8:50 Chairman’s Address And Opening Remarks

Wing Commander Chris Pitt (Ret’d)
Director
Cycnia Consulting

9:00 US ARMY ELECTRONIC WARFARE CAPABILTIES FOR PLATFROM SELF PROTECTION

• Assessing the threats to aircraft on current operations
• Balancing EW capabilities with the need to prevent electronic fratricide
• Multi-stakeholder engagement to iron out EW issues in a highly classified environment

Colonel Brian C. Perris (Ret’d)
Deputy Director, Electronic Warfare Division
US Army

9:40 GERMAN ARMED FORCES PLATFORM PROTECTION REQUIREMENTS

• Developing EW capabilities that can work in a coalition environment
• Testing and proving defensive-aid-suites to give the warfighter confidence
• Looking beyond electro-optical solutions for platform protection

Lieutenant Colonel Michael Vogt
EW Staff Officer, Air Mobile Division
German Army

10:50 INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES ON EXISTING PROTECTION TECHNOLOGIES

• Assessing The Performance Of Currently Available Solutions
• Integrating Operational Experience Into New Capabilities
• Missile Warning Systems And Hostile Fire Indicators

Peter Doig
Technology Business Development Manager
ESL Defence

11:30 ROUNDTABLE SESSION: DEBATING PLATFORM SELF PROTECTION

• Looking to the future: How can technology keep pace with such a rapidly adapting, low-tech threat?
• Developing training to counter a tactically aware enemy
• Leveraging the power of “all sensors” to build situational awareness of the threat

12:10 CHAIRMAN’S SUMMARY AND CLOSING REMARKS

13:20 CHAIRMAN’S ADDRESS AND OPENING REMARKS

13:30 OPERATIONAL DEMANDS OF ROTARY WING PLATFORM REPAIR IN THE AFGHAN THEATRE

• How are armed forces coping with the strain on their helicopter fleets
• What new and additional skills must be developed to cope with operational challenges?
• Integrating contractor repair and maintenance support to repair missions

Lieutenant Commander Andy Dunn
Repair Manager, Fleet Mobile Air Support Unit
UK MoD

14:10 NATO HELICOPTER SUPPORT: A NAMSA CASE STUDY

• Ensuring maintenance cooperation for air, naval and land components
• Innovations in maintenance techniques
• Developing full through life support and capability management

Dimitrios Petridis
Aviation Support Project Manager
NAMSA

15.20: TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS IN STREAMLINING REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE OF HELICOPTERS

• Synchronisation of military requirements with industrial capabilities?
• Shared challenges of maintenance operations in harsh and austere environments
• Integrating contractor repair and maintenance expertise with deployed forces

Colonel Tony Potts
Project Manager, Aviation Systems
US Army

16:00 ROUNDTABLE SESSION: DEBATING REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE OF HELICOPTERS

• Can helicopter fleet deployment rates be sustained given the pace of current operations?
• What are the principal inhibitors to increasing fleet availability?
• Boosting supply chain performance through international cooperation

16:40 CHAIRMAN’S SUMMARY AND CLOSING REMARKS