

Captain Merijn Kerkhofs, Deputy Commander, Target Support Cell, Royal Netherlands Air Force

Flight Lieutenant Daniel Jones, Weapons, Tornado Standards and Evaluation Squadron, Royal Air Force

SMi presents its 3rd annual conference on...

CLOSE AIR Support

7th - 8th

JUNE2017

Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, UK

Enhancing Joint Fires in Support of Ground Operations

Register online at www.closeair-support.com

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Prime networking opportunities exist to entertain, enhance and expand your client base within the context of an independent discussion specific to your industry. Should you wish to join the increasing number of companies benefiting from sponsoring our conferences please call:

Andrew Gibbons, on +44 (0) 207 827 6156 or email [email protected]

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Close Air Support Day One 7th June 2017 www.closeair-support.com

8.00 Registration & Coffee

8.30 Chairman’s Opening Remarks Air Commodore Paddy Teakle, Deputy Commander NATO


AIR LAND INTEGRATION

8.40 German Armed Forces Strengthening of Close Air Support and Joint Fires

• German joint fires architecture and scheme of fires? • Approaches and challenges to integration of multiple effects • Future capability areas for development and digitalisation of

joint fires Colonel Dietmar Felber, Chief, Joint Fire Support and Indirect Fire

Branch, Army Concepts and Capabilities Development Centre, German Army

9.20 Air Land Integration and Digitalisation of Close Air Support within the French Air Force

• Operational feedback • DACAS French vision • French Air Force solutions Lieutenant Colonel Thierry Aguilar, Digitally Aided Close Air

Support Program Officer, Fighter Equipment, French Air Force

10.00 Session Reserved For Gold Sponsor

10.30 Morning Coffee

11.00 Current Approaches and Future Capabilities to Develop Close Air Support within the Italian Air Force

• An overview of Stormo 51 force structure and capabilities of AMX International

• Concepts of operation for air-land integration and effective CAS delivery

• Feedback from recent close air support operations and international exercises

- The need to develop on board sensors and small diameter bombs to reduce collateral damage

• Future plans and policy for developing the CAS capability of Stormo 51

- Improving capability to perform Field CDE and develop effective TTPs to be able to attack moving targets


11.40 Developing Future NATO Forward Air Control Capabilities and Doctrine

• Feedback from coalition operations and recent NATO exercises

• What this means for future plans and policy • Efforts to standardise and enhance interoperability, both in the

air and on the ground Lieutenant Colonel James Krischke, Chief, Forward Air Control

Capabilities Section, Air Command, NATO

12.20 Networking Lunch

1.20 Panel Discussion: Enabling Close Air Support through Improved Joint Fires and Air Land Integration

• The challenges of unifying the needs and operating procedures of Air, Land, Maritime and Special Operations Forces

• Approaches to effective integration of joint targeting and fires, both in the air and on the ground

• Key technology enabling integration: How are future capabilities being developed?

• Multi-national training as a means of more effectively operating alongside allies during coalition operations

Air Commodore Paddy Teakle, Deputy Commander NATO AEW&C Force Command, NATO

Colonel Dietmar Felber, Chief, Joint Fire Support and Indirect Fire Branch, Army Concepts and Capabilities Development Centre, German Army

Lieutenant Colonel Thierry Aguilar, Digitally Aided Close Air Support Program Officer, Fighter Equipment, French Air Force

Lieutenant Colonel James Krischke, Chief, Forward Air Control Capabilities Section, Air Command, NATO


2.00 Session Reserved For Sponsor

CLOSE AIR SUPPORT TRAINING AND SIMULATION

2.30 The Italian Air Ground Operations Schools’ use of Advanced Synthetics for JTAC & CAS Training

• Building virtual environments that allow forward air controller trainees to practice tactics, techniques and procedures

• Current simulators deployed: VBS-3, VBS-3 Fires FST • Planning and virtually executing Close Air Support missions • Plans and areas of development for future synthetic CAS

instruction Lieutenant Colonel Luca Restelli, Chief, Forward Air Controller

Section, Air Ground Operations School, Italian Air Force

3.10 French/German Air-Land Theatre Simulation and Training for FAC Personnel

• Key training objectives to prepare the war fighter? • Combining synthetic and live exercises for blended learning:

Synthetics as a key preparer for live runs • Cost saving benefits delivered through minimisation of live runs • VBS2 and advantages of NATO interoperability for multi-

national training and operations • Future plans for developing training realism and interoperability

at the Air Ground Operation School Major Nader Samadi, Commander, German Air Ground

Operations School, French/German Air Ground Operations School, German Air Force

3.50 Afternoon Tea

4.20 Provision of Training to Support Tactical Air Control Personnel and Combat Air

• Expeditionary Warfare Training Group perception of the operational environment

• Translating trends and observations into training procedure • Course syllabus structure and core skills that are developed • Methods and approaches to land and air personnel training,

combining live and synthetic for fused training • Future plans and policy for development of training Major Nicholas Dimitruk, Course Chief and Standardization

Officer, TACAIR Expeditionary Warfare Training Group Pacific, United States Marine Corps

5.00 Tactical Air C2 and Battlespace Management Training in Support of Close Air Operations

• An overview of the School of Aerospace Battle Management’s role in delivery of training and support ?

• Disparate training - developing Tri-Service Air Battlespace management skills?

• Facilitating understanding of the human factors and tactical frictions at play in ensuring de-confliction of air assets

• Current training procedures and potential areas for development?

• Feedback from courses and their ability to prepare candidates for the operational environment

Squadron Leader Tim Brown, Officer Commanding, Advanced Training Squadron, School of Aerospace Battle Management, Royal Air Force

5.40 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One Air Commodore Paddy Teakle, Deputy Commander NATO


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Close Air Support www.closeair-support.com Day Two 8th June 2017

8.30 Registration & Coffee

9.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks Air Commodore Paddy Teakle, Deputy Commander NATO


9.10 Czech Armed Forces Advancement of Close Air Support Capability

• Current approaches and assets for delivery of close air support within the Czech Armed Forces

• Perspectives and lessons learnt from Exercise Ample Strike 2016 • Joint land and air capability areas for development of close

air support Colonel Zdenek Bauer, Deputy Chief of Staff, Air Operations,

Czech Air Force

9.50 Trends and Future Policy for the Delivery of Air Power • CAS in a permissive environment: 2003 Invasion of Iraq • A forward air controllers perspective • CAS in complex environment: Discussion • The future: 5th and 4th Generation Aircraft Lieutenant Colonel Shawn Basco, Senior Military Assistant to the

Deputy Chairman, NATO, United States Marine Corps

10.30 Morning Coffee

CLOSE AIR SUPPORT PLATFORM AND EFFECTS

11.00 Extending and Optimising CAS Platform Protection to Meet Adapting Threats

• An overview of the contemporary operational environment and the threats proliferated

• What does contested airspace mean for CAS and air-interdiction delivery

• TTP’s and survivability technology for CAS platforms to mitigate ground and air based threats

• Ongoing programmes and future plans for development of RAF CAS platform survivability

Wing Commander John Leighton, Commanding Officer, Air Platform Protection Test & Evaluation Squadron, Royal Air Force

11.40 Session Reserved For Sponsor

12.10 Combat Air Branch Close Air Support Future Trends • An overview of the shifting operational environment and the

need to prepare for multiple eventualities • Multi Service contribution to Close Air Support • Emerging Capabilities and Future Technologies: impact on

shaping CAS and JTAC Operations Lieutenant Colonel Andrea Olivieri, Precision Guided Munition

Subject Matter Expert, Combat Air Branch, Joint Air Power Competence Centre, NATO

12.50 Networking Lunch

1.50 Attack Helicopter Force Optimization of Rotary Close Air Support • The UK’s battlefield helicopter offensive action doctrine,

including RW CAS • Overview of the UK apache forward air control programme • Development of detailed air land integration techniques for

attack helicopters, within the attack helicopter force and the greater JTAC and joint fires communities


2.30 The Challenges of Coalition Targeting: Setting up the RNLAF Target Support Cell

• Targeting shortfalls • Opportunities and threats • The RNLAF Target Support Cell - Operational Concept - Products - Way ahead Captain Merijn Kerkhofs, Deputy Commander, Target

Support Cell, Royal Netherlands Air Force

3.10 Afternoon Tea

3.40 Extending and Optimising the Typhoons Capabilities to Include Delivery of Close Air Support

• An overview of the RAF’s Project Centurion • Ensuring a seamless transition between Typhoon and Tornado’s

capabilities • Development of defensive aid systems and targeting pods • Weapon systems integration MBDA Storm Shadow cruise missile

and MBDA Brimstone 2 close air support weapon • Future mile stones for the platforms CAS capability Flight Lieutenant Daniel Jones, Weapons, Tornado Standards and

