SMi Group's Future Armoured Vehicles Situational Awareness 2019 conference takes place in London in April

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Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, UK
Delivering Information Superiority to the Armoured Vehicle
SMi Group proudly presents the 4th annual...
3rd-4th
APRIL
2019
Future Armoured
VehiclesSituational Awareness
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING:
• Exclusive Situational Awareness Military briefings from
the United Kingdom, The United States, Germany,
Norway, Romania and New Zealand
• Gain the opportunity to meet with leading OEMs and
System Integrators
• Hear the very latest technological developments from
research and industry that are enhancing combat
effectiveness and connectivity, including: vetronic
architectures, communications, battle management,
acoustic sensors, optronics, displays, active protection
and defensive aid suites
• Attend a platform for the advancement of armoured
vehicles situational awareness, bringing together
those at the heart of systems operations, training,
development and integration
CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN:
Mr John Crozier, Technical Partner Urban Canyon Sixth Sense
(UC6S), DSTL, UK MoD
EXPERT MILITARY AND INDUSTRY SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Lieutenant Colonel Simon Routledge, SO1 Land Systems, Land
Systems Programme, Platforms Division, DSTL, UK MoD
Lieutenant Colonel Chad Preece, Capability Integration Lead,
Protected Mobility Capability Project HQ NZDF Capability
Branch, New Zealand Defence Force
Lieutenant Colonel Torcica Valentin, Chief of Armoured Office,
Romanian MoD
Major Ola Petter Odden, Development Officer, Combat Lab,
Norwegian Army Land Warfare Centre, Norwegian Armed
Forces
Captain-commandant Kristel Mostrey, Material Manager
Piranha and Dingo, Belgian MoD
Colonel (ret’d) Mike McCarthy, Deputy to the Commanding
General, Maneuver Support Center of Excellence, United
States Army
Mr Hans-Josef Maas, Armoured Fighting Vehicles Vetronics
Project Leader, Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment and
Information Technology, Bundeswehr
Mr Keith Smith, GVA Manager, Land Environment Operating
Centre, DES, UK MoD
Professor Merfyn Lloyd OBE, Visiting Professor, Vetronics
Research Centre
Mr Pasi Niemela, Chief Engineer C4ISTAR, Patria Land Systems Oy
Mr Alex Koers, Co-founder and Director, Microflown AVISA

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FUTURE ARMOURED VEHICLE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS 2019
Day One | Wednesday 3rd April 2019 www.armouredvehicles-sa.com
MEDIA PARTNERS
8.30 Registration Coffee
9.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Mr John Crozier, Technical Partner Urban Canyon Sixth Sense
(UC6S), DSTL, UK MoD
KEYNOTE OPENING ADDRESSES
9.10 The Vital Importance of Situational Awareness for modern Infantry
Fighting Vehicles
• An evaluation of the current British armoured vehicle platforms
• How battlefield situational awareness is crucial for armoured
vehicle survivability as well as lethality on the modern battlefield
• The future of the British Army’s Armoured Vehicle Fleet
Lieutenant Colonel Simon Routledge, SO1 Land Systems, Land
Systems Programme, Platforms Division, DSTL, UK MoD
9.50 Digital Situational Awareness through Sensor Technology
Development
• Maximising digital sensor networks to improve inter-vehicle
communication
• Enhancing compatibility through modular digital architecture
• Plug and play sensor suites: the ability to integrate sensor
information and deliver a mission defined sensor
• Real time digital intelligence gathering and dissemination to
support situational awareness platforms
Mr Hans-Josef Maas, Armoured Fighting Vehicles, Vetronics Project
Leader, Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment and Information
Technology, Bundeswehr
10.30 Morning Coffee
ARMOURED VEHICLE SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
11.00 Improved Open Systems across the Land Environment for Effective
Situational Awareness
