Keynote Speakers:Lieutenant General Thierry Caspar-Fille-Lambie, Commander, AirDefence and Air Operations Command, French Air ForceBrigadier General Miguel Angel Villarroya Vilalta, DeputyDirector, European Air GroupLieutenant Colonel Juan Domínguez-Pérez - Project Manager,Programmes Section, Spanish Air Force

Other Speakers Include:Major General Pascal Valentin, Commander, European AirTransport CommandColonel Luigi Riggio, Commander 14th Wing, Italian Air ForceColonel Reinhard Krell, Director, Movement Coordination CentreEuropeColonel Frank Rombouts, Commander, Heavy Airlift Wing of the Strategic Airlift ProgrammeLieutenant Colonel Giuseppe Canfora, Air Transport SME, Joint AirPower Competence CentreTim Rowntree, Director, OCCAR-EALieutenant Colonel Chris Conway, Directorate of AirRequirements - Air Mobility & SAR, Royal Canadian Air Force Dimitrios Petridis, Aviation Support Programme Manager,NATO Support AgencyLieutenant Colonel Ron de Haar, Chief, ISAF Strategic FlightCoordination Centre Laurent Donnet, Assistant Capability Manager, EuropeanDefence AgencyGunnar Borch, Former General Manager of NATO AirliftManagement Agency

"This is a great achievement... I have seen few military events where such a great number of highranking Officers were briefers"

3RD - 4TH DECEMBER 2013 | MELIA SEVILLA HOTEL, SEVILLE, SPAIN

The largest bespoke military airlift conferencein Europe, now in its 14th year

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DAY ONE l 3RD DECEMBER 2013 www.military-airlift.com

8.30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

9.00 - 9.10CHAIRMAN'S OPENING REMARKS

Gunnar Borch, Former General Manager of NATO AirliftManagement Agency

SESSION 1: HOST NATION ADDRESSES

9.10 - 9.50KEYNOTE ADDRESS: The European Air Group and interoperability in the Air Transportdomain • Overview on the EAG and its main tasks• The EAG Air Movement Project for the support of Multi

National Air Transport Operations Brigadier General Miguel Angel Villarroya Vilalta, Deputy Director, European Air Group

9.50 - 10.30Spanish Military Air Transport and Tanker Fleets: Raising the game• Current AT & AAR assets, capabilities, missions and identified

shortcomings• SAF Roadmap; National Future Programs, A400M and MRTT• Management of Spain's Airlift and Tanker resources

- Pooling and Sharing (P&S) initiatives, EATF-EATC- Exploitation of Cooperative Military Airlift and Tankers

Lieutenant Colonel Juan Domínguez-Pérez - ProjectManager, Programmes Section, Spanish Air Force

10.30 - 11.00MORNING COFFEE Sponsored by

SESSION 2: MULTINATIONAL COOPERATION

11.00 - 11.30MCCE – your Military Transportation Broker• Air Transport (AT)• Air to Air Refuelling (AAR)• Sea Transport (ST)• Inland Surface Transport (IST)

Colonel Reinhard Krell, Director, Movement Coordination Centre Europe

11.30 - 12.10EATC in support of operations - Opportunities and limits• EATC proving its value: Day to day routine AT and AAR• Insight into multinational (Unified Protector) and national

(Serval) operations• Support the EATC provided to the nations and identifying the

limits• How can the EATC better support operations in the future?• Upcoming assets and the gain they constitute for the nations’

capability and capacity Major General Pascal Valentin, Commander, European Air Transport Command

12.10 - 13-30NETWORKING LUNCH

SESSION 3: NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN AAR

13.30 - 14.10

Military airlift and AAR challenges and solutions: the European

AAR initiative and diplomatic clearance arrangement

• The cost of non-cooperation has become unaffordable:

why the European Defence Agency makes sense

• Overview of the EU multinational AAR short, medium and long

term projects

• Simplifying and harmonising the diplomatic clearances

mechanism in the European sky

Laurent Donnet, Assistant Capability Manager,

European Defence Agency

14.10 - 14.50

Introduction into service of a new generation tanker:

Italian Air Force KC767A

• ITAF AAR activity

• KC767A program start up

• Operational activity and future trends

• Receivers certification process

Colonel Luigi Riggio, Commander 14th Wing,

Italian Air Force

14.50 - 15.10

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SESSION 4: COST EFFECTIVE PROCUREMENT

15.10 - 15.50

A400M: a new generation of airlift capability

• Successful Foundations: The OCCAR collaborative model

& The Commercial Approach

• Challenges and Solutions: 21st Century Tools and Processes

• Capability Update - Tactical and Strategic lift in a single

aircraft

• Programme Delivery Update

• Through-Life Management - Ensuring a Successful Future

Tim Rowntree, Director, OCCAR-EA

15.50 - 16.30

The Role of NSPA in Military Airlift

• Mission and Services including AWACS Support (LW), SALIS

(Strategic Airlift Interim Solution – LS), NATO Airlift

Management Programme (NAMP), NH-90 & Tiger Helicopters

(LN) and Aviation Support Programme (LA)

• Organization

• Aviation Support Programme (LA)

• Fixed Wing and Rotary Wing Aircraft Activities

• Q and A session

Dimitrios Petridis, Aviation Support Programme Manager,

NATO Support Agency

16.30

CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS AND END OF CONFERENCE DAY ONE

