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Vehicle Survivability 2010Defeating the threat and keeping one step ahead
Conference Day One
Wednesday 13th October 2010
0800 - Registration opens and morning refreshments
0845 - Chairman's welcome to the conference and a look at the day ahead
Rear Admiral (Ret’d) Christopher Parry, Former Director General, Development, Concepts and Doctrine, UK
0905 - Keynote presentation: What are our long term armoured vehicle needs?
Long term needs with an increased focus on affordability
• Gaining insight into how nations can wean themselves off the Urgent Operational Requirement budget
• How are we going to think long-term in such a fast changing operational environment?
• Can we afford the full vehicle mix?
Major General Adrian John Bradshaw CB OBE, General Officer Commanding, 1st (UK) Armoured Division, UK (Awaiting final confirmation)
Vehicle concepts and design session:
0930 - How do we create better integrated vehicle protection?
From the design table onwards…
• Are we focussing too much on basic protection rather than overall survivability and situational awareness solutions?
• Maximising methods of design to enable us to build in survivability from the outset
• How can we shift towards greater modularity?
• Maximising use of basic platform design
Dr Vernon Joynt, Chief Scientist and MRAP Specialist, Force Protection Industries, USA
1000 - An insight from the Stryker Brigade Combat Team
How has the Stryker protected its mounted personnel and what has been learned over 8 SBCT rotations in Iraq?
• Understanding how the threat from IEDs and EFPs is being reduced through hull and blast protection kits.
• How has the vehicle performed alongside MRAPs?
Bob Hobbs, Deputy TRADOC Capability Manager, Stryker Brigade Combat Team, USA
1025 - Morning refreshments and networking
1100 - Understanding new generation ‘plug and play' technologies
What level of access is there available for fully networked systems that are easily upgradable?
• Insight into improved architecture and its implementation into vehicle design
• How can improved architecture be implemented onto older platforms, if at all?
Jeremy Smith, Head of Future Combat Systems, Cranfield University, UK
Armour solutions session:
1125 - What are the latest developments in lightweight composite armour?
Minimising vehicle weight
• How to reduce costs through the use of composites
• How are the latest composites reducing the EFP threat?
Dr Mark French, Principal Engineer, QinetiQ, UK
1145 - How can forces balance cost, weight and performance?
Finding the best possible solution for small armies
• What custom solutions are being fielded in theatre?
• How can vehicles be modified for specific threat scenarios?
Major Steen Holm Iversen, Development Division, Danish Army Combat Centre, Denmark
1205 - Leading expert panel: Keeping innovative armour solutions sensible for current operations
At what point can armour solutions inhibit the role and mobility of the vehicle?
• What can we learn from non-military and humanitarian vehicle development?
• Are we ignoring the obvious? What low-technology solutions are available to protect vehicles?
Led by: Pehr Lodhammar, Mechanical Project Officer, Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, Switzerland
Dr Vernon Joynt, Chief Scientist and MRAP Specialist, Force Protection Industries, USA
1230 - Lunch and networking opportunities sponsored by:
Lunchtime will also be an opportunity to attend sessions in the innovation showcase area. This will be made up of three informal briefs throughout lunchtime in the main exhibition room
Advanced solutions session:
1330 - Active Protection research insight: Implementation onto in-theatre vehicles
From evaluation to fielding
• Understanding the success of fielding APS onto current operations
• How does the system work in the changeable counter-insurgency, low technology environment?
Ricolt Boeschoten, Product Manager - Active Protection, TNO, Netherlands
1350 - What level of active protection is affordable?
Active protection concepts and likely future development
• How practical are advanced vehicle DAS systems in the current operational environment?
• What levels of reliability are likely in the low-technology threat environment?
Professor Ian Horsfall, Head of Impact and Armour Group, Cranfield University, UK
Operating and maintaining legacy vehicles session:
1410 - How do we keep legacy vehicles relevant for current operations?
A KADDB perspective from Jordan
• Re-manufacturing and reintegrating automotive components into legacy vehicles
• How is upgrading older vehicles supporting the industrial base?
• Case study: The Challenger 1 MBT in the contemporary operating environment
Colonel Yousef Al-Aitan, Programme Area Leader, KADDB, Jordan
1430 - How can vehicles be upgraded whilst keeping their complexity and weight down?
Providing extra survivability for legacy vehicles
• What add-ons have prepared vehicles for current operations?
• Are some vehicles too heavy for theatres with little or no road infrastructure?
Lt Col Ron Smits, Head Manoeuvre Section, Netherlands Army, Netherlands
1450 - Leading expert panel - Is there a place for flat bottomed vehicles?
What do we have (other than MRAPs) to protect ourselves against mines?
• Is up-armouring of current vehicles enough to mitigate these threats?
• What solutions claim to be successful against the mine threat?
Led by: Professor Ian Horsfall, Head of Impact and Armour Group, Cranfield University, UK
Dr Vernon Joynt, Chief Scientist and MRAP Specialist, Force Protection Industries, USA
1510 - Afternoon refreshments
1540 - Innovation Showcase session:
The next three presentations give a snapshot of the latest solutions from industry:
Showcase 1 – Ground Penetrating Radar: Keeping routes clear
• The VISOR GPR system – detecting mines and other explosives
• Adapting solutions for mine protected vehicle manufacturers
• Training programmes to implement these systems quickly into operational theatres
Terrence Marsh, Vice President, Business Development, NIITEK
Showcase 2 – A history of armor technology development in Nexter
Current R&T effort in counter IED/mines technology : A global approach
• Learning from Aravis and VBCI armor protection
• How did Nexter work with the Leclerc MBT and what future programmes are running?
Marc Chassillan, Vice President Communications, Nexter Systems, France
Showcase 3 - What advancements are being made in wheel survivability?
Runflat technologies: Affordable solutions for current wheeled vehicles
• How effective are the effects of weight, speed and tyre aspect ratios with regard to distance
• Understanding the difference between Finabel standards and the reality
• What are runflat limitations when using single piece wheels?
Tony Glazebrook, Technical Director, Tyron International Ltd, UK
Showcase 4 - The Ranger vehicle and its advanced protection
Underbelly tests proven to defeat both blast and penetrative effects
• Providing a very high degree of crew protection from both conventional and asymmetric threats
• Achieving STANAG 4569 Level 4 protection as its baseline and start point
• Insight into its advanced, hardened steel monocoque crew safe ‘survivability’ capsule
1700 - Leading expert panel - How do we manage future urgent operational requirements?
Insight into how we will buy vehicles and survivability solutions in future
• What mix of urgent requirement and traditional funding should there be?
• Understanding urgent needs, acceleration of procurement and the aiding of manouvre and protection.
• Is everything we have purchased under urgent budgets been of use?
Led by: Lt Col John W. Kennedy III, Senior TRADOC Liaision Officer Germany, Army Capabilities Integration Centre (ARCIC), USA
1730 - End of day one and start of evening drinks reception
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