This document provides information about the 4th Annual Network Centric Warfare conference taking place on February 3-4, 2020 in Rome, Italy. The conference will explore how networked platforms and forces can achieve operational superiority to address current and future threats. It will bring together military leaders and experts from countries like Italy, US, NATO, Netherlands, and France to discuss topics like network-enabled communications, battlefield management networks, tactical edge networking, and innovation in network capabilities. The document outlines the agenda, speaker details, registration information and discount deadlines for the conference.

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Key Reasons to attend:
• At the only event with a focus on the Italian
Army’s Forza NEC programme, meet and
network with the senior leadership of the Italian
Army including the Chief of Army Staff and
Commander Logistics Command
• Hear from new speakers from across the world,
such as the United States, the Netherlands,
Norway, Germany, Canada, France and
Estonia
• Explore opportunities and initiatives for greater
interoperability between allied forces and
meet senior military leaders from NATO, the
Federated Mission Network Initiative and the
EU CIS Group
• Discover cutting-edge network technology
from industry, military RD and academia
3RD - 4TH
FEB
2020
Host Nation Speakers:
General Salvatore Farina, Chief of Army Staff,
Italian Army
Lieutenant General Francesco Figliuolo, General Commanding Italian Army
Logistics Command, Italian Army
Brigadier General Gianluca Carai, Commander Italian Army General
Planning Division, Italian Army
International Military Speakers Include:
Lieutenant General Tom Sharpy, Deputy Chief of Staff Capability
Development, NATO Allied Command Transformation
Major General Wolfgang Renner, Commander, NATO Communications and
Information Systems Group
Mr. Clifford Fegert (SES), Director Networks and Architectures, US
Department of the Air Force Concepts, Development and Management
Office, US Air Force
Mr. Stuart Whitehead (SES), Deputy Director Cyber and C4 Integration, US
Joint Staff J6
Colonel Heinrich Krispler, Deputy Director,
EU CIS Directorate
Colonel Robert Miedema, PM Foxtrot, GRiT and Tactical Edge Network,
Netherlands MoD
Colonel Giuseppe Montesi, Director,
Federated Mission Networking Secretariat
Colonel Shane Taylor, Project Manager, Tactical Network, PEO-C3T,
US Army
Lieutenant Colonel Bernhard Fog, Mime Programme Lead for Operational
Effectiveness, Norwegian Defence Staff
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Palmer, Director Land Command and
Information Plans Officer, Canadian Army
Major Veiko Dieves, Junior Researcher, Estonian National Defence College,
Estonian Land Forces
Captain Jean-Baptiste Colas, Associate Director, Army Innovation and
Digital Transformation Laboratory, France DGA

2. 08.00 Registration Coffee
08.50 Chairman’s Welcome Address
Lieutenant General (Ret’d) Giorgio Battisti, Former Commander Italian Army
Training and Doctrine Command, Italian Army
OPENING KEYNOTES
09.00 Enhancing the Italian Army by Prioritising Communication Capabilities
• The importance of technological innovation in battlefield
communications to equip an army for future warfare
• Network-enabled communications and their importance for modern
militaries and coalition interoperability
• The Italian Army’s plans for optimising its networked communication
systems as part of wider modernisation initiatives
• Plans for strengthening interoperability with key Italian allies
General Salvatore Farina, Chief of Army Staff, Italian Army
09.30 Increasing NATO Task-Force Effectiveness through Network Enabled Capability
• How networked communications maximise the capability and
operational effectiveness of NATO task-forces
• Importance of and progress towards greater communications
interoperability between NATO allies
• Future of NCW within NATO and looking ahead to the next stage of
network-interoperability initiatives
Lieutenant General Tom Sharpy, Deputy Chief of Staff Capability
Development, NATO Allied Command Transformation
10.00 Exploiting the Information Advantage through a Networked Force:
US Battlefield Management and Network Architecture
• Strategic benefits of a fully networked force through streamlined
decision-making and enhanced operational effectiveness
• Current US network capabilities and equipment
• Maintaining and training network-capable soldiers: proven strategies
for network support and optimisation
• Plans for further network implementation and modernisation in the US military
Mr. Clifford Fegert (SES), Director Networks and Architectures, US Department
of the Air Force Concepts, Development and Management Office, US Air Force
Mr. Stuart Whitehead (SES), Deputy Director Cyber
and C4 Integration, Joint Chiefs of Staff J6
10.30 Session Reserved for Sponsor
11.00 Morning Coffee
ITALIAN LAND PERSPECTIVES
11.30 Defence Industry and European Strategic Autonomy: Land Perspective
Brigadier General Gianluca Carai, Commander Italian Army General
Planning Division, Italian Army
TACTICAL EDGE COMMUNICATIONS
12.00 Tactical Edge Networking: DEU/NLD Program Connecting Mobile Forces
• Scope and organization of DEU/NLD program
• Interaction with partners
