Speakers | Agenda | Abstracts

Jukka Juusti, EDA, Armaments Director Conference moderator

Brigadier General Jukka JUUSTI has long experience in the materiel sector. ln his early career he worked in the procurement sector and was responsible for communications equipment. That included the development of the

Finnish message terminal system in early 1980. After that he served 3 years as a teacher in the Riihimäki Institute of technology, but he returned back to the Defence Forces after that short period. Next assignment for Brigadier General Juusti was the Chief of Telecom office in the Defence Staff and after that Chief of Systems Division in the Defence Materiel Establishment. The task for the systems division was to procure Electronic Systems for the Army. In 1995 Brigadier General Juusti took the command of the Electronics Repair Centre in Riihimäki. That unit is esponsible for the Electronics maintenance and logistics for most of the Finnish Defence Forces electronic systems.

ln 1999 Brigadier General Juusti was nominated as the NADREP (National Armaments Representative) in NATO, WEAG and EU in Brussels. He served in Brussels for 4 years gaining broad knowledge of the international Armaments co-operation in various organisations. Brigadier General Juusti returned to Finland in 2003 as the Chief Engineer for the Army in the Defence Command. ln 2004 the European Union gathered an international task force to establish the European Defence Agency. Brigadier General Juusti was asked to join that EDA Establishment team which consisted of 12 members around Europe. Jukka Juusti was promoted to Brigadier General in 2006 when he took the position of the Chief of Armaments Division (J10) in the Defence Command. Armaments Division is responsible of EDA-activities, armaments co-operation and R&T issues. Since January 2008 Brigadier General Juusti is the Director of Armaments in the European Defence Agency in Brussels. Brigadier General Juusti was graduated from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1979. He also studied MDA (Master in Defence Administration) in the Cranfield Institute of Technology 1988. Brigadier General Juusti is married and has two children. He is an active tennis player.

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10:30 Opening remarks

Adam Sowa, EDA Acting Chief Executive

Brigadier General (Ret) Adam Sowa joined the Polish Army in 1975 and has held a range of appointments related to Science and Technology, Armaments and Defence Industry, International Cooperation, Education & Training and Personnel Policy

both in Poland and abroad. He started his career at the Military University of Technology in Warsaw (1980-1989) as a lecturer and scientist. In the years 1989-1992 he served as a military armaments expert on several foreign appointments. Since 1993 Manager of Foreign Training Programs and the National Representative to the NATO Training Group. Participated in three OSCE missions to Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2001 appointed Chief R&T at the NATO International Military Staff providing NATO Military Committee (MC) liaison on Defence R&T issues to NATO Science Committee, NATO Research and Technology Organization, NATO Undersea Research Center, NATO C3 Agency and Future Capabilities Research and Technology Division of the Allied Command Transformation. Responsible for NATO MC’s yearly Defence R&T Focus Sessions. Chairman of the MC WG developing military advice on NATO’s Agencies Review. Acted as Co-Vice Chairman of the NATO Research and Technology Board and MC Representative to the SACLANTCEN Scientific Committee. In the years 2004-2006 Director of Armaments Policy Department at the Polish MOD and member of the Armaments Council. Deputy National Armaments Director, National R&T Director and national Central POC for the European Defence

Agency and NATO Conference of National Armaments Directors. His areas of responsibility covered armaments strategic and policy issues, defence R&D, restructuring of the Polish Defence Industry and R&D Institutes, NATO Long Term Requirements and International Co-operation. Led a team of experts on Materiel Issues for Strategic Defence Review and contributed to the development of a Strategy for the Polish Defence Industry. As the Polish national representative played his part in strengthening of the European Defence Agency among others by successfully managing negotiations with governmental administration, the Polish Defence Industry and the Trade Unions for Poland to join the EDA’s Code of Conduct Regime on Defence Procurement. His personal involvement was also vital to the successful launch of a new innovative tool for European R&T Co-operation, the Joint Investment Programme on Force Protection. In 2007 he was appointed Rector of the Military University of Technology in Warsaw and Chairman of the Science and Industry Committee of the Armaments Council. Since January 2008 EDA’s Deputy Chief Executive for Operations among others responsible for internal affairs, space issues and quality management.

