Main Conference Day One
8:00 am - 9:00 am Registration & Welcome Coffee
9:00 am - 9:10 am Chairman's Opening Remarks
9:10 am - 9:40 am The UK Military’s Approach To Combatting Enemy UAS At Home And Abroad
• The UK MOD’s approach to countering the threat of drones around military facilities and during operations
• Developing requirements to equip the Army and Air Force
• Update on recent C-UAS trials
Air Vice Marshal Air Vice Marshal Simon Rochelle
Chief of Staff CapabilityHeadquarters Air Command
9:40 am - 12:00 am Spanning The Tactical, Operational And Strategic Dimensions: Mapping Out The UAS Threat Context
• How is UAS technology changing and what impact will this have on future countermeasures?
• Understanding the UAS threat through the eyes of the adversary – what systems will be used and for what purpose and in what environment?
• The tactical threat – single attacks at home and abroad: imagining scenarios of IED targeting and civil aircraft failure via deliberate targeting
• The operational threat – armed UAS in insurgency scenarios for ISR, C2 and engagement
• The strategic level threat – viewing the threat through the prism of warfare transformation in robotics, unmanned systems and information-centric war
Major General Major General Robert Dyess
Deputy Director, Army Capabilities Integration CenterUS Army
10:10 am - 12:00 am Enhancing traditional SHORAD systems for the Counter UAV Role
• Counter UAV Role and Missions
• Latent capabilities of fielded SHORAD systems
• Modification packages
• Future technologies to counter UAV’s
• Specify future SHORAD systems
10:40 am - 12:00 am Morning Coffee & Networking
11:10 am - 12:00 am Defending Military Air Fields & Bases In The Context Of Airspace Regulations
• Employing counter-UAS systems in the confines of existing state-wide aviation and air traffic management regulations
• What is the optimal C-UAS solution for a military air base?
• The employment of ground-based interceptor systems for foreign bases and the challenges in tracking and engaging small UAS
Lieutenant Colonel Alexandre Lieutenant Colonel Alexandre Vautravers
PresidentGeneva Military Society, OG Panzer
11:40 am - 12:40 pm Panel Discussion: Defining The Rules Of Engagement
Speakers:
Colonel Colonel Gioacchino Violante Armament Branch Chief Italian Army General Staff
Commander Commander Wiggo Korsvik SO EOD-IEDD, J3-5 Security and Protection Norwegian Joint Headquarters
Major General Major General Robert Dyess Deputy Director, Army Capabilities Integration Center US Army
Air Vice Marshal Air Vice Marshal Simon Rochelle Chief of Staff Capability Headquarters Air Command
Colonel Colonel Gioacchino Violante Armament Branch Chief Italian Army General Staff
Commander Commander Wiggo Korsvik SO EOD-IEDD, J3-5 Security and Protection Norwegian Joint Headquarters
Major General Major General Robert Dyess Deputy Director, Army Capabilities Integration Center US Army
Air Vice Marshal Air Vice Marshal Simon Rochelle Chief of Staff Capability Headquarters Air Command
• The challenges in developing common rules of engagement:
- How to identify an ‘enemy’ UAS versus friendly
- How to identify suspicious behaviour
When and where is it appropriate to engage with lethal/electronic countermeasures?
• Working within existing regulations on counter-drone measures in civilian air space
Commander Commander Wiggo Korsvik
SO EOD-IEDD, J3-5 Security and ProtectionNorwegian Joint Headquarters
Major General Major General Robert Dyess
Deputy Director, Army Capabilities Integration CenterUS Army
Air Vice Marshal Air Vice Marshal Simon Rochelle
Chief of Staff CapabilityHeadquarters Air Command
1:40 pm - 2:40 pm Lunch & Networking
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm A Counter-UAS Training Doctrine For Future Army Operations
• Developing a common threat definition and joint doctrine for countering enemy UAS
• How to implement a cross-domain C-UAS doctrine that enables joint and multilateral responses
• C-UAS solution requirements – from the national level to the individual soldier in both urban and rural environments
• How successful have earlier government-led competitions for C-UAS been in supporting the requirements of the Army?
• How significant will Group 1 UAS be in future combat operations and to what extent are war-fighters prepared for this threat?
Colonel Colonel Douglas White
TRADOC Capabilities Manager ADA Brigade and Counter-Unmanned Aircraft SystemsFires Center of Excellence, US Army
2:00 pm - 12:00 am RNAF Concept Of Operations For C-Uas
• Future ConOps for the Dutch Air Force C-UAS framework
• The challenges in developing proper rules of engagement
• Dutch perspectives on lethal and non-lethal forms of counter-UAS and their role in current operations
Major Major Hendrikus Bouwhuis
Head of Bureau of Force ProtectionRoyal Netherlands Air Force
3:00 pm - 12:00 am Afternoon Tea & Networking
3:30 pm - 12:00 am Introducing Small UAVs Into Slovenian Army Architectures – Requirements For A Future C-Uas Capability
• Briefing on the Slovenian MOD’s project with small drones
• What are the project’s goals and results?
• What are the basic requirements (general, tactical and technical, special and operational) for bidders selection?
4:00 pm - 12:00 am Norway’s Approach To The UAS Threat: Investigating The Relationship Between EOD-IED And UAS
• Using EOD-IEDD processes of thinking to understand the UAS threat
• The proliferation of sophisticated drones and their ability to carry heavier payloads
• What is the most likely scenario involving an explosive UAS in the battlespace: what will be the trigger mechanism and how will they deploy it?
• Looking ahead to a Norwegian Joint Forces counter-UAS strategy and solution
Commander Commander Wiggo Korsvik
SO EOD-IEDD, J3-5 Security and ProtectionNorwegian Joint Headquarters