Agenda
Day 1
November 8, 2023
Networking Break
LTC Yoann Leclerc-DesjardinsDeputy Director, Artillery, CommandantRoyal Regiment Canadian Artillery School
- The current state of the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery’s structures and capabilities
- Training the next generation of Canadian artillery soldiers and leaders
- Canadian artillery employment as part of NATO deterrence on Operation REASSURANCE and the new Canadian led Brigade in Latvia
- Development of new capabilities in the Canadian artillery in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Networking Lunch
Special Presentation
Panel Session: The Army’s Expansion of 155m Production Capacity and Ammunition Systems
Thomas A. DoughertyExecutive Director and Senior Contracting OfficialArmy Contracting Command-New Jersey (ACC-NJ), Picatinny Arsenal
David DragACC-NJ Division Chief - Combat Ammunition Division
John CooperDivision Chief, Munitions Readiness DivisionACC-Rock Island
Jon MilnerDirector, BD Weapons and AmmunitionAmerican Rheinmetall Defense, Inc.
Colonel Leon Rogers, USAProject Manager
CAS (Combat Ammunition Systems)Picatinny Arsenal
Jason GainesVice PresidentGeneral Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems
Colonel (USA-Ret) David ShankFormer CommanderU.S. Army Air Defense Artillery School, U.S Army
Networking Break
End of Day One
Day 2
November 9, 2023
Tracy SheppardWeapons Sciences Division Competency Lead, Weapons Sciences and Materials Research DirectorateUS Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, DEVCOM Army Research Lab
- Long Range Fires are not for conflicts past– they are now and will always be essential in land warfare
- Defense and Offensive Fires across all domains are essential to the future fight
- We must reach out farther and fly faster to deliver precise effects, lethal and non-lethal, against an enemy that outnumbers us, currently outranges us, and will attempt to deny us access to the deep fight
Delegate Networking Break
Networking Lunch
LTC Timothy Godwin, USAProduct ManagerFire Support C2, PEO C3T
Col Michael Englis, USADirectorArmy Capabilities Manager, Fires Cells-Targeting, Fires CDID
Dr. Tom KarakoSenior FellowInternational Security ProgramDirector Of the Missile Defense Project
Center For Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
- Improving the Strength and Agility of the Army’s field Artillery Systems and Munitions
- How to Best to Advance LRPF for a New Era of Warfare
- LRPF Evolution with the Rapidly Changing Nature of Warfare
- Advances in Directed Energy Weapons
Delegate Break
Presentation
Artillery Systems Cooperation Activities (ASCA) Strategies – An International Network of Communications Capabilities with NATO Partnerships
William EverittWarrant Officer, Class 1, Deep Reconnaissance Strike Brigade Combat Team, Communications & Artillery Systems Cooperation Activities Specialist (ASCABritish Army
Lieutenant Colonel Adam Ropelewski, USASenior Fire Support Trainer
Vampire 07
Joint Multinational Readiness Center (JMRC)Hohhenfels, Germany
- What is ASCA? Try to clear up any myths about the ASCA Capability
- Why do we need ASCA?
- What are the current key issues with ASCA? monitored on recent deployments
Presentation
Leading Practices: Iterative Cycles Enable Rapid Delivery of Complex Innovative Products
Chris DurbinAssistant Director, Contracting and National Security Acquisitions AgencyU.S. Government Accountability Office
Brenna DerrittSenior Analyst Contracting and National Security Acquisitions AgencyU.S. Government Accountability Office
- DOD, including the Army, is continually challenged to deliver innovative capabilities to warfighters within needed timeframes. This results from a defense acquisition system that too frequently structures programs around long, linear development phases and elegant capability solutions that, in the end, seldom deliver what they promise.
- Leading companies—particularly those that operate in the private marketplace and serve non-government customers—structure their product development activities differently. They rely on iterative development cycles centered on identifying, developing, and quickly manufacturing minimum viable products, which meet the most critical needs of users.
- These practices position leading companies to consistently deliver innovations with increased frequency, relevance, and scale than typically occurs within the defense acquisition system.