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8.30 - 9.00

RE-REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

9.00 - 9.10

CHAIRMAN'S OPENING REMARKS

Gunnar Borch, Former General Manager of NATO Airlift

Management Agency

SESSION 5: CURRENT MISSIONS

9.10 - 9.40

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

Operation Serval in Mali: a French perspective on military airlift

and tanker operations

• Sum up of the joint campaign in Operation Serval

• Focus on the airlift and tankers operations

• Lessons learned

• French perspectives with future A 400M and MRTT

Lieutenant General Thierry Caspar-Fille-Lambie,

Commander, Air Defence and Air Operations

Command, French Air Force

9.40 - 10.20

Afghanistan Military Withdrawal - Multi Modal Operations

• Rapid development of Air/Sea solutions for Afghanistan

withdrawal plans

• Nodes, Modes and cost criteria of movements

• Project examples

Alex Munro, Director of Sales, ME & Africa,

National Air Cargo

10.20 - 10.50

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SESSION 6: UPDATE ON STRATEGIC CAPABILITY

10.50 - 11.30

Update from Royal Canadian Air Force

• RCAF Airlift capabilities and future requirements,

• RCAF Airlift Operations: Domestic and Haiti

• RCAF AAR Operations: Domestic and Libyan

Lieutenant Colonel Chris Conway, Directorate of Air

Requirements- Air Mobility & SAR, Royal Canadian Air

Force

11.30 - 12.10

Providing strategic airlift capability

• Case study – mission to Mali

• Multinational sharing arrangements - future of strategic airlift

- Experiences from the first years of the HAW

- Recommendations for similar arrangements elsewhere

Colonel Frank Rombouts, Commander,

Heavy Airlift Wing of the Strategic Airlift Programme

12.10 - 13.30

NETWORKING LUNCH

13.30 - 14.10

ISFCC; coordinating strategic airlift in support of ISAF

• The future of ISFCC beyond 2014

• Tasks and Responsibilities

• Organization and Statistics

Lieutenant Colonel Ron de Haar, Chief,

ISAF Strategic Flight Coordination Centre

14.10 - 14.50

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SESSION 7: MULTI MISSION CAPABILITY

15.10 - 15.50

Operational doctrine for MR/MMTT (Multi-Role/Multi-Mission

Tanker Transport) simultaneous and multinational employment

• Air Transport & Air to Air Refuelling: Simultaneous employment

• New Doctrine required?

• Multinational employment: National Restriction and

Constraint for MR/MMTT

• Command & Control: double counting for the same asset will

impact the planning

• Tactical Airlift vs. AAR: Crews training for Multi Role

employment (e.g. A400M)

Lieutenant Colonel Giuseppe Canfora, Air Transport SME,

Joint Air Power Competence Centre

15.50 - 16.30

Current & Future Developments in Airbus Military

• A400M introduction to service

• A330 MRTT capability roll-out

• Light and medium' CN235/C295 programme updates

Ian Elliott, Vice President of Defence Capability

Marketing, Airbus Military

16.30

CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS AND END OF CONFERENCE

DAY TWO l 4TH DECEMBER 2013 www.military-airlift.com

Overview

Following a welcome and briefing by Ian Elliott, Vice President of Defence CapabilityMarketing, Airbus Military, there will be a tour of the facilities. This will include an exclusive

opportunity to see the A400M Final Assembly Line. This exclusive site visit also gives you theunique chance to see their Light and Medium Aircraft Final Assembly line for their C295

and CN235 aircraft. Overall this site visit is designed to provide delegates with a completeinsight into new developments at Airbus and their range of airlift related capability.

© Airbus Military 2012

Site Visit Itinerary

9.30Arrival at Airbus Military – San Pablo, south sector. Auditorium conf. room (Building A1, ground floor)

Welcome coffee

10.00Welcome by Ian Elliott, Airbus Military

Corporate presentation

10.30Morning Coffee and Refreshments

11.00Visit to the facilities:

• A400M Final Assembly Line

12.00• Light & Medium (C295 & CN235 aircraft)

Final Assembly Line

13.30End of visit

Airbus Military is the only military andcivic/humanitarian transport aircraftmanufacturer to develop, produce, sell andsupport a comprehensive family of airliftersranging from 3 to 45 tonnes of payload.Airbus Military’s highly versatile productrange includes the robust and serviceproven “Light & Medium” family (three tonine tonnes payload), comprising the C212,the CN235 and the C295, the all new A400Mairlifter to meet the needs of the 21stcentury, as well as the A330 MRTT, thebenchmark in Multi RoleTanker and Transportaircraft. It also produces and markets a smallTrainer and Aerobatic plane, the Orlik TC-II.

Headquartered in Madrid (Spain), thecompany’s facilities are essentially based inSpain. Its main sites are Getafe, close toMadrid, where the civil Airbus platforms, suchas the A330, are converted into Multi RoleTanker Transport (MRTT) aircraft, and Seville,where the San Pablo factory, south of theairport, hosts the A400M Final Assembly Lineopened in 2007, as well as the completeproduction and final assembly of the C212,CN235 and C295 aircraft. Opened in 2010,the all new Airbus Military Training Centre isalso located close to the San Pablo facility.

Thursday 5th December 2013

Post-Conference Site Visit to Airbus Military - San Pablo, South Sector

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