20 - 22 May, 2025
| Novotel London West, UK
Conference Day One: Monday, 23 May 2022
8:30 am - 12:30 pm
BY INVITATION ONLY: TECHNOLOGY BRIEFINGS FROM THE INSTITUTE OF SAINT-LOUIS AND TOUR OF ITS FACILITIES
Focused on leading-edge research in defence and security in the heart of Europe, Defence iQ is delighted to partner with the French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis (ISL), a bi-national research institute jointly operated by the French Defence Innovation Agency (AID) and the German Ministry of Defence.
Conference attendees will also participate in a unique site visit to ISL, where they will tour its state-of-the-art facilities and gain exclusive insight into breakthrough innovations spearheaded by the Institute.
7:30 am - 8:15 am
MORNING COFFEE AND REGISTRATION
8:15 am - 8:30 am
CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS
8:30 am - 9:00 am
OPENING KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: GERMAN INDIRECT FIRE CAPABILITIES
9:00 am - 9:30 am
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS FROM RHEINMETALL + RBSL
Sponsored by: RBSL
Sponsored by: Rheinmetall Defence
9:30 am - 10:00 am
PRIORITISING AND DELIVERING LONG-RANGE PRECISION FIRES
- Update on the Long-Range Precision Fires Program including priorities and challenges
- Refining and delivering the requirement for a long-range fires capability that can deliver deepstrike in the contested operating environment
- Setting expectations for future fires. Balancing the need for long-range, sophisticated systems with the requirements for mass and lethality on the future battlefield
- Beyond the CFT’s initial objectives; fielding next-generation precision systems as a component of US Army’s fires capability
- Building an Alliance with industry to maintain the decisive advantage in any future engagement
10:00 am - 10:30 am
FUTURE ARTILLERY CAPABILITIES – TODAY!
- Lethality - range - precision - mobility – protection
- Unmatched new KMW technology
- Closing the gaps!
10:30 am - 11:00 am
MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING BREAK
11:00 am - 11:30 am
ARTILLERY AS AN EFFECTIVE JOINT ENABLER FOR THE PEER FIGHT
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
SOFT RECOIL TECHNOLOGY: THE FUTURE OF FIREPOWER
- How Soft Recoil Technology (SRT) can impact the modern battlefield – advantages over heavily armoured artillery
- The SRT transformation of 105mm and 155mm artillery
- Customer interest in SRT
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
PROSECUTING AREA TARGETS IN THE DEEP – MAXIMISING WEIGHT OF FIRES
- Fielding capabilities that can sustain freedom of manoeuvre and influence the battlespace at range
- Retaining the technical ability to deploy artillery decisively at low densities and to concentrate and generate mass where necessary
- Using area weapons to engage adversaries that cannot be located precisely, or which are dispersed
- Networking from sensor to shooter to enable long-range targeting
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
TARANIS ADLER – THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL COMBAT COMMAND OF JFS ASSETS
- Digital enhancement for more precision in target acquisition
- Dismounted Joint Fire Support Team (DACAS)
- Training and simulation systems
