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Warsaw Marriott Hotel, Warsaw, Poland
SMi Group Proudly Presents the 13th Annual...
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HOST NATION SPEAKERS:
Brigadier General Robert Drozd, Chief of the Command & Control
Directorate – J6, Polish Armed Forces
Lieutenant Colonel Bartosz Jasiul, Head of Cyber Security Laboratory,
Poland Military Communications Institute
Dr Joanna Sliwa, Head of C4I Systems,
Poland Military Communications Institute
Mr Wieslaw Gozdiewicz, Cyber Security Expert,
Kosciuszko Institute
Senior Speaker from National Cyber Security
Centre of Poland
speaker box –(Flags in title unless specified)INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS:
Major General David Isaacson, Director, Networks, Services and Strategy,
US Army G6*
Brigadier General Arapis, Assistant Chief of Staff J6 Cyberspace,
NATO SHAPE
Brigadier General Anna Eriksson, Head C4ISR,
Swedish Armed Forces
Brigadier General Vasili Sabinski, Director, Communication and
Information Systems Directorate, EU Military Staff
Colonel Mihai Burlacu, Deputy Head of Communications and IT
Department, Romanian Defence Staff
Colonel Carlos Ribeiro, Deputy Director, Communications and Information
Systems Directorate, Portuguese Army
Lieutenant Colonel Jon Nypan, Chief G6, Brigade North,
Norwegian Army
Major Danius Aleksa, CIS Department J6, Planning Branch Senior Officer,
Lithuanian Armed Forces
Major Jason Clement, Deputy Project Director, Tactical Narrowband
Satcom Geosynchronous Coverage, Canadian Armed Forces
Major Krystian Strzalkowski, Head J6,
NATO Force Integration Unit Poland
Dr Fulvio Arreghini, ESSOR Technical Specialist,
OCCAR
The Challenge of Electromagnetic Disruption
Workshop Leader:
Colonel (Ret’d) Ralph Thiele, Director Stratbyrd Consulting
12.30 - 16.30
HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
WEDNESDAY 29TH JANUARY 2019, WARSAW MARRIOTT HOTEL, POLAND
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08.00 Registration & Coffee
08.45 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Senior Speaker from Polish Armed Forces J6 Agency
OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS
09.00 Modern CIS Demands and Strategy of the Polish Armed Forces
• The Polish Armed Forces CIS strategy and ambitions for 2020 and beyond
• Future network plans: what the Polish Armed Forces Technical
Modernisation Plan means for CIS equipment
• Modernisation of the military: Electronic Warfare and Reconnaissance
as future CIS priorities for the Polish Armed Forces
• Interoperability and Poland’s commitment to working with NATO
partners: NATO Response Forces and NATO Exercises
Brigadier General Robert Drozd, Chief of the Command & Control
Directorate – J6, Polish Armed Forces
HOST NATION ADDRESSES
09.30 Polish Perspective: Cyber Considerations for CIS in Digitally Enabled Battlespace
• How a successfully implemented cyber-strategy can minimise
vulnerabilities within future assets
• Defensive cyber capabilities and cooperating with other stakeholders
• Engaging academia and private industry to improve cryptography
knowledge for secure communications
• Cyber Space Defence Force: Incorporating over 1000 cyber troops into
the Polish Armed Forces
Senior Speaker from National Cyber Security Centre of Poland
10.00 Session Reserved for Gold Sponsor
10.30 Morning Coffee
11.00 Polish CIS R&D: Supporting the Mobile Warrior with Cutting-Edge Communications
• Role of the Military Communications Institute in optimising CIS capability
through research and development
• Size, weight and power: progress in reducing the burden of the
warfighter without compromising system performance
• Incorporating electronic warfare and reconnaissance capabilities into
CIS networks: an insight into the latest research
• Preparing for the future: a look at the next stages of CIS technology
and how the MCI is leading the way within the Polish Armed Forces
Dr Joanna Sliwa, Head of C4I Systems, Military Communications Institute
11.30 Session Reserved for
Black Diamond Advanced Technology
12.00 Panel: A Holistic View of Polish CIS Modernization
