MAIN CONFERENCE DAY ONE 29 MAY 2019

0800 REGISTRATION & COFFEE Discussion points include:  How the CAS and Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) 0830 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS communities should adapt Sir Christopher Harper, Former Director General,  Leveraging emerging capabilities to meet future operational NATO International Military Staff (2013-2016) requirements 2035+  How current capabilities would perform within Anti-Access/ 0840 THE FRENCH PERSPECTIVE OF PAST AND Area Denial (A2/AD) environments FUTURE CAS OPERATIONS  Case Study: assessing the successful experience of CAS in Mali Moderated by:  Use of DACAS within the French Air Force Air Marshal Sir Christopher Harper, Director General, NATO  The challenges of operating within highly contested International Military Staff (2013-2016) environments in the future Discussants: Brigadier General Robert G. Novotny, General Etienne Patry, Chief of Staff of Air Force Command, Commander 57th French Air Force Wing, U.S. Air Force Warfare Center Lieutenant Colonel Rodolphe Bertile, Capability Requirement 0920 CLOSE AIR SUPPORT ON THE 21ST CENTURY Branch, ACT Staff Element Europe, French Army BATTLEFIELD Justin Bronk, Research Fellow / Editor, RUSI Defence  Close Air Support Integration Group (CIG) at 57th Wing, Systems repository for CAS culture, tactics, techniques and procedures

 Modernizing CAS training 1300 SPONSOR PRESENTATION:  Modernizing CAS tools – F-35 integration and CAS TEXTRON application in the contested environment 1320 NETWORKING LUNCH  Future of the 24 Tactical Air Support Squadron (24 TASS) at Nellis AFB, Nevada, Multi-domain training at Nellis Base: 1420 THE DACCC AIR LAND INTEGRATION PROGRAMME ensuring dominance through air, space and cyberspace  Overview of NATO’s DACCC and how it fits into the broader Brigadier General Robert G. Novotny, Commander 57th picture of NATO airpower Wing, U.S. Air Force Warfare Center  The DACCC Air Land Integration Workshop  Ensuring world wide operational deployment in order to 1000 THE CAS PROGRAMME deliver C2 support in deployed environments  Training for CAS missions and overcoming challenges of  Training for Joint Force Air Component (JFAC) elements delivering precision strike Adrian Hill, Combat Plans Division Head,  Experience of CAS delivery NATO Deployable Command & Control Centre (DACCC)  Future plans of the Royal Canadian Air Force including the future fighter program which requires CAS capability 1500 JOINT FIRES INTEGRATION: A VIEW FROM THE ITALIAN ARMY Brigadier General Todd Balfe, Fighter Capability Special  Joint Fires Integration in low-intensity conflict Advisor, Royal Canadian Air Force  The main challenges faced by the Italian Army with building a lethal air-ground operation 1040 SPONSOR PRESENTATION:  Joint fires capabilities in the ItalianArmy LEONARDO Major Cristiano Refi, 4th Ranger Regiment, Training & 1110 MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING Operations Chief JTAC Evaluator, Italian Army 1540 AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING 1140 UNDERSTANDING MODERN AIR POWER  Founda tion: Essence of Airpower 1620 ROTARY WING CAS FOR THE ROYAL NETHERLANDS AIRFORCE  Cross-Domain Integration: Applying Airpower  History of the rotary wing CAS in the Dutch armed forces  Roles and Functions: Delivering Airpower (training and deployment)  Prospects for the future  Future developments and opportunities for Rotary Wing CAS Colonel Professor John Andreas Olsen, Defence Attaché to  The down side of being (perceived as) a CAS asset the and Ireland, Royal Norwegian Embassy Major Bas Van Giessel, Head of TACTES, Defence Professor Olsen is the author of many works on air power including Command, Netherlands Ministry of Defence ‘Strategic Air Power in Desert Storm’ (2003), ‘A History of Air Warfare’ (2010), ‘Global Air Power’ (2011), ‘Air Commanders’ (2012), ‘European 1700 CAS IN CONTEMPORARY CONFLICT: A GERMAN PERSPECTIVE Air Power’ (2014) and ‘Airpower Reborn’ (2015); and coeditor of ‘The  DEU JFS /CAS Capabilities (Weapons and Systems) Evolution of Operational Art’ (2011) and ‘The Practice of Strategy’  DEU Joint Fire / Air Land Integration Structure (Joint Fires / (2012). Olsen has received several awards for his command and work. CAS in modern Warfare)  1220 PANEL DISCUSSION: FUTURE CHALLENGES OF CAS Digitalisation of CAS / JFS in order to deliver precision effects The objective of this panel is to debate the future of close air Major Andreas Bordien, National JTAC Program Manager, support and the utility of current Western capabilities in the German Air Force Air Operations eventuality of future conflicts with near-peer adversaries, notably and as well as lower-end missions 1740 CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS against asymmetric threats such as Daesh. 1750 END OF CONFERENCE DAY ONE

