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Future Armoured Vehicles Situational Awareness
23 April - 24 April 2025
Future Armoured Vehicles Situational Awareness

 

Be a part of the Future Armoured Vehicles Situational Awareness Conference and meet with internationally leading Armoured Vehicles experts.

Collaborate across an unmatched 2-day programme and discover what other nations are prioritising and join the Future Armoured Vehicles Situational Awareness conference.

This unique conference will give you the opportunity to be part of an exclusive group of speakers and attendees sharing their challenges and insights and you will gain value in seeing and hearing from world leading experts in the field.

 

 

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Colonel Jamie Hayward

Colonel Jamie Hayward

Programme Director, British Army
Lieutenant Colonel Charlie Valdes-Scott

Lieutenant Colonel Charlie Valdes-Scott

Ajax Trials Engineer, DE&S
Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Foulerton

Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Foulerton

SO1 Capability Integration, British Army Land Warfare Centre
Lieutenant Colonel Robert J Mullins

Lieutenant Colonel Robert J Mullins

Director ITC UK, US Army Futures Command
Mr William Hooper

Mr William Hooper

Principal Engineer, UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl)

Captain Raquel Radoman

Engineer, Brazilian Army
Captain Raquel Radoman

 Raquel L.V. Radoman is a captain of the Brazilian Army, where she has dedicated nearly 10 years to working on the procurement, development, and integration of vetronics, mission systems, and C4ISR systems in Armoured Fighting Vehicles as part of the Armoured Forces Strategic Program of the Brazilian Army. She holds a BSc in Electronic Engineering from the Military Institute of Engineering (Instituto Militar de Engenharia – IME, Brazil), and MSc in Automotive Electronic Engineering from the University of Brighton. Currently, she is pursuing her PhD at Loughborough University, researching the implementation of the Open Architecture approach in military systems.

Colonel Jamie Hayward

Programme Director, British Army
Colonel Jamie Hayward

Dr Martin Hagström

Deputy Research Director, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)
Dr Martin Hagström

 Martin Hagström is a Deputy Research Director at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Martin is the programme manager of the Weapons and protection area and responsible for the support to the Swedish Armed Forces’ weapons and protection research planning. He has served in several different positions at FOI and participated in a number of national and international research projects. Martin has a background in systems and control and besides work on legal aspects of autonomous weapon systems he is involved in analysis of systems of systems and assessment of combat effectiveness.

 

Lieutenant Colonel Charlie Valdes-Scott

Ajax Trials Engineer, DE&S
Lieutenant Colonel Charlie Valdes-Scott

 Lt Col Charles Valdes-Scott joined the King’s Royal Hussars in 1994 for 4 years as a CHALLENGER 1 tank and SCIMITAR commander, before being seconded to the Army Air Corps as a helicopter pilot. A posting to Defence Intelligence as DI60b on the Armour desk raised awareness of Russian and Chinese Armour capabilities, before returning to the KRH as a CHALLENGER 2 tank squadron leader. He has served in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan and more latterly in Eastern Europe. As a staff officer, he completed a ten year stretch in Army Headquarters on the Armour Through Life Support desk and is now working with the team in the DE&S to deliver AJAX into service.

Lieutenant Colonel James de St John-Pryce

Former CO ATDU, British Army
Lieutenant Colonel James de St John-Pryce

 With a passion for the role and challenges of reconnaissance, Lieutenant Colonel James de St John-Pryce commissioned into the Household Cavalry. He completed tours of Bosnia and two of Iraq as a junior officer.
At PJHQ, he was the J3 Joint Effects desk officer and then MA to the Assistant Chief of Staff J3 (Operations). He commanded C Squadron HCR in preparation for a tour of Afghanistan on Scimitar 2. He has been the Syria desk officer in Military Strategic Effects, Plans Officer for the European Training Mission in Mogadishu and Requirements Manager on the AJAX programme. More recently he was Second in Command of the Household Cavalry and the J3/Operations and Africa Team Leader for the Joint Force Headquarters on global crisis response. He assumed command of the Armoured Trials and Development Unit in August 2021.
Foremost are his passion for flying (fixed winged aircraft), speed riding (skiing with a small parachute) and reforming the Army's least useful anachronisms.

Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Foulerton

SO1 Capability Integration, British Army Land Warfare Centre
Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Foulerton

 Lieutenant colonel Nicholas Foulerton commissioned in 1999 into an armoured regiment mounted on the Challenger 2 main battle tank.

He has conducted armoured operations in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan and armoured training in UK, Germany, Poland, Canada, Jordan and Egypt.

Other appointments include deputy defence attaché, Cairo, armoured advisor to the Jordanian Armed Forces and on the staff at a divisional headquarters, the combined arms staff trainer, junior staff college and the urban operations wing.

He is presently responsible for capability integration in the headquarters of the land warfare centre.

 

Lieutenant Colonel Robert J Mullins

Director ITC UK, US Army Futures Command
Lieutenant Colonel Robert J Mullins

Lieutenant Colonel Tiago Fazenda

Commander, Tank Battalion, Portuguese Armed Forces
Lieutenant Colonel Tiago Fazenda

Major James Heath

SO2 Armoured Doctrine, British Army
Major James Heath

Major Simon Lukas

Armoured Cavalry Programme, Chief of Staff, British Army
Major Simon Lukas

Mr Cezary Szydlik

Technical Officer/ Project Coordinator, NATO NSPA
Mr Cezary Szydlik

 Cezary Szydlik is Project Coordinator in Land Combat Missiles, Electro-Optics and GPS Support Section.
He graduated from Military Academy of Technology in Warsaw and he granted the degree of Master of Science and Engineer of Electromechanics. After 20 years of service in Polish Land Forces, he joined NATO Supply & Procurement Agency (former NAMSA) in 2012 responsible for anti-tank systems support, since 2017, he is ATGM project coordinator in Land Combat Missiles & Electro Optics Air and Land Combat Systems Programme Office.
He has 30 years of experience providing and managing in-service support for military combat systems including missiles, artillery and armoured vehicles.

Mr Lukasz Poweska

, European Defence Fund
Mr Lukasz Poweska

 Mr Lukasz Poweska is from Sener Aeroespacial, which is a Spanish company with the responsibility of the Project Coordination for COMMANDS.

Mr Thomas Young

LOSA Chief Engineer, UK MoD DE&S
Mr Thomas Young

Mr William Hooper

Principal Engineer, UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl)
Mr William Hooper

 William Hooper is a Principal Land Survivability Engineer within the Platform Systems division of DSTL. He is currently the technical lead for the Next Generation Electro Optical Sensor (NGEOs) for Land APS package, alongside a number of other enabling technology research packages. William has worked in the fields of Integrated Survivability, Vulnerability and lethality assessment, and test and evaluation during his career, but has predominantly specialised in the assessment and evaluation of Land based Active Protection Systems (APS) and subsystems.

Mr William Suttie

Former Fellow, DSTL
Mr William Suttie

 William Suttie has over 35 years experience in the field of military vehicle research and development within the UK Ministry of Defence. He also spent four years as a scientific advisor at the UK Defence Equipment and Support Agency and one year as an advisor at Army HQ. He currently provides technical support to armoured vehicle procurement projects and is the technical lead for Mounted Close Combat research which includes the Future Ground Combat System concept and technology studies. He has an Honours degree in Automotive Engineering and a Masters Degree in Military Vehicle Technology. He is a Trustee of the Bovington Tank Museum.

 

Senior Representative

SO2 Future Force, British Army
Senior Representative

This is THE community meeting place dedicated to Armoured Situational Awareness Systems. This event will bring you access to key stakeholders across military, government, and industry to discuss the future of the sector. Enjoy unparalleled networking opportunities with senior leaders in the Armoured Vehicles Community.

Who should attend?

National militaries:

  • Armoured vehicle operations leaders
  • Equipment procurement officers
  • Technical experts

Industry:

  • Businesses looking to break into the market
  • Established players looking to expand their contacts
  • Developers and innovators in situational awareness technology

This conference comes at a vital time as advances in the world of Situational Awareness technology proving to be ever more vital in the war in Ukraine.

