Jason Hawker

Principal Officer, NATO Flight Training Europe NSPA

Jas Hawker is the Principal Officer for NATO Flight Training Europe at the NATO Support and Procurement Agency.

Jas spent almost 30 years in the Royal Air Force and has amassed over 5000 flying hours on the Tornado and Hawk aircraft, which included 3 years as leader of the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows. He is a graduate of the Australian Advanced Command and Staff College and has extensive experience of working in the UK Ministry of Defence, Multi-National Headquarters and delivering Military Flying Training Programmes.

Day Three | 7 November

9:30 AM PANEL DISCUSSION: ADVANCING OPERATIONAL TRAINING FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE CONFLICTS: ESSENTIAL MISSIONS AND GETTING READY FOR CCAs

  • What are the key missions that pilots must ace in a peer conflict and given lessons from Ukraine? How must air forces prioritise live and synthetic training for lethal advantage? 
  • What are the future trends in training for 6th generation aircraft, alongside unmanned systems? 
  • Changing training needs on the fly: How to build-in flexibility and minimize disruption in the transition from a traditional training cycle? How would existing training regimes need to evolve and how quickly can this transition take place when needed? 
  • What might the teaching of “softer” but necessary skills such physical and mental resilience need to look like and how to measure and assess these skills? 
  • Which technologies have the potential to revolutionize the way we train to fight and increase our lethality as both as an individual force and as a coalition of allied nations? 

11:50 AM MULTI-NATIONAL SUPPORT TO NATO READINESS

  • Aviation support to Allies through the NSPA 
  • The growth of the NATO Flight Training Europe High Visibility Project  
  • Collaborating with Industry to enable innovative and data driven solutions 

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Jason.

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