RUSI Air Power Conference 2006

Delivering Rapid Global Effect: Concepts, Requirements, Capabilities

and Operations

www.rusi.org Military Sciences

24-25 May 2006

The Banqueting House, London, UK

Main Sponsors

Confirmed Senior Military

Speakers Include:

Air Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy

KCB CBE DSO FRAeS RAF, Chief of Air Staff

(designate), Ministry of Defence, UK

General T. Michael Moseley USAF,

Chief of Staff Air Force, United States Air

Force (provisionally accepted)

Générale D’Armée Aerienne Richard

Wolsztynski, Chief of Staff,

French Air Force

Admiral Sir Jonathan Band KCB,

First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff ,

Ministry of Defence, UK

Air Chief Marshal Sir Joe French KCB CBE

FRAeS RAF, Commander in Chief, Strike

Command, Royal Air Force

Generalleutnant Klaus-Peter Stieglitz,

Inspekteur der Luftwaffe

Lieutenant General Hans de Jong,

Commander, Royal Netherlands Air Force

Air Vice Marshal Chris Moran OBE MVO MA

BSc RAF, Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Ministry

of Defence, UK

Major General D. A. Orazio Panato,

Deputy Chief of Air Staff, Italian Air Force

Air Vice Marshal John Quaife RAAF,

Air Commander, Royal Australian Air Force

Brigadier General Charles S. Patton USMC,

Commanding General, Marine Corps

Air Station Cherry Point, United States

Marine Corps

Supported by:

Sponsor

The RUSI Air Power Conference 2006 will look at the challenges for air power in

delivering Rapid Global Effect. Focusing on key developments in concepts,

requirements, capabilities and operations, the conference will bring together a

collection of senior military, political and industrial leaders in the air power community

to assess critical challenges and choices facing joint forces in the air environment.

RAPID

GLOBAL

EFFECT

SENIOR SERVINGMILITARY OFFICERS

All serving military officers of one-star

rank or higher may register for free as

guests of RUSI. Please complete the

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On behalf of the Royal United ServicesInstitute, I have great pleasure ininviting you to join us for the Air PowerConference 2006. We are delighted thatonce again we are enjoying the supportof the Royal Air Force.

This year, the conference will addressthe requirements for delivering rapidglobal effect. In particular, it will focuson: the concepts and doctrine under-pinning the transformation towardexpeditionary air operations; the latest

capability developments, in relation to both manned andunmanned platforms; advances in strategic mobility and support;and the growing importance of integrated air operations. It willalso touch on key influencing air power developments within theUK itself, such as the new Defence Industrial Strategy and theFuture Carrier programme.

These issues will be discussed by a wealth of confirmed seniorspeakers from the international air power community, includingthe Chiefs of Staff from the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy; theChiefs of Air Staff for the United States, France, Germany andThe Netherlands, and senior representatives from the Italian andRoyal Australian Air Forces and the European Air Group. Thisbroad range of perspectives will provide a unique opportunity toassess national initiatives and the opportunities and challengespresented for coalition operations.

Once again, we expect more than 350 participants drawn fromgovernments, the armed forces, defence industries, and theacademic and analytical communities. I hope you will join us.This brochure contains information for the event, including fulldetails for registration. Do please pass this information to anyother person you thank may like to attend. I look forward towelcoming you and your colleagues to the conference.

Rear Admiral Richard Cobbold CB FRAeS

Director, RUSI

‘Probably the best RUSI Conference I have ever attended. Extremely high quality

speakers. Stimulating debate. A real jewel in the crown’ (Brigadier Peter Fox, UK

Ministry of Defence). The RUSI Air Power Conference 2005

‘Cutting edge, innovative and challenging presentations from the leaders in the field

of Air Power. First class.’ (Squadron Leader Gavin Bateman RAF, RAF Cottesmore).

Exploiting Air Power for Military Effect: Capability Requirements, Combat Operations

and the Future of Air Power, April 2004

‘An excellent and stimulating programme highlighting the continuing importance of

RUSI as a source of comprehensive and timely defence analysis’ (Dr Richard P.

