2nd National Congress on Next Generation Combat Vehicles - DS

WHY ATTEND

The 2024 Next Generation Combat Vehicles Conference is the premier gathering for senior military decision-makers and industry leaders.

I extend a warm welcome to all attendees of the Next Generation Combat Vehicles (NGCV) Conference. This unique gathering serves as a pivotal platform, bringing together senior military decision-makers and industry leaders to explore key topics in armored vehicles capability modernization.

The NGCV Conference offers an unparalleled opportunity to delve into critical discussions surrounding the NGCV program, XM30 vehicle requirements, and the challenges posed by the evolving multi-domain operating environment. Our focus on survivability, mobility, and lethality reflects the pressing issues faced by armed forces in today's dynamic landscape.

As you navigate this agenda, you will discover a thoughtfully curated program featuring insightful sessions on the Robotic Combat Vehicle, human-machine integrating formations, and other relevant topics. This conference is designed to foster connections between participants and influential figures from both the military and industry sectors.

Your engagement is crucial to the success of this event. I encourage you to actively participate in the dialogue, share your insights, and contribute to the collaborative efforts that will shape the future of combat vehicles. Whether you are a military professional, industry expert, or researcher, your unique perspective adds value to the collective conversation.

I invite you to explore the conference details, sign up for sessions that align with your interests, and seize the opportunity to connect with fellow participants. Your involvement will contribute to the vibrant discussions and networking opportunities that make the NGCV Conference a must attend event.

Thank you for considering participation, and I look forward to the impactful conversations that will unfold during this conference.

Yours Sincerely,

Linda Lastovych Conference Director American Conference Institute

AGENDA OVERVIEW

CONFERENCE DAY ONE | MAY 21, 2024

ENVISIONING NEXT-GENERATION WARFIGHTING CAPABILITIES

• Maintaining decisive dominance against adversaries into the future: Outlining the strategic context and the needed materiel, training, and leadership

• The Next-Generation Combat Vehicle: Introducing new warfighting capabilities that will produce speed, range, and reliability for a more lethal operating environment

• Modern procurement practices for larger combat vehicles: Assessing digital engineering and digital design as methods to accelerate the acquisition process

• Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA): Enabling faster prototyping and interoperability

• Data Superiority and Persistent Modernization: the role of open system architectures in enabling modern combat vehicles to remain relevant in the midst of ongoing data centricity initiatives

• Hybridization of Tracked Combat Vehicles: Creating new opportunities and addressing challenges with shifting towards hybrid power trains

CONFERENCE DAY TWO | MAY 22, 2024

TRANSFORMING FUTURE FORMATIONS AND FORCE STRUCTURE

• View from the Top: Capabilities and Requirements: Balancing readiness and modernization today

• Human Machine Integration: Improving effectiveness of mounted formations for the future

• Robotic Combat Vehicle: Integrating robots and unmanned aerial systems with crewed formations; optimizing roles

• Assessing AI/ML-enabled solutions and approaches to leverage innovative technologies, and their integration into Army systems and on-board vehicles

• Lessons Learned: Evaluating current operations in Ukraine and Gaza to inform our thinking about future combat vehicle design

• Outlining Future Force 2030: U.S. Marine Corps capability modernization and armored vehicles requirements

• International perspectives: Enhancing interoperability for joint operations

INTRODUCING THE CONFERENCE CHAIRMEN

LIEUTENANT GENERAL (RET’D) GUY SWAN III

Former Commanding General

U.S. Army North

During his 35-year military career, Swan commanded units at every level including three commands as a general officer and is a veteran of the Gulf War and the Iraq War. As the 3-star Commanding General of U.S. Army North/Fifth Army he had regional responsibility in North America for homeland defense and security. He led emergency response operations and built partnerships with federal agency heads, state and local officials, National Guard leaders, and private sector and non-governmental executives. As the U.S. Army's principal liaison to Congress, he was the point man who formulated Army policy and supervised relations with the Congress which resulted in a budget appropriation of over $100 billion dollars for the first time ever while at war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