• First glance of spiral 1 (solution package for a NLD and a DEU battlegroup)
Colonel Robert Miedema, PM Foxtrot, GRiT and Tactical Edge Network,
Netherlands MoD
12.30 PM Tactical Network: Supporting and Enabling “One Network”
• An overview of PM Tactical Network and its programs in support of the
warfighter’s network capabilities
• “One Network”: progress of the unification initiative
• A look ahead to future network modernization and disruptive technology
for networked communications
Colonel Shane Taylor, Project Manager, Tactical Network, PEO-C3T, US Army
13.00 Networking Lunch
INNOVATION AND EDUCATION
14.00 Joint Interoperability Division: US Military’s Tactical Data-Link Schoolhouse
• JID’s Allied Training courses: basic experience (AT-101) through the
capstone Joint Interface Control Officer (JICO) certification course (AT-301)
• The JID’s ultimate goal: to certify Allied/Coalition Partners to teach JID curriculum
with their own proficient instructors, courseware management execution
• The JID’s focus: forging C2 leaders – NOT technicians
Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Haberstroh, Deputy Director, Joint
Interoperability Division, Joint Staff J7
14.30 Session Reserved for Sponsor
15.00 NATO C2 Centre of Excellence (C2COE): Driving Innovation in Network
Enabled Capabilities
• An introduction to the role of the C2COE
• Conclusions of the Future of the Command Post study: technical and
human aspects
• An update on the MDO C2 Demonstrator project: incorporating state-of-
the art technology with C2
Lieutenant Colonel Paul Serné, Branch Chief, Concepts and Analysis, NATO
C2 Centre of Excellence
15.30 Afternoon Tea
16.00 Maximising Operational Effectiveness through French NCW Capabilities:
Today and Tomorrow
• How the French program SCORPION bring new perception of battlefields
through NCW
- Gather forces in every situation
- Follow at any time heart of action
• Tomorrow: survive to the NCW Big Bang?
- Deep networks closer to human experience
- Wrong and good data killers
- The digital funnel dilemma
Captain Jean-Baptiste Colas, Associate Director, Army Innovation and
Digital Transformation Laboratory, France DGA
16.30 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
Lieutenant General (Ret’d) Giorgio Battisti, Former Commander Italian Army
Training and Doctrine Command, Italian Army
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An Invitation to Network Centric Warfare 2020
Dear Colleague,
It is with great pleasure that I invite you to join us at the 4th annual Network
Centric Warfare (NCW) Conference, taking place 3rd and 4th February 2020,
in Rome. It is a two-day conference that will explore the strategic integration
of networked platforms and military forces to achieve operational superiority,
able to face present and future threats.
The changing nature of today’s scenarios requires armed forces to be
effective in both qualitative and quantitative terms, flexible, mobile, modular
and, of course, deployable, in order to be able to respond promptly to a crisis.
In comparison with traditional armed forces, a net-centric force can operate in
a wider geographical area, with fewer resources, better distributed, with greater
precision, scope and survivability, in a synchronized way and with a reduced
reaction time. Therefore, a net-centric force is proportionally more efficient and
has more chance of success than a traditional one. Despite all of that, in the
NCW capability project the human resource remains the most important. The
soldier remains the most important and valuable part of the military organization
and continues to play a pivotal role in the 21st century’s battlespace.
Nowadays, the strong joint and combined character of military operations
requires high interoperability standards with a wide range of partners.
Additionally, the economic constraints significantly limit defense budgets
and dictate choices that are increasingly based on a cost/benefit analysis.
Finally, because of rapid technological changes – particularly in information
technology and force protection – existing systems become quickly obsolete,
making constant updates even more essential!
In this view, NCW is a force multiplier able to generate a high degree of
collaboration between machines, people and connectiveness architecture:
the military response to environmental challenges.
The conference will bring together key military planners and decision makers,
technical experts and leading providers to share their knowledge and the latest
developments within the NCW environment aimed at building an understanding
of how technologies and equipment are being developed. Participants will be
provided with a unique and rare opportunity to receive detailed and in-depth
information to create a common understanding of this field.
I am sure that this conference will represent an important chance to share
knowledge about NCW opportunities and to convince skeptical countries to
invest in this technology that still represents a key to the future integrated role
of allied countries.
As the Italian Army Chief of Staff, General Salvatore Farina, stated: “It doesn’t
matter whether warfare is more kinetic, cyber or aimed at winning the hearts
and minds of an adversary: ICT embraces all of them!”
