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1. PLUS AN HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Tuesday 24th October 2017, Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, UK
Every Platform a Sensor
12.15 - 17.30
Hosted by:
Mr Rhod Scott-Wilson MSc MDA CEng MRAeS, Managing Consultant, ISR Systems, QinetiQ
Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, United Kingdom
Refining the Practices and Technologies
Required for Information Superiority
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25th -26th
OCT
Benefi ts of Attending:
• Hear from those at the forefront of Airborne ISR operations
and capability, including the United States Air Force, Royal
Air Force, Joint Forces Command UK, French Air Force and
German Ministry of Defence
• Gain an update on the development of NATO’s key joint
ISR platforms, including the Allied Ground Surveillance
programme and AWACS
• Explore future research and development in the ISR space,
with perspectives from the DSTL, Fraunhofer, ONERA and TNO
• Engage with the pre-conference workshop and deliberate
the potential for multi-source data to contribute to the single
intelligence picture
Chairman:
Mr Tony Reeves MCGI MIET DipMarSur, Level 7
Expertise Ltd
Senior Military Experts:
Brigadier General Peter Lambert, Director of
Intelligence, Headquarters Air Combat Command,
United States Air Force
Colonel Christophe Fontaine, Chief, ISR Division,
French Air Force Command
Colonel Marco Maistrello, Chief, Programme
Support Division, NATO AEW&C Programme
Management Agency
Mr James Edge, General Manager, Allied Ground
Surveillance Programme, NATO
Wing Commander Richard Berry, SO1 Capability
Delivery P8A, Air Command, Royal Air Force
Dr Jim Wood, C4ISR Science Gateway, Joint Forces
Command, UK Ministry of Defence
Mr Ronald Haygood, Deputy Director,
Intelligence & Operations, 25th Air Force,
United States Air Force
Mr Juergen Von Piechowski, Section Head,
Joint ISR and Air Electronic Warfare, Federal
Offi ce of Bundeswehr Equipment and Information
Technology, German Ministry of Defence
Mr Darren Studer, Deputy Chief, J2 Operations,
United States European Command
Squadron Leader Stephen Graham, Air ISTAR
Requirements, Capability Branch, C4ISR
Working Group, New Zealand Defence Force

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08.30 Registration & Coffee
09.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Mr Tony Reeves MCGI MIET DipMarSur, Level 7
Expertise Ltd
FUTURE CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT
Keynote Address
09.15 Coordinating Aerial Intelligence Doctrine and Architecture in
Support of Shifting Operational Requirements
• Defining and refining the multi-domain battle concept in
preparation for future information warfare
• Fostering a federative approach to collection, processing and
dissemination
• Current capability assessments and future plans for creating a
more agile and interoperable ISR capability
Brigadier General Peter Lambert, Director of Intelligence,
Headquarters Air Combat Command, United States Air Force
09.55 Reintroducing Maritime Patrol Aircraft Capability into the British
Armed Forces’ Maritime Surveillance
• The acquisition plan for 9 P-8s into the aerial ISTAR fleet
• Incorporating British systems on board the American platform;
plans and challenges
• Integrating the P-8 into a wider maritime surveillance picture
– Sharing information for a joint force response to enemy
maritime activity
Wing Commander Richard Berry, SO1 Capability Delivery P8A,
Air Command, Royal Air Force
10.35 Morning Coffee
11.05 Current Requirements and ISR Response within the New Zealand
Defence Force
• Size and geographic area of responsibility: ISR responsibilities
running from the South Pole to the equator
• Increasing competition, US-China influence, highly-migratory
fish species, counter-narcotics, climate change and the future
of Antarctic governance
• Broad mission set: NZDF responsibilities ranging from search and
rescue, policing all the way up to warfare
• Technology update: Primary airborne ISR asset (P-3K2 Orion)
replacement with a new surveillance system, expected to
integrate manned, unmanned, and space-based platform
• Plans and approaches to delivering adequate capability
within budget
Squadron Leader Stephen Graham, Air ISTAR Requirements,
Capability Branch, C4ISR Working Group,
New Zealand Defence Force
11.45 Session reserved for Sponsor
ISR Operations
12.25 25th Air Force Plans for the Support of Tactical Warfighting and
National-Level ISR Operations
• An overview of the 25th Air Forces current airborne ISR assets
• Plans and policy for supporting current ISR assets and key
infrastructure
• Future capability areas currently being examined to enhance
ISR collect capabilities
• Further developing the command and control assets necessary
to support information sharing
Mr Ronald Haygood, Deputy Director, Intelligence Operations,
25th Air Force, United States Air Force
13.05 Networking Lunch
14.05 Planning for ISR Operations in a Networked Environment:
Key Requirements for the Improvement to Network-Generated
Situational Awareness
• Deliberating the contemporary requirements for network
enabled operations between coalition partners
• The latest air systems’ evolution regarding interoperability
through data transfer
• Approaches to the development of effective and agile C2
networks
• Lessons learnt from past collaboration during joint operations
and exercises
Mr Darren Studer, Deputy Chief, J2 Operations,
United States European Command
14.45 Panel Discussion: Deliberating Requirements for the
Enhancement of Current and Future ISR Operations
• How can ISR commanders do less with more?