MAJOR GENERAL (RET’D) DOUG CRISSMAN

Former Deputy Commanding General

U.S. Army Central

A career infantryman and third-generation graduate of West Point, Doug served in a wide variety of command and staff positions around the world and led organizations from the platoon through the two-star level during over 33 years of service including multiple combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. His assignments provided uncommon breadth and unique experiences including a teaching assignment at West Point, two tours in the Pentagon, Executive Officer & Senior Military Advisor to the Secretary of the Army, deputy commander a 20,000-Soldier U.S. Infantry Division (while deployed in Afghanistan), and as Deputy Commander of the British Army’s premier warfighting Division, the 3rd (UK) Division. Doug also led the Army’s Mission Command Center of Excellence where he helped refine the Army’s “Mission Command” approach which seeks to empower leaders to exercise disciplined initiative and accept prudent risks. As the Deputy Commander of rotational forces in the Middle East, Doug led through the challenging periods of the pandemic and the final withdrawal from Afghanistan.

COLONEL (RET’D) WARREN SPONSLER

Chief Operating Officer

National Advanced Mobility Consortium (NAMC)

Warren Sponsler is the Chief Operating Officer at The National Advanced Mobility Consortium (NAMC), responsible for enabling NAMC to achieve its mission of fostering member-driven innovations that support the US Military’s development and prototyping efforts. NAMC connects solutions from the consortium’s approximately 500 U.S. industry and academia members to meet critical DoD needs. Warren retired as a Colonel in the U.S. Army in 2022 after serving more than 26 years on active duty with his last positions as the Deputy Director and Chief of Staff of the Next Generation Combat Vehicles Cross Functional Team (NGCV CFT), Army Futures Command, where he led the formative efforts in requirements development, technology investment and experimentation. As a U.S. Army Armor officer and combat veteran, Warren served in multiple command and staff positions during his career leading and training Soldiers both throughout the U.S. and deployed around the world.

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

GENERAL GARY BRITO

Commanding General TRADOC

BRIGADIER GENERAL GEOFF NORMAN

Director, Next Generation Combat Vehicles CFT

U.S. Army

BRIGADIER GENERAL PHILLIP N. FRIETZE

Assistant Deputy Commandant, Combat Development and Integration

U.S. Marine Corps

MAJOR GENERAL DAVID WILSON

Commanding General

U.S. Army Sustainment Command

MAJOR GENERAL ROBERT L. BARRIE, JR.

Deputy for Acquisition and Systems Management Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology)

U.S. Army

COLONEL JAMES M. MODLIN, JR.

Deputy Commandant

U.S. Army Armor School

COLONEL JEFF JURAND

Program Manager XM30 Combat Vehicle

U.S. Army

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

MAJOR JEFFREY JENNINGS

Raider Brigade XO, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division

U.S. Army

LTC (USA-RET) STUART HATFIELD

Chief Robotics Branch

HQDA Force Development Directorate, Army G-8

DR. NAIM LEE

Chief Evaluator Land Warfare

U.S. Joint Staff J8

ANDREW KERBRAT

Associate Director for Vehicle Electronic and Architecture

U.S. Army

DR. ROBERT SADOWSKI, SES

Army Chief Roboticist

U.S. Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center

JOSIAH FAY

Armaments Center Project Officer

DEVCOM

MARTIN J. BARR

Capability Development Specialist, Next Generation Combat

Vehicle Cross Functional Team

U.S. Army Futures Command

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

BRENT G. INGRAHAM

Executive Director, Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell, Acquisition & Sustainment Office of the Under Secretary of Defense

TED MACIUBA

P.E., Consultant, Robotics, AI and Technology Maciuba Consulting LLC, Former Deputy Director Army Robotics Requirements, MCDID

