Day One: Wednesday, 28 April, 2010
08.15 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Chris Granville-White CBE
08.25 Host Nation Address: Welcome Address From
Air Commodore Maktoum Salim bin al-Mazrooi
Director General of Operations
Royal Air Force of Oman
08:45 Workings Of French Air Force Support And Technical Command
- Role within French Air Force
- Goals and challenges
- Fitting within French Air Force Middle Eastern presence
Brigadier General Alain Pizel
head of Air Force Support and Technical Command
French Air Force
Regional Focus
09.15 GCC Focus: The Question Of Iran
- GCC relations with Iran since 1982
- Current position of GCC members towards Iran •Relevance of Air Power within this relationship
Major-General Saber al-Suwaidan (r)
former Commander of the Kuwait Air Force
09.45 Policing Regional Waters Through Maritime Aviation Platforms
- Threat of piracy in regional waters
- Methods for maritime patrol
Commodore (r) Vasan
Indian Navy, Head, Strategy and Security Studies
Centre for Asia Studies
10.15 Networking Break
10.45 Airpower In Joint Operations
Colonel Patrick Carey
Deputy Director, Regional Affairs, Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force for International Affairs
US Air Force
Focus on Early Warning Systems
11.15 AEW Programmes In The Middle East
- Introduction to AEW in the region
- Role of AEW in regional defence
- Future plans and procurements
Riad Kahwaji
Chief Executive Officer
Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis
11.35 Networking Break
12.00 Saab Surveillance Systems – AEW&C In The Battlespace
Environment
Lars Karlen
Saab
12.30 GCC Shared Early Warning System
- Overview of system capabilities and benefits
- Lessons learned from past experience Focus on Eurofighter
Colonel Ted Spencer
US Air Attaché to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia*
13.00 Networking Break
13.30 Cubic Defense Applications – The P5 Combat Training System/
Tactical Combat Training System
- Introduction to Cubic’s P5 Combat Training System and the 5th generation of Air Combat Manoeuvring Instrumentation (ACMI)
- Key Capabilities of P5 Training System
- Current operators and operational feedback
- Integration abilities
John Naff
Cubic Defense Applications
Focus on Eurofighter
14.00 Operational Analysis Of The Eurofighter
- Key capabilities 4.5 generation combat aircraft
- Training considerations
- Future work
Colonel Frank Gräfe
Head of Eurofighter Programme
German Luftwaffe
14.30 Maintenance And Logistics For The German Eurofighter
- Maintaining fleet readiness
- Predicting long-term needs
- Recommendations
Colonel Horst Kluegel
Head of Maintenance, Eurofighter Programme
German Luftwaffe
15.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks