| Thursday 16th October |
| Session 1 - Overviews |
| 13.00-13.10 |
Welcome Address
Deputy Chief of the General Staff of Czech Army Forces, Director of the Joint Operations Centre of MoD, Brigadier General Miroslav BÁLINT |
| 13.10-13.40 |
Experiences from missions
Col. of the General Staff Ivo Støecha, Commander of the 1st ACR Contingent mission ISAF PRT Logar |
| 13.40-14.10 |
UK MoD Clothing Strategy:
- a resumé of current operational capabilities
- the new generation of clothing under PECOC
- changes in the way this is delivered
Col Silas Suchanek, PM New Clothing Solutions, MoD UK |
| 14.10-14.40 |
US overview: The search for improved personal protective equipment
LtCol AJ Pasagian, PM Infantry Combat Equipment, USMC, USA |
| 14.40-15.00 |
BREAK |
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| Session 2 - Bridging the reality gap |
| 15.00-15.30 |
Out of the air into the mission - Modern soldier systems enable increased mission effectiveness
Florian Bertges, EADS Germany |
| 15.30-16.00 |
Canada´s Soldier Modernisation Programme
LtCol Jacques Levesque, Dept National Defence, Canada
Major Bruno Turmel, Army Headquarters, Project Director ISSP, Dept of Defence, Canada |
| 16.00-16.30 |
Policing Terrorism - experiences of a police authority working alongside a military force: equipment and compatibility issues
Paul Crothers, Police Service Northern Ireland, UK |
| 16.30-17.00 |
A newly developed load carriage system: Can it improve the performance of the soldier?
Claudy Koerhuis, TNO Human Factors, The Netherlands |
| 17.00-17.15 |
Discussion |
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| Friday 17th October |
| Session 3 - Protection Systems |
| 10.05-10.10 |
Welcome Address
Captain Stephen Taylor FNI, Royal Navy UK, Conference Chairman |
| 10.10-10.40 |
CBRN Protection
Miroslav Skoumal, Chief of Persistence Department, VOP-026 Šternberk, s.p., division VTÚO Brno |
| 10.40-11.10 |
Defining the UK's Future Soldier System: an overview of the Future Dismounted Close Combat Research Project
Andrew Arlow, Systems Engineering & Assessment Ltd UK |
| 11.10-11.30 |
BREAK |
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| Session 4 - Technical Issues |
| 11.30-12.00 |
Latest developments in helmet and body armour technology for military and police forces
Roger Medwell, Chief Executive, NP Aerospace UK, CONFERENCE SPONSOR |
| 12.00-12.30 |
The IdZ-ES concept: clothing, carriage and protection requirements and the solutions developed
Lore Pleister, Texplorer GmbH, Germany |
| 12.30-13.00 |
Project FELIN
Mgen Vincent Imbert, DGA/DDI, France |
| 13.00-13.15 |
Conclusions |
| 13.15-14.00 |
BREAK |
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| Session 5 - Industry Presentations - open session |
| 14.00-14.30 |
Teldat (Poland) |
| 14.30-15.00 |
NEOTEC (Czech Republic) |
| 15.00-15.30 |
Blücher (Germany) |
| 15.30-16.00 |
Dynamit Nobel Defence (Germany) |
| 16.00-16.30 |
Lenzing (Austria) |
| 16.30-17.00 |
Paul Boyé (France) |