• Developing standards and common practices for
ensuring greater interoperability during coalition operations
• The need to prepare for a contested operational environment:
Future practices for assuring information superiority
• Question and answer session
Brigadier General Peter Lambert, Director of Intelligence,
Headquarters Air Combat Command, United States Air Force
Colonel Christophe Fontaine, Chief, ISR Division,
French Air Force Command
Colonel Marco Maistrello, Chief, Programme Support Division,
NATO AEWC Programme Management Agency
Mr Juergen Von Piechowski, Section Head, Joint ISR and Air
Electronic Warfare, Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment and
Information Technology, German Ministry of Defence
15.25 Afternoon Tea
15.55 Current RPAS Capabilities and Concepts of Operation within the
Belgian Air Component
• Force structure within 80th UAV Squadron
• Capabilities and payloads operated within the RQ-5 Hunter
system
• Feedback from border observation and intelligence gathering
operations
• Future plans for developing TTP’s and integrating new
capabilities into the 80th UAV Squadron
Major Fabrice Leroy, Commander, 80th UAV Squadron,
Belgian Air Force
ISR Training and Personnel Development
16.35 Training U.S. MQ-9 Aircrew - An Evolution
• The U.S. Air Forces wide range of aircrew used to fly the MQ-1/9
• Unique Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) career field and training
syllabus which has demonstrated success
• Future unmanned weapon systems opportunities to modify
and optimize training processes of RPA aircrew
Colonel Houston Cantwell, Commander, 49th Wing,
United States Air Force
17.15 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
Mr Tony Reeves MCGI MIET DipMarSur, Level 7
Expertise Ltd
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3. 08.30 Registration Coffee
09.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Mr Tony Reeves MCGI MIET DipMarSur, Level 7
Expertise Ltd
FUTURE CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT
Keynote Address
09.15 French Airborne ISR Employment: Lessons Learnt and Challenges
in a Complex Operational Environment
• An update on the shifting operational environment and
doctrine response within the French Joint ISR
• Current plans for integrating new capabilities into the French
ISR network, such as the new forthcoming SIGINT platforms
• Future plans and policy
Colonel Christophe Fontaine, Chief, ISR Division,
French Air Force Command
09.55 Future Capability Development of Airborne ISR within the German
Armed Forces
• Air based surveillance capabilities
• Space based surveillance
• Command and control
Mr Juergen Von Piechowski, Section Head, Joint ISR and Air
Electronic Warfare, Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment and
Information Technology, German Ministry of Defence
10.35 Morning Coffee
NATO JOINT ISR
11.05 An Update on Fulfilment of the Allied Ground Surveillance
Programme
• An overview of the programmes core strategic goals
• The envisaged multi-national information sharing architecture
• Global Hawk platform capabilities
• Feedback from recent Unified Vision exercises
• Future plans and policy for fulfilment of key objectives
Mr James Edge, General Manager, Allied Ground Surveillance
Programme, NATO
Mr Bogdan Horvat, Executive Officer,
Allied Ground Surveillance Programme
11.45 Session Reserved for Sponsor
12.25 Maintaining and Building the Capability of NATO’s AWACS to
Meet the Challenges of Contemporary Operations
• An overview of plans and requirements driving ongoing
modernisation of the platform
• Enhancing Tactical Data Links
• Crypto modernisation
• Enhancing airborne networking
• Secure/Anti-Jam Radios to Improve UHF and VHF capabilities
Colonel Marco Maistrello, Chief, Programme Support Division,
NATO AEWC Programme Management Agency
Mr Chris Weldon, Chief, Future Interoperability,
NATO AEWC Programme Management Agency
13.05 Networking Lunch
ISR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
14.05 Perspectives on the Future of ISR
• Nature of future conflict