• Optimising Armoured Vehicle crew capabilities whilst reducing the
current training burden
• Enhanced interoperability through easier system management
• The future of British Armoured vehicle programmes
Mr Keith Smith, GVA Manager, Land Environment Operating Centre,
DES, UK MoD
11.40 CASTLE: The State of the Art Acoustic Subarray
• Acoustic localization of gunshots
• Sound ranging
• Tracking ground vehicles
• Fire control
Mr Alex Koers, Co-founder and Director, Microflown AVISA
12.20 Situational Awareness and UAS and C-UAS Operations
• How the role of UAS will develop the future of situational
awareness on the battlefield
• Calculating how C2IS systems can successfully receive real time
information and data from UAS
• Measures for successful counter UAS
Major Ola Petter Odden, Development Officer, Combat Lab,
Norwegian Army Land Warfare Centre, Norwegian Armed Forces
1.00 Networking Lunch
MILITARY PROGRAMME UPDATES
2.00 Protected Mobility Capability Update
• An update on the plan to modernise the New Zealand Defence
Force’s light armoured vehicles, enhancing situational awareness
across the fleet
• Maintaining the effectiveness of New Zealand Defence Force’s
protected land mobility capability
• Highlighting the future situational awareness requirements for the
New Zealand Defence Force mechanised capabilities
Lieutenant Colonel Chad Preece, Capability Integration Lead,
Protected Mobility Capability Project, NZDF Capability Branch, New
Zealand Defence Force
2.40 The Future of Main Battle Tanks in Land Forces
• Main battle tanks role in the future security challenges
• Situational awareness requirements for the main battle tank of the
Romanian Land Forces
• Methods of training crews for maximised situational awareness
• Maintenance support achievement for tank structures based on
competence levels
Lieutenant Colonel Torcica Valentin, Chief of Armoured Office,
Romanian MoD
3.20 Afternoon Tea
3.50 An Assessment of the Infantry Fighting Vehicle Piranha III’s
survivability through Situational Awareness Maximisation
• An appraisal on the successes and challenges of the Piranha III
• Enhancing situational awareness capabilities through
communications and real time intelligence gathering
• Future development prospects for the Piranha III
Captain-commandant Kristel Mostrey, Material Manager Piranha
and Dingo, Belgian MoD
MILITARY PANEL DISCUSSION
PANEL DISCUSSION
4.30 Situational Awareness Requirements for Combat Platforms
in Multi-Domain Battle and the Implications for the End
User
• Quantifying the value of situational awareness through training,
simulation and joint exercises
• Capturing situational awareness needs in platform requirements
• Question and answer session with military experts
Moderator: Mr John Crozier, Technical Partner Urban Canyon Sixth
Sense (UC6S), DSTL, UK MoD
Lieutenant Colonel Chad Preece, Capability Integration Lead,
Protected Mobility Capability Project, NZDF Capability Branch, New
Zealand Defence Force
Lieutenant Colonel Torcica Valentin, Chief of Armoured Office,
Romanian MoD
Major Ola Petter Odden, Development Officer, Combat Lab,
Norwegian Army Land Warfare Centre, Norwegian Armed Forces
Captain-commandant Kristel Mostrey, Material Manager Piranha
and Dingo, Belgian MoD
5.10 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
Mr John Crozier, Technical Partner Urban Canyon Sixth Sense
(UC6S), DSTL, UK MoD

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FUTURE ARMOURED VEHICLE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS 2019
www.armouredvehicles-sa.com Day Two | Thursday 4th April 2019
8.30 Registration Coffee
9.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Mr John Crozier, Technical Partner Urban Canyon Sixth Sense
(UC6S), DSTL, UK MoD
KEYNOTE OPENING ADDRESSES
9.10 Enhancing Situational Awareness Across US Armoured
Vehicle Fleets
• The current initiatives to enhance all-round visibility
• Enhancing space-based intelligence gathering and
dissemination in supporting armoured vehicle deployments
• Achieving crew-centric designs through enhanced cross-
platform integration
