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BRIEFING KEY

UNMANNED/UNINHABITED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV)

COMMAND AND CONTROL (C2) WORKSHOP

9-10 February 1999, The Hague, The Netherlands

INTRODUCTORY PRESENTATIONS:

0-1 "Opening Remarks and Administration" (NATO UNCLAS), Mr. Barry Brown, Workshop Leader and Head Surveillance Branch, Air C2 and Sensors Division, NC3A-NL

0-2. (NO VIEWGRAPHS USED) "SHAPE Perspective" (NATO UNCLAS), Lt Col Mario Gioe’, Ops & Log Division, SHAPE

0-3. "NATO Air Command & Control System (ACCS) Overview" (NATO UNCLAS), Mr. Roger Martin, Chief Planning & Architecture Division, NACMA

0-4. "High-Level Assessment of Integrating UAVs in NATO ACCS" (NATO UNCLAS), Mr. Bob Keith, Air C2 Branch, Air C2 & Sensors Division, N3A-NL

DISCUSSION AREA 1 – UAV Operations and Mission Planning and Tasking

Discussion Area Leader: Mr. Joe Rodero, Head Air C2 Branch, Air C2 & Sensors Division, N3A-NL

Presentations:

I-1 (NO VIEWGRAPHS USED) "Mission Planning with the Initial Combined Air Operations Centre (CAOC) Capability (ICC)" (NATO UNCLAS), Mr. J-P Massart, Air C2 Branch, Air C2 & Sensors Division, N3A-NL

I-2 "US Maritime Tactical UAV Concepts of Operations" (NATO UNCLAS), Major (USMC) Steve Waugh, PEO CMs and Joint UAVs

I-3 "RQ-1S NRT Video Exploitation and C2" (NATO UNCLAS), Major D.A. Schiffer, HQ Air Combat Command (US)

I-4 "German Air Force UAV Position and Way Ahead" (NATO UNCLAS), Lt Col Wolfgang Turnwald, MOD Germany

I-5 "Germany Army UAV Plans and CL-289 Operations" (NATO UNCLAS), Lt Col Bernhard von Bothmer, MOD Germany

DISCUSSION AREA 2 – UAV Tracking, Identification and Tactical Control

Discussion Area Leader: Mr. Michel Desbois, Surveillance Branch, Air C2 & Sensors Division, NC3A-NL

Presentations:

II-1 "Common UAV Control System Design Challenges" (NATO UNCLAS), Captain (USN) M.J. Witte, PEO CMs and Joint UAVs

II-2 "NC3A Radar Coverage Model" (NATO UNCLAS), Mr. Thierry Bru, Surveillance Branch, Air C2 and Sensors Division, NC3A-NL

II-3 "Detection, tracking and identification of UAVs" (NATO UNCLAS): Dr. Rene van der Heiden, Surveillance Branch, Air C2 & Sensors Division, NC3A-NL

II-4 "Interoperating UAVs with C4I in the Digital Battle Space" (NATO UNCLAS), Mr. Jerome Maffert, Aerospaciale

DISCUSSION AREA 3 – UAV Data Transmission, Fusion and Dissemination

Discussion Area Leader: Mr. Joe Ross, Surveillance Branch, Air C2 & Sensors Division, NC3A-NL

Presentations:

III-1 "Alliance Ground Surveillance Paris Interoperability Experiment" (NATO UNCLAS), Dr. Peter Lenk, Head TMD C2 and Alliance Ground Surveillance Branch, Air C2 and Sensors Division, NC3A-NL

III-2 "Airborne ISR Systems in the OSD (C3I) ISR Directorate" (NATO UNCLAS), Colonel Chuck Wilson, OASD/C3I (US)

III-3 "NIAG SG/53 Pre-Feasibility Study on UAV Systems Interoperability" (NATO UNCLAS), Mr. Klaus Eule, Recorder NATO Industrial Advisory Group Study Group 53, NATO HQ

DISCUSSION AREA 4 – Airspace Management and Traffic Deconfliction

Discussion Area Leader: Mr. Jacques Chabane, Head Airspace Management Section, Air Defence and Airspace Management Directorate, and member of the NATO Air Traffic Management Committee (NATMC), NATO HQ

Presentations:

IV-1 "Airspace Management with the ICC" (NATO UNCLAS), Ms. Laura Fanti, Air C2 Branch, Air C2 & Sensors Division, N3A-NL

IV-2 "UAV Battlelab Demonstration of TCAS on UAVs for Electronic Detection of Traffic" (NATO UNCLAS), Captain C.J. Deluise, USAF UAV Battlelab

IV-3 "Guidelines for UAV Operation, Design Specification, Maintenance and Training of Human Resources" (NATO UNCLAS), Mr. Jacques Chabane, Head Airspace Management Section, Air Defence and Airspace Management Directorate, and member of the NATO Air Traffic Management Committee (NATMC), NATO HQ