Day 2 agenda
Registration and morning coffee
Chairman’s welcome and round up from Day 1
The engineer contribution to environmental protection
- Basic outcomes from the IES 2011
- New energy provisions
- Zero footprint ideas
A lesson from history: The Roman Army and its sapper deployment
- The Roman army structure
- The utilisation of skilled engineers and un-skilled legionaries
- Peace and wartime tasks
- The role of the Roman army engineer
- Successes and failures
- What lessons can be applied today?
Increasing safety, effciency and productivity in construction equipment and power generation
- Armour protected machinery
- Technology products for machines
- Military microgrids
A commander’s view of the evolution of the IED
British Army experience from Northern Ireland to Helmand province
- Early examples
- The Iraq experience
- Recent Afghanistan examples
- British Army structural and resource development in the past decade
- Personnel experience of commanding IEDD operators
Morning refreshments and networking
Using canines to detect IEDs and mines
- Training off leash IED Detection canine
- Why is the Labrador Retriever the perfect dog for the task?
- Capabilities of the IED detection canine
Training and development for basic and specialist EOD taskings
- Gaining insight into the current status of the EOD CoE
- The EOD COE training activities for 2012
- Can we utilise non-specialist troops in the basic EOD role?
Current challenges in compound/patrol base construction
Gaining insight into how the engineering and logistic footprint can be reduced whilst improving force protection capabilities
- How to reduce pressures on water and energy usage in operational theatres
- Afghanistan case study: Constructing, protecting and sustaining FOBs in Uruzgan
- Force protection on non-combat operations -Implementing new construction design and techniques in future operations
Lunch and networking
Solution for route clearing and convoy companion
- Solution for safe route preperation and versatile IED reconnaisance
Increasing force protection whilst reducing the logistics footprint
How industry is reducing military resource expenditure through technical innovation - Addressing the issue of limited logistic lift - Supply of effective lightweight force protection structures which require limited equipment to construct - The supply of force protection equipment and material which is recoverable and in many instances is 100% reusable - Efforts made to reduce significantly the exposure to possible hostile actions by those constructing force protection structures
Protection of United Nations facilities in a high risk environment
- Vulnerability and risk assessment with the threat mitigation measures to protect UN personnel, property and installations against explosive blasts
- How can an NGO be fully prepared for the threats it may face in Iraq
- Integrating the full range of combat engineering and military construction techniques in UN compounds
Afternoon refreshments
Leasing options for government and industry organisations: Cost sharing versus strategic equipment availability
- What are the available options?
- What impact at a strategic and tactical level will this have?
- The figures: Making financial sense of leasing larger equipment pieces
How are industry initiatives supporting military pooling and sharing support within a challenging economic environment?
- Current research programmes and findings
- Conclusions
- Recommendations and the likely impact of implementation