Colonel (ret’d) Mike McCarthy, Deputy to the Commanding
General, Maneuver Support Center of Excellence, United States
Army
9.50 Utilising Effective Trials and Inter-Agency Cooperation for
Optimal Situational Awareness
• Trialling and implementing manned and unmanned
operations for maximum situational awareness on the
battlefield
• Enhancing mounted and dismounted communications for
instantaneous information dissemination
• Assessing and overcoming the current challenges to
optimising situational awareness capabilities faced by British
Army Armoured Vehicles
Speaker Session Reserved for ATDU, UK MoD
10.30 Morning Coffee
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS PROGRAMME UPDATES
11.00 Understanding the Driving Requirements for Future Armoured
Vehicle Situational Awareness
• Elicitation of the driving requirements for full situational
awareness
• The essential role of architecture and associated technologies
• Assessment of situational awareness solutions and future
challenges
Mr Daniel Ota, Team Lead Platform Capability Integration,
Fraunhofer FKIE
11.40 Reserved for Sponsor
12.20 Discussing Potential Future Developments in Platform Situation
Awareness (SA) Capability and the Critical Importance of
Electronic Architectures with the Land Data Model (LDM) for
Situation Prediction
• Perception, Comprehension and Prediction – closing the loop
on dynamic SA
• Exploiting generic architectures and the Land Data Model
• SA within the GVA/NGVA approach – the advantage of the
generic awareness picture
• Modular SA and electronic control – man and machine agent
teaming, the building blocks for future combat platforms
Mr John Crozier, Technical Partner Urban Canyon Sixth Sense
(UC6S), DSTL, UK MoD
1.00 Networking Lunch
CAPABILITY AND TECHNOLOGY BRIEFINGS
2.00 APS Data Flow and the Advantages for Situational Awareness
• Successful system integration across British armoured fleets
• Harnessing the biproduct of APS system data to enhance
situational awareness capabilities
• An update on the ICARUS and MEDUSA programmes
Mr Richard Hooper, Principle Vetronics Engineer, DSTL, UK MoD
2.40 Situational awareness on the battlefield with indirectly
controlled systems
• Various roles of optionally manned, remote and autonomous
systems
• New human/machine interface possibilities
Mr Pasi Niemela, Chief Engineer Product Management, Patria
Land Systems Oy
3.20 Afternoon Tea
3.50 An Update on the Advancements in the Fields of Vetronics and
Situational Awareness
• Development of threat detection sensors and how to faster
inform vehicle crew members of incoming threats
• An in-depth analysis of how vetronics will work to link the
fundamental sub-systems in any Armoured Fighting Vehicle
• The future of vetronics and situational awareness
Professor Merfyn Lloyd OBE, Visiting Professor, Vetronics
Research Centre
VETRONICS AND GVA EXPERT PANEL DISCUSSION
PANEL DISCUSSION
4.30 Open Vetronic Architecture Development
for Infantry Fighting Vehicles
• Operational requirements for Open Reference Architectures
• An update with regards to NGVA and NGVA alignment
• Architecture question and answer session with military and
agency experts
Moderator: Mr John Crozier, Technical Partner Urban Canyon
Sixth Sense (UC6S), DSTL, UK MoD
Mr Hans-Josef Maas, Armoured Fighting Vehicles, Vetronics
Project Leader, Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment and
Information Technology, Bundeswehr
Mr Keith Smith, GVA Manager, Land Environment Operating
Centre, DES, UK MoD
Mr Daniel Ota, Team Lead Platform Capability Integration,
Fraunhofer FKIE
Professor Merfyn Lloyd OBE, Visiting Professor, Vetronics
Research Centre
5.10 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two
Mr John Crozier, Technical Partner Urban Canyon Sixth Sense
(UC6S), DSTL, UK MoD

4. SPONSORED BY:
Microflown AVISA is a trusted partner of several NATO countries in the
field of acoustic situational awareness.
Based upon the Microflown, a unique sensor that measures acoustic
particle velocity, the company provides unique low SWaP sensor
nodes that provide acoustic directionality over the entire audio
bandwidth.
