AVT-375  on Munition Health Management Lecture Series: Implementation Challenges

Research Lecture Series 

 to be held in Washington, DC (USA), 10-11 September 2024

The lecture series is open to citizens from NATO nations, Australia, Japan, Republic of Korea and Singapore.

 Registration Deadline Extended: 09.09.2024  

Scientific Objectives

The RLS aims at end-users of munitions and guided missiles in the munitions’, quality and logistics branches of MoD’s. The RLS provides information of state of the art MHM technologies and approaches. Further, guidance is given in setting up and implementing MHM technologies based on realistic cost benefit analyses. The lectures will be arranged in a logical and systematic way allowing participants to select lectures that suit their position best.
The deliveries will be the lecture series itself, which will be held for participants from NATO countries. The lecture presentations/handouts will be another deliverable of the activity. 

Topics to be covered

• Overview of current state of the art of technology in the field of Munition Health Management
• Examples of system implementation and integration, discussing current operational HUMS systems
• Systematic steps towards implementation of MHM: Implementation strategy (AOP-4844)
• Life decision process
• Cost Benefit Analysis
• Design of MHM capability

Registration:

Register by 09 September 2024. See promotional video 

Booking validation can take more time depending upon your nationality. Thank you for your understanding. The General Information Package (GIP) will be visible and ready to download on this event page after your registration has been validated by the Lecture Series and Technical Courses department. 

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SAS-191 Research Technical Course on

Nordic Pine 2024: Hybrid Threats to Renewable Energy Systems

To be held in Espoo, Finland

24-26 September 2024

This Research Technical Course (RTC) is open to citizens from NATO nations, Australia and Japan. 

Deadline to Register: 31 August 2024

 Scientific Objectives:

The overall objective for the course is to organize one multi-day course at three different sites transferring practical knowledge and recent field developments through on-site instructor training or lectures to military decision makers. Renewable energy systems are becoming a growing part of the energy mix in more and more countries around the world. Traditional energy systems based on fossil and nuclear sources are based in mature and well analysed systems of governmental control, security analysis and experience and is well protected against adversaries. Another objective is to further cooperation between primarily Finland and Sweden but also other Nordic/Baltic NATO-countries (Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania). The training objectives are to exercise hybrid incidents towards renewable energy systems within the areas of Cyber / Supply chain / Malign influence.

Scientific Topics to be Discussed:

Cyber Threats – Cyber Security
• Cyberattack towards SCADA-systems
• Malware in ERP-systems
• Insiders
• Combinations of natural disaster and hacker attacks
• Combined cyber-attacks and physical/kinetic sabotage

Supply Chain Risks
• Sabotage/disruptive attacks on fuel supply, supply routes, critical infrastructure, telecommunications
• IoT aspects/impact to power consumption/distribution in relation to grid balancing. What does internet connected devices (such as EV chargers etc.) mean to the stability of the grid?
• Command, control and communication, interdependencies in the energy system as a whole (central, regional, local) or between different sources of energy
• Perturbations causing delays or disruptions in the transport system leading to lack of critical goods and material
• Lack of fuel, gas, crude oil, forest
• Supply of critical material, components, equipment, chemicals, vehicles etc.

Malign Influence
• Misinformation, influence operations and deception
• False information causing social unrest
• Malign influence operations with purpose of smearing and degrading a certain renewable energy source e.g., maritime wind power

Registration:

Deadline to register is 31 August 2024.

The General Information Package (GIP) will be visible and ready to download on this event page after your registration has been validated by the Lecture Series and Technical Courses Department.

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Event programme to follow soon!

Deadline to enrol: 4 September 2024

The Information Systems Technology (IST) Scientific and Technical Committee (STC) will hold its 54^th Business Meeting on 14-18 October 2024 in Lillehammer, Norway. This meeting will be in-person only.

Participation is open to appointed IST Panel Members, Members-at-Large and Associate Members. Guests will be invited on behalf of the IST STC Chairperson.

Please see the attached General Information Package (GIP) for information on logistics, accommodation, travel, etc. The GIP will be available for download on this website after the IST STC Executive Office has validated your registration.

To register, please log in with your STO Events credentials or create an account if you do not already have one. After logging in, click on the green “Book now” button at the bottom of the page to start the enrolment process.

After validation, return to this page, log in with your credentials and download the GIP located on the right-hand menu or above the bar below.

Registration is open from 10 June until 4 September 2024 at 23:59 CET (Paris time).

Important: you will need to enrol separately for the IST-208 Research Symposium on “Towards the convergence of Edge Computing, Adaptive Networking, and Information Management at the Tactical Edge”, which will be held on 15-16 October 2024 on the same premises.