Future Indirect Fires » Agenda Day 1

8:00 am - 8:55 am REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING

8:55 am - 9:00 am CHAIR'S OPENING REMARKS

9:00 am - 9:15 am WELCOME ADDRESS FROM ELBIT SYSTEMS OF AMERICA

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9:15 am - 9:30 am KEYNOTE ADDRESS FROM ARMY FUTURES COMMAND

9:45 am - 10:15 am KEYNOTE ADDRESS: STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS IN MODERNIZATION

10:15 am - 10:45 am STRATEGIC PANEL DISCUSSION – BUILDING THE DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE

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10:45 am - 11:15 am COFFEE AND NETWORKING

11:15 am - 11:45 am BALANCING INNOVATION WITH OPERATING EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY DURING LIFE-CYCLE ACQUISITION MANAGEMENT

· Modernizing and maintaining viable strategic capabilities to ensure current and future readiness

· Developing and fielding overmatch capabilities to Warfighters

· Leadership, people and team development

· Ongoing efforts to strengthen alliances and establish new partners

11:45 am - 12:15 pm PROGRAM MANAGEMENT PRIORITIES FOR FIRES CAPABILITY: WHERE EXPERTISE COUNTS

Colonel Leon L. Rogers II - Project Manager, Combat Ammunition Systems (PM CAS), JPEO Armaments & Ammunition, US Army

· Historical achievements across sustainment activities and life-cycle management including provision of legacy software support and new software to meet joint operational requirements

· Managing modernization activities, including obsolescence and refresh of electronic components

· Supporting multiple allies and the vital interest of the portfolio via Foreign Military Sales (FMS)

Colonel Leon L. Rogers II

Project Manager, Combat Ammunition Systems (PM CAS), JPEO Armaments & Ammunition
US Army

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12:15 pm - 12:45 pm INDUSTRY LEADERS PANEL DISCUSSION – INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES ON TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION

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1:00 pm - 1:55 pm LUNCH AND NETWORKING

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm MAINTAINING THE ABILITY TO CONTINUOUSLY DEVELOP, PRODUCE AND SUSTAIN FIELD ARTILLERY

· Insights from the war in Ukraine on artillery performance and how that can assist with Army development, production and sustainment goals

· How a move to formation-based artillery warfare is changing the way commanders think about artillery needs

· Lessons learned from Russian Army challenges with “deep battle” doctrine and how that is shaping current artillery requirements, production and sustainment

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm SUSTAINING INTEGRATED FIRES CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THE WARFIGHTER OF TOMORROW

· Meeting full spectrum operations requirements through a system of systems approach

· Managing inter organizational collaboration across the fires portfolios to meet mission set needs

· Cementing US innovation across fires domains

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm INTEGRATION, AND JOINT SYSTEM OF SYSTEM EFFORTS IN SUPPORT OF WARTIME EFFORTS AND TRANSFORMATION

· Developing and maintaining scenarios to underpin fires concepts and requirements

· Scenario and Data Development: Configuring, managing and applying models and simulations

· New analytic methods and modeling for Fires

· How TRAC collaborates across a network of Army, DOD, and multinational partners

· Plans to expand the customer base of traditional and nontraditional DoD, other Government agencies, foreign military, and commercial programs

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm COFFEE AND NETWORKING

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm HARMONIZING INCREASINGLY MATURE, COMPLEX AND CAPABLE TECHNOLOGIES TO EXTEND SELF-PROPELLED HOWITZER LETHALITY

· Extending range with Prototype supercharge propellant charges

· Phase Two: Increasing the rate of fire with future upgrades and innovation programs burst” of mass simulator projectiles

· Upgraded armament that enables projectile velocity to continue increasing inside before exiting

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm THE FUTURE OF FIRES THROUGH INFORMED ACQUISITION-INTELLIGENCE

Lieutenant Colonel Dana R. Lafarier - Fires Threat Integration Staff Officer Department of the Army – Military Intelligence, US Army

· Modernization: Future of Army Fires

· Why now? The Implications of War and the Future Operational Environment

· Threat Integration: Modernization and the Acquisition--Intelligence Process

Lieutenant Colonel Dana R. Lafarier

Fires Threat Integration Staff Officer Department of the Army – Military Intelligence
US Army

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5:00 pm - 5:30 pm ENVISIONING UNPARALLELED FUTURE LETHALITY SYSTEMS FOR THE BATTLEFIELD OF TOMORROW

· Networked lethality and system readiness

· Digitized software support environment

· Integrated weapon systems and software engineering,

· Establishing strategic partners to enhance mission execution and reduce development cycle times

Agenda Day 1

Agenda

8:00 am - 8:55 am REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING

8:55 am - 9:00 am CHAIR'S OPENING REMARKS

9:00 am - 9:15 am WELCOME ADDRESS FROM ELBIT SYSTEMS OF AMERICA

Sponsored by: Elbit Systems of America

9:15 am - 9:30 am KEYNOTE ADDRESS FROM ARMY FUTURES COMMAND

9:45 am - 10:15 am KEYNOTE ADDRESS: STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS IN MODERNIZATION

10:15 am - 10:45 am STRATEGIC PANEL DISCUSSION – BUILDING THE DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE

Sponsored by: Elbit Systems of America

10:45 am - 11:15 am COFFEE AND NETWORKING

11:15 am - 11:45 am BALANCING INNOVATION WITH OPERATING EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY DURING LIFE-CYCLE ACQUISITION MANAGEMENT

11:45 am - 12:15 pm PROGRAM MANAGEMENT PRIORITIES FOR FIRES CAPABILITY: WHERE EXPERTISE COUNTS

Colonel Leon L. Rogers II

12:15 pm - 12:45 pm INDUSTRY LEADERS PANEL DISCUSSION – INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES ON TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION

Sponsored by: Elbit Systems of America

1:00 pm - 1:55 pm LUNCH AND NETWORKING

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm MAINTAINING THE ABILITY TO CONTINUOUSLY DEVELOP, PRODUCE AND SUSTAIN FIELD ARTILLERY

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm SUSTAINING INTEGRATED FIRES CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THE WARFIGHTER OF TOMORROW

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm INTEGRATION, AND JOINT SYSTEM OF SYSTEM EFFORTS IN SUPPORT OF WARTIME EFFORTS AND TRANSFORMATION

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm COFFEE AND NETWORKING

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm HARMONIZING INCREASINGLY MATURE, COMPLEX AND CAPABLE TECHNOLOGIES TO EXTEND SELF-PROPELLED HOWITZER LETHALITY

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm THE FUTURE OF FIRES THROUGH INFORMED ACQUISITION-INTELLIGENCE

Lieutenant Colonel Dana R. Lafarier

5:00 pm - 5:30 pm ENVISIONING UNPARALLELED FUTURE LETHALITY SYSTEMS FOR THE BATTLEFIELD OF TOMORROW

5:30 pm - 6:00 pm CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS AND END OF CONFERENCE DAY ONE

5:30 pm - 6:25 pm DRINKS RECEPTION HOSTED BY ELBIT SYSTEMS OF AMERICA

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