Loaded with proper firmware, these sensor nodes are able to detect,
locate, track and classify all sorts of audible events, such as:
• Small Arms Fire
• RPGs
• Mortars/ artillery
• Drones and attack helicopters
Hence, Microflown AVISA’s sensor nodes combine the traditional:
• vehicle mounted gunshot
localization systems
• ground based sound ranging
systems
For the vehicles themselves, several capabilities are provided.
Stand alone, a state of the art acoustic gunshot localization system is
offered that also works when the vehicle is:
• driving • providing outgoing fire
It allows the cueing of:
• remote weapon stations • on board cameras
In a local network, a small array can be used for:
• tracking heavy ground
vehicles and helicopters
• localizing hostile mortar
positions
• own fire control
For the entire ground forces, above all counter battery, the networked
mesh network array provides the vehicle mounted Mobile Sound
Ranging Array capability, in essence similar to an active weapon
location radar, but then:
• passive
• distributed
• low power
• unattended
www.microflown-avisa.com
Pleora is the world’s leading supplier of video interfaces for
system manufacturers and camera companies serving the
military, medical, and industrial automation sectors. The
company was formed in 2000 and has gained a well-earned
reputation for technology leadership and innovative video
interface products. Manufacturers rely on our products,
standards expertise, and systems knowledge to bypass
development and integration complexities in a diverse range of
demanding real-time imaging applications. To learn more visit:
www.pleora.com
Observis designs and delivers cost effective and long lifetime
solutions for CBRNe reconnaissance vehicles. The key personnel
of the company has more than 15 years of experience in
delivering CBRNe recce vehicles, light and armoured. We know
and understand the challenges and risks the recce teams face
during operations and what is required to ensure the safety of
the personnel. We comprehend the operational challenges
and the importance of successful execution of reconnaissance
missions. The solutions we offer are built on our ObSAS platform.
ObSAS is a highly modular situational awareness software
providing fully scalable platform for device and systems
integration. It is completely hardware independent and can
be implemented for virtually any size installation from a single
CBRNe reconnaissance vehicle to a full nationwide network of
sensors and auxiliary systems. With ObSAS we are able to provide
our customers the most cost effective and long term solutions in
terms of system lifetime upgradability and lifetime cost.
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5. SPONSORSHIP
AUDIENCE PROFILE
The participation of Future Armoured Vehicle
Situational Awareness will once again provide a
comprehensive update on the recent advancements
achieved in the realm of land intelligence gathering,
communication and protection for the vehicle and
personnel. With focus on the collaboration between
military, research, and industry, Future Armoured
Vehicle Situational Awareness invites not only key
programme managers, capability directors and
operational commanders from national armed forces,
but also ensures the participation of senior engineers,
chief scientists and platform managers from leading
solution providers. The very latest technology innovators
and solution providers will be present to share their
ground-breaking equipment with a captive audience
all looking to advance their armoured vehicle
situational awareness programmes and land security.
The audience will include, but not be limited to:
Military:
• Heads of Land Systems
• Operational Commanders of Land Systems
• Directors of Mechanised Capability Planning
• Armoured Vehicles Communications Managers
• C2, C4i and ISTAR Leaders
• Vetronics Experts
• Optronics Engineers
• GVA Architects
• System Integration Project Managers
• Heads of Electronic Warfare and Cyber Capability
Industry:
• Chief Engineers
• Product Managers for Land Systems
• Technical Directors
• Heads of Land C4I
• Heads of Subsystems
• System Engineers
• Armoured Vehicle Programme Managers
BENEFITS OF SPONSORING
FUTURE ARMOURED VEHICLES
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
1. Educate the market on your company’s
capability and make the business case for
how they can solve your potential customers
challenges and requirements
2. Build your brand so your solutions are front
of mind when your prospects are putting
potential solution providers on their short list
3. Meet and network with active buyers while
there is still a chance to influence their
purchase decision
4. Generate new leads through meeting new
prospects from a variety of new countries and
programmes

6. FUTURE ARMOURED VEHICLES SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
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