Your Sincerely,
Lieutenant General (Ret’d) Giorgio Battisti,
Former Commander Italian Army Training
and Doctrine Command,
Italian Army
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08.30 Registration Coffee
08.50 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Lieutenant General (Ret’d) Giorgio Battisti, Former Commander Italian Army
Training and Doctrine Command, Italian Army
OPENING KEYNOTES
09.00 Network Centric Warfare and the Forza NEC Programme: Delivering the
Italian Army’s Network Centric Warfare Initiatives to Optimise Soldier
Capability and Lethality
• Strategic implications of programme delivery
• Managing a staggered introduction
• Ensuring coalition interoperability throughout programme development
• Future of the Forza NEC programme and upcoming equipment
requirements
Lieutenant General Francesco Figliuolo, Commander Italian Army Logistics
Command, Italian Army
09.30 NATO CIS Group: Delivering Networked CIS Capability to Deployed NATO
Formations
• Update on NATO’s own networked communications capabilities
• The NCISG’s experiences on exercises as a test of the NCISG’s info
systems networks as part of a NATO Response Force
• Future NATO communications capabilities (DCIS Cube 1.0).
Major General Wolfgang Renner, Commander NATO CIS Group, NATO
Communications and Information Systems Group
10.00 Session Reserved for Sponsor
10.30 Morning Coffee
TACTICAL NETWORK MODERNISATION
11.00 Optimising Norwegian Operational Communications through the Mime
Program
• Updates from the Mime Integrated Tactical Information Infrastructure
Project and lessons learned
• Step by step plans for rolling out network enabled equipment to the
Norwegian military
• Strategies for deriving maximum value from network enabled
communications in the Norwegian operational environment
Lieutenant Colonel Bernhard Fog, Mime Programme Lead for Operational
Effectiveness, Norwegian Defence Staff
11.30 Transforming Canadian Battlefield Management Through Ongoing
Digitization to Increase Operational Effectiveness
• Lessons from the current large-scale digitization across the Canadian
military
• Implementing proven strategies for effective training in Network Centric
Warfare at all levels
• Future of Canadian network implementation and Canadian Army cyber
strategy
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Palmer, Director Land Command and
Information Plans Officer, Canadian Army
12.00 The Manticus Apollo Project: Creating a Comprehensive Situational
Awareness Capability for Coordinating Estonian National Defence
• The need for a fully networked SA capability
• The theoretical underpinnings of the Manticus Apollo system
• The system’s wargaming architecture and possible use cases
Major Veiko Dieves, Junior Researcher, Estonian National Defence College,
Estonian Land Forces
12.30 Networking Lunch
ENABLING INTEROPERABILITY
13.30 Increasing Task-Force Effectiveness through the NATO Federated Mission
Network Programme
• Current state of the Federated Mission Networking initiative
• Overview of current partners’ progress along the spiral specifications
• Reports on the use of the Federated Mission Networking Framework
Products in recent NATO exercises
• Future of the programme and looking ahead to the next stage of
The Federated Mission Networking initiatives
Colonel Giuseppe Montesi, Director, Federated Mission Networking
Secretariat
14.00 Promoting Interoperability within EU-Led Missions through the Optimisation
of Networked Communications
• Current EU networked C4ISR capabilities and plans for development to
maximise operational effectiveness
• Ensuring interoperability between multinational coalitions and standing
EU infrastructures
• Optimising information sharing to increase operational effectiveness in
EU led military operations and missions
• Effective strategies for enabling a robust crisis response through
networked communications
Colonel Heinrich Krispler, Deputy Director, EU CIS Directorate
14.30 Afternoon Tea
RESEARCH AND FUTURE ADVANCEMENTS
15.00 Increasing Cyber Interoperability Between European Armies
• Integrating cyber command structures in the modern army
• The challenge of communication: could European armies use common
cryptographic systems?
• Raising awareness of the weakest link: training the European soldier to
behave in the cyber environment
Mr. Mario Blokken, Director Permanent Secretariat, Finabel European Army
Interoperability Centre
15.30 Future Pathways of Network Centric Warfare Within Europe
• The concept of Network Centric Warfare and its evolution
• Network Enabled Capabilities and Command and Control systems
• The added value of networking systems in international missions
• Mapping trends and developments thanks to European programs
• Network Enabled Capabilities: a potential game-changer in the civilian
domain
• Potential collaborative opportunities arising from multilateral frameworks
Mr. Andrea Aversano Stabile, Defence Researcher, Istituto Affari
Internazionali
16.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two
Lieutenant General (Ret’d) Giorgio Battisti, Former Commander Italian Army
Training and Doctrine Command, Italian Army
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