• Who are the adversaries of the future for the Polish Armed Forces –
predictions to shape today’s tactical communications acquisitions
• Key opportunities for the Polish and international defence industries in
future CIS modernization and “most-wanted” technological advances
• Manpower perspective: how must the Polish Armed Forces act now to
recruit and train signals personnel for the conflicts of the future
• Concluding remarks: ‘the way forward’ and future of Polish CIS
Moderator:
Chairman: Senior Speaker from Polish Armed Forces J6 Agency
Panellists:
Brigadier General Robert Drozd, Chief of the Command & Control
Directorate – J6, Polish Armed Forces
Lieutenant Colonel Bartosz Jasiul, Head of Cyber Security Laboratory,
Poland Military Communications Institute
Dr Joanna Sliwa, Head of C4I Systems, Poland Military Communications
Institute
Representative from
National Cyber Security Centre of Poland
12.45 Networking Lunch
TACTICAL EDGE COMMUNICATIONS
13.45 Delivering Communications at the Tactical Edge: Romanian CIS
• Romanian development programmes at the tactical edge, including
the integration of 5G technology, to maximise communication speed
and reliability
• Experiences with integration of Romanian CIS technology with allied
forces at Steadfast Cobalt 2019
• Future of C4ISR acquisition: equipping Brigade and Battalion-level
formations with CIS and integrating the Romanian Individual Fighting
System with Romanian CIS systems
Colonel Mihai Burlacu, Deputy Head of Communications and IT
Department, Romanian Defence Staff
14.15 Session Reserved for Sponsor
14.45 CIS in the Soldado de Futuro Soldier Modernization Programme
• Progress of the modernization programme and current implications for
deployed CIS provisions
• Lessons from rolling out new personal role radios, rugged tablets and
headsets to a battlegroup and strategies for smooth integration
• Strategic possibilities from enhanced personal CIS
Colonel Carlos Ribeiro, Deputy Director Communications and Information
Systems Directorate, Portuguese Armed Forces
15.15 CIS within the Lithuanian Armed Forces: building new capabilities
• Lithuanian Armed forces CIS assets, units and structures.
• Building the Deployable Armed Forces Network: merging CIS at tactical
and operational levels.
• Development of Cyber defense capability in the Lithuanian Armed
Forces – cooperation with The Ministry of National Defense of the
Republic of Lithuania and other state and municipal institutions and
agencies
Major Danius Aleksa, CIS Department J6, Planning Branch Senior Officer,
Lithuanian Armed Forces
15.45 Afternoon Tea
ENSURING INTEROPERABILITY
16.15 OCCAR - Ensuring European Interoperability
• SDR tactical radios: providing solutions for modern digital battlefields
• Software-defined radio compatibility with legacy systems to provide
enhanced flexibility
• Through life management (TLM) approach in ESSOR
• Lifecycle and roadmap of SDR with implications for future use• Lifecycle and roadmap of SDR with implications for future use
Dr Fulvio Arreghini, ESSOR Technical Specialist, OCCAR
16.45 NATO Force Integration Unit Poland: Enabling a Rapidly Deployable CIS
Capability
• Overview of NFIU CIS and its support of the VJTF and NRF elements as a
forward presence
• Strategies for creating and enabling a rapidly deployable CIS
capability: lessons from the priorities and regular duties of the NFIU in
Poland
• Importance of supporting interoperability initiatives to enable seamless
C2 across a multinational task-group
Major Krystian Strzalkowski, Head J6, NATO Force Integration Unit Poland
17.15 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
Senior Speaker from Polish Armed Forces J6 Agency
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3. 08.30 Registration & Coffee
08.45 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Senior Speaker from Polish Armed Forces J6 Agency
OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS – NORTH AMERICAN UPDATES
09.00 US Tactical Communications Capabilities to Enhance Warfighter
Effectiveness and Lethality
• The importance of the connected warrior to overall US strategic goals
• Embedding cyber planners and communications operators
