Pre Conference Workshop

Tuesday 14th June 2011

2012 agenda will be announced in June 2012

0900 – Registration and Coffee

0945 – Chairman’s Welcome
Rear Adm. Chris Parry, Former DG Concepts, Doctrine & Development, UK MoD

1000 – Delivering munitions from Industry to the frontline
Transforming the end to end process in the UK MoD
Alan Nicholl, Director Weapons, Defence Equipment & Support, UK MoD*

1030 – Morning Refreshments

1100 – Operational Case Study 1: The Canadian Approach
How is Canada preparing her munitions for withdrawal from Afghanistan?
  • Latest surveillance test results
  • Cost/benefit analysis considerations
  • Main reconstitution/withdrawal challanges

Lt. Col. David Anderson, Chief J4 Ammunition and Capt. Kayda Wriedt, Ammunition Technical Group Officer, Department of National Defence, Canada

1200 – Operational Case Study 2: The safety of ammunition storage and supply

  • The Norwegian method of overcoming safety related challenges
  • Ammunition safety and risk based systems
  • Operational ammunition safety
Hans Øiom, Senior Engineer Munitions Safety, Norwegian Defence Logistics Organisation

1245 – Lunch and Networking

1345 – UK defence munitions: The crucial military/industry connector to support the mission
Defence Munitions has recently been incorporated into the Weapons Operating Centre and is part of Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S).  This presentation will outline the complexity of processing and storing of a large range of UK tri-service complex weapons and general munitions and will detail the importance of getting this process right in close cooperation with the maufacturer and user in order to sustain the Front Line Commands on operations.  The presentation will draw on lessons learned over the last 10 years and detail some of the future challenges.
Lt. Col. Simon Hirst, CO DM Kineton, Col. Richard Maybery, Team Leader Defence Munitions and Mr. Peter Fry, Head of Munitions Processing and Deputy Team Leader DM, UK MoD

1445 – Explosives safety: A maritime perspective
  • Why we are different
  • OME in the maritime enviroment
  • Risk management vs risk avoidance
  • Reports and anecdotes

Lt. Cdr. Harry Palmer, SO2 Fleet Explosives, Royal Navy

1515 – Afternoon Refreshments and Networking

1545 – Roundtable group work – Future storage and distribution challenges. How can we prepare to overcome them?
The audience will split into several roundtables and discuss this point. At the end of the allocated time a group nominated chairman from each table will deliver a short presentation on the group’s discussion conclusions

1700 – Group discussion presentations

1730 – Close of workshop