Conference Day One: Monday 19 October 2009

08:50 Chairman’s Opening Remarks

Dr. Matthias Strohn
Senior Lecturer War Studies Department Royal
Military Academy Sandhurst

09:00 Regional Artillery Case Study: Defending The Shore

• Types Of Artillery From History: Horse, Field, Coastal, Mountain And Naval Artillery
• Coastal Defense Artillery And The History Of United States Army Coast Artillery Corps, Norway Coastal Artillery And Swedish Coastal Artillery
• Current Shore Weapon Systems; The Hellfire Shore Defense System, RBS-15 And RBS15 Mk3

Major Nayef Saad Alkhashram
Royal Artillery
Bahrain Defence Forces

*tentative presentation topic

09:45 Next Generation Counter-Fire Radars

• Challenges associated with existing counter-fire radars over two decades
• Next generation systems utilising Active Electronically Steered Array technology (AESA): comparison of performance, capability and life cycle cost
• Introducing EQ-36 radar, which is in initial production and undergoing live fire testing by the US Army

Steve Bruce
VP Radar Systems Business Development
Lockheed Martin

10:30 Officers Exchange

Meet and exchange expertise with fellow speakers and attendees in IQPC’s exclusive and lively quick-fire networking session.

11:15 Fire Support In Afghanistan: A Small Nations Approach

• Overview of providing fire support to Netherlands Task Force URUZGAN
• The effect of lessons learned on the Royal Netherlands Army’s development of doctrine on Joint Fires
• Operational future outlook and recommendations

Colonel Peter Froling
Commandant of Royal Netherlands Army Fire Support Training Centre
Royal Netherlands Armed Forces

12:00 Digital Integrated Artillery System (DIAS)

• Automated command and control system for artillery operations
• Target acquisition, systems integration and flexible command capabilities
• Digital capabilities and communication and knowledge transfer

Evangelos Ladis
Director, Electronics Systems Strategy and Development
Hellenic Aerospace Industry S.A.

14:00 Operational COBRA System Success

• Objectives and overview of the development process
• Comprehensive command, communication and coordination on the battlefield: the COBRA system
• Analyzing impact on operations through case studies

Naziha Degroote
COBRA Programme Manager
OCCAR-EA

14:40 The Age Of Mass Effects: Employment Of Artillery In The Two World Wars

• The use and effect of artillery pre-World War One
• The artillery in the First World War: effects, structure, deployment and organization of the belligerents’ artillery and the role of the artillery on the battlefield
• The artillery in the Second World War: innovation and developments

Dr. Matthias Strohn
Senior Lecturer War Studies Department
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

16:00 End Of Day One