Past event: Future Artillery 2013 Conference

Our flagship Future Artillery conference annually welcomes over 200 leading artillery personnel and industry experts from 25+ countries to London. The event is widely regarded as the most influential indirect fires conference in the world, providing an unrivalled platform for Heads of Artillery, Programme Managers and Industry experts to engage in candid debate on the latest technological developments, operational feedback and future vision across the in-direct fires community.

The 2013 conference comes at an important time for Artillery. The changing character of conflict is raising questions about the future use of artillery, technological advances in precision are revolutionising artillery capability, strained budgets are prompting a fresh look at-- and radical overhaul of -- existing force structures, and the push towards networked capabilities is raising new possibilities and potential vulnerabilities.

The 2013 conference seeks to:

• Generate and disseminate knowledge within the international artillery community
• Elaborate on the rationale and justification for the use of artillery from the perspective of multiple national military environments
• Deliver unique operational perspectives at a time when many nations are seeking to understand future operating environments
• Provide knowledge and the ideal learning environment for military procurement chiefs to make informed and balanced future investment decisions
• Raise questions and generate debate on the use of artillery and artillery’s role within the wider surface-to-surface fires picture
• Be the perfect platform for industry to inform the international artillery community on exciting capability developments

Top 10 reasons not to miss Future Artillery:

• Widely known as the annual must-attend for a valuable two-way information exchange between artillery end users, Programme Mangers and industry, giving you an unrivalled view of the future direction of the artillery
• Take away strategic analysis of the evolving threat spectrum to evaluate potential capability gaps and ensure you are investing resources effectively to meet immediate and long-term requirements
• Engage with fellow artillery experts, build new partnerships and gain useful contacts to accelerate and drive innovation into your programmes
• Benefit from 3 days dedicated specifically to indirect fires for an exclusive and intimate networking experience enabling you to nurture old and new relationships alike
• Capitalise on brand new round-table discussions to engage in candid debate and get to the heart of key issues impacting the artillery, whilst informally networking with international delegations
• Interact with a truly international delegation of leading artillery figures drawn from 30+ nations including UK, US, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Philippines, Indonesia, Chile
• Receive first-hand insight into the latest lessons learned in operations to assess how Artillery Leaders are likely to structure their modernisation priorities over the immediate, medium and long-term future
• Benefit from a balanced agenda with limited vendor presentations to ensure you maximise your time spent at the conference with senior International Artillery Officers
• Discover the latest technological solutions for indirect fires weapons, munitions, targeting systems and radars enabling you to be certain you are providing your troops with the highest level of affordable capability
• Hear from decision makers on their future strategy for artillery modernisation alongside specialist briefings on Forward Observers, Joint Fires, ISTAR, Precision Munitions and Future Lightweight Firepower

Pre-Conference Focus Day – Wednesday 20th March, 2013

• Morning Session: PRECISION AMMUNITION
  Acquiring increased levels of precision remains the key priority for artillery forces globally. Precision capability has brought the most revolutionary development to artillery since the development of recoil systems in the latter years of the 1880's. The ability to deliver pinpoint effect yields strategic advantage reduces the risk of unmasking and increases survivability. Incorporating this capability effectively, sustainably and through balanced investment decision remains a critical priority.
• Afternoon Session: TARGET GEOLOCATION, ACQUISITION AND FORWARD OBSERVER FOCUS
  Precision munitions – without a responsive and accurate system to geo-locate targets and relay that information to the guns – are an expensive way to accurately hit the wrong target. The advent of precision has seen a parallel rise in sophisticated technology, equipment and TTPs to swiftly and accurately deliver information that enables precision munitions to deliver terminal effect.

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