Main Conference Day Two: Wednesday, 6 June 2012

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SESSION 3: CURRENT AND FUTURE THREATS - Creating the best system and strategy to defend against a multitude of threats
8:20 Registration and morning coffee

9:10 Chairman's opening remarks

Major General (Rtd.) Bhaskar Chakravarty , Former Army Air Defence, Indian Army

Major General (Rtd.) Bhaskar Chakravarty
Former Army Air Defence
Indian Army

  • 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
Brigadier General Rupert Stadlhofer
Air Surveillance Commander
Austrian Air Force

9:50 Challenges to a joint and combined Integrated Air and Missile Defence (IAMD) operation – an operational perspective

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
Colonel Gernot Kopf
Commander Extended Air Defence Task Force
German Air Force

10:20 Coffee break

10:50 Air Defence in the Indian Subcontinent

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

Major General (Ret.) P K Chakravorty
Former ADG Artillery and senior advisor Brahmos
Indian Army

11:20 Soviet-made Air Defence System upgrades – The TETRAEDR experience

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
Aleh Adayeu
Deputy Director for Foreign Economic Activity
TETRAEDR

Sanjay Soni
Director
D'Gipro Systems Pvt Ltd

11:50 Panel Discussion: Modernising legacy systems – how to create a seamless and cost effective transformation to maximise performance and capabilities

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:

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

12:20 Lunch

SESSION 4: INTEGRATION AND INTEROPERABILITY - Developing a strategy for the operational effi ciency of defence forces and the integration of multiple systems
13:20 Immediate regional threats: Guarding against short and medium range attacks

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?
Brigadier (Rtd.) Gurmeet Kanwal
Director
Centre for Land and Warfare Studies, India

13:50 Successfully modernising air and missile defence systems to ensure total coverage and national security

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
Frans Kleyheeg
Strategic Consultant
TNO Defence Security and Safety, Netherlands

14:20 High-level management of distributed air and missile defence 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
Peter Sapaty
Director of Distributed Simulation and Control, In
National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine

14:50 Maritime air and missile defence: Capitalising on sea based defence systems as a key part of air and missile defence strategy

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
Captain (Rtd.) Probal Ghosh
Senior Fellow
Observer Research Foundation, India

15:20 Missile defence imperatives 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?
Pravin Sawhney
Editor
Force Magazine, India

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