As Situational Awareness becomes an increasingly mainstream conversation within the armoured vehicles community and the market becomes increasingly saturated, gaining key insights and views from the experts will give you a fighting edge.

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Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:20

Chairman's Opening Remarks

Mr William Suttie, Former Fellow, DSTL

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9:30

Situational Awareness as a Key Component of Fighting Power

  •  The need for strong situational awareness and the capabilities provided by Ajax
  • Situational Awareness as a form of survivability
  • Colonel Jamie Hayward

    Colonel Jamie Hayward, Programme Director, British Army

    Major Simon Lukas

    Major Simon Lukas, Armoured Cavalry Programme, Chief of Staff, British Army

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    10:00

    Maintaining the Operational Edge using standardized Open Systems approaches for land Vehicle System Integration’

    Mr Thomas Young

    Mr Thomas Young, LOSA Chief Engineer, UK MoD DE&S

  •  The use of architecture, data, and technical standards to achieve integration and interoperability
  • Issues surrounding Situational Awareness Capabilities and the need for high bandwidth hardware
  • Developments in Generic Vehicle Architecture and the Land Data Model
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    Morning Coffee

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    Survivability through Situational Awareness Maximisation

    Mr William Hooper, Principal Engineer, UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl)

  •  Situational Awareness as the cornerstone of Protection for armoured vehicles
  • Integrating Situational Awareness and APS Systems for a combined generator of Data
  • Requirements for building up digital and electronic architecture to enable the generation of situational awareness data
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    AFC International Collaboration Opportunities To Enhance AFV Development

    Lieutenant Colonel Robert J Mullins

    Lieutenant Colonel Robert J Mullins, Director ITC UK, US Army Futures Command

  •  DEVCOM Atlantic: mission and vision
  • Enhancing capability through international partnerships
  • Industry opportunities to collaborate with US Army DEVCOM
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    12:00

    Networking Lunch

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    13:00

    Session Reserved for Sponsor

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    13:30

    Session Reserved for Sponsor - Synclair Vision

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    Recent EDF projects and Collaborative Situational Awareness with Manned and Unmanned Systems

    Mr Lukasz Poweska, , European Defence Fund

  •   The challenges created by the blurring definition of the front line
  • Importance of long-range situational awareness in operational level movements
  • Combining ISTAR and localized situational awareness information
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    14:30

    Afternoon Tea

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    Portuguese Army Insights into Situational Awareness

    Lieutenant Colonel Tiago Fazenda

    Lieutenant Colonel Tiago Fazenda, Commander, Tank Battalion, Portuguese Armed Forces

     Overview of Portuguese Armoured Capability 

    The integration of mounted and dismounted forces

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    15:30

    Open Systems Architecture to Create More Capable Situational Awareness

    Captain Raquel Radoman, Engineer, Brazilian Army

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    16:00

    Integrating Situational Awareness Technology with platforms

    Mr Cezary Szydlik, Technical Officer/ Project Coordinator, NATO NSPA

  • Overview of the role of the NSPA
  • The need for modernization
  • Ensuring a seamless transition
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    16:30

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

    Mr William Suttie, Former Fellow, DSTL

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    9:00

    Registration & Coffee

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    9:25

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Mr William Suttie, Former Fellow, DSTL

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    9:30

    Creating a future ready force and integrating armour at all levels

    Senior Representative

    Senior Representative, SO2 Future Force, British Army

  •  Avoiding tunnel vision - The importance and viability of composite system systems and situational awareness at all levels
  • The possibilities for platform situational awareness to improve force integration
  • Working to ensure the platform and its dismounted soldier provide mutual support and benefit
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    British Army - Multiple Mini Brief

    Lieutenant Colonel Charlie Valdes-Scott, Ajax Trials Engineer, DE&S

    Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Foulerton, SO1 Capability Integration, British Army Land Warfare Centre

    Major James Heath

    Major James Heath, SO2 Armoured Doctrine, British Army

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    11:45

    Panel Discussion: Armoured Situational Awareness in the British Army

    Lieutenant Colonel James de St John-Pryce, Former CO ATDU, British Army

    Lieutenant Colonel Charlie Valdes-Scott, Ajax Trials Engineer, DE&S

    Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Foulerton, SO1 Capability Integration, British Army Land Warfare Centre

    Major James Heath

    Major James Heath, SO2 Armoured Doctrine, British Army

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    12:30

    Networking Lunch

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    13:30

    Round Table Discussions

    Table 1: Integrating Visual Situational Awareness with Alternative Technologies

    Table 2: Enhancing Legacy Platforms with Modern Technology

    Table 3: Utlising UAS and AI to enhance Situational Awareness

    Table 4: The value of Ergonomics in Situational Awareness

    Mr William Suttie, Former Fellow, DSTL

    Lieutenant Colonel James de St John-Pryce, Former CO ATDU, British Army

    Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Foulerton, SO1 Capability Integration, British Army Land Warfare Centre

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    14:30

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:00

    Session Reserved for Vegvisir

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    15:30

    Situational Awareness from the Human Factor Perspective

    Dr Martin Hagström, Deputy Research Director, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)

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    16:00

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two

    Mr William Suttie, Former Fellow, DSTL


    Engineer
    Brazilian Army
    Programme Director
    British Army
    Deputy Research Director
    Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)
    Ajax Trials Engineer
    DE&S
    Former CO ATDU
    British Army
    SO1 Capability Integration
    British Army Land Warfare Centre
    Director ITC UK
    US Army Futures Command
    Commander, Tank Battalion
    Portuguese Armed Forces
    SO2 Armoured Doctrine
    British Army
    Armoured Cavalry Programme, Chief of Staff
    British Army
    Technical Officer/ Project Coordinator
    NATO NSPA
    European Defence Fund
    LOSA Chief Engineer
    UK MoD DE&S
    Principal Engineer
    UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl)
    Former Fellow
    DSTL
    SO2 Future Force
    British Army

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    At Synclair Vision, we enhance UAV and armored vehicle capabilities with cutting-edge wide-angle camera software designed for real-time situational awareness and advanced machine vision applications. Installed onboard vehicles or on UAVs providing overwatch, our system offers stabilized, multi-view visuals, improving ISTAR efficiency and threat detection. AI-powered analysis scans the entire field of view, identifying potential threats before they become critical. By combining wide-area awareness with high-detail inspection, our technology helps protect vehicles, crews, and missions, ensuring safer and more informed operations in complex environments.

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    BAE Systems Hägglunds focuses on the provision and upgrade of vehicle systems for military and civil applications. These include world-leading combat vehicles, armoured engineering vehicles and armoured personnel carriers. Supporting our customers and the users during operational service is key and we provide a wide range of services to customers worldwide, including, modernisation services from simple to complex vehicle upgrades and enhancements through to training and simulation solutions.



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    Otokar Otomotiv ve Savunma Sanayi A.S. (Otokar) is one of the major automotive plants in Turkey, combining its own intellectual property rights with advanced engineering capabilities, technology, design & applications within its most modern manufacturing facilities.The company is a member of Turkey’s largest business conglomerate, Koç Group, which generates 7% of GDP and 11% of total exports of Turkey, the only Turkish company to be listed in the Fortune Global 500 list. Otokar has been selected by more than 35 countries in the world for providing innovative, effective & tailored solutions to meet the existing and future requirements of end users with its wide range of combat proven land platforms. More than 33,000 OTOKAR military vehicles are operating under different geographical and extreme climate conditions in the world and their combat capabilities are proven in the real combat situations in high risk areas. Otokar designs and manufactures a wide range of tactical armored wheeled vehicles including 4x4 COBRA, COBRA II, COBRA II- MRAP, AKREP II, URAL, ISV, ARMA 6x6 and ARMA 8x8. Otokar’s TULPAR tracked armored vehicle family is designed as a multi-purpose vehicle platform with its significant ballistic and mine protection and high payload capacity to meet the requirements of modern armed forces for all types of missions in the battlefield.


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