• Information advantage
• ISR requirements
Dr Jim Wood, C4ISR Science Gateway, Joint Forces Command,
UK Ministry of Defence
14.45 Artificial Intelligence Methodologies for Future Airborne ISR
Applications
• Cognitive Assistance by fusing heterogeneous sensor data and
context information
• Feedback to Data acquisition – task-driven resources
management techniques
• Examples taken from ongoing defence research and
experimentation in Germany
Dr Wolfgang Koch, Head of Department, Sensor Data and
Information Fusion, Fraunhofer FKIE
15.25 Afternoon Tea
15.55 SYSIPHE: The Franco-Norwegian Airborne Full Spectral Band
Imaging System
• An overview of the systems key capabilities and requirements
• Feedback from the first SYSIPHE qualification campaign for
defence needs
• Works in progress around the system and open collaboration
for SYSIPHE use
Mr Laurent Rousset-Rouviere, Project Manager SYSIPHE, Optical
and Associated Technics Department, ONERA
16.35 Automatic Extraction of Information from Airborne Sensors
• Automatic detection of objects and events in full motion
video, the role of new technologies
• Making sense of big data, automatic information extraction,
combining and fusing data into actionable intelligence
• The impact of automation on the human operator, new ways
of working
Mr Pieter Elands, Programme Manager, Intelligent Imaging,
TNO Defence Research
17.15 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two
Mr Tony Reeves MCGI MIET DipMarSur, Level 7
Expertise Ltd
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4. Every Platform a Sensor
Overview of the workshop:
The EPAS vision is that all platforms, including people,
operating within the Battlespace will automatically collect
data which can be processed to contribute to the Single
Intelligence Environment Corpus. The collected data will
create a rich information corpus, stored in a searchable
form, suitable for triaging large data sets and satisfying
Information Requirements (IRs) in timescales appropriate to
the operational context.
This workshop will provide a platform for the focused
discussion of EPAS and the opportunities available to
industry for engagement with the programme.
Programme
12.15 Registration and coffee
13.00 Introduction to EPAS
14.00 Candidate Collectors
15.00 Afternoon Coffee
15.30 User Concerns
16.30 EPAS Opportunities
17.30 Chairman’s Closing Remarks
About the Workshop Chairman:
Mr Rhod Scott-Wilson MSc MDA CEng MRAeS has spent 40
years working in the defence sector for both Government
and several major industry players. Rhod was a Chadwick
scholar and studied for an MSc in System Design at Cranfi eld
in 1984. He received the Fan Makers prize in avionics
for his dissertation. He was an Alvey journeyman at the
Turing Institute in Glasgow in 1986 and spent several years
researching Artifi cial Intelligence applications for defence
with British Aerospace. Since 1990 he has been a technical
leader and business manager specialising in Electronic
Warfare and ISR and after 8 years running the QinetiQ
Sensors and Surveillance business unit he moved to lead
the Persistent Wide Area Surveillance demonstrator project
for MOD. Rhod is the industry leader of the C4ISR Concepts
and Solutions Engine Room with DSTL and is leading the
team developing an EPAS concept demonstrator for DSTL
About the organisation:
QinetiQ is a company of scientists and engineers essential
to sovereign capability. The technical expertise and
domain know-how of our people are our principal sources
of competitive advantage and are well matched to
the emerging themes in our markets. By leveraging our
distinctive facilities and integrating our core capabilities,
we play a critical role in helping customers meet current
and future challenges.
Workshop Leader:
Mr Rhod Scott-Wilson MSc MDA CEng MRAeS,
Managing Consultant, ISR Systems, QinetiQ
HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Tuesday 24th October 2017
12.15 – 17.30
Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, UK

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