JOSEPH PIPCZYNSKI, JR

Vice President, Global Sales, Marketing & Business Development ScioTeq

KURT BRUCK

Vice President Neya Robotics

USER

F RED JONES

Senior Technical Fellow, Cybersecurity Research RTX

MIKE RODGERS

U.S.– Ukraine Liaison Officer Ukrainian Army

AGENDA

DAY ONE MAY 21, 2024

ENVISIONING NEXT-GENERATION WARFIGHTING CAPABILITIES

07:30 MORNING COFFEE & REGISTRATION

08:45 Opening Remarks

Microphone Linda Lastovych, Conference Director, American Conference Institute

08:50 Chairperson's Opening Remarks

Microphone Major General (Ret’d) Doug Crissman, Former Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Army Central Colonel (Ret'd) Warren Sponsler, Chief Operating Officer, National Advanced Mobility Consortium (NAMC)

STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENT AND FUTURE BATTLEFIELD REQUIREMENTS

09:00 Opening Keynote: Combat Ready Future Force

Microphone General Gary Brito, Commanding General, TRADOC

09:30 Next-Generation Combat Vehicle: Outlining Requirements to Secure Strategic Superiority

Microphone Brigadier General Geoff Norman, Director, Next Generation Combat Vehicles CFT, U.S. Army

10:00 MORNING NETWORKING BREAK

COMBAT VEHICLE SYSTEM DESIGN: SURVIVABILITY, MOBILITY, AND SUSTAINMENT

10:30 Future Acquisition and Prototyping: Balancing Survivability with Mobility

Microphone Major General David Wilson, Commanding General, U.S. Army Sustainment Command

11:00 Major Platforms and Weapons Capabilities: Outlining Requirements

Microphone Brent G. Ingraham, Executive Director, Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell, Acquisition & Sustainment, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense

11:30 Force Design: Delivering Modernization

Microphone Brigadier General Phillip Frietze, Assistant Deputy Commandant, Combat Development and Integration, U.S. Marine Corps

12:00 LUNCH & NETWORKING

AGENDA

DAY ONE MAY 21, 2024 ENVISIONING NEXT-GENERATION WARFIGHTING CAPABILITIES

SOFTWARE COMPONENT: MODULAR OPEN SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

13:00 Future Land Warfare: Assessing Requirements for Modernization

Microphone Dr. Naim Lee, Chief Evaluator Land Warfare, U.S. Joint Staff J8*

14:00 Panel Discussion: Ground Combat System Common Infrastructure Architecture (GCIA) and Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA): Shaping the Future of U.S. Army Combat Vehicles

Microphone Joseph C. Pipczynski, Jr., Vice President, Global Sales, Marketing & Business Development, ScioTeq, LLC

Andrew Kerbrat, Associate Director for Vehicle Electronic and Architecture, U.S. Army

Colonel Jeff Jurand, Program Manager XM30 Combat Vehicle, U.S. Army

• How is open system architecture design integrated into the overall framework of the Next-Generation Combat Vehicle Program?

• In what ways does the combination of GCIA, MOSA, and open system architecture enhance the agility and responsiveness of combat vehicles to evolving mission requirements?

• Can you elaborate on the specific challenges and opportunities associated with implementing open system architecture in the context of combat vehicle design?

• What measures are in place to ensure that open system architecture design aligns with cybersecurity requirements and safeguards against potential vulnerabilities?

• How does the incorporation of open system architecture support the interoperability of the Next-Generation Combat Vehicle with other components of the Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) system?

• How is the U.S. Army leveraging open system architecture to facilitate easier upgrades, maintenance, and sustainment of the Next-Generation Combat Vehicle throughout its lifecycle?

