Main Conference Day Two: Wednesday, 6 June 2012
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Major General (Rtd.)
Bhaskar
Chakravarty
,
Former Army Air Defence,
Indian Army
Brigadier General
Rupert
Stadlhofer
,
Air Surveillance Commander,
Austrian Air Force
- Passive: “GOLDHAUBE” system - technology, functionsand capabilities
- Active: “Typhoon” - Austrian Eurofighter programme today
- Air defence operations - contribution to the PROTECTION SHIELD for the World Economic Forum
Colonel
Gernot
Kopf
,
Commander Extended Air Defence Task Force,
German Air Force
- Operational requirements and experiences from Europe
- How to operationally integrate air and missile defence systems in a combined/joint defence design
Major General (Ret.)
P K
Chakravorty
,
Former ADG Artillery and senior advisor Brahmos,
Indian Army
- Lessons learned from deploying national missile defence systems
- Battle management and integration for legacy and future air and missile defence systems
Aleh
Adayeu
,
Deputy Director for Foreign Economic Activity,
TETRAEDR
Sanjay
Soni
,
Director,
D'Gipro Systems Pvt Ltd
- Advantages and cost benefits for upgrades of Soviet-made Defence Systems
- Tetraedr’s approach and how the same was achieved in a number of client states
- Tetraedr and D’Gipro’s roadmap for Indian systems- Upgrades and future transformation
Colonel
Gernot
Kopf
,
Commander Extended Air Defence Task Force,
German Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel
Paolo
Nuvoloni
,
Air and Missile Defence Section Chief,
Italian Air Force
- Transforming a legacy system to a fully integrated system: Ensuring operational efficiencies and cost control
- Command and control challenges: How to integrate C2 with a new system to maximise defensive capabilities
- Challenges of legacy system maintenance: How to upgrade and improve legacy system whilst adhering to quality standards
Invited Panelists:
Brigadier (Rtd.)
Gurmeet
Kanwal
,
Director,
Centre for Land and Warfare Studies, India
- Examining current tactical missile defence systems to identify potential gaps and areas for improvement
- Best practice for defending against short range regional threats
- Theatre missile defence systems: Which system can offer a complete and effective defence?
Frans
Kleyheeg
,
Strategic Consultant,
TNO Defence Security and Safety, Netherlands
- Modernisation and capability enhancement: How to guarantee acquisition of appropriate equipment or systems to mirror defence needs
- Long term defence strategy and pace of progress – How can ambitious progression plans be met? Ensuring levels of training reflect sophistication of new technology to establish a smooth transition of systems
- Ensuring levels of training refl ect sophistication of new technology to establish a smooth transition of systems
Peter
Sapaty
,
Director of Distributed Simulation and Control, In,
National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine
- Flexible global coordination of distributed air and missile defence facilities as a matter of efficiency and even survival
- High-level Spatial Grasp Technology (SGT) and its application in asymmetric and unpredictable situations in distributed environments
- Integration of distributed air and missile defence with directed energy systems and advanced robotics
Captain (Rtd.)
Probal
Ghosh
,
Senior Fellow,
Observer Research Foundation, India
- Considering the responsibilities, technological capabilities and experiences of the Indian Navy in air and missile defence
- Instilling best practice for an effective naval defence strategy to build for a secure future
- Naval theatre-wide defence capabilities: Studying AEGIS and other significant defence systems to determine applications for India
Pravin
Sawhney
,
Editor,
Force Magazine, India
- What exactly do missile defence imperatives in India involve?
- Which capabilities should be classed as essential requirements?How should we address indefensible operational gaps?
- How should we address indefensible operational gaps?