Systems Engineering for Defence tbc

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Systems Engineering for Defence tbc

Event date: 13 February 2013
Event end date: 14 February 2013

Location:

Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, Shrivenham.

What is this event about and why should you attend?

The task of developing and maintaining future defence capability has never been more challenging. The world in which defence operates is now highly uncertain, with missions now being required at short notice with previously unexpected adversaries and allies. At the same time, operational capabilities are being transformed through the introduction of digital technology often with characteristic timescales which can be orders of magnitude shorter than for conventional defence procurement. Major equipments are getting more complex and society is rightly expecting better performance from the organisations – government and industry – which are responsible for developing capabilities to time, cost and performance. The publication of the Defence Reform Review makes this clear, and further transforms the landscape in which all parties will have to operate.

The response to these complex and interconnected challenges spans all parts of the defence community: military, project and procurement management, financial/commercial and technical. This symposium workshop will concentrate on the moves being made to develop a strategy for defence engineering, and the special contribution which can be made by the systems community.

The issues the professional engineer can be expected to address – in both client and supply communities - has grown from the already complex business of designing and building large systems, i.e. ‘conventional’ systems engineering, and now embraces the broader issues of across-project integration, technology pull-through and reuse, support to capability and programme management, and embracing the softer side of the engineering approach, so-called ‘systems thinking’.

How can you contribute?

Through presentations, discussion groups and plenary sessions, the purpose is to encourage cross-fertilisation of ideas, the development of new perspectives and the challenging of current thinking. Time is planned into the programme to allow formal and informal discussions both in the main lecture theatre, break out sessions and during the breaks for coffee, lunch and tea, and during the inclusive Symposium Dinner, to be held in the award-winning STEAM museum in Swindon, all of which provide an ideal and convivial focus for networking and discussing issues with your professional peers who are each addressing the challenges from their own perspective. . Proceedings on DVD will be available at the end of the event, free to all delegates.

Displays

This event provides a highly targeted audience. Time will be especially allotted to the displays and we offer companies, departments and establishments an opportunity to display their equipment or advertise their capability. A complimentary half page advertisement in the programme is available to those who book display space. You can apply by clicking on ‘Registration and Payment’.

Please Note: Display personnel need to register as delegates if they wish to attend symposium presentations and meals.

Sponsorship

There are opportunities for sponsoring this event. The name of the sponsor, with logo, will appear in the programme and will be advertised before each break in the programme. Depending on the level of sponsorship, additional benefits may be available (complimentary registration fees, display spaces etc). Please contact us as soon as possible to discuss options of sponsorship and the benefits to be gained.