within deployable formations: best practice, and an introduction
to the Expeditionary Signal Battalions for units without organic
communications capabilities
• Current CIS development programmes, including the Nett Warrior
system and the 2nd Cavalry Regiment’s experiences with jam-resistant
position, navigation and timing equipment
• Progress in the ‘One Network’ vision to streamline and simplify
communications architecture
Major General David Isaacson, Director, Networks, Services and Strategy,
US Army G6*
09.30 CAF SATCOM Capabilities and Communications for Deployed Troops
• Overview and update of Canadian SATCOM programs and their role
as part of overall strategy for deployed Canadian forces
• Supporting and enabling a networked force: SATCOM and battle-
management technology within the CAF
• Requirements and considerations for SATCOM enabled C2 above the
65th parallel
Major Jason Clement, Deputy Project Director, Tactical Narrowband
Satcom Geosynchronous Coverage, Canadian Armed Forces
10.00 Session Reserved for Sponsor
10.30 Morning Coffee
COMMUNICATIONS IN MULTINATIONAL TASK-GROUPS
11.00 NATO SHAPE: Supporting NATO Forces through Deployed
Communications Capabilities
• An overview of NATO communications capabilities and cyberspace
support for deployed formations
• Strategies for generating a rapidly deployable communications
capability: the role of the NATO CIS Group and its Deployable CIS
Module and NATO Signals Battalions in supporting and sustaining a
NATO formation
• Considerations for cyber defence and cyberspace management
when generating battlefield communications
• Future of NATO CIS capabilities, including the DCIS Cube 1.0 project
Brigadier General Arapis, Assistant Chief of Staff J6 Cyberspace,
NATO SHAPE
11.30 Session Reserved for Sponsor
12.00 Supporting EU Common Security and Defence Policy Through Mobile
Communications
• Overview of EU Military deployable communications capabilities
• Current EUMS CIS projects, including ensuring FMN compliance and the
future of EU communication modernisation
• Strategies for implementing robust crisis response capabilities in
communications infrastructures and examples of effective use through
the CSDP
Brigadier General Vasili Sabinski, Director, Communication and
Information Systems Directorate, EU Military Staff
12.30 Networking Lunch
FAR-NORTH COMMUNICATIONS
13.30 Creating an Effective Cold-weather CIS Capability within Sweden’s
MARKUS Project
• Overview of CIS elements within the MARKUS Project and future
integration with the IGR radio acquisition project
• Ensuring a dexterity and design mindset throughout the projects for
cold-weather radio use
• Strategies for maintaining communications above and below the
65th parallel: a Swedish case study
• Future direction for Swedish CIS in the far north and wider CIS acquisition
Brigadier General Anna Eriksson, Head C4ISR, Swedish Armed Forces
14.00 Cold Weather Communication and Information Systems
• Strategies and considerations for establishing communication
infrastructure in arctic conditions
• C2 priorities for arctic operations: NEXTGEN platforms at the centre of
procurement
• The future of Norwegian cold-weather tactical CIS and its planned
application from individual to command level
Lieutenant Colonel Jon Nypan, Chief G6, Brigade North, Norwegian Army
14.30 Panel: Operational CIS Above and Below the 65th parallel and Extreme
Cold Weather Operations
• Priorities for enabling consistent communications in extreme cold
• Strategies for effective training to maximise CIS efficiency and
reliability in cold weather
• Most desired technological innovations for communications in
extreme cold weather operations
• SATCOM above and below the 65th parallel: equipping soldiers
with the ability to maintain SATCOM
• Current operational limitations above and below the 65th Parallel
and plans for overcoming them
• Concluding remarks: collectively improving CIS above and below
the 65th parallel
Moderator:
Chairman: Senior Speaker from Polish Armed Forces J6 Agency
Panellists:
Brigadier General Anna Eriksson, Head C4ISR,
Swedish Armed Forces
Lieutenant Colonel Jon Nypan, Chief G6, Brigade North,
