This document provides an agenda for the Defence Aviation Safety conference to be held on April 29-30, 2019 in London. The agenda lists over 30 presentations to be given over the two days covering topics related to aviation safety for military forces. Presentations will address safety priorities and programs for various countries' air forces, as well as topics like unmanned systems safety, accident investigation, certification processes, and interoperability. The conference aims to promote cooperation and continuous improvement in military aviation safety.

1. Defence
Aviation
Safety
29th - 30th April 2019,
Copthorne Tara Hotel,
Kensington, London
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2. Defence Aviation Safety
Day One | Monday 29th April 2019 www.defenceaviationsafety.com
8.30 Registration & Coffee
8.50 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Lieutenant General Richard Felton CBE, Director General, Defence
Safety Authority, Defence Safety Authority
Keynote Aviation Safety Briefings
9.00 Senior RAF Keynote Address
9.30 German implementation of a Total System Approach to Safety in
Aviation
• The German MAA Approach to safety
• DLR and German Armed Forces projects to find new and
innovative safety process
• Cyber resilience technologies emerging to defeat the threat and
keep military aircraft safe
Major General Gunter Katz, Director General, German Military
Aviation Authority
10.00 Session Reserved For Lead Sponsor
10.30 The Royal Air Force Safety Centre: Assuring Air System Safety For
Maximum Capability and Delivery
• RAF Safety Management Systems
• Managing new and aging aircraft
• Creating a safety culture across the Royal Air Force
• Using data for future safety improvements across the Royal Air
Force
Air Commodore Mark Jeffery, Head of RAF Safety Centre,
Royal Air Force
11.00 Morning Coffee
Rotary Safety-Operations and Equipment Management
11.30 Managing Complex And Varied Rotary Operations Whilst Ensuring Safety
• How JHC manage safety cases and priorities
• Delivering rotary support for the UK armed forces: why safety must
be front of mind for all operations
• Engineering and maintenance considerations for platform turn
around and rapid deployment
Rear Admiral Jon Pentreath, Commander, Joint Helicopter
Command, Army Head Quarters
12.00 Session Reserved For Gold Sponsor
12.30 DES Strategies to Ensure Safe Operations of UK Helicopter Platforms
• Creating a safety culture across DES
• Optimising airworthiness through a more effective certification process
• Safety standards and metrics
• Ensuring all platforms are mission ready and at full operational capacity
Air Vice Marshal Graham Russell, Director Helicopters, DES UK MoD
1.00 Networking Lunch
Operational Superiority and Safety Priorities
2.00 Typhoon Force: Delivering Air Superiority and Combat Effectiveness
Whilst Ensuring Safety
• The role the Typhoon force plays in supporting UK operations at
home and abroad
• Enabling complex deployment of air assets across a global network
• Keeping safety front of mind when delivering air power through
fast-jet and ISTAR platforms
• Feedback from recent combat operations and how these are
driving future safety considerations
Air Commodore Mark Chappell, Typhoon Force Commander,
Royal Air Force
2.30 Maximising Combat Operations Whilst Maintaining Airworthiness
and Safety
• Ensuring a rapidly deployable and agile USMC Aviation Capability
• Airworthiness priorities and standards
• Keep safety in mind when developing next generation aviation
capability
Brigadier General Bradford J Gering, Assistant Deputy Commandant
Aviation, US Marine Corps
3.00 Ensuring Combat-Ready Forces For Rapid Deployment
• Why safety must remain the number one priority of the US Air Force
• Examining challenges to air safety in the modern battlespace:
- Overcoming Cyber Threats
- UAS and Counter UAS strategies
- The Rise of urban warfare
• Weapon Systems Safety
• Working with allied forces to improve mutual recognition of
platforms and systems
Colonel Steven G. Owen, Director of Safety for Air Combat
Command, ACC, US Air Force
3.30 Afternoon Tea
Maximising Airworthiness
4.00 Ensuring Airworthiness UK MoD Platforms and Systems
• Creating a safety-first culture at DES
• Engineering priorities to keep platforms rapidly deployable and
airworthy
• Through life support safety certification
• Enhancing capability through risk avoidance and safety processes
• Working with Industrial Partners for safety assurance
Mr. Timothy Rountree, Director Safety Environment, Quality and
Technology, DES UK MoD
4.30 Maximising Aviation Safety and Military Air Worthiness Across the
French Armed Forces
• The DSAE’s supervisory and regulatory role within civil and state
aviation
• Improving Mutual Recognition to reduce the certification process
and deliver aircraft into service faster
• Using data and evidence to drive future safety
• Future plans to improve the integration of new aircraft into the fleet
Brigadier General Laurent Aubigny, Director State Aviation Authority,
French Armed Forces
Safety For UAS
5.00 Deploying and Managing Unmanned Systems UK Air Space: Ensuring
Safety And Improved Regulation
• Safety challenges for UAV operators
• Managing the in-service risk and regulatory compliancy
• Certification requirements for UAVS
• Learning from safety cases to drive future improvements
• Incorporating accident data from commercial UAV cases into
defence forecasting and planning
Air Commodore Simon Ellard, Head Un-Manned Air Systems,
DES UK MoD
5.30 US Army Doctrine For The Safe Operational of UAS
• The growing reliance on unmanned assets for ISR, Combat support
and Attack
• Safety Training for UAS users
• Ensuring safety for weapons
• Collaborating with other army units to share accident data
Colonel Mike Demirjian, Capability Manager for Reconnaissance
and Attack, TRADOC, US Army
6.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
Lieutenant General Richard Felton CBE, Director General Defence
Safety Authority, Defence Safety Authority
“The aim is to promote cooperation and continuous improvement in military aviation and in developing fields such as cyber,
space and unmanned systems. While the primary focus of this event will be on safety in Defence aviation it will also be of
interest to those involvement in the acquisition and safe operation of unmanned systems and to those concerned with the
certification of all equipment types. The DSA will once again be supporting this event, and I encourage participation from
across Defence organisations and industry.”