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0820 MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING 1430 TRAINING FOR CAS AT THE FRENCH/GERMAN AIR GROUND OPERATIONS SCHOOL 0850 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS  History of the French/German Air Ground Operations School Air Marshal Sir Christopher Harper, Former Director General,  Facing air-ground training challenges NATO International Military Staff (2013-2016)  Exploring the future programmes of the Air Ground Operations School 0900 CAS PREPARATION IN THE  Overview of Brazilian Air Force operations highlighting CAS Lieutenant Colonel Nader Samadi, Outgoing Commander, capability requirements French/German Air Ground Operations School, German Air  COMPREP Mission, activities and experiences Force  Training with simulations in the Brazilian AF for cost- Major Sebastian Richstein, Incoming Commander, French/ effective CAS mission practice German Air Ground Operations School, German Air Force  Current challenges for CAS preparation and insight into 1510 CAS TRAINING: A VIEW FROM THE FRENCH AIR FORCE future plans  Preparing CAS delivery at the Training Centre for Air Support Antonio Carlos Egito do Amaral,  Training with simulations within the French Air Force Commander of the Air Preparation Command (COMPREP),  The challenges of operating within highly contested Brazilian Air Force environments in the future Lieutenant Colonel Vivien Beral, 0940 CAS ACTIVITIES Commander of the  Introduction to Bangladesh Air Force including CAS and light Training Centre for Air Support, French/German Air to Ground attack mission sets Operations School, French Air Force  Bangladesh AF training initiatives including air-land 1550 AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING integration with armed forces  Practices and Updates of CAS activities 1620 INTEROBERABILITY BETWEEN NATO NATIONS  Future plans to improve air-land integration and CAS  Producing synergies between allied nations Missions  Lessons learnt: focus from 2019 onward into the long term Air Vice Marshal M Abul Bashar, Assistant Chief of Air Staff  Future challenge: fusing data and information sharing (Operations), Bangladesh Air Force Lieutenant Colonel William Church, NATO Defence Planner (Air Expert), Defence Planning, Targets and Review Branch, 1020 THE NIGERIAN AIR FORCE’S EXPERIENCE OF CAS NATO Allied Command Transformation  Training for CAS in the Nigerian AF  Case study: CAS operations in the fight against 1700 PANEL DISCUSSION: INTEROPERABILITY CHALLENGES  Platforms requirements for the Nigerian Air Force OF 4TH AND 5TH GENERATION AIRCRAFT IN FUTURE CAS Air Vice Marshal Remigus Nnamdi Ekeh, Commanding OPERATIONS Officer, Headquarters Logistics Command (HQ LC), Nigerian The aim of this panel is to debate the role of future and legacy Air Force platforms for future CAS prospects, and to discuss how such platforms could be integrated together. 1100 SPONSOR PRESENTATION: Key ideas discussion will include: IOMAX  Are the terms 4th Gen and 5th Gen useful to the discussion or will continuous upgrade render this distinction obsolete? 1130 MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING  What challenges are there to overcome to allow mixed 1210 CAS ACTIVITES WITHIN THE USAF 175TH WING fleets to operate side-by-side ?   The 175th Wing experience of CAS delivery How will legacy and future aircraft fulfil different roles as  USAF approach to the Air-Ground integration challenges part of a combined strike or CAS package?   Modernising CAS equipment How will communication challenges be overcome between air-air and air-ground future and legacy systems? Brigadier General Paul D. Johnson, Commander 175th Wing, US Air Force Moderated by: Air Marshal Sir Christopher Harper, Former Director General, 1250 BUILDING COLLECTIVE TRAINING FOR CLOSE AIR NATO International Military Staff (2013-2016) SUPPORT Discussants:  Concepts and mind-set for Collective Training Lieutenant Colonel William Church, NATO Defence Planner  Establishing interoperable training for diverse roles within (Air Expert), Defence Planning, Targets and Review Branch, the CAS community NATO Allied Command Transformation  Training across different teams and different roles: JTAC, Brigadier General Paul D. Johnson, Commander 175th Wing, land commander, pilot, ISR crew and C2 personnel US Air Force Martin Bindemann, Executive Officer at the Air Battlespace Training Centre, 1750 CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS 1330 NETWORKING LUNCH 1800 END OF CONFERENCE

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