Day Two: Conference - 14 October 2008

08:00 Delegate Registration

08:30 Chairmen’s Welcome

08:40 Establishing Information Security For Network Centric Operations (NCO)

• Understand how best to develop strong information security management processes for C2, C3 and C4i systems
• What are the potential threats to your network? What should your security mission goals be?
• Evaluating the increased threat to a network when deployed in operations
• What are the security challenges for adhoc or mobile networks?

Major General Chai Hui-Chen
Director General of the Information Assurance Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of the General Staff for Communications, Electronics & Information (J6)
Taiwan Ministry of Defence

09:20 Tailoring Network Centric Operations For High Threat Level Asymmetric Environments

• Identifying the asymmetric threat
• Highlighting and inspecting asymmetric tactics
• How can you adopt the use of NCO, designed for larger force identification, to identify smaller more mobile forces?
• Is a comprehensive net centric capability necessary in this environment? Or can you pick and choose the elements you need?

Brigadier General Tughral Yamin
Domain Specialist, Netcentric Intelligence, Joint Staff HQ
Pakistan Ministry of Defence

10:00 Enabling Network-Centric Operations : A Lead Systems Integrator's Perspective

Network-enabled operations amount to bringing together operational and technical communities of interest. Making NCO happen is a delicate blend of:

• Civil and military technology incorporating COTS, MOTS and integration framework
• Military standards at various maturity levels
• Robust, proven Communication and Information interoperability solution
• Legacy convergence and reuse industrial prime contractorship, integrated project teaming and local technology transfers
• Multi-user oriented services.

And last but not least, helping the Commander make better, faster decisions. Thanks to its key position as a provider of national solutions, NATO operational services and international C4ISR systems and equipments, Thales is a trusted advisor to think global and act local in order to extend the benefits of NATO Network Enabled operations to Asian partners.

Bertrand Denis
Director, C4ISR International Projects
Thales Land & Joint Systems

11:10 Developing An Effective Roadmap For The Japanese Armed Forces Implementation Of A Network Centric Capability

• Understanding that every service has individual needs: why it is important to highlight the different applications and uses of NCO for each service
• Which challenges must be overcome to implement effective and timely systems architecture?
• Underlining the essential standardization processes required for tri-service roll-out of open architecture systems
• How can you best use multi-standard networks?

Colonel Makoto Shimasue
JGSDF, Chief C4 Systems Operations Section, C4 Systems Department (J-6), Joint Staff
Ministry of Defense, Japan

11:50 Australian Army Implementation Developments For Network Centric Capabilities

• Outlining the present network centric support elements to current operations
• A strategic perspective: Lessons learned form US Forces and their use of NCO technology and capabilities in Iraq
• How to apply lessons learned: Future investments in the Australian Army’s NCW program
• Overcoming unforeseen complications and delays
• Understanding the importance of learning how to use network centric enabled technology to achieve your desired effect

Colonel Paul Straughair
NCW Projects, Future Land Warfare Branch
Army Headquarters, Australia

12:30 Global Perspectives Of Joint Network Centric Operations

• 4GW and the implications on military doctrine
• Transforming to the Information Age
• Enabling technologies and approaches to support the Warfighter

Scott Michael Padgett
Business Unit Executive, Worldwide Public Sector Sales, SWG
IBM

14:10 Addressing Structural Phenomenon For The Development Of Network Enabled Capabilities: Digital Natives (DN) And Digital Immigrants (DI)

• Are you a DN or a DI?
• Why it is important to understand the issues of communities of interest
• Are you a DI building a system for a DN?
• Addressing the DNs and their needs in the Information Age
• Web Two technologies on information sharing, knowledge management and security

Colonel (Rt’d) Fred Stein
Senior Principal Engineer, NCW, Army Systems and Technology
MITRE

14:50 Utilizing Network Centric Tools To Overcome The Challenges Of Time Sensitive Targets (TST)

• Why it is important you understand the challenge of short time target identification
• Joint operational needs for TSTs: What is required to meet the TST challenge?
• Operational case study: How have others overcome these needs?
• Network centric tools as a solution for TST challenges and force multiplier
• Investigating potential MAGNAT solutions
  • IAI TWISTER, a Joint Operations Control System
  • IAI COMPOZIX, a Network Centric Operations Framework
  • IAI NCW Battle Lab for Joint Operations

Lieutenant Colonel Nir Tel - Oren
Business Development Manager
IAI Magnet Division

16:00 The Human Dimension Of The NCO Model: Synthesis Of Empirical Findings

• Characteristics of the NCW environment and their impact on human operators
• Results of DSTO research into skills, attributes and associated behaviors that human operators requires to conduct effective missions in the network centric environment
• Human Dimension model based on the Australian NCW framework

Irena Ali
Research Scientist, Joint Operations Division
Defence Science and Technology Organisation

16:40 Integrating An Effective UAV Capability Into An Armed Forces Net Centric System

• What is the benefit of a UAV capability in relation to NCO?
  • Low risk, low cost
  • Near-constant surveillance
  • Tactical and combat reconnaissance
• What are the challenges that must be overcome in order to successfully implement a UAV capability?
• Examples of current success stories
• Integrating UAVs with future CONOPS

Dr Arvind Kumar Sinha
Director, Aerospace and Aviation
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

17:20 Overcoming the information & application interoperability barriers when implementing NCO

Thru our journey to NCO, establishing the physical connectivity just opens the door to the real challenges – how to integrate mission critical applications which never meant to speak with each other, how to create operational and tactical processes across those application and how to govern them, how to allow collaboration and information sharing for the end users and many more. In this presentation we will look into how Commercial off-the-Shelf (COTS) software can be used to dramatically ease the complexity and shorten the time to market of delivering such capabilities

Guy Ron
Defense & Public-Safety Industry Manager
Microsoft Asia Pacific Region

18.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks

18.10 End Of Day 1

18.20 Drinks Reception Sponsored By Thales

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