Norwegian Army
Major Jason Clement, Deputy Project Director, Tactical Narrowband
Satcom Geosynchronous Coverage, Canadian Armed Forces
15.15 Afternoon Tea
CYBERSECURITY FOR DEPLOYED COMMUNICATIONS
15.45 Challenges and Opportunities in Cyber Security of Mobile
Communications Systems
• Key considerations for communication security and priorities for
securing mobile systems
• A look at disruptive innovations that will both strengthen and threaten
military communications
• Current research into cyber resiliency at the Military Communications Institute
Lieutenant Colonel Bartosz Jasiul, Head of Cyber Security Laboratory,
Poland Military Communications Institute
16.15 Cyber Resilience for Deployable Communications through NATO Frameworks
• NATO “Mission Assurance” concept for sustaining communications
infrastructures
• Cyber resilience and execution of the “Cyber as a Domain
Implementation Roadmap” (including the integration of Sovereign
Cyber Effects Provided Voluntarily by Allies)
• How the roadmap may impact the future development and
employment of deployable communication systems
• Importance of cyber interoperability for enhancing resilience and
“recoverability”
Mr Wieslaw Gozdiewicz, Cyber Security Expert, Kosciuszko Institute
16.45 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two
Senior Speaker from Polish Armed Forces J6 Agency
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5. HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Wednesday 29th January 2019
12.30 - 16.30
Warsaw Marriott Hotel, Poland
The Challenge of
Electromagnetic Disruption
Workshop Leader:
Colonel (Ret’d) Ralph Thiele,
Director Stratbyrd Consulting
Overview of the workshop:
Military operations are executed in an increasingly complex
and disruptive electromagnetic environment. Russia’s
growing technological advances in electronic warfare (EW)
will allow its forces to jam, disrupt and interfere with NATO
communications, radar and other sensor systems, Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and other assets. In the coming years
we may witness an ever-growing convergence of Russia’s
EW, cyber- and information warfare approaches which will
further challenge NATO’s concepts and practices.
About the workshop leader:
Colonel (R) Ralph D. Thiele is Managing Director of StratByrd
Consulting, Chairman Political-Military Society, Berlin, and
President EuroDefense – Germany. As Commander of the
Bundeswehr Transformation Centre he introduced Network
Enabling Capabilities into the German Armed Forces.
While serving in the personal staffs of the German Armed
Forces Vice Chief of Defence Staff, NATO Supreme Allied
Commander Europe and the Planning and Policy Staff of
the German Minister of Defence, Ralph has been involved
in numerous strategic, technological and political issues. He
has been Chef de Cabinet and Chief of Staff at the NATO
Defence College in Rome and Director of Faculty at the
German General Staff and Command College in Hamburg.
About the organization:
StratByrd Consulting, founded in 2013 in
Germany, advises and implements solutions
to strategy and transformation issues of networked security at
the interface between industry and government against the
backdrop of hybrid challenges. It is a freelance consulting
company with a large network of science and politics,
business and society, which configures itself flexibly and is
task oriented.
Programme
12.30 Registration and Coffee
13.00 Opening Remarks and Introductions
13.15 Overview of the Context - A2/AD, C4ISR, Network
Centric, Cyber
13.50 Specific EW Challenges
14.30 Morning Coffee
15.00 Dealing with the Threat
15.40 Disruptive Technologies ahead
16.00 Questions, Discussion and Closing Remarks
16.30 End of Workshop
Why you should attend?
• Understand/discuss the context of EW challenges in
coalition missions: A2/AD, C4ISR, Network Centric, Cyber
• Get an overview and discuss relevant threats
• Understand/discuss how to deal with operational
challenges
• Learn about disruptive technologies ahead
• In depth discussion with participants from military,
academia and industry on the way ahead
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