SPACE-BASED MARITIME ISR FOCUS DAY TUESDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER 2018

0930 REGISTRATION & WELCOME LUNCH 1340 CURRENT AND FUTURE ISR CAPABILITIES OF THE ROMANIAN NAVY IN THE BLACK SEA: 1030 DEFENCE IQ WELCOME CHALLENGES IN ENSURING Hannah Croft, ISR Programme Manager, COMMUNICATIONS Defence IQ I Operational challenges and threats in the Black Sea 1035 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS I ISR capabilities of the Romanian Navy Rear Admiral Paul Becker (Ret), former J2, I Satellite communications to support Romanian U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy operations – challenges, opportunities Colonel Adrian Brinza, Commander, Radio- 1045 FOUR STAR LEAD PARNTER Electronic Brigade, Romanian Navy WELCOME ADDRESS 1410 INNOVATIVE ISR AIR SYSTEMS FOR MANNED 1050 A FUTURE IN SPACE TECHNOLOGY AND UNMANNED DOMAINS I ’s contribution to human spaceflight and in Cristina Massarenti, Divisional Marketing, Airborne international space cooperation & Space Systems, Leonardo I Developments in space technology, such as nanosatellites and data analysis systems, and 1440 NATO ATLANTIC COMMAND – NEXT STEPS their impact on maritime defence and security FOR MARITIME INTELLIGENCE EXPLOITATION Professor Roberto Battiston, President, I The purpose and objective of the new NATO Italian Space Agency Atlantic Command I Data exploitation and dissemination technologies 1130 DELIVERING INDEPENDENT, GLOBAL, – the challenges for NATO PRECISE, COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY-BASED I Geospatially enabled maritime ISR INTELLIGENCE DATA Representative, NATO MARCOM I Kleos: A start-up that’s not a start-up and a space company that’s not about space 1510 AFTERNOON TEA I What: Data from Low Earth Orbit I Who: Who wants the data? 1540 TRENDS IN COMMERCIAL SPACE & THE I How: Space! IMPLICATIONS FOR THE GLOBAL MARITIME I New-Space: How Kleos will exploit this limitless COMMUNITY opportunity I Maximising the use of available commercial Air Commodore Peter Round (Ret), satellites sensors Chairman, Kleos Space I Integrating data/products from RADAR, Electro- optical, AIS, & RF monitoring satellites 1200 U.S. DOD SPACE S&T PRIORITIES, I Partner engagement to improve access to family PARTNERSHIPS & INVESTMENT of space systems I NASA’s work with the OSD in supporting their Professor George Guy Thomas, President, space S&T strategy C-SIGMA I Current partnerships and investment I Major technological challenges faced today 1610 ADVANCED 3D IMAGING Joseph C. Casas, S&T Small Missions and DoD Formulation Manager, Partnerships and Formulation 1640 COMMERCIAL SPACE INNOVATION IN THE Office and Manager, OSD JCTD Arctic Collaborative EUROPEAN UNION Environment (ACE) S&T, NASA Marshall Space I Current state of commercial space in the EU I Flight Center SME contribution to government space procurement 1240 LUNCH & NETWORKING I Role of the EEN Emilien Watelet, Chairman, Aeronautics, Space & Dual-Technologies, Enterprise Europe Network

“Topical presentations and great 1710 CLOSING REMARKS & DRINKS RECEPTION networking opportunities”

Maritime Programmes, US AFRICOM

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0745 REGISTRATION & WELCOME COFFEE 1155 MALAYSIA’S REQUIREMENTS 0845 DEFENCE IQ WELCOME I  The RMAF’s strategic maritime objectives I Overview: Airbus CN295, Leonardo ATR 72MP, Hannah Croft, ISR Programme Manager, Boeing P-8, and the CN-235 Defence IQ I  Progress report and next steps for 2019 0850 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS Brigadier General Dato’ Muhamad Norzlan bin Vice Admiral Alan Richards (Ret), former Chief of Aris, Deputy to Assistant Chief of Staff for Planning Defence Intelligence, UK Ministry of Defence and Development, Royal Malaysian

