Armed Forces Engineer 2015: Technology, Equipment and People

Name: Armed Forces Engineer 2015: Technology, Equipment and People
Start: 2015-10-21T09:00:00
Location: Royal College of Physicians

Royal College of Physicians, London

21 October 2015 - 22 October 2015
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Overview

Developing the themes established in 2014's Army Engineer 2014, this event will unite representatives from the British Army, Royal Navy and RAF to highlight how important military engineering roles are in the Defence industry.

MoD Personnel Discounts are available

With the Ministry of Defence planning to slash the number of full time personnel across all three defence services in favour of employing more Reservists, there is a fundamental need to retain the highly skilled personnel at the heart of each service: the military and civilian engineers.

Armed Forces Engineer 2015 will examine the necessity to not only keep the current group of military engineers but also to attract skilled recruits, showing the MoD the importance of the engineering industry to the armed forces.

This will be a two-day event featuring keynote plenary sessions, dedicated stream sessions to each armed forces division as well as a chance to network and discuss the major points of this transitional period the Defence industry finds itself in.

Past attendees include:

Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group, Babcock Defence & Security Holding, British Army, Qioptiq, REME, Army HQ, Lockheed Martin, Millbrook Proving Ground, Ministry of Defence, Thales, BAE Systems, EKA, Morgan Advanced Materials, MAN Truck and Bus, Carillion, Iveco Defence Vehicles, DE&S, DSTL, Cobham Antenna Systems, JCB, Schlumberger, Atkins, Ashby Technical Support Services and more...

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Accommodation:

IMechE has secured preferential rates at a selection of hotels based nearby the event venue for your stay. Find out more.

Day 1

08:30 - Full Day Programme

08:30 REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS

09:20 CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS

09:30 Keynote Address:
Dr Jonathan Cook, Head of the Engineering Group, Technical Directorate, DE&S

EQUIPMENT: ENGINEERING NEW EQUIPMENT CAPABILITIES

10:00 CASE STUDY: UAS AIRWORTHINESS
Wing Commander Allan-Jones, RAF

• Type Airworthiness Authority (TAA) and continuing airworthiness
• Challenge areas: regulation and airspace access
• Building on the existing skills agenda

10:30 ENGINEERING COMPETENCE IN LAND EQUIPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
Richard Spencer, LE OC Chief Safety Practitioner, DE&S

• Introducing an LE Engineering Strategy
• Supporting the development of LE and technological capabilities
• Working towards new technology developments

11:00 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK

THE ROLE OF THE RESERVIST

11:30 RECRUITING AND RETAINING RESERVES WITHIN THE ROYAL NAVY
Commodore Andrew Jameson, Commander Maritime Reserves, Navy Command HQ

• How does the Royal Navy Reserve support the Navy?
• How do individual Reservists contribute?
• What do Reservists and their employers gain?

12:00 TRAINING, INTEGRATION AND SUSTAINMENT OF REME RESERVES
Colonel Ian Adkins, Colonel REME Reserves

• The embryonic training programme; intentions and an overview
• An update on the apprenticeship training programme
• Continuing to engage with industry

12:30 NETWORKING LUNCH

13:30 A RESERVIST ENGINEERS VIEW: HORSEPOWER TO AIRPOWER
Hannah Proffitt, Functional Project Manager – MSB, Bentley Motors

• Background: linking the Royal Air Force Reserves and Bentley Motors
• The journey: joining and training with the Royal Air Force Reserves
• Highlights of a civilian and military career

14:00 RESERVISTS IN INDUSTRY: A ROYAL NAVY PERSPECTIVE
Lieutenant Commander Charlie Field, Royal Navy Reserves

• An introduction to working in industry as a Royal Navy Reserve
• The benefits of being a Royal Navy Reserve for the long term
• Effective training to enhance an engineer’s core skills

14:30 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK

15:00 THE ARMY RESERVIST IN INDUSTRY: A TRULY SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP?
Major Stu Olden, OC 131 Recovery Company, 105 Battalion REME

• Introduction: self, AR role and industry role
• Inter-relationship SWOT analysis: tactical, operational and strategic
• Summary: a marriage of convenience or true longevity?

15:30 PANEL SESSION: CAN INDUSTRY AND THE ARMED FORCES WORK BETTER TOGETHER TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF RESERVISTS IN SERVICE?

Colonel Ian Adkins, Colonel REME Reserves

Hannah Proffitt, Functional Project Manager – MSB, Bentley Motors

Major Stu Olden, OC 131 Recovery Company, 105 Battalion REME

Lieutenant Commander Charlie Field, Royal Navy Reserves

• How is industry already supporting the recruitment of Reservists?
• What further support does the Armed Forces needs from industry to sustain Reservist recruitment levels?

16:30 CHAIR’S CLOSING REMARKS

16:40 END OF DAY ONE

Day 2

08:30 - Full Day Programme

08:30 REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS

09:00 CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS

09:10 Keynote Address:
Air Vice-Marshal Julian Young, Director Helicopters and Defence Engineering Champion, DE&S

PEOPLE: SUSTAINING ENGINEERS WITHIN THE ARMED FORCES

09:40 THE ROLE OF THE FEMALE ENGINEER
Air-Vice Marshal Sue Gray, Director Combat Air, DE&S

• A female perspective of military engineering
• Creating new opportunities for female engineers
• Supporting the development of young female engineers

10:10 FEMALE LEADERSHIP IN THE BRITISH ARMY
Lieutenant Colonel Lizzie Faithfull-Davies, CO 6 Battalion, REME

• Opportunities for female engineers as leaders in the Army
• Role models and their importance in setting an example
• Women in leadership roles: examples within REME and the Army

10:40 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK

11:00 Partnering for Skills across Defence – An Industry view

Alan Buckland. Market Director - Defence, Atkins

• Making partnering work
• Reserves in an engineering consultancy
• Enabling mobility across the Defence enterprise

11:20 IMECHE DEFENCE PROJECT
Neil Hinchliffe, Business Development Manager (Armed Forces), Institution of Mechanical Engineers

• Project summary of what’s been completed and current areas of focus
• Supporting the development across the three services
• Initiatives and benefits that the project offers

11:50 SPECIAL ADDRESS: INTELLIGENT CUSTOMER; EVOLVING ORGANIC SPECIALIST SUPPORT
Commander Sharon Malkin, Commanding Officer and Dr Charlotte Pope, 1710 Naval Air Squadron, Royal Navy

• Application of science and technology in the support of the armed forces engineer
• Future technology for aircraft repair
• Provision of deployable scientific support

12:50 NETWORKING LUNCH

TECHNOLOGY: THE ENGINEERING ANGLE

13:50 INTEGRATED SURVIVABILITY: CONTEXT AND STRATEGY
John Hunt. Technical Strategy Leader, Weapons, Integrated Survivability & Platform Systems, DSTL

• Developing effective engineering networks
• Areas of focus within integrated survivability systems
• Placing worldwide technology developments into context

14:20 EVOLVING COMBAT AIR REQUIREMENTS: AN OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE PERSPECTIVE

Itor James, Programme Technical Authority for Electro-Optic Very Short Range Air Defence Systems and Simon Lovell, DE&S Combat Air Science Gateway, DSTL

• Evolving Typhoon requirements
• Why we need defensive aids
• What electro-optic challenges are there to platform protection?

14: 50 KEEPING THE SABRE SHARP: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF TECHNOLOGY IN TANKS
Dr Mike Dalzell, Capability Advisor – Mounted Close, Combat DSTL

• Key highlights of the past 100 years, including operational vignettes
• Understanding the evolution of technology in Main Battle Tank
• Responding to future Main Battle Tank requirements

15:20 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK

15:40 ACTIVE INTEGRATED PROTECTION SYSTEMS (AIPS)
William Hooper, DSTL

• An overview of AIPS
• The benefits of integrating such a system
• Ways to evolve AIPS to support future requirements

16:10 ENGINEERING TO REDUCE THE RISK OF INJURY ABOARD MILITARY HIGH SPEED BOATS
Dr Kieran Rutherford, Senior Mechanical Engineer and Adam Jones, DSTL

• Defining risk
• Current engineering capabilities to minimise risk
• Areas of priority for military high speed boats

16:40 CHAIR’S CLOSING REMARKS

16:50 END OF SEMINAR

Air Vice-Marshal Julian Young: Director Helicopters and Defence Engineering Champion, DE&S

Julian Young was appointed Director Helicopters within DE&S in February 2015. He is also Defence Engineering Champion. Previously, he was DE&S’s Technical Director and Chief Information Officer, and was responsible for safety, engineering, quality, programme/project management policy, technology and development. He was also the Defence Authority for Technical & Quality Assurance for the Ministry of Defence (MoD). He is an Engineer Officer and early operational tours were on support helicopter squadrons, including Operation GRANBY (Gulf War I) and detachments to the Falklands. Later tours focused on Harrier GR7/T10 aircraft, both in the project team and operationally. He has also authored the RAF Multi-Skilling, Tri-Service Aircraft Trade Convergence papers and last RAF Engineer Branch Strategy.

Commodore Andrew Jameson: Commander Maritime Reserves, Navy Command HQ

Andrew Jameson joined the Royal Navy in 1983. Having completed his initial officer training at Britannia Royal Naval College, he read law at Newcastle University and then completed his professional training as a logistics officer. His first sea appointment was Captain’s Secretary on HMS Brave. After attending the Advanced Command and Staff Course in 1998, and promotion to Commander, he took over as the Head of the Naval Prosecuting Authority before returning to sea as the Logistics Commander of HMS Ark Royal. After several other posts, in 2008 Andrew served in the Ministry of Defence in the Armed Forces Bill Team and as the military lead for tri-service discipline policy and saw the implementation of the Armed Forces Act 2006. He returned to Navy Command Headquarters in 2010 to become Commodore Naval Legal Services and assumed command of the Maritime Reserves in April 2013.

Air Vice-Marshal Sue Gray: Director Combat Air, DE&S

Sue Gray joined the RAF in 1985 and was commissioned into the engineer branch. During her career she has been deployed to Iraq twice, during the First Gulf War in 1991, and again on Operation Telic in 2003 when she was Chief Engineer for the Joint Helicopter Force. Sue is currently the Director of Combat Air at Defence Equipment and Support. Having twice served her country on the front line she is responsible for the procurement and maintenance of all combat aircraft, training aircraft and remotely-piloted air systems for the armed forces.

Colonel Ian Adkins: Colonel, REME Reserves

Ian Adkins served in the British Army as a regular officer for 16 years, serving in the first Gulf War, Northern Ireland and Kosovo. He has also held a variety of policy, planning and personnel staff roles in the MoD. He continued to serve as a Reservist and was mobilised for active duty in Pakistan in 2007 and commanded a REME Reserve battalion prior to his appointment as Colonel REME Reserves. In his business career, Ian has spent 10 years as a strategy and change consultant, working with a variety of clients from logistic service businesses such as Supreme Group in Dubai and Babcock International in UK.

Commander Murphy: Head Engineering Branch, Royal Navy Reserves

Lieutenant Colonel Lizzie Faithfull-Davies: CO 6 Battalion, REME

Lizzie Faithfull-Davies was commissioned into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) in 1999. She graduated from the University of Bristol in 1998 having gained a MEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering, following her basic military training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS). Lizzie was promoted to Major in 2006 and went on to command 14 Armoured Company at 6 Close Support Battalion REME for two years. In this role she served in Afghanistan on HERRICK 11 and 13 within the Theatre Equipment Support Battalion. On completion of the Advanced Command and Staff Course in 2012 she was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.

John Hunt: Chief Integrated Survivability Platform Systems, DSTL

John Hunt is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with an extensive career in military systems engineering and analysis. He took up his current appointment in October 2013, where he is responsible for DSTL’s strategy for Integrated Survivability and Platform Systems. This new, cross-cutting role requires co-ordination and leadership of technical capabilities to ensure coherence of DSTL capability with external suppliers and international partners. He is also the Executive Chair for The Technical Co-operation Program (TTCP) Land Group (January 2014) following three years as the UK national representative.

Hannah Proffitt: Resident Engineer Chassis Engineering, Bentley Motors

Hannah Proffitt is Resident Engineer Chassis Engineering at Bentley Motors and since March 2014 has been based in Stuttgart, working on the progress development of the joint Porsche/Bentley Chassis System. Hannah has been with Bentley since 2007 and has held a number of positions including Axle Engineer, Closures Engineer and Steering Engineer. In 2008 Hannah joined the RAF Reserves as General Technician Manager and is based at RAF Benson where she has a very hands-on approach. Hannah is also a STEM ambassador, selected as one of the top ’30 under 30’ rising stars to promote engineering in the UK.

Neil Hinchliffe: Business Development Executive (Armed Forces), Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Neil Hinchliffe has been with the Institution since 2013, and is the Institution’s primary link with engineers and technicians (both military and civilian) from the Ministry of Defence. Neil is an engineer with a strong background in the defence sector, having spent over 24 years in the MoD working both in armed service, and as a MoD civil servant. He subsequently spent five years working as a project manager in a defence-related engineering company, delivering projects predominantly for the MoD.

Stu Olden: Sales Manager Land Systems, Permali

Richard Spencer: Chief Safety Practitioner, DE&S

Commander Sharon Malkin: CO 1710 Naval Air Squadron, Royal Navy

Sharon Malkin read Engineering at Cambridge before joining the Royal Navy in 1994. During her career she has served on Sea Harrier FA2 and Merlin MK1 front-line deploying squadrons, operating in HMS INVINCIBLE, ILLUSTRIOUS, OCEAN and RFA Fort George. She has had appointments in Phase 2 Training, engineering policy, operational support and recently has spent four years involved in the Joint Strike Fighter Project with the Lightning Project Team, including JSF-Queen Elizabeth Carrier ship-air integration. Appointed as the Commanding Officer of 1710 NAS in April 2015, Sharon is passionate about promoting women in science and engineering.

Alan Buckland: Market Director - Defence, Atkins

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