Opening Remarks

Jointly, the EDA Acting Chief Executive and the

OCCAR Deputy Director set the scene for the

conference by addressing some of the most

important aspects of cooperation and Through Life

Management today and how EDA and OCCAR

interact in this area.

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10:30 Opening remarks

Eric Huybrechts, OCCAR-EA Deputy Director

Eric Huybrechts (11 September 1956, Geel, Belgium) entered into the military profession at the age of fourteen, through the Royal Cadets School and in 1975, the 130th polytechnic promotion at the Brussels Royal Military Academy.

He acquired his first professional experience at Kleine Brogel Air Base, as a technical and weapons officer on F-104 and F-16 in the early eighties. More qualifications were obtained at the Institut

Français du Pétrole at Rueil-Malmaison (Paris) and

through courses at the different levels of the

Defence College.

Eric Huybrechts accumulateed knowledge and

experience in aircraft maintenance, technical and

quality management, in different functions at staff

level but also as the Fonctionnaire Dirigeant for the

aircraft maintenance and update programmes at

SABCA and SONACA (Gosselies, Belgium) and as

the Maintenance Group Commander of the 10th

Tactical Wing (Kleine Brogel AB).

As from 2002 he accessed as a Colonel to senior

posts in materiel management and long term

capability development at Joint Staff level. After a

final three year tour as the commander of the

Belgian Joint NCO School, he applied successfully

for the post of Deputy Director in OCCAR-EA in

Bonn since July 2009.

Eric Huybrechts is married to An Vanregemorter

since 1982. They were born and grew up in the

region called ‘Kempen’ in the north of Belgium,

where they still live with their children Sarah,

Annejo, Ine and Toon.

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10:55 Strategic importance of TLM

Christian Schleippmann, EDA

Christian Schleippmann graduated in Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). After a civil servant specific training in the field of defence administration he qualified as civil servant in

Information Technology and Electronics at the Federal Office for Defence Technology and Procurement (BWB) in Germany. He was project manager for national and international Research and Development programs for Unmanned Ground Vehicles and responsible for international armaments co-operation at the BWB.

Since 2008 he has been working at the European

Defence Agency where he is now supporting the

Armaments Director in implementing the

Armaments Cooperation Strategy and the

European Defence Standardization Policy as a

Principal Officer.

Christian is married to Manuela.

Strategic Importance of Through Life Management

Through Life Management is covering the whole life

cycle of defence materiel equipment from the

definition of a capability to the disposal of a defence

system. EDA coordinates the European capability

planning and identifies potential cooperative

programmes. The participating Member States (pMS)

define their capability needs in the Common Staff

Targets (CST). Afterwards pMS decide about the

beginning of a programme preparation phase and

develop consequently Common Staff Requirements

(CSR). In parallel to that a Business Case (BC) based on

the CSR is worked out by pMS experts to define the

performance, time schedule and costs of the

programme. This phase includes also the starting

point of the Through Life Management which is

continued in the definition and development phases. A

common understanding of Through Life Management

between all relevant stakeholders and among all pMS

enables successful international cooperation by

harmonizing processes between organisations and

within pMS.

5 Through Life Programme Management in OCCAR

An overview about OCCAR as collaborative

armament agency leads to the description of how

OCCAR approaches Through Life Programme

Management in a collaborative environment. There

are challenges which need to be considered like:

the management of a diverse and big stakeholder community from nations and industry as well as other international organisations;

finding a unified goal to optimise OCCAR TLM approach to TLM;

keeping in mind the requirement of the commander in the field at any time when managing a defence system through life.

Also presented are the TLM tools which are already

in use or which are under development:

An unique ISS Process Model and LCC capability;

Specialised documentation;

An ISS Guide informing Industry, Nations and OCCAR alike.