• Considering the future landscape of warfare, how does open system architecture contribute to the adaptability and resilience of combat vehicles in dynamic and unpredictable environments? 14:15

Microphone

15:45 Chairman’s Closing Remarks

Microphone Major General (Ret’d) Doug Crissman, Former Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Army Central Colonel (Ret'd) Warren Sponsler, Chief Operating Officer, National Advanced Mobility Consortium (NAMC)

AGENDA

DAY TWO MAY 22, 2024

TRANSFORMING FUTURE FORMATIONS AND FORCE STRUCTURE

08:00 MORNI NG COFFEE & REGISTRATION

08:45 Chairperson's Opening Remarks

Microphone Lieutenant General (Ret’d) Guy Swan III, Former Commanding General, U.S. Army North Colonel (Ret'd) Warren Sponsler, Chief Operating Officer, National Advanced Mobility Consortium (NAMC)

9:00 Corporate Acquisition and Delivery of Modernized Capability for the U.S. Army

Microphone Major General Robert L. Barrie, Jr., Deputy for Acquisition and Systems Management Office of the Assistant Secretary ofthe Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology), U.S. Army

FUTURE FLEET

9:30 Robotic Systems and Autonomous Technologies for Joint Maneuver

Microphone Dr. Robert Sadowski, Chief Roboticist, U.S. Army

10:00 Current Efforts to Advance Human Machine Integration

Microphone Marty J. Barr, Capability Development Specialist, Next Generation Combat Vehicle Cross Functional Team, U. S. Army Futures Command

10:30 MORNING NETWORKING BREAK

HUMAN-MACHINE INTEGRATING FORMATION: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

11:00 Panel Discussion: Robotic Combat Vehicles and Human-Machine Integrated Formations – Implications for Doctrine and Training

Microphone

MODERATOR: Lieutenant General (Ret’d) Guy Swan III, Former Commanding General, U.S. Army North LTC (USA_ret) Stuart Hatfield, Chief Robotics Brandch, HQDA Force Development Directorate, Army G-8

Marty J. Barr, Capability Development Specialist, Next Generation Combat Vehicle Cross Functional Team, U. S. Army Futures Command

Colonel James M. Modlin, Jr., Deputy Commandant, U.S. Army Armor School

• In integrating robotic combat vehicles, what considerations are taken into account to ensure seamless coordination with manned fighting vehicles for effective ambush deterrence and mechanized formation protection?

• In what ways does the integration of robotic combat vehicles enhance or alter the sustainment requirements for mechanized formations, and how does this impact operational logistics?

• How are the human-machine integrating formations expected to evolve the traditional roles and responsibilities of military personnel, and what adjustments are being made in training programs to accommodate these changes?

• Considering the human in the loop, what are the training requirements to ensure effective communication and collaboration between human operators and autonomous robotic combat vehicles?

• Are there specific simulation or synthetic training environments being developed to prepare military personnel for the complexities of operating within human-machine integrated formations?

AGENDA

DAY TWO MAY 22, 2024

TRANSFORMING FUTURE FORMATIONS AND FORCE STRUCTURE

11:45 Industry Insights from Neya Robotics

Microphone Kurt Bruck, Vice President, Neya Robotics

12:15 Addressing Challenges and Opportunities for Human-Machine Integrated Formations

Microphone LTC (USA_ret) Stuart Hatfield, Chief Robotics Brandch, HQDA Force Development Directorate, Army G-8

12:45 LUNCH & NETWORKING

14:00 Charting the Future of Military Robotics

Microphone Ted Maciuba, P.E., Consultant, Robotics, AI and Technology, Maciuba Consulting LLC Former Deputy Director, Robotics Requirements, MCDID

14:30 Advancing Autonomy and Automation to Achieve Strategic Superiority

Microphone Josiah Fay, Armaments Center Project Officer, DEVCOM

15:00 Payback Devsecops Reference Architecture: A New Approach To Delivering Software Capability To Fielded Systems

Microphone Fred Jones, Senior Technical Fellow, Cybersecurity Research, RTX

15:30 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and End of Conference

Microphone Lieutenant General (Ret’d) Guy Swan III, Former Commanding General, U.S. Army North Colonel (Ret'd) Warren Sponsler, Chief Operating Officer, National Advanced Mobility Consortium (NAMC)

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