Future Indirect Fires » Agenda Day 2

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

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

9:00 am - 9:30 am REACHING AND NEUTRALIZING THREATS QUICKLY AND ACCURATELY IN COMPLEX AND HIGH-TECH OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS

· How emerging capabilities will expand the range, lethality and impact of surface-to-surface fires

· Increasing the speed of decision on whether to employ Long Range Fires in large-scale combat operations

· The threat assessment and keeping a step ahead of near-peer adversaries

9:30 am - 10:00 am EVOLVING TACTICS, TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES FOR THE USE OF FIRE SUPPORT SYSTEMS IN COMBAT

· Delivering collective training of lessons learned on today’s battlefields

· High-tech gaming simulations solutions for the advance training of staff elements throughout the military.

· The challenges of integrating lethal and nonlethal fire support assets into combined arms operations

10:00 am - 10:30 am STRATEGIC PANEL DISCUSSION: THE FUTURE OF FIRES

Hosted by Elbit Systems of America

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

11:00 am - 11:30 am UK ARTILLERY CAPABILITY: RETAINING THE COMPETITIVE EDGE

· Current priorities for the British Army and expanding current capability

· Assistance to Ukraine and what can be learned

· The road ahead: the next generation of self-propelled howitzer

11:30 am - 12:00 pm EVOLVING FIRES-RELATED CONCEPTS, REQUIREMENTS, AND EXPERIMENTATION WHILST ENABLING EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE CAPABILITIES

· Requirements integration, concept development, experimentation, and system fielding for next generation technologies

· Evolutionary vs revolutionary technologies: Upcoming recommendations for integration into current and future force concepts

· Ongoing efforts for improving the performance of existing and future warfighting systems

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm INTEGRATION OF LETHAL AND NONLETHAL EFFECTS IN THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL BATTLESPACE

Colonel (Ret.) Thomas Duffy - Fires Doctrine Writer/GS-13, Tactics and Operations Group (MCTOG), USMC

· The application of non-kinetic assets on the battlefield

· Wholistic acknowledgment of second and third-order effects of kinetic actions

· Leveraging of non-lethal tactics to produce equality effective outcomes

Colonel (Ret.) Thomas Duffy

Fires Doctrine Writer/GS-13, Tactics and Operations Group (MCTOG)
USMC

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

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm GENERATING MULTI-DOMAIN FIRE SUPPORT CAPABILITY FOR THE WARFIGHTER IN GERMANY

Colonel Jost Hügel - General of the German Artillery & Commandant of the German Artillery School, German Army

· Planned Ratio of Maneuver Forces to Combat Support Forces

· Delivering converging effects across all domains and environments to enable speed of relevance

· Medium Forces as drivers of innovation

· Cross-Domain Synergy, Information Superiority, Interoperability, Rapid Decision Making and Convergence

Colonel Jost Hügel

General of the German Artillery & Commandant of the German Artillery School
German Army

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2:00 pm - 2:30 pm NSPA SUPPORT FOR ARTILLERY ROCKET AND MISSILE SYSTEMS

· Benefits of common in-service support for a group of nations via NSPA (consolidation, sharing, pooling, economy of scales, etc.)

· Example of achievements for MLRS

· Implementation of common HIMARS support

· Possibility to support other Artillery Rocket and Missile systems

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm HYPERSONIC MISSILE CRITICAL ADVANCEMENTS FOR THE U.S ARMY

· Future utilization of hypersonic weapons in the field—challenges for integration into fires doctrine

· Army capabilities development expectations and goals, partnership with the US Navy on production of the All-Up Round

· Integration of hypersonic weapons in an evolving military landscape

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

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm ACQUISITION OF NEW INDIRECT FIRE SYSTEMS TO MEET MODERN REQUIREMENTS

· Building the requirement for responsive, all weather, 24/7, accurate indirect fire effects against mobile and static targets including high payoff and time sensitive targets

· Providing fire support to joint forces, especially Battle Groups and Brigades via The Indirect Fire Modernization system(s)

· Expectations for cost-effective indirect fire training systems for the Regular and Reserve artillery units

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm ADVANCING THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY’S FIRES CAPABILITIES

· Achieving higher levels of digital connectivity allowing more rapid, safe and accurate application of effects across the battlespace

· Linking with coalition networks providing accurate and timely responses as required to support ground forces in all weather conditions, day or night

· Mobility and deployability considerations for requirements setting

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm THE ARTILLERY WAR IN UKRAINE

· Comparative capabilities of artillery assets

· Transition from soviet-style artillery systems to NATO models

· Application experience and benefits including increased survivability, ease of use and rate of fire, and suggestions for increasing effect

· The impact of enemy electronic warfare on performance

Agenda Day 2

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