11:35 Through Life Programme Management in OCCAR

Dietmar Fiegas, OCCAR Dietmar is an Electronic Engineer (University) and Master of Science in Operations Research/ Operations Analysis.

His 36 year career as

Maintenance Officer in

the German Army can

be divided roughly half

in experience in

military maintenance

units and half in

experience in general

logistics and armament

with assignments as

military assistant to the

German Land

Armament General, ISS project team leader,

responsible for ISS policy of the German Army and

logistic liaison officer of the German Forces to the

UK Army logistics area and the DE&S.

In 2008 he joint OCCAR-EA and assumed

responsibilities for policy, doctrine and support of

the Programmes in all matters of Integrated

Logistic Support, In Service Support and for the

Through Life Management policy and strategic

initiative of OCCAR.

Dietmar is married to Roswitha. They have 4

children and their hobby is traveling the world.

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13:30 EU operations and Common Logistics Solutions

Commander Jan Floderström, EUMS

Commander

Floderström is an

Action Officer of the

EU Military Staff,

Logistics Policy

Branch, since January

2008. His work has

primarily focussed on

EU military operations

including the recent

EUFOR Tchad/RCA

operation and the ongoing counter-piracy

Operation ATALANTA off the Somali coast.

His previous positions in Sweden includes: Staff

Officer of the Supreme Commanders Staff, Head of

the Naval Forces Branch in the Naval Forces

Development Department responsible for systems

acquisition and Validation Manager for the Visby

Stealth Corvette programme at the Swedish

Defence Material Administration.

During his career in the Navy he has served

onboard ships in various positions including as the

Commanding Officer of the Fast Patrol Boat

Styrbjörn.

Commander Floderström is a member of the Royal

Swedish Society of Naval Sciences since September

2004.

EU- operations and Common Logistics Solutions

The presentation provides a bird´s eye view on EU

military operational logistic aspects from the EU

Military Staff perspective.

Ever since the first EU- led military operation there

are lessons indicating requirements for future

common solutions in the logistics field in broad

terms. Here interoperability, deriving from

standardisation, has a natural and prominent role

as a key driver for the future,

as underlined by some lessons from EU- led military

operations.

The presentation will also indicate possibilities and

limiting factors to common logistics solutions.

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14.10 Applying TLM in Industry: A Quantum Leap

Ing. Claudio Buccini, Finmeccanica Spa Operations Central Department, Head Logistic Processes and Chairman OCCAR Industrial Logistic Support Panel

Born in Roma, July

19th 1950, Married,

with two sons.

After attending Italian

Navy Naval Academy

from 1969 to 1973, he

graduated, cum laude,

in Naval and

Mechanical

Engineering in 1973 at the Genoa University, and

served on board of Italian Navy ships for his on-

board duty period. In 1985 he went ashore, and he

has been employed in the Italian Navy Ship Design

Committee, holding the Ship Hydrodynamic Office.

After retirement in 1989, he has directed

commercial shipyards as Technical Director, General

Manager and Managing Director, in Italy and abroad.

From May 2003 he has been called by Finmeccanica

and he is now Head of Logistic Processes Office of

Finmeccanica-Central Technological Office. He is also

Chairman of the Logistics and Services Community of

Finmeccanica, formed by representatives of all

Finmeccanica companies, being in charge of

improving the quality and the Customers’ value for

money that Group’s Companies are asked to supply

in the after sale period.

Mr. Buccini is also:

- Chairman of OCCAR Industrial Logistic Support Panel – OILSP,

- Leader of AIAD Industrial Experts Group on ILS/ISS,

- Member of Italian MoD-Defense Industry Committee for Standardization.

Applying TLM in Industry: A Quantum Leap

After a short review of European Defence Market and

major European Companies involved, the market

segments are identified and classified according to

business possibilities.

Concepts arising from MoD UK-DIS, from creation of

DCNS, from MoD IT NIILS, are given to show which is

the trend and for how long this trend has been on the

scene.

