WEAPONS INTEGRATION: THE IMPORTANCE OF IMPROVEMENT
• The need to resolved integration issues across the range of aircraft
• Core challenges and efforts to provide more streamlined integration
• Technical improvement opportunities: Generating cross process knowledge transfer
• Plug and play – The silver bullet?
09.50
NATO STANDARDISATION: INTEROPERABILITY ISSUES
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Providing a roadmap for increasing coalition interoperability for emerging platforms and systems • Future approaches to integration: Greater emphasis on cross-nation lessons transfer
• Better sharing of knowledge across member nations
10.30
Coffee and Networking Break
11.00
Extended insight PROMOTING COMMONALITY: THE UNIVERSAL ARMAMENT INTERFACE (UAI) • The backdrop to the UAI: Why was it needed and what challenges are driving the issue seeking
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Profiling the interface and examining how plug and play integration and hard and
soft performance issues are dealt with
• Physical and technological commonality
• Emerging opportunities for the UAI and its further development and expansion INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION OF THE ARMAMENT INTERFACE: THE NATO ARMAMENT INTERFACE (NAI) • Basing an international armaments interface on the work of the UAI
• Core challenges in developing international commonality across platforms and weapons systems
• The business case for the NAI: Cost vs. benefits
• Impact on full spectrum of NATO members
12.20
Networking Lunch
13.40
RAF TYPHOON PLATFORM CASE STUDY:INTEGRATING AIR-TO-GROUND SYSTEMS
• Detailing the projected integration process
• Moving into service: Exercise Green Flag
• Looking at the evolution of the Typhoon’s integration process with the introduction of new technologies
•Lessons learned for operational deployment
14.40
LEGACY PLATFORM INTEGRATION CASE STUDY: F-16 ROYAL DANISH AIR FORCE MID-LIFE UPDATE
• System integration laboratory tests for installing enhanced smart triple ejector rack weapons suspension unit to aircraft under-wing weapon pylons
• Adding the capability to carry modern “smart” weapons which operate on military standard 1760 interface
• The Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) and Enhanced Paveway II
• Provisions for future Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) carriage
15.00
Coffee and Networking Break
15.30
TIGER ARMED RECONNAISSANCE HELICOPTER (ARH): HELLFIRE WEAPON INTEGRATION • Hellfire II missile and the Tiger ARH
• Lessons identified from live firing
• Integration with on-board systems
• Aeromechanical and structural assessment with impact on operational capability
16.10
APPLYING WEAPONS INTEGRATION PROCESS TO UNMANNED AIRCRAFT:
MQ-9 REAPER CASE STUDY
• Cross application of experience of weapons integration into Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV)
• Understanding where the crucial differences in manned versus unmanned integration processes
• Successes and challenges overcome in the management of the project
