Can the Uk Join the Hypersonic Weapons Race?

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RAeS Weapon Systems & Technology CAN THE UK JOIN THE HYPERSONIC WEAPONS RACE?

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TIM MARSHALL FRAeS, CHAIR, RAeS WEAPON the Bath in 2011, he became a Fellow of the Royal Academy SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST GROUP of Engineering in 2012 and was made a Knight Command in Tim’s association with air launched weapons started with Her Majesty the Queen’s 2016 New Year’s Honours List. an undergraduate apprenticeship with Hunting Engineering in the early 1980s. From there he joined the RAF and, as 1) DR JAMES BOSBOTINIS, CO-CEO, JB ASSOCIATES an Engineering Officer, had a wide range of experiences, Dr James Bosbotinis is a specialist in defence and including front line and MOD London appointments. He most international affairs and Co-CEO of J B Associates, a enjoyed his 2 flight-test tours with fast jets and weapons at geopolitical risk advisory. He has particular expertise in the Boscombe Down. Tim joined QinetiQ in 2002 as Principal study of contemporary maritime strategy, assessing naval and Engineer adding rotary wing and heavy aircraft flight-test air force developments, geopolitical analysis, and generating work to his portfolio, but always kept guided weapons work understanding of the connections between maritime strategy at the forefront. This included a Programme Lead role for the and national policy. He has written widely on issues including Brimstone missile system for MOD for 9 years. Having left the development of British maritime strategy, maritime QinetiQ in June 2018 he is now Director of an Aerospace airpower, Russian maritime doctrine, naval and wider military Consultancy, currently working in the Defence Airworthiness modernisation, and China’s evolving strategy. Dr Bosbotinis is Team at MOD DE&S. Tim is also Chair of the RAeS Weapon the Book Reviews Editor of The Naval Review, and a member Systems and Technology Specialist Group, a Fellow of the of the Defence IQ Advisory Board. Royal Aeronautical Society and IMechE Wessex Region Chair. 2) DR DAVID HUNN, DIRECTOR, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION, LOCKHEED MARTIN MISSILES AND FIRE SIR SIMON BOLLOM KBE CB FRENG FRAeS, CHIEF CONTROL EXECUTIVE, DEFENCE EQUIPMENT AND SUPPORT Dr David Hunn has been with Lockheed Martin Missiles and Simon Bollom graduated from Southampton University in Fire Control for 38 years and as Director of Technology 1981 with an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering. He and Innovation is responsible for providing strategic served in the RAF as an Engineering Officer for 35 years and technology management and coordination of technology his last appointment was as Chief of Materiel (Air) in Defence and investments across the business. Previous to this Equipment and Support (DE&S) and RAF Chief Engineer on role, Dr Hunn was a Lockheed Martin Senior Fellow in the the Air Force Board. During his service career he served in a area of advanced materials and has served as both Chief variety of operational and staff appointments, with the last Engineer and Chief Scientist. Dr Hunn has specific expertise 15 years focussed on acquisition and support delivery. in the development and engineering of vehicle survivability systems, missile propulsion systems, advanced composite Simon retired from the RAF in April 2016 and having enjoyed materials, hypersonics, and missile system design. a short career break interspersed with some consulting, he returned to the DE&S as Chief of Materiel (Ships) in April BERNARD CHAN MRAeS, SYSTEMS ENGINEER, 2017 responsible for acquisition and support of surface LOCKHEED MARTIN UK LTD. ships for the Royal Navy. He was appointed as Chief Bernard’s working life has centred on aerospace related Executive Officer DE&S in May 2018. activities from a brief service with the RAF to working in Hunting Engineering. He has seen the company go through Appointed as Companion of the Most Honourable Order of several changes, ultimately becoming part of the Lockheed

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Martin Corporation. Bernard has worked on subjects such GREGORY NICHOLS, ASSISTANT CHIEF as ground based air defence/situational awareness systems, AIRWORTHINESS ENGINEER, BAE SYSTEMS guided missiles and ballistic missiles. He is a System Greg Nichols has now spent over 20 years working Engineer with interest in operational analysis, concept in the defence domain. From starting his engineering and design, costing, technology development (including apprenticeship at BAE Systems in 1998, he has worked roadmaps), aerodynamic design and testing. on various aircraft types, including Harrier, Tornado and Typhoon. He has held roles including Electrician, Ejection Bernard joined the RAeS in the first year of his university Seat Technician, Explosive Storage Area Management, degree in 1990-91. Consequently, he became involved Weapons Integration Engineering and Weapons Safety. with the Graduates and Young Technicians Section as it transitioned into the Young Members Board. In addition, he From 2007-2014 he worked for UK MoD Defence was involved in doing the university and college roadshows Equipment & Support, with roles as an Air Weapons Safety recruiting students into the RAeS. Bernard joined the Advisor for the Defence Ordnance Safety Group, as a WS&T Specialist Group, initially as the Young Person Weapons Safety Engineer on the Fire Shadow loitering Representative in the early 2000s, and eventually chaired munition system and as the first Weapons Operating Centre the group from for the period 2010-2017. Currently, Bernard Airworthiness Lead. Since returning to BAE Systems he is still active as the Vice-Chair of the group. has held roles within Systems Engineering, Governance and now Airworthiness, as well as acting as the business pan- Bernard is also the Chair of the RAeS Bedford Branch and platform Independent Safety Authority for weapons and in recent years was involved in the successful collaboration explosives. between Lockheed Martin, the Aircraft Research Association and the RAeS to provide a deployable wind-tunnel in support He has a Master’s Degree from DCMT Shrivenham in of national STEM activities. Explosives Ordnance Engineering, is a Chartered Engineer and member of the Institute of Engineering & Technology. Bernard is the Chair of the Specialist Groups Committee. He has been present on the MAC Committee, LSB and Council. An avid reader, Greg is never without his Kindle. He is also a Bernard has encouraged the Specialist Groups to have keen runner and cyclist, when he gets the free time. stronger interaction with Younger Members and Branches. In addition, he is involved with the RAeS Diversity & Inclusion 5) IAN MULDOWNEY FRAeS, ENGINEERING DIRECTOR – Working Group and the CPD Committee. AIR, BAE SYSTEMS As Engineering Director for the Air Sector, Ian Muldowney 3) PAUL DACK FRAeS, CHIEF SCIENTIST, UK MISSILE FRAeS leads c8000 engineers covering Australia, European DEFENCE CENTRE, MINISTRY OF DEFENCE & International markets, Saudi Arabia, US Programmes, Paul Dack is the Chief Scientist for the MDC, responsible Defence Information, Regional Aircraft and a small central for technical oversight of the MDC’s research and function. Ian is accountable for the deployment and international collaboration. Following graduation from the development of the engineering strategy, capability & University of Salford with a BEng(Hons) in Aeronautical resources across the BAE Systems Air Sector and is the Systems Engineering in 1998, Paul joined Dstl (formally accountable person for design authority activities across the DERA) and has undertaken a range of technical and sector. managerial positions, from Air-Air firing trials to Programme Management. Paul joined the MDC in September 2011, Ian joined BAE Systems as an apprentice in 1995 and is a responsible for its Maritime Theatre Ballistic Missile Chartered Engineer. His career to date has covered roles in Defence programme delivering two strategically significant general management including Profit & Loss responsibility, programmes with Type 45 Destroyers Ballistic Missile test international programmes and transformational activities, events. In 2014 Paul was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal together with roles in engineering, project management Aeronautical Society. and strategy. His experience covers the complete product lifecycle and has covered a wide range of products including 4) JOHN MARKOW, RESEARCHER, CRANFIELD Typhoon, Hawk, Tornado, Future Combat Air & Unmanned UNIVERSITY Systems and Research & Development. John Markow is employed by the U.S. Department of Defence and recently completed the guided weapons course From April 2019 Ian became accountable for the Air Sector’s at the Defence Academy of the U.K. through Cranfield interests in Turkey. University. He holds master’s degrees in modern American History as well as Electrical Engineering. His primary focus is DR ROBERT BOND, HEAD OF FUTURE PROGRAMMES, radars and radar signal processing. John currently works as REACTION ENGINES LTD. an exchange officer with the U.K. Ministry of Defence. Dr Bond has worked in the nuclear and aerospace industries on the development of nuclear fusion and advanced spacecraft power and propulsion technologies. As a Senior Project Manager he was responsible for the development

www.aerosociety.com/WST19 LONDON - THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2019 of leading-edge space optical instruments and lithium-ion 9) AYDEN CLAY, PHD STUDENT, CRANFIELD battery systems for European and US spacecraft. He joined UNIVERSITY Reaction Engines in 2008 as Programmes Director with Ayden Clay is a PhD student working on the “Trajectory responsibility for managing the company’s engine and heat Optimization of Complex Air Vehicles.” He has a first class exchanger demonstration programmes. More recently he has undergraduate Mathematics degree from Keele University. been involved in business development activities at Reaction Engines, leading the development of future high-speed flight applications.

6) PETER HALL, HEAD OF AERODYNAMICS, MBDA UK Peter Hall is the Head of Aerodynamics at MBDA (UK), running a team responsible for the aerodynamic design of weapons operating in regimes from subsonic through to hypersonic. Prior to this he was part of the Airbus A380 Chief Engineer’s team, responsible for Landing Gear Systems, & before that was Head of Future Projects for Airbus (UK).

7) MARTIN EVERETT, SCIENCE & SECURITY MA STUDENT, KINGS COLLEGE LONDON. Martin Everett is a Science & Security MA student at the Centre for Science and Security Studies, Department of War Studies, King’s College London. He previously studied Physics at the University of St Andrews and Imperial College London. He is also part of the non-proliferation and Intelligence Internship Programme at Ridgeway Information, and has published on the subject of new developments in missile defence for the UK Project on Nuclear Issues and Jane’s Intelligence Review.

DAVID MARSDEN, ENGINEERING MANAGER, THALES David Marsden is a graduate of Cambridge University. He started his career at RAE Farnborough modelling warhead effectiveness and surface target vulnerabilities, and has formerly held roles as Assistant Chief Systems Engineer ASRAAM, Project Manager Trigat (MR), Engineering Manager Seawolf (CL) and Engineering Manager S1850 LRR. David is a member of the RAeS Weapon Systems and Technology Specialist Group and his current role is Systems Engineering Manager at Thales ISR UK.

8) DAVID HUNTER, PRINCIPAL SCIENTIST, DSTL David Hunter achieved a Masters Degree in Physics in 2001 from the University of Birmingham and joined Dstl in 2002 spending the early years focused on Operational Analysis and systems assessment. In 2006 he switched to the Strategic Systems area working on Ballistic Missile performance assessment, modelling and simulation. In September 2014 he was appointed as the Project Technical Authority for one of the key projects in the strategic systems area responsible for assessing a broad range of technologies. He became chartered with the Institute of Physics in 2016. In recent years he has led the group’s development of new trajectory modelling tools needed to represent emerging advanced aero-ballistic systems such as manoeuvring re-entry vehicles and Hypersonic Glide Vehicles.