Major European nations programs having a strong

intimacy between User and Supplier are shortly

analyzed.

Modifications to the industrial organization deriving

from the need of a different approach to the

Customer-Provider relationship are summarized; they

will evidence the “quantum leap” that is needed to

pass from a “traditional”organization

(philosophy/concept) based on product selling, to the

“new” one (organization) which aims at introducing

the “life cycle and client asset” philosophy that

modern Suppliers and Clients must consider as the

only viable and sustainable way of providing value for

the Customer’s money.

The solution proposed by OCCAR evidences a fully

comprehensive approach which, after the due run-in

time, the trade-offs and adjustments that are

normally expected for these “conceptual quantum

leaps”, promises very good operational results and

support for the implementation of the new Life Cycle

Philosophy.

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14:50 Lessons learnt in Contracting to Support a Capability Through Life

Brig. Martin Boswell, UK DE&S, Director TLS and Chairman OCCAR In Service Support Committee

Martin Boswell has held command appointments in UK, Germany, Bosnia, Kosovo and in Iraq. His staff appointments have included G3 Organisations & Deployments / Plans Headquarters Northern Ireland, Directing Staff at the

Joint Services Command and Staff College and Capability Integration and Sustainability Planning in MOD Whitehall. He was selected for promotion to Brigadier and his current appointment as head of Through Life Support, Defence Equipment and Support, after delivering a multi Billion pound munitions contract. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. He is Chairman of Army Swimming and Waterpolo. He is married to Karen and they have a son, Alexander.

Lessons Learnt in Contracting to Support a Capability

Through Life

One, increasingly popular approach, to managing the introduction and through life management of military capability in the UK is Contracting for Availability (CfA). The complexity of CfA requires that defence forces and their suppliers integrate their efforts and operational models to achieve distinct goals. Through Life Capability Management (TLCM) is the UK MoD initiative to generate both capability and availability by focussing owners of the MoD Lines of Development on their contribution to the delivery of capability at a project and programme level. One of those Lines of Development appertains to Logistics activity. To deliver capability and availability defence forces and their suppliers must first coordinate the axes of supply chain and supportability engineering activity in support of the logistic Line of Development. UK MoD has learnt that the flow of information to coordinate these axes is a pre-requisite as are the behaviours between MoD and Industry in delivering support throughout the life of the capability. It is difficult to share knowledge across commercial boundaries particularly in a security conscious environment. There is consequently an increasing need for early collaboration to bring real clarity and refine what information MoD and Industry need to share. Further, the recent tendency, as a consequence of CfA, to shift the boundary of who holds what information throughout the life of equipment reinforces the need to make sure MoD and Industry understand the cultures involved, the structures and the commercial boundaries. This precipitates: a change of culture to one of “need to share” not “need to know” and the requirement for technology to promote that exchange. However, even when this is complete, as a consequence of the ever changing requirements, contradictory views of stakeholders and constraints on the resources to solve the problems, the UK Ministry of Defence continues to face many unique and “wicked” challenges.

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15:50 Business benefits across design, support and the supply chain from coherent data exchange standardisation

Albert Grabmeier, Cassidian Air Systems

Age 61, married, 1 daughter, Diplom-Informatiker TU Munich (Master of Science in Computer Science); 33 years of professional experience in Customer and Product Support - mainly in Military Programmes

Senior Manager ILS/ISS Processes (Integrated

Logistic Support/In-Service Support) responsible

for:

Enhancement of Customer Support Processes (nationally/internationally)

Support to Customer Support Strategy, Business Optimisation and Integration

Transfer of overall Strategy into an ILS/ISS Process roadmap

Representation of Customer Support in national and international organisations (ASD, BDLI, NATO, NIAG) with focus to ILS/ISS Specifications e.g. chairman of ASD/AIA ILS Specification Group

Yves Baudier, EADS Innovation Works and ASD SSG Chairman

Ingénieur Ecole

Centrale de Lyon

(1982).