0855 4 STAR INDUSTRY PARTNER WELCOME 1225 USING THE EXTREME RANGE AND ENDURANCE OF THE MQ-9B REMOTELY 0900 MARITIME SECURITY IN THE GULF OF ADEN PILOTED AIRCRAFT TO SUPPORT MARITIME AND BAM MISSIONS I I  The growing pirate-terrorism nexus in the Gulf GA-ASI’s newest RPAS, MQ-9B SeaGuardian, has the extreme range and endurance to provide I  Improving the collection, exploitation and sharing persistent ISR coverage for maritime missions of intelligence between military, civilian and I MQ-9B over 35 hours endurance and a mission commercial shipping and maritime entities in the range of 4260 km enables ISR coverage over region to enhance security most of Europe’s maritime domain I  Royal Navy mission objectives in the Middle East I MQ-9B nine hard-points and 2155kg of payload Commodore Steve Dainton, Commander, UK capacity provides mission flexibility and enables Maritime Component Command the SeaGuardian to perform multiple missions I MQ-9B is designed from the ground up to meet 0930 SENIOR LEADERS PANEL: THE MARITIME Europe’s stringent STANAG 4671 airworthiness THREAT ENVIRONMENT & REGIONAL requirements – enabling the MQ-9B to fly in non- DEFENCE COOPERATION segregated airspace I Strategic overview of the maritime threat Yves Pacheco, Regional Director for environment and geostrategic shifts International Strategic Development, Europe/NATO, I EU political and military cooperation on a regional General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. to international level I Increasing threats on, above and undersea 1255 P8A POSEIDON AS PART OF A UK MARITIME and the security, economic and diplomatic SURVEILLANCE ENTERPRISE implications for NATO and its partner nations I  Manning maritime power projection: training and General Vincenzo Camporini (Ret), Vice readiness for the P8 President, Instituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) I  P8 Surveillance Capabilities; anti-surface and Commodore Steve Dainton, Commander, UK anti-submarine warfare, SAR, ISR Maritime Component Command I  Challenges from the delivery perspective Wing Commander Richard Berry, SO1 Capability 1015 PERSPECTIVES ON MULTI-DOMAIN Delivery P8A, Air Command, ISR FROM L3 1325 LUNCH & NETWORKING 1045 MORNING COFFEE & NETWORKING AERIAL SURVEILLANCE – MANNED AND UNMANNED MARITIME PATROL ACQUISITIONS & DELIVERY 1425 SMALL NATION MARITIME SECURITY: 1125 SPECIAL MISSION AIRCRAFT AND UAVS SENEGALESE AIR FORCE MODERNISATION INTEROPERABILITY FOR ISR – OPERATIONAL I and Ivory Coast contract for new CN235 RATIONALE AND IMPLEMENTATION and NC-212 maritime patrol and surveillance PRINCIPLES aircraft from PT Dirgantara (PTDI) I Future plans for new light multipurpose to fill airborne ISR gaps I Small nation challenges in terms of aircraft sustainment and modernisation I Regional security challenges; terrorism/piracy nexus Brigadier General Joseph Diop, Chief of the Air Staff, Senegalese Air Force

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1455 BRINGING A NEW MARITIME SURVEILLANCE 1725 PRECISION IN SPECIAL MISSION CONCEPT INTO SERVICE 1745 THE PROTECTION OF THE MARITIME BORDERS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION 1525 UNMANNED ASSET OPERATIONS IN THE (EXTERNAL BORDERS) MARITIME DOMAIN I The Italian Guardia di Finanza air and naval I Fixed (Cessna), Rotary and Unmanned Component: organizational structure, techniques (ScanEagle) assets and their role in maritime ISR of employment, operational activities and operations international cooperation I Spanish Naval Air Flotilla experience in unmanned Colonel Paolo Emilio Recchia, Chief of Staff, Air operations at sea (Indian Ocean) and on land Naval Operational Headquarters, Italian Guardia di (Iraq) in recent years Finanza I Future acquisitions Captain Luis Díaz-Bedia Astor, Commanding 1815 CLOSING REMARKS AND END OF CONFERENCE Officer, Spanish Navy Naval Air Flotilla DAY ONE

1555 THE SCANEAGLE: EXTENDING 1925 CHAIRMEN’S DINNER HOSTED MARITIME REACH BY L3 (Invitation only)

1625 AFTERNOON TEA “Very valuable 1655 MARITIME & AMPHIBIOUS ISR OPERATIONS – networking and A ROTARY PERSPECTIVE I Defining contemporary amphibious operations interesting topics” I Countering sea denial I Supporting land and air forces with cross-domain Former Chief of Intelligence, Finnish Navy – land and littoral – ISR and combat I Prospects for manned-unmanned teaming to advance maritime ISR Commander Graeme Spence, Deputy Commander, Commando Force, Royal Navy

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0800 REGISTRATION & WELCOME BREAKFAST 1205 THE QUEST FOR MARITIME HOSTED BY L3 DOMAIN AWARENESS

0845 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS Rear Admiral Paul Becker (Ret), 1235 AIR DEFENCE & MARITIME SECURITY – THE former J2, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff NECESSARY CONNECTION IN MDA I What is the link between air defence and maritime CONTINENTAL MARITIME ISR – COLLABORATION domain awareness/security in the Asia Pacific? AND INTEROPERABILITY I How can air defence operators contribute to maritime domain awareness and rapid response 0885 PERUVIAN NAVY PROCUREMENT & to emerging threats? OPERATIONAL INSIGHTS I The Rohingya crisis update and case study I Peru Navy’s recent and current procurements I Naval operations in the Amazon – ISR and Group Captain Piriyathrone Suwanruji, narcotics interdiction Air Defense Control Division, Vice Admiral Jorge Millones Gonzales, 1305 GLOBAL INDUSTRY LEADERS PANEL: Chief of Naval Personnel, Peruvian Navy ACQUISITION AND INNOVATION IN TODAY’S MARITIME ISR MARKET 0935 ADVANCED AUTONOMY I How should current R&D and acquisition practices UNDERSEA: FOUR STAR PARTNER adapt to the rapid rate of technological innovation ADDRESS in the future? I What are the challenges in identifying new 1005 THE US MARINE CORPS FUTURE UNMANNED requirements, preparing bids and competing for AERIAL SYSTEM: ‘THE MUX’ funding in the maritime ISR market? I Outlining the USMC requirement for a future I What are the most significant process/technical organic drone capability innovations underway in your organisation? I Working with industry to define a future UAS system – challenges, opportunities I Future Vertical Lift and USMC airborne maritime ISR power Colonel James Frey, Director, Aviation Expeditionary Enablers Branch, U.S. Marine Corps 1355 LUNCH & NETWORKING 1035 REDEFINING THE ISR VIDEO TRIANGLE SENSING THE SEABED – ASW & UNDERSEA Mark Rushton, TECHNOLOGY Business Development Manager, United Kingdom & Ireland, VITEC 1455 INDIA’S MARITIME SECURITY STRATEGY I Defining India’s maritime security strategy and 1105 MORNING COFFEE & NETWORKING how this relates to acquisition of ISR assets, THE ISR NETWORK – DATA AND SENSOR particularly ASW and data exploitation and sharing INTEGRATION I Conceptualisations of the Indo-Pacific Concept and the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue 1135 COASTAL SURVEILLANCE IN A HOSTILE REGION I Hybrid threats in the Indo-Pacific maritime I The challenges associated with monitoring narrow domain: piracy, terror and state-sponsored activity straits and coastlines Captain Dr Gurpreet S Khurana, Executive I Defence systems in place to secure the southern Director, Indian National Maritime Foundation Jordanian port of Aqaba and its waters I Port expansion in Jordan and the implications for security and intelligence cooperation between civil and military entities I Jordan’s naval capabilities and contribution to maritime security and ISR in the region I Combined Maritime Forces contributions and insights into recent operational successes Brigadier General Ibrahim Nuemat, Commander, Royal Jordanian Naval Force

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1525 MANAGING THE ASW CHALLENGE: CLOSING THOUGHT LEADERS THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUBSURFACE TECHNOLOGIES AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR 1710 MARITIME ISR – A VIEW FROM JIOCEUR MARITIME ISR ANALYTIC CENTER (JAC) I The latest generation submarine threat – what I The role of the JIOCEUR JAC are the implications for maritime ISR asset design I Maritime ISR challenges from the U.S. European and deployment? i.e. ASW technology, unmanned Command perspective systems, advanced acoustic processing and I Main priorities moving forward to support ISR in artificial intelligence. peace, crisis and conflict I How can we prove the success of ASW assets in Captain Robert Hight, Commander, JIOCEUR this context? Analytic Center (JAC), U.S. European Command I Challenges in integrating undersea platforms into a broader MDA framework, such as USVs and 1740 CHINA’S MARITIME INTELLIGENCE seabed infrastructure acting as network gateways, ARCHITECTURE: FROM SPACE TO THE and single-use communications buoys UNDERSEA Dr Kevin LePage, ASW Program Manager, I China’s ‘maritime sovereignty campaign’ and NATO CMRE Maritime Intelligence Architecture I China’s space ISR strategy and implications for forces in the Asia Pacific region 1555 THE MARITIME UNMANNED UNDERSEA I Are our tactical ISR nodes sufficient for early OPERATIONAL CONCEPT warning and response to further territorial I Advancing unmanned system technology for the encroachment? maritime domain – asymmetric economy of scale, Captain James Fannell (Ret), Government Fellow, power and energy, swarming Geneva Centre for Security Policy I How can navies achieve a swarm structure? What operational advantage would this give? 1810 CYBER SECURITY IN THE MARITIME DOMAIN I In developing an unmanned swarm operational I Outlining NATO’s cyber problem concept, what are the implications for manned I Cyber vulnerability in the maritime domain – what aerial, surface and subsurface fleets in terms of should the naval approach be? structural and software design and networking? I Issues of escalation and deterrence: what type I Are NATO and partner nations trained and of cyber challenge would trigger the European equipped to operate during a crisis alliance’s collective self-defence provision? where data dissemination capacity is limited? Ralph Thiele, Chairman, Political-Military Society

1640 AFTERNOON TEA & NETWORKING 1840 COFFEE & CLOSE OF CONFERENCE “Very valuable…to explain the MISR project to the MISR community”

Staff Officer,Combined Joint Operations Centre (COE)

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