Agenda

10 June
   
1800 Administrative Meeting and Speakers’ Dinner (speakers’ spouses invited)

11 June
0815 Registration, Coffee
0900 Welcome by Chairman: Mr. Goran Johnson, IDG Europe
0905 Welcome on behalf of the regiment: Col Brannstrom, CO Jamtland Rifles Regiment
0910 Welcome on behalf of Ostersund: Mr. Jens Nilsson, Mayor
0915 Administrative remarks: Ms. Louise Yuen, IDG Europe
0920 Introduction - The Importance of Commercial Information Technology for Military Operations: BG Hakan Espmark, CINC First Army Division, Swedish Forces
0950 A View of the US Army's Approach to Network Centric Warfare: Mr. John Cittadino, President, JCC Technology Associates, former member of the Army Science Board, former Director for Theater and Tactical C3 in the Office of the Secretary of Defense
1010 Motivation and Overview for the Workshop – The Military Customer in the Global Information Infrastructure: Dr. Howard Marsh, Associate Director for C4 Information Technology, US Office of Naval Research International Field Office
1030 Break
1040 Session 1: Military Concepts and Information Technology, Part 1
Session Chairman: Col Brannstrom
- The Challenges of Applying Information Technologies to Transform the Force: Mr. Wayne Perras, Technical Director, Naval Warfare Development Command
- The Royal Navy's current and predicted Network Enabling Capability (NEC) for use within Maritime Strike and Littoral Manoeuvre: Captain Jim Dale, Royal Navy, DACOS C4 CM(OPS) CinCFleet
1220 Lunch  & Presentation - Swedish Concepts for the Revolution in Military Affairs:
Major Lindberg, Swedish Military HQ
1320 Session 1 continued: Military Concepts and Information Technology, Part 2
Session Chairman: Col Brannstrom
- US Air Force Vision for Information Technology to Support the Forces: Dr. Northrup Fowler, Chief Scientist, Information Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory
- Commercial Information Technology's Role in Shaping the Joint Battlespace Infosphere: Mr. Richard C. Metzger, JBI Program Manager, Information Directorate, Air Force research Laboratory
- Distributed Agent Collaboration in Realistic Coalition or Multi-Domain Enterprises: Dr. Michal Pechoucek, Czech Technical University in Prague
- Adapting Commercial Technology for Military Applications: Mr. Lennart Kallkvist, Saab Systems
1520 Break
1530 Session 2: Commercial Communication/Networking Systems and Services
Session Chairman: Howard Marsh
- 3G and Beyond: Mr. Lars Brindt, Ericsson Research
- Managing QoS and Info Assurance in a Multi-Domain Environment: Prof. Laurie Cuthbert, Queen Mary, University of London
- The Commercial Telco View of the Future: Dr. Ulf Nilsson, Telia Research.
- GSM-R: The Technology and its Applications: Mr. Ola Bergman, Siemens AG
1800 Demonstration of the Jamtland Rifles Regiment’s C2 system
1900 Dinner at the Officers’ Mess, Jamtland Rifles Regiment, co-sponsored by IDG Europe (spouses invited)

12 June
0815 Session 2 (Concluded): Commercial Communication/Networking Systems and Services
Session Chairman: Howard Marsh
- GSM in support of military operations: Mr. Per Unell, Sectra
- Mobile Communication via Inmarsat – Global, Secure and High Bandwidth Connections: Mr. Paul Branch, Inmarsat
0835 Session 3: Computing in the Global Mobile Subscriber Environment
Session Chairman: Goran Johnson
- Personal Computing Equipment: Dr. Mark Smith, Hewlett Packard Labs
- Secure/Robust Windows CE: Mr. David Ladd, Microsoft
- COTS and Military Mobile Computing: Mr. Paul Shreve, Cisco Systems
- COTS-based Wireless Services Tailored for Users on the Move - Challenges and risks: Dr. Christian Jönsson, Swedish Defence Research Agency - FOI
1035 Break
1045 Session 4: Information Assurance
Session Chairman: Chris Reuter
- Advanced Technology for Information Security and Assurance: Dr. John McLean, Superintendent, Information Technology Division, Naval Research Laboratory
- The Survivable Global Information Enterprise: AFRL's Information Assurance Program,  Dr. Leonard Popyack, Technical Director, Adversarial Sciences Lab, Information Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory
- Project SAFEGUARD: Robustness in a Complex, Multi-Domain Network:
Dr. Wes Carter, Queen Mary, University of London
- Information Assurance for Electronic Commerce: Mr. Thord Axelsson/Mr. Evald Persson, Sweden Post
1245 Lunch
1330 Civilian technology in Network Centric Warfare: MG(r) Svante Bergh, Ericsson
1400 Begin Working Groups - Theme: Technology
Networking
Computing Hardware and Software
Security and Information Assurance
1715 Guided tour of the city (spouses invited)
1915 Dinner co-sponsored by Inmarsat, Telenor and Nera (spouses invited)

  

13 June
0830 Plenary Meeting
0900 Continue Working Groups - Theme: Operations and Technology Insertion
- Coalition Operations and Commercial Technology
- Opportunities for Experimentation and Commercial Technology Insertion
- R&D Issues to Adapt Commercial Systems/Services to Military Needs
1230 Lunch
Afternoon Plenary Session
1330 Working Group Outbriefs
1530 Panel Discussion of Major Findings, Conclusions, Recommendations
1630 Discussion of Way Ahead
- Identification of Major Opportunities, Issues, and Objectives
- Plans for follow on actions and workshops
1730 Adjourn
1830 Dinner hosted by the city of Ostersund, co-sponsored by Ericsson (spouses invited)

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