Yves joined Aerospatiale Technical Centre in 1983 to implement CAD data exchange interfaces and

then to lead Aerospatiale Computervision (CAD) reference centre. In 1994 he became research team leader at Aerospatiale Research Centre, managing several Europen R&D projects on assembly modelling and Digital Mock-up. In 2000 he took responsibility of the “IT for engineering” research area in the new transnational EADS R&D organisation. From 2005 he acts as programme manager at EADS Innovation Works, responsible for “Product and Systems architecture and engineering” programmes and also chairs the newly created Strategic Standardisation Group of ASD.

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Business benefits across design, support and the supply chain from coherent

data exchange standardisation

The presentation intends to demonstrate the need for the European Aerospace and Defence industry to adopt a standards-based approach for information exchange along the product life-cycle – and to show how at ASD we try to organise the associated standards governance.

Indeed, most of the new challenges faced by operators and manufacturers lead to a “new step” in the way we manage and share information, and also in the way this information is computerised: “paper-like” information is replaced by “model-based” services that obviously will require a higher level of interconnection ability.

ASD suite of ILS Specifications, complemented by IT standards such as STEP AP239 PLCS, is an example of standard component stream requiring integration and governance for a smooth introduction in operational processes. This approach is now shared with the US Aeronautical Industry (signature of a MoU between ASD and AIA in July 2010).

The ASD Strategic Standardisation Group (SSG) intends to provide the needed capability for this governance at European level:

- It promotes consensus views at European AeroSpace & Defence industry level, supported by national trade associations and co-ordinated with US activities

- Numerous methods are being developed, for which a first version should be made available in the next months

- Several projects have been launched: TDP Message Standardization, White Paper “Development of a Convergent Modular STEP Application Protocol 242 – Managed Mode Based 3D Engineering”

- Coordination and networking were initiated, and participation from a larger number of actors is sought.

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16:30 Logistic support: Management

stakes as a response to the current

operational context

IGA Patrick Dufour, DGA, Logistic Support Service Director

After having

graduated from the

Ecole Polytechnique

and the Ecole

nationale supérieure

de l’aéronautique et

de l’espace

(aeronautic engineer

school) Patrick Dufour

began his career as a

test engineer in the

DGA aero-engine test centre of Saclay.

Patrick Dufour received successively increasing

responsibilities in the aeronautics programs field as

Mirage 2000 program manager and Rafale

program manager. He was selected as listener to

the Center for Higher Military Studies and the

National Defence Studies Institute after running

several urgent operations requirements programs

during Kosovo conflict.

He served three years in the French Air Force (FAF)

Head Quarter staff as the deputy of the deputy

chief of staff for programs, taking active part in the

preparation of various FAF deployments - post

September 11th

.

He was promoted Brig. General in 2003.

Since 2009, Patrick Dufour has been appointed as

the Head of the service of the DGA responsible for

logistic support issues in armament programs.

With regard to this current appointment he is in

charge, jointly with support services of the MOD,

of fostering the concept of Through Life

Management.

He is married and father of 3 children.

Logistic support: a necessary management change

as a response to the current challenges

Management of Defense equipment programs has

to face challenges resulting from: significant

transformations of systems use doctrine, more and

more constrained military budgets and evolution of

responsibilities shared between Industry and

Government.

If many management concepts designed 20 – 30

years ago (ILS and LCC concepts) are still valid for

taking on these new challenges, their full

implementation has always come up against the

difficulty of closing the gap between acquisition and

support.

Current opportunities such as ASD regulations,

information technology optimisation, HUMS,

development of costs estimation software, etc. are

now on the way to overcoming some obstacles.

The control of information appears to be a key

factor in tackling the necessary changes.

It is now realistic and necessary to carry out a real

pragmatic management based on costs previsions

and lessons learnt, taking advantages of traditional

concepts and upcoming tools.

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This Conference is co-organised by EDA and OCCAR. Further questions can be addressed to:

www.eda.europa.eu armaments@eda.europa.eu

http://www.occar-ea.org/ questions@occar.int