Hallion, Headquarters United States Air Force). The Future of Air Power: Programmes,

Technologies and Effects-Based Air Operations. 2003

Conference Quotes

Conference ConceptThe RUSI Air Power Conference 2006 will look at the challenges for air power indelivering Rapid Global Effect. The requirement for air power to deliver preciseeffects, rapidly, at distance, over a broad spectrum of operational and politicalcontexts is the key capability driver in air power transformation.

As air power transforms to meet the continually-fluctuating nature of theoperational environments, developing requirements and capabilities to implement inpractice the principles of force transformation, Effects-Based Operations, andNetwork-Enabled Capability, the challenge air power faces is to remain agile andadaptable as it seeks to be able to deliver responsive and proportionate effect on calland at distance.Air forces must also continue to integrate further to deliver effect on land from the air, and combined forces must continue to improve interoperabilityin concepts, capabilities and operational practice to support the requirements ofcoalition operations.The role and perspective of the operator and practitioner,or customer, remains crucial in each and every element of this debate.

This conference will focus on several key areas critical to the delivery of rapid global effect:

• The significance of air superiority as a key enabler in delivering rapid global effect;• The emerging concepts and doctrine supporting air power capability requirements;• National and international transformation programmes to develop and maintain

air power force structures and force levels able to meet the sustained strategictempo of operations;

• The significance of global strategic mobility in enabling effective air operations in an expeditionary context;

• An analysis of global strike capability and the future roles of manned andunmanned platforms;

• The role of air power in delivering sustained, persistent C4ISTAR to the jointcommunity;

• The importance of improved customer partnering with industry to guaranteecutting-edge capability and the ability to respond quickly to the developingsecurity environment.

The RUSI Air Power Conference 2006 will bring together key internationalstakeholders to provide a positive and pro-active international forum for thediscussion of the key issues for air power in delivering rapid global effect.

Sponsors

Main Sponsors

“Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) combines weapons and

aircraft capabilities, intelligence and surveillance systems,

communications architectures, extensive large-scale integration

expertise, and support systems across its three capability based

business units.These are Precision Engagement and Mobility Systems,

Network and Space Systems, and Support Systems. Boeing’s IDS also

possesses an advanced systems group which supports the business

units. This organization addresses future evolving requirements for

integrated capability driven solutions. A $30.8 billion business with

more than 78,000 employees, the Boeing Integrated Defense Systems

strategy is to understand the enduring needs of customers and provide

value-added solutions to meet their requirements.The strategy

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delivering new solutions.Working in partnership with its customers and

focusing on network-centric, capability-driven solutions, Boeing’s IDS is

transforming business and military operations to address a rapidly

changing world. Boeing possesses world leading expertise in the air

power arena.The company offers an extraordinary range of defence

and space systems products and services. It designs, produces, modifies

and supports fighters, bombers, transports, rotorcraft, aerial refuelers,

missiles and munitions and is on the leading edge of military

technology through its unmanned systems development efforts.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is a leading

manufacturer of unmanned aircraft and high-resolution surveillance

and radar imaging systems, including the Predator® UAS series and

the Lynx® SAR/GMTI sensor system. Leading the industry to new

levels of performance, reliability and operational capability since its

establishment in 1993, the company has expanded the acceptance

and application of unmanned aircraft systems within the United

States and among allied forces around the world. GA-ASI offers

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systems, as well as for civil missions.

Predator, the company’s flagship UAS, has been operational in every

U.S. conflict since 1995. Since its development in 1994, Predator’s

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Predator series aircraft are in constant daily operations supporting the

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customers and have been deployed in world trouble spots on five

continents, including operations in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, as part of the Lockheed Martin

Corporation, is a leader in the design, development, systems

integration, production and support of advanced military aircraft and

related technologies.

Its customers include the military services of the United States,

United Kingdom and allied countries throughout the world. Products

include the F-16, F-22, F-35 JSF, F-117, T-50, C-5, C-27J, C-130J, C-

130, P-3, S-3 and U-2.

The company also undertakes research and development programmes

for the US Government and invests heavily on similar programmes in

its own right. Many of these are currently linked to network centric

warfare/network enabled capability.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, Lockheed Martin employs

about 135,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the

research, design, development, manufacture, integration and

sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.

The corporation reported 2005 sales of $37.2 billion.

BAE Systems is an international company engaged in the development,

delivery, and support of advanced defence and aerospace systems in

the air, on land, at sea, and in space. The Company designs,

manufactures and supports military aircraft, combat vehicles, surface

ships, submarines, radar, avionics, communications, electronics, and

guided weapon systems. It is a pioneer in technology with a heritage

stretching back hundreds of years and is at the forefront of innovation,

working to develop the next generation of intelligent defence systems.

The company is involved in many of the world’s most advanced aircraft

programmes including the Typhoon and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, as

well as having its avionics and sub-systems integrated onto virtually

every frontline US Air Force fighter. It is the designer, developer and

manufacturer of the Hawk advanced jet trainer and is the largest single

supplier of avionics systems on the C-17 Globemaster. BAE Systems is

also a major shareholder in Airbus – the company responsible for the

world’s most successful commercial airliners and the forthcoming

A400M military transporters.

BAE Systems has major operations across five continents and

customers in some 130 countries.

The Company employs over 100,000 people and generates annual

sales of approximately £14.8 billion through its wholly owned and

joint-venture operations.

Finmeccanica is a world-leading high technology and systems

company: a global partner in the aerospace, defence and security

markets; a top helicopter manufacturer; a key player in defence

electronics; and a European leader in satellite and space services.

The Group is Europe's third largest aerospace and defence company

with 51,000 employees. It turns over more than £7 billion revenues

in the aerospace, defence and security sectors and is noted for its

extensive investment in Research & Development - 16% of its revenue.

Finmeccanica is the second largest company in the British defence

sector employing more than 9,000 highly skilled staff. Its UK

businesses comprise helicopter design, production and support by

AgustaWestland: high technology defence electronics systems by

SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems: specialist communications

network solutions by SELEX Communications: and the C4I systems and

airtraffic/airspace management expertise of SELEX Sistemi Integrati.

Finmeccanica designs and manufactures some of the most advance

products in the Aeronautics sector. From the world leading military

range of AgustaWesland Helicopters Super Lynx 300, EH101, NH90,

A129 ; Aermacchi’s state of the art M-346 and M-311trainer aircrafts;

to Alenia Aeronautica’s C-27J tactical airlifter, Eurofighter combat

aircraft,ATR special mission aircraft, Sky-X UCAV technology

demonstrator and A380 and B787 aerostructures.

Sponsors

For more information on sponsorship opportunities, please contact Elizabeth Quintana: Tel: +44 (0)207 747 4951 or Email: elizabethq@rusi.org

The GE Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team joint venture is a model of US/

European collaboration, by two of the world’s foremost aero engine

manufacturers. The creation of the JV in 2002 was another step in the

GE/ Rolls-Royce relationship which extends back to 1994 when GE and

the then Allison Engine Company formed a team to work on the US

Governments IHPTET (Integrated high performance turbine technology

program). This relationship extended into the Joint Advanced Strike

Technology Project (JAST) and by the time this became Joint Strike

Fighter (or “JSF”) in 1996, Rolls-Royce had acquired Allison and joined the

GE team developing propulsion concepts for what was then termed the

JSF Alternate Engine Program.

Now known as the F136 “interchangeable” engine, the F136 is specifically

designed for all variants of Lockheed Martin’s JSF F-35 aircraft, with GE

responsible for 60% of the program and Rolls-Royce 40%.

Testing of the first F136 engines commenced during 2004 both in the

conventional mode and with the STOVL LiftSystem™. With full scale

development (or System Development and Demonstration) having

started in August 2005 the F136 Program is on schedule for deliveries in

2012.

Rolls-Royce operates in four global markets - civil aerospace, defence

aerospace, marine and energy. It is investing in technology and

capability that can be exploited in each of these sectors to create a

competitive range of products.

Rolls-Royce has a broad customer base comprising more than 500

airlines, 4,000 corporate and utility aircraft and helicopter operators,

160 armed forces and more than 2,000 marine customers, including 70

navies.The company has energy customers in nearly 120 countries.

Rolls-Royce employs around 35,000 people, of which 21,000 are in the

UK. Forty per cent of its employees are based outside the UK -

including 5,000 in the rest of Europe and 8,000 in North America.

The large installed base of engines generates demand for the provision

of services.A key element of the company's strategy is to maximize

services revenues, which have increased by 60 per cent over the past

five years, by the provision of a comprehensive portfolio of services.

Annual sales total nearly £6 billion, of which 55 per cent are services

revenues.The order book is more than £21 billion, which, together with

demand for services, provides visibility as to future activity levels.

MBDA is the world’s leading prime contractor equipping the world’s

Armed Forces with advanced, precision effects air-launched weapons.

ASRAAM, in service with the RAF and RAAF, is proving itself as the

most capable Within Visual Range air-to air missile in service today.

ASRAAM is being integrated and certified on JSF during SDD for

Internal carriage.

BRIMSTONE - the latest enhancement to the RAF’s Tornado Force

providing an air-to-ground, precision effects weapon, highly capable

against battlefield armoured targets. Integration onto Harrier is

underway and is planned for Typhoon and JSF.

METEOR - the premier air dominance weapon for six European air

forces has now undergone flight trials on Typhoon, Gripen and Rafale. It

has exceptional speed and reach, is 'network enabled' and highly suited

to the future engagement space with capability against fleeting

targets, including cruise missiles.

MICA is the multi-mission Air-to-Air missile system (RF or IR) providing

a high level of tactical flexibility for Rafale and the latest versions of

Mirage 2000-5.

STORM SHADOW/SCALP EG - a very effective, air-delivered cruise

missile offering high precision and hard target attack capability. It saw

successful service in OP Telic and is now in service in Italy on Tornado.

It is planned to be integrated on Typhoon and JSF.

Specialising in the defence, aerospace, security and services markets,

Thales UK is a major electronics company that has grown to be a

significant industrial force. Over the last few years,Thales has

strengthened its industrial presence in the UK through £2bn of

acquisitions, resulting in 90% of UK sales being sourced from

within the UK.

Part of the £7 billion global Thales Group, which employs 60,000 staff

in over 50 countries,Thales UK employs 10,000 people, of whom 4,000

are engineers. UK turnover in 2004 was £1.1bn of which 30% was for

export. The company's technology, based on both civil and military

capabilities, is world class and its plants and employees in the UK make

a significant contribution to the nation's economy, its technical

capability and its industrial base.

Thales has UK centres of excellence in air defence, optronics, naval

communications, electronic warfare, surveillance radar, training &

simulation, e-security and global positioning. The UK Research and

Development (R&D) facility has world-class capabilities in navigation,

electronic warfare and networks.

Thales UK is a company that can be trusted, as a prime contractor,

supplier, partner and employer of choice. It continues to develop its

capabilities in the United Kingdom and is committed to understanding

and serving the needs of all of its customers, and to delivering high

quality, cost effective solutions.

As well as being selected as part of the Alliance to build the new

Aircraft Carriers for the Royal Navy,Thales has also been selected to

supply the WATCHKEEPER Unmanned Aerial Vehicle programme.The

company has also been awarded the FIST assessment phase contract

and is leading the Electronic Architecture and Integrated Survivability

TDPs for the FRES programme.

Conference Programme

DAY 1 - WEDNESDAY 24 MAY 2006

KEY TO SPEAKER CONFIRMATION STATUS

Name in bold - Speaker confirmed Name in italic - Speaker invited; to be confirmed

08:00 Registration and Morning Coffee Sponsored by

08:50 Conference Welcome & Administrative Announcements

SESSION ONE: STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVES I

Chair: Rear Admiral Richard Cobbold CB FRAeS (Director, RUSI)

09:00 Opening Address: ‘Rapid Global Effect’Air Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy KCB CBE DSO FRAeS RAF,Chief of Air Staff (designate), Ministry of Defence, UK

09:20 Keynote Address:General T. Michael Moseley, Chief of Staff,United States Air Force (provisionally accepted)

09:40 Address: ‘Coalition Air Power: The Way Forward’Générale D’Armée Aerienne Richard Wolsztynski,Chief of Staff, French Air Force

10:00 Discussion Session

10:25 Morning Coffee

SESSION TWO: TRANSFORMING THE DELIVERY OF AIR POWER

Chair: Air Vice Marshal Professor Tony Mason CB CBE MA DSc FRAeS DL RAF (RET’D)

(Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, University of Birmingham)

10:50 Addresses: Transforming to an Agile Air Force

• ‘Delivering Rapid Global Effect with the agile Air Force’Air Chief Marshal Sir Joe French KCB CBE FRAeS RAF,Commander in Chief, Strike Command, Royal Air Force

• ‘The Future Environment - Air Power Opportunities’Rear Admiral Chris Parry CBE, Director General Joint Doctrine &Concepts Centre, Ministry of Defence, UK

• ‘USAF International Affairs Transformation: The Capabilities-Based Approach‘Bruce S. Lemkin, Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force(International Affairs), United States Air Force

• ‘Force Transformation - Top-Down and Bottom-UpApproaches in Europe’Brigadier General Joachim Wundrak, Deputy Director(designate), European Air Group

12:10 Discussion Session

12:30 Addresses: Transformation in Industry: Meeting the Challengesof Rapid Global Effect and Agile Air Power

• ‘Meeting the Global Air Power Challenge’ - an IndustryPerspective’George Muellner, President, Advanced Systems, The BoeingCompany

• ‘Transformation in the UK Air Sector’Steve Mogford, Chief Operating Officer, BAE Systems plc

• ‘Evolution of Manned and Unmanned Aircraft’Captain Maurizio Cheli, Chief Defence Test Pilot,Alenia Aeronautica

13:30 Discussion Session

13:50 Lunch Sponsored by

SESSION THREE: RAPID GLOBAL MOBILITY

Chair: Major General Gary Coward OBE (Commander, Joint HelicopterCommand, Ministry of Defence, UK)

14:50 Panel:

• ‘Rapid Global Mobility’Air Vice Marshal Iain McNicoll CBE BSc FRAeS RAF,Air Officer Commanding 2 Group, Royal Air Force, UK

• ‘Current Operations: Enabling Rapid Global Effect’Air Vice Marshal Chris Harper CBE MA FCMI RAF, Chief of Staff(Operations), Headquarters Strike Command, Royal Air Force, UK

• ‘Future Capability Requirements for Delivering Rapid GlobalMobility’Air Commodore Carl Dixon OBE RAF, Director EquipmentCapability (Air and Littoral Manoeuvre), Ministry of Defence, UK

15:35 Discussion Session

15:55 Afternoon Tea

SESSION FOUR: INTEGRATED AIR OPERATIONS

Chair: Air Marshal Sir Clive Loader KCB OBE FRAeS RAF (Deputy Commander inChief, Strike Command, Royal Air Force, UK)

16:20 Address: ‘The Role of Carrier Strike in Delivering Rapid Global Effect’Admiral Sir Jonathan Band KCB, First Sea Lord and Chief of theNaval Staff, Ministry of Defence, UK

16:40 Address: ‘Integrated Air-Land Operations’Brigadier Andrew Bellamy, Commander, Joint Air LandOrganisation, HQ Strike Command, UK

17:00 Address: ‘Integrated Air Operations - Response and Effects’Air Vice Marshal Nigel Day CBE RAF (RET’D), Military Adviser, MBDA

17:20 Address: ‘Operations on the Cusps’Air Vice Marshal David Walker CBE AFC RAF,Air Officer Commanding 1 Group, Royal Air Force, UK

17:40 Discussion Session

18:00 Close of Day One

18:00 ConferenceReceptionUndercroft,Banqueting House Sponsored by

DAY 2 - THURSDAY 25 MAY 2006

08:00 Registration and Morning Coffee

08:50 Conference Welcome & Administrative Announcements

SESSION FIVE: STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVES II

Chair: Dr. Richard P. Hallion Jr. (Senior Advisor for Air and Space Issues,Headquarters United States Air Force)

09:00 Address: ‘The Luftwaffe Perspective - a Multinational Approachto Air Power’Generalleutnant Klaus-Peter Stieglitz, Inspekteur der Luftwaffe

09:20 Address: ‘A Small, Full Spectrum Air Force versus Rapid GlobalEffect’Lieutenant General Hans de Jong, Commander,Royal Netherlands Air Force

09:40 Address: ‘Transforming a Legacy Air Force’Major General D. A. Orazio Stefano Panato,Deputy Chief of Air Staff, Italian Air Force

10:00 Address: ‘The Shape of Things to Come: An RAAF Perspective’Air Vice Marshal John Quaife RAAF, Air Commander,Royal Australian Air Force

10:20 Discussion Session

10:45 Morning Coffee

SESSION SIX: AIR OPERATIONS FOR STRATEGIC EFFECT

Chair: Major General Bob D. DuLaney USAF, (Director, Air and SpaceOperations, Headquarters, United States Air Forces in Europe, Ramstein AirBase, Germany)

11:05 Panel:

• ‘Air Power’s Role in Small Wars’Wing Commander Harry Kemsley RAF, Defence Fellowship,King’s College London

• ‘Joint/Coalition Fires supporting Counter-InsurgencyOperations (COIN)’Brigadier General Charles S. Patton USMC, CommandingGeneral Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, United StatesMarine Corps

• ‘The Role of Fast Jets in Close Air Support’Wing Commander Bruce Hedley MBE MA RAF,Officer Commanding, 3(F) Squadron, Royal Air Force

• ‘Future Strike Capabilities’Air Commodore Steve Hillier RAF, Director Equipment Capability(Theatre Airspace), Ministry of Defence, UK

&

Group Captain Ian Wood RAF, Deputy Director, EquipmentCapability (Deep Target Attack), Ministry of Defence,UK

• ‘The Future of Manned Aircraft: 5th Generation Fighters’Frank Cappuccio, Vice President and General Manager, SkunkWorks, Lockheed Martin Corporation

12:35 Discussion Session

12:55 Lunch Sponsored by

SESSION SEVEN: NETWORKED AIR & SPACE OPERATIONS

Chair : Professor Sir Martin Sweeting OBE FRS (Chief Executive, SurreySatellites UK Ltd)

13:55 Panel:

• ‘ISTAR Concepts and Capability Developments’Air Vice Marshal Stu Butler RAF, Capability Manager(Information Superiority) (designate), Ministry of Defence, UK

• ‘Future Air Command and Control in a Networked Era - The CAOC Concept’Air Commodore Tim Anderson DSO MA MRAeS RAF,Commandant, Air Warfare Centre, Royal Air Force

• ‘Capability Approach to Persistence’Richard Deakin CEng MBA BSc FRAeS, Managing Director,Thales Aerospace UK

14:40 Discussion Session

15:00 Short Coffee Break*

SESSION EIGHT: UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES*

Chair (and introductory remarks): Sir John Day KCB OBE ADC BSc

(Senior Military Adviser, BAE Systems plc)

15:10 Panel:

• ‘The UK UAV/UCAV Roadmap’Air Vice Marshal Chris Moran OBE MVO MA BSc RAF,Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Ministry of Defence, UK

• ‘Concepts and Capability Developments for Unmanned Air Vehicles’James M. ‘Raleigh’ Durham, Deputy Director Joint ForceApplication, Office of the Under Secretary of Defence(Acquisition, Technology & Logistics), Department of Defense, US

• ‘UAV Operations - Lessons Learned’3 Group, Royal Air Force, UK

• ‘The Impact of Unmanned Aircraft Systems in EstablishingNew Mission Areas’Thomas J. Cassidy Jr., President, Aircraft Systems Group,General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc

16:10 Discussion Session

SESSION NINE: CLOSING ADDRESS*

Chair: Rear Admiral Richard Cobbold CB FRAeS (Director, RUSI)

16:30 Closing Address: Air Vice Marshal Chris Moran OBE MVO MA BSc RAF,Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Ministry of Defence, UK

16:50 Discussion Session

17:00 Closing Comments: Rear Admiral Richard Cobbold CB FRAeS

(Director, RUSI)

CONFERENCE CLOSE

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