Overview

The defence community is becoming more dynamic, worldwide. Industry is building capability to deliver to new and more challenging customer demands in critical environments. Military can today increasingly utilize the expertise and resources of the private sector to meet defence capability in new and innovative ways. For example, by transferring ‘risk’ to industry, the military can adopt ‘partnering’ arrangements to meeting capability requirements. The result is to change the role of industry increasingly from one of ‘deciders’ to one of ‘providers.’ Today industry is able to meet growing demands from military partners in innovative ways to have bottom-line impact and provide through-life full-cycle solutions.

This changing reality must however be accommodated into defence systems and organizations which may be old and unable to respond gracefully to the changing face of the defence community in the 21st century. As military leaderships look to modernize defence organization in order to deal with tightening budgets, growing operational needs, and new security challenges, strategically engaging industry occupies a crucial strategic position in future defence planning. You will hear the strategic perspectives from the highest level of government and military on what role they envision for the industry, and the expectations and intentions they are holding to enable such a transformation.

The Challenge

‘Partnering’ with private sector allows the military to reduce costs and achieve bottom-line objectives, whilst at the same time achieving improved service delivery to the front-line. It will also free up personnel for more critical tasks. There are however serious challenges associated with ‘partnering’ with private sector. The role of industry in defence capability; through-life capability management; project cost forecasting and whole-life costing; choosing your ‘partner’ and getting the right partnering arrangement; payment mechanisms and contracting models; defining, allocating, and mitigating risk; providing leadership and managing process and organization change; working effectively in joint collaborative structures and complex programme integration, and; complex project management and Systems-of-Systems Programmes in defence are all core issues that pose important challenges.

We will cover all these areas to provide strategic decision-makers and senior leaders in the military and industry with the best in strategies and approaches to effective ‘partnering.’ As the Gulf region looks to develop its regional defence industrial capability at the same time, the possibilities for collaboration and strategic engagement are potentially huge.

Only at Defence Industry Partnerships Middle East will you

• HEAR strategic perspectives from the highest levels in the military and government services on what they want from private sector partners
• RAISE your understanding of how decision-makers in defence are looking to encourage the development of a strong defence industrial base through strategically engagement
• LEARN about innovative approaches to enhancing Defence Capability
• DEVELOP your understanding of the role of industry in supporting the delivery of operational capability to the frontline
• RAISE awareness on the importance of Through-Life Capability Management (TLCM) and its future role in meeting national defence capability
• LEARN about defining, allocating, and mitigating ‘RISK’ effectively amongst partners in your projects
• HEAR about achieving bottom-line objectives and getting Value for Money (VfM) in critical environments through tried-and-tested techniques
• RECIEVE expert analysis on Acquisition Methods, the Principles of Whole Life Costing, and the impact of Through-Life solutions on cost forecasting
• LEARN about managing Complex Projects in Defence
• DEVELOP top-end strategies for meeting the requirements of your project/systems
• HEAR the latest on System-of-Systems programmes and optimizing performance through cutting-edge techniques in defence systems engineering
• RECIEVE the latest insights on strategies for successful partnering in military-private sector joint collaborative frameworks

The Defence Industry Partnerships Summit will bring together senior decision-makers and international experts

	Senior Commanding Officer, UAE AIR FORCE & AIR DEFENCE		HE Saif Al Hajeri, CEO, UAE Offset Programme Bureau		Air Marshