WORLD DEFENCE SYSTEMS ISSUE Five A Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies Publication Edited by Rear Admiral Richard Cobbold CB, FRAeS - Director of RUSI

Introduction
Rear Admiral Richard Cobbold, Director, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

My Job
General William F Kernan, Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic

Air/Land Attack

• Aircraft and Missiles
  Air Vice Marshal Steve M Nicholl, Capability Manager (Strike)
• New Roles for Anti-Surface Missiles: from Sea Control to Land Attack - A View from Italy
  Mario di Donato, Chief Operating Officer, MBDA information
• FOAS - The Challenges of Moving from Platform to Capability Procurement
  Mr Michael Christie, Programme Director (FOAS) BAe Systems
• The Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) Programme
  Colonel Michael B. Leahy, Jr., USAF, Ph.D., UCAV Programme Manager, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), US DoD and Michael J. Hirschberg, CENTRA Technology, Inc.

Space

• NASA Bridges Air and Space at Dryden Flight Research Centre
  Kevin L. Petersen, Director, NASA Dryden Flight Research Centre
• European Space - a Time of Opportunity
  Alan Hicks, Secretary General of the United Kingdom Industrial Space Committee (UKISC)
• A New Model for Military Satcoms
  Hilary Mathews, Director of Paradigm Services, Astrium

Ballistic/National Missile Defence

• Missile Defence and Counter- Terrorism after 11th September 2001
  David J. Smith, President of Global Horizons, Inc
• Missile Defence - An Overview with a European Perspective
  Dr Michael Rance
• Boost Phase Interception of Ballistic Missiles
  Peter Liddell, Dstl, Farnborough and Chris Lewis, MBDA, Bristol
• Missile Defence Technologies - Heating up in the Engineering 'Crucible'
  Lt Gen Ron Kadish, USAF, Director, US Ballistic Missile Defense Organization
• NATO's Studies of Layered Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence
  Tony Ashton, Team Leader for the Air Command and Control Systems Integrated Project Team, MOD Defence Procurement Agency.

Land Systems

• The MAGTF Expeditionary Family of Fighting Vehicles (MEFFV)
  Colonel Dennis Beal USMC, Marine Corps Systems Command
• MRAV - Armoured Utility Vehicle for the Future?
  Lt Col R J Ladley MBE R Anglian, Multi Role Armoured Vehicle Integrated Project Team
• The Tank is Dead - Long Live the Tank!
  Brigadier Andrew Gadsby, Business Development Manager (Armoured Systems) Vickers Defence Systems

'Wars in our time' - a survey of conflicts: Part 2

• Indonesia: a Nation on the Brink
  Colonel Ivar Hellberg RM, Department of Defence Management and Security Studies, Cranfield University
• The Kashmir Saga: A New Dimension
  M J Gohel, Asia-Pacific Foundation
• Within the Circle of the Nagorno-Karabagh Conflict
  Professor Tadeusz Swietochowski, Monmouth University, New York
• Chechnya: Some Lessons Learnt
  Dr Irina Isakova, Associate Fellow, RUSI

Logistics/Defence Management

• Joint Support Service: The New Centralized Service for the German Armed Forces
  Vice Admiral Bernd Heise, Chief of Staff Joint Support Service (JSS)
• Maritime Logistics in Practice
  Commodore P J Lannin RFA, Commodore RFA Flotilla
• Performance-Based Logistics: Buying A Capability: Who will be the Future Defence Industry Leaders?
  Dr. Marianne E. Pietras, Independent Consultant and Chair, Subcommittee on Acquisition Logistics, Logistics Management Committee, National Defense Industrial Association
• Contractors On Deployed Operations (CONDO)
  Group Captain Rob Tripp RAF, Head of CONDO Project Team, Defence Logistics Organisation
• The Solution Independent URD - and Other Myths
  Nick Reffold, Cranfield University, Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham

C4ISTAR/Harnessing Advanced Technologies

• Digitization of the Battlefield
  John Howe, Director and Senior Defence Advisor, Thales plc
• Coalition ISR Interoperability
  Patrick Branch, Assistant Vice President, Intelligence Solutions Group, Science Applications International Corporation
• Information Capabilities: The Front Line Of Future Crisis Management
  Andrew Sleigh MA CPhys FinstP, Managing Director, Defence Solutions, QinetiQ
• Innovation in C4I: An Operational Tester's Perspective
  Rear Admiral Robert E Besal, Commander, Operational Test and Evaluation Force

Regional Focus: Australian Defence

• Seeking Affordable Defence in the 21st Century
  Admiral Chris Barrie, Chief of the Defence Force
• Australian Land Force Capabilities for the Future
  Major General Peter Leahy, Deputy Chief of Army
• Challenges and Opportunities for Australian Defence
  Peter Jennings, Sloan Fellow at the London Business School and Defence Department in Canberra

 

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