Lieutenant General Richard Felton CBE, Director General, Defence Safety Authority, UK MoD
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3. Defence Aviation Safety
www.defenceaviationsafety.com Day two | tuesday 30th April 2019
8.30 Registration Coffee
8.50 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Lieutenant General Richard Felton CBE, Director General, Defence
Safety Authority, Defence Safety Authority
KEynOtE SESSiOnS
9.00 Optimising Safe Air Systems Across the British Armed Forces
• The role of the MAA in delivering air superiority through increased
safety
• Incorporating safety into the design of new air platforms and
systems to avoid downstream certifi cation challenges
• Unmanned systems and the need for greater regulation and safety
• Maintaining an aging fl eet though enhanced certifi cation
processes
• The role industry can play in more effi cient and effective platform
service delivery
Air vice Marshal Steven Shell, Director MAA,
Military Aviation Authority
9.00 protecting Resources and preserving Combat Readiness through
Data Driven Decision Making
• The US Air Force’s priorities for aviation safety
• Mitigating safety risk to all aviation assets through the intelligent
use of data
• Sharing data with allied partners for greater mutual recognition
• Seeing safety as an Air Force multiplier: examples of where
optimising safety can deliver greater mission capability
• Safety programs and policy for occupational, weapons, space,
system mishap prevention and nuclear
Major General John t. Rauch Jr, Air Force Chief of Safety
Commander, uSAF
10.00 Session Reserved For Gold Sponsor
10.30 Morning Coffee
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11.00 the Royal norwegian Air Force’s Safety priorities
• Safety ownership and governance across the Norwegian Air Force
• Maintenance and engineering safety standards
• Certifi cation and onboarding of the F-35
• The need for leadership create a strong safety culture
Brigadier General Rolf Folland, Norwegian Air inspectorate of Flying,
norwegian Air Force
11.30 Strengthening Certification Processes To Ensure Successful
Airworthiness Of Key Aviation programmes And platforms
• The roles and responsibilities of the Defence Aviation Safety Authority
• Working with fast Jet, Fixed Wing and Rotary Platforms
• Certifying UAS platforms
• The need for enhanced mutual recognition of allied used air platforms
Air Commodore Jason Agius, Director General - Defence Aviation
Safety Authority, Royal Australian Air Force
12.00 Session Reserved For Gold Sponsor
12.30 Challenges for improved Aviation Safety Across the netherlands
Armed Forces
• The thin line between operational necessity and breaking the rules
• To report, or not to report... how just is our culture?
• Changing the culture of safety through leadership
• Future plans and focus for the Military Aviation Authority NLD
Air Commodore Jan-paul Apon, Director Military Aviation Authority,
Royal netherlands Air Force
1.00 networking Lunch
MiLitARy AviAtiOn AutHORity pROGRAMME upDAtES
2.00 Roles and responsibilities of the Swedish MAA and the certification
process of JAS39 Gripen E
• Safety priorities for Fast Jet, Fixed Wing and Rotary Platforms
• Examples of aviation safety cases
• Certifi cation procedures for the JAS39 Gripen E
• Creating a safety culture for future air mission planning
Colonel Anders Janson, Head of Aviation Safety, Swedish Armed
Forces Headquarters
2.30 performance, Safety and interoperability of Air platforms and Systems
• Establishing safety standards and requirements of the Finnish Armed
Forces Air platforms and systems
• Interoperability between the Civil and Military Aviation
• Example of certifi cation and compliance
• Safety Culture challenges
Colonel Kimmo nortaja, Director, Military Aviation Authority,
Finnish Armed Forces
3.00 Military Aviation Airworthiness For the Czech Armed Forces
• Structure and Responsibilities of the Czech Republic’s MMA
• Accident investigation and management
• Certifi cation and mutual recognition of new platforms and aviation
air systems
• An update on MATC successes for joint safety and training
requirements
Colonel Lubomir Sitta, MAA CZE Director, Military Aviation Authority of
the Czech Republic
3.30 Afternoon tea
StRAtEGiC AiR LiFt CApABiLity AnD nAtO
4.00 Safe Strategic Air Lift For Operations Of the German Bundeswehr
• Military (MCCE and EATC) as well as commercial companies
providing capabilities
• Major requirements and procedures (Customs, Air freight security,
Dangerous goods) to ensure Strategic Air Lift
• Challenges in a multinational environment
Lieutenant Colonel Harald Struzyna, Head of Department Heavy Lift
Transport, Logistikzentrum Der Bundeswehr
4.30 implementing the nAtO Airworthiness policy (nAWp)
• Presentation of the NAWP
• Implementation of the NAWP
• NATO Recognition Process (NRP)
• Action Plan
• Actual implementation
Richard Duriez, Armament Aerospace Capabilities Directorate,
nAtO Hq
5.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day two
Lieutenant General Richard Felton CBE, Director General Defence
Safety Authority, Defence Safety Authority
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