Evaluation Squadron, Royal Air Force

4.20 Panel Discussion: Close Air Support Effects • Challenges of delivering effects within the current

operational environment • Trends and emerging technologies in the munitions space • Cost vs benefit analysis of expensive smart munitions Air Commodore Paddy Teakle, Deputy Commander NATO

AEW&C Force Command, NATO Colonel Dietmar Felber, Chief, Joint Fire Support and Indirect Fire

Branch, Army Concepts and Capabilities Development Centre, German Army Lieutenant Colonel James Krischke, Chief, Forward Air Control Capabilities Section, Air Command, NATO

Lieutenant Colonel Andrea Olivieri, Precision Guided Munition Subject Matter Expert, Combat Air Branch, Joint Air Power Competence Centre, NATO


5.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two Air Commodore Paddy Teakle, Deputy Commander NATO


Close Air Support Collective Training and the Changing Role of Simulation

Led by Mr Nick Sparks, Principal Consultant,

Air Land Integration Ltd

HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPTuesday 6th June 2017

12.15 – 5.30Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, UK

Workshop overview

As simulation transforms from enabling part task training

using VR headset and dome systems, what are the

opportunities for simulation in collective training? What

are the benefi ts of delivering air land integration training

in the context of collective learning? How might the use

of synthetic environments live, virtual, constructive (LVC)

training be leveraged to ensure that air land integration

practitioners are included in sub-unit, unit and formation

collective training? These are just some of the key questions

covered at this pre-conference focused workshop for the

CAS training community.

Key Discussion Points

• Does the current delivery of part task training of

individual JTACs using VR headset and dome systems

limit training or risk negative training?

• How can these systems be integrated into collective

training?

• What should technology deliver to enable JTAC training

and ALI training of commanders as the availability of

CAS aircraft declines?

• How should technology develop to enable ALI training

not just at large fi xed facilities but on deployed

collective training?

Agenda

12.15 Registration and Coffee

1.00 Individual JTAC Training Systems

2.00 Integrating Systems for Collective Training

3.00 Afternoon Tea

3.30 Future Technology to be Leveraged

4.30 Question and answer session

5.30 Closing Remarks

About the workshop leader:

Nick Sparks has been a JTAC-Instructor for almost 2

decades as part of the UK Air Land Integration (ALI)

community. With Operational experience as a JTAC and

OC TACP at Battlegroup, Brigade and Divisional level in

both Iraq and Afghanistan. He is still a reservist in the British

Army and leads the only dedicated TACP Battery.

As a Joint Fires and ALI consultant, Nick has seen

technology change dramatically in the ALI fi eld and has

been involved in the introduction of a variety of simulation

systems with a number of different organisations. He has

consulted for both Government and Defence Contractors

in the UK and elsewhere, and is widely known throughout

the JTAC community.

Forward Schedule for Defence 2016-2017

MARCH

Defence Logistics Eastern Europe7th - 8th March 2017Prague, Czech Republic

Future Soldier Technology13th - 14th March 2017London, UK

Future Armoured VehiclesSituational Awareness29th - 30th March 2017London, UK

APRIL

Air Mission Planning5th - 6th April 2017London, UK

Military Space Situational Awareness26th - 27th April 2017London, UK

MAY

Future Armoured VehiclesCentral and Eastern Europe15th - 16th May 2017Prague, Czech Republic

MilSatCom Asia Pacifi c15th - 16th May 2017Singapore

Future Helicopter Technology Europe18th - 19th May 2017Rome, Italy

Unmanned Maritime Systems24th - 25th May 2017London, UK

JUNE

Close Air Support7th - 8th June 2017London, UK

Fast Jet Pilot Training Central and Eastern Europe5th - 6th June 2017Prague, Czech Republic

Port Security Technology19th - 20th June 2017London, UK

MilSatCom USA28th - 29th June 2017Arlington, USA

Future Armoured Vehicles Weapons Systems28th - 29th June 2017London, UK

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CLOSE AIR SUPPORT 2017 Conference: 7th to 8th June 2017, Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, UK Workshop: 6th June 2017, London, UK

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