Interoperability Focus Day – 19th January
The UAE are ensuring that their forces are internationally interoperable and are conducting joint exercises with partnering nations. There is an increased desire for regional and international co-operation and as a result GCC States are increasing their military capabilities. An entire day will be focused on the region’s most pressing issue: Interoperability. Specific issues in integration and interoperability, joint standards, data access and legacy systems will be discussed and standards defined so that you are able to strive towards the end goal of exchanging and processing multiple sources of information for you and your agency to generate timely effective decisions and actions.
ENABLING INTEROPERABILITY IN JOINT OPERATIONS
| 09.00 | Chairperson’s Opening Remarks |
| 09.15 | Increasing Cooperation And Delivering Interagency Cooperation For Interoperability Major Dr Eng Mohamed Alahbabi,
Information Communication Technology (ICT) Advisor, General Headquarters,
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES |
NATO’S APPROACH TO INTEROPERABILITY NATO is the key driving force behind the standards for member states’ systems, units, or forces to accept information from other systems, units, or forces, and to enable them to operate effectively together. In these sessions you will be able to see NATO’s approach to interoperability and use this to drive forward strategies to take back to your own agency. |
|
| 09.30 | Overcoming Challenges Of Interoperability And Standardisation Lieutenant General Ulrich Wolf, Director, NATO CIS Services Agency |
| 10.00 | NATO’s Approach To Interoperability In A Network Enabled Environment Bert van Domselaar, Chief Information Services Branch, NATO HQ C3 Staff |
| 10.30 |
Lieutenant General (ret.) Cristea Dumitru Former Chief Of Communications And IT Directorate, Romanian MoD |
| 11.00 | Morning Coffee Break & Opportunity To Network |
EFFECTS BASED OPERATIONS Today's operations require a command climate and organisational capability that allows a timely, effective exchange of information and ideas including a change in the way we manage and use information today. Effects Based Operations acts as an operational-level planning, execution and assessment process and today you will take practical methodologies back to your agency |
|
| 11.30 |
Brigadier General Yih San Tan, Future Systems Architect, MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, SINGAPORE |
| 12.00 | Connecting Stovepipes For Effects Based Approaches To Operations Industry Representative |
| 12.30 | Effects Based Approach to Operations And “Knowledge Development” Brigadier General Ehrard Drews, Commander, Bundeswehr Transformation Centre |
| 13.00 | Networking Lunch |
| 14:30 – 16:30 |
Dr. Linton Wells II, Distinguished Research Fellow, Force Transformation Chair, NATIONAL DEFENCE UNIVERSITY |