THE WORLD’S LARGEST DEDICATED ARMOURED VEHICLE CONFERENCE MRO, RETROFIT & IN-SERVICE SUPPORT DAY 21 JANUARY 2019 MRO & RETROFIT TRACK IN-SERVICE SUPPORT TRACK SUBJECTS UNDER DISCUSSION: SUBJECTS UNDER DISCUSSION: CDOE: The Contested and Degraded Operating Environments faced, Trainability: The Military requirement for through-life training and how future threats, and the current challenges posed that impact on upgrade this can be achieved for AFVs and IFVs requirements and capabilities Supportability: How does industry support the end user? Including Fleet MRO: Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul of the legacy fleet to supply of spares, training, manuals and engineering support ensure continued capability at an affordable price whilst protecting Availability: How to keep equipment at high-readiness for combat operations platforms from corrosion and mechanical failure Maintainability: How and why parts fail and how they can be improved Modernisation: Solutions on offer to modernise legacy equipment with for longer life upgraded technology in order to ensure the continued effectiveness of Logistics Support: How do Industry and the Army make sure spares the fleet are at the right place at the right time in order to ensure an efficient and Maintenance: How vehicles are maintained in different operating cost-effective stock management operation? environments (for example, PSO and austere environments), and the different Obsolescence Management: Future-proofing the fleet to ensure challenges posed by different environmental conditions vehicles last longer and reduce the through-life cost of future vehicles Upgrades: The implications of upgrades to armour, firepower, and systems on weight and other vehicle considerations 0715 MORNING REGISTRATION 0715 MORNING REGISTRATION 0755 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS 0755 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS Major General Robert Talbot Rice CBE, Former Director Land Chris Foss, Land Consultant, IHS Janes Equipment, Defence Equipment and Support – UK MoD 0800 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: IMPROVING THE ARMOURED 0800 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: ENSURING THE READINESS OF VEHICLE RELATED CAPABILITY OF NATO AND THE ARMOURED VEHICLE FLEET OF MALAWI EUROPEAN UNION MEMBER NATIONS I Acquisiton and upgrade of armoured personnel I Providing responsive, effective and cost-efficient carriers, light trucks, fuel tankers, field ambulances, acquisition to Allies, NATO Military Authorities and water bowsers, buses and logistics vehicles to replace partner nations, individually and collectively the old Tata-made military fleet I Management of acquisition and logistics support to I Useage of armorued mobility in activities such as NATO, its Nations and Partner Nations in the capability wildlife protection, emergency relief services, roads areas of System Acquisition/Procurement and Life construction services among other national and Cycle Management, Strategic Transport and Storage international services (except NAMP), Logistics Services and Project General Griffin Spoon Phiri, Commander, Malawi Defence Forces Management in the Land, Air, Naval and Joint Service capability domains 0830 SESSION RESERVED FOR Brigadier General Rudolf Maus, Director, Life Cycle Management, NATO Support and Procurement Agency 0900 MAINTENANCE OF THE ANGOLAN ARMED FORCES ARMOURED VEHICLE FLEET 0840 Mission Command On The Move: Armoured General Artur Goncalves, Chief of Army Directorate for Armament and Platforms, Command Vehicles, and Command Posts Equipment, Angolan Armed Forces I Network, hardware, and software applications that are agnostic, modular, expandable, and GVA compliant for legacy, emerging, and future equipped armoured 1000 MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING formations. I On Board Vehicle Power source that enables more 1030 GUNSHOT DETECTION SYSTEM FOR THREATS agile operations and reduces the armoured command LOCALISATION post footprint. I A mature technology combat proven I Expeditionary Brigade, Battalion Command Post I GDS crucial component of modern Vetronics Forcible Entry and Uninterrupted Battle Management I Main role in Collaborative Defence architecture and Mission Command capability that is interoperable Julien Marmonier, Area Sales Manager, METRAVIB Defence with US, Joint, and Coalition Partners. Al Mosher (Colonel, USA RET), Senior Director Strategic Campaigns 1040 MAINTAINING, SUSTAINING AND UPGRADING and Planning, DRS Land Electronics. ZAMBIAN AMOURED CAPABILITY TO SUPPORT UN AND REGIONAL PEACE SUPPORT MISSIONS 0920 CURRENT APS & VPS ACTIVITIES AND STRYKER I Overview of current fleet inventory LETHALITY I Contributions to UN Peacekeeping Missions that I Up-Gunning the STRYKER include MINUSCA, UNAMID and UNMISS I Executing a fourth non-developmental APS system I Maintenance and sustainment of the current fleet and evaluation future plans for improved capability I The new Common Remotely Operated Weapon Lieutenant General Paul Mihova, Commander, Zambian National Station configuration for Stryker combat vehicles Defence Force Colonel Glenn Dean, PEO Stryker, U.S. Army 1000 MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING “One of the advantages of this seminar is that the military get to describe our 1030 ELECTRIC PROPULSION AND MORE ELECTRIC challenges... and then our industry ARMORED VEHICLES IN THE FUTURE BATTLEFIELD- FROM 6T BATTERY TO HV BATTERY partners can give us an idea of what Senior Representative, Epsilor is in the realm of the possible - what technologies are out there - and then as 1040 MODERNISATION OF SLOVAK ARMOURED MOBILITY we give them requirements, they can give & FIGHTING CAPABILITY us possible solutions” I Plans to indigenously produce and purchase (81) 8x8 armoured vehicles and (404) 4x4 vehicles through General Perkins, Commanding General, development cooperation with Patria for the 8x8 U.S. TRADOC - 2017 Keynote Speaker I Outlining the technical requirements for both vehicles with delivery anticipated between 2018 – 2024 Colonel Vladimir Kavicky, National Armaments Director, Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic www.asdevents.com - www.asdevents.com/event.asp?id=19049 THE WORLD’S LARGEST DEDICATED ARMOURED VEHICLE CONFERENCE MRO, RETROFIT & IN-SERVICE SUPPORT DAY 21 JANUARY 2019 1110 ADVANCES IN FORWARD LOOKING INFRARED (FLIR) 1110 OPEN ARCHITECTURE FOR THE FULL SPECTRUM SENSORS, FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS (FPD) AND NIGHT - VEHICLES, BASES, SOLDIERS & THEIR DIGITAL VISION IMAGING SYSTEM (NVIS) OPERABILITY I MRO upgrade sensor / display options The Ultra Electronics Group manages a wide range of I Thermal Night Vision principles and generations specialist capabilities, generating highly-differentiated solutions and products in the defence & aerospace, I Second generation FPDs compatibilities with Third GEN FLIR security& cyber, transport and energy markets by Senior Representative, American Panel Corporation applying electronic and software technologies in demanding environments and critical applications to 1140 BANGLADESH’S EXPERIENCE IN meet customer needs. COUNTERTERRORISM AND UN MISSIONS: THE Senior Representative, Ultra Electronics RELEVANCE OF FORCE PROTECTION 1140 PANEL DISCUSSION: OPEN SYSTEMS: PROVIDING I National security threats of Bangladesh and the OPPORTUNITIES FOR INNOVATION requirement for modern armoured mobility capability Open systems are being talked about by potential customers, I Procurement of new 4x4 light armoured vehicles across governments, military services and primes as the (LAVs) to be deployed by the Bangladesh Army in UN way ahead for system acquisition. However, to achieve the desired benefits, particularly for the user, modular design and peacekeeping missions construction is a key aspect of the system architecture as this I Requirement for the LAVs to be a standardised enables an incremental acquisition strategy and the agility to platform for use in ambulance, command, and introduce new applications or sub-systems, for example, in response to a change in threat. This is also a key concept for reconnaissance and surveillance roles managing obsoleszx.cence. Modular design utilising defined Lieutenant General Md Mahfuzur Rahman, Principal Staff Office, open interfaces within a defined open infrastructure and Bangladesh Armed Forces based on recognised open standards, provides considerable operational and commercial flexibility. This panel discussion will examine the opportunity to embrace technical innovation quickly and easily as granted by this flexibility. As much of the technological innovation is driven by SMEs, this session has been designed specifically to facilitate engagement with Primes and End Users. MODERATED BY Professor Merfyn Lloyd, lately science advisor, DE&S – UK MoD EARLY CONFIRMED DISCUSSANTS Richard Hooper, Principal Vetronics Engineer, Platform Systems Division, Dstl Major Michael Dawson, SO2 Land Combat System Architecture, Land Network Integration Centre, Australian Army 1240 NETWORKING LUNCH 1330 JORDANIAN ARMOURED AND MECHANISED 1330 THROUGH-LIFE TRAINING FOR CZECH ARMOURED FIGHTING CAPABILITY AND MECHANISED UNITS Brigadier General Basim Alaween, Commander, Armour Brigade, I Current training practices for the existing fleet of IFVs Jordanian Armed Forces and AFVs I Czech military requirements for through-life training 1430 DELIVERING ARMOURED CAPABILITY TO THE I Evolving CONOPS for the future operating SOUTH AFRICAN ARMY environment I Overview of current armoured vehicle fleet and Colonel Jan Štěpánek, Head of Training Department (G7), Czech Land structure of South Africa’s Armor Formation which Forces includes the School of Armor, 1 South African Tank and 1 Special Service Batallion 1400