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26 Jun 24. GBAD Expo 2024 – 11 July 2024. The international Defence industry, government officials and military hierarchy from NATO Armed Forces will converge on the home of the British Army’s Air Defence capabilities, Thorney Island for the 2024 GBAD Expo (Ground Based Air Defence).
To keep the delivery of Land GBAD at the forefront of Defence mindset – 7th Air Defence Group (12th Regiment RA, 16th Regiment RA & 106th Regiment RA) will host a GBAD Expo on 11 July 2024.
It will be a significant scale demonstration of Land GBAD capability, designed to showcase the employment and development of current equipment, and further enable future Land GBAD. The day will demonstrate current GBAD fielded force, the initial stages of the Land GBAD Programme journey, and potential future capabilities under six themes: command & control, sensors, effectors, C-UAS, simulation, and training.
The day will be structured in three stages: (1) Fight Today – the opportunity to showcase and demonstrate the UK military’s current Short and Medium Range Air Defence capabilities; (2) Fight Tonight – a look at what equipment the British Army has on its order books including: the VAMTAC Rapid Ranger mounted systems and Sky Keeper, the upgrade to the land environment air picture provision (LEAPP), and (3) Fight Tomorrow – a peek beyond the horizon and perhaps the most exciting and revealing aspect of the day. Leading defence industry manufacturers will explain and demonstrate their emerging technologies and developments being trialled, among them anti-drone developments using laser and radio frequency disruptors to intercept UAVs.
The conflict in Ukraine has brought into stark reality that Ground Based Air Defence (GBAD) remains an indispensable component of warfare. Against a complex and prolific aerial threat – surface-to-air warfare has become an enabler for freedom of action; from the tactical through to the strategic level. A large part of the GBAD Expo will concentrate on the systems designed to take down such weapons. There will be target acquisition and tracking demonstrations using a replica Shaheed-136; designed to replicate the performance envelope of the Iranian built UAV.
24 Jun 24. Future of fighting in cyberspace: What to expect at TechNet.
Defense leaders know one thing to be true about the future of warfighting: it will become increasingly complicated as battles are waged in cyberspace.
That probability is what senior-level military, government and industry leaders will be discussing at this year’s flagship TechNet Cyber conference presented by the Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association International in Baltimore, Maryland.
This year’s theme of the three-day event beginning Tuesday is about “outpacing the threat,” and innovators in the defense technology space will discuss how their tools fit within the military’s goals to align their defenses with the nature of cyber warfare, adapt to rapidly changing environments, and accelerate ahead of global adversaries. All the topics du jour will be on the table, including artificial intelligence, large language models, contested logistics and data strategy.
Knowing future battles will transcend borders and go beyond just physical assaults on adversaries, experts in the U.S. government and industry know the tools of the future must be secure. Knowledge in itself will become an edge in battle. As nations like China seek to advance their use of artificial intelligence for military gain, so, too, are the U.S. and its allies working to understand and leverage this technology in defense of its infrastructure.
Attendees will hear from top officials from the Defense Information Systems Agency, the Defense Innovation Unit, the Joint Force Headquarters, federal chief information officers and chief technology officers, and the service’s cyber commands on the range of multidimensional threats facing their warfighters and the nation.
Registration for interested parties is open here. Here are a few highlights to note.
A keynote address kicks off the event on June 25, during which attendees will hear from Air Force Gen. Timothy Haugh, commander of U.S. Cyber Command, and AFCEA President and retired Lt. Gen. Susan Lawrence. The two will open the conversation on ensuring resiliency in the defense industrial base.
Other sessions that morning will highlight progress being made on the Defense Department’s sprint toward achieving “target level” zero trust by 2027 with insights from within the Pentagon’s information office itself.
Leaders from the Army will also discuss the role of generative AI and knowledge management in warfare, and several branch officials will come together to talk about the need for establishing an Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy.
The showroom floor will also be open to display the latest technology in cybersecurity from dozens of companies.
But the tools cannot be discussed without also identifying a workforce to use them. An afternoon session on Tuesday will offer a status update on the DoD Cyber Workforce Framework.
For highlights of the conference, follow along at c4isrnet.com.
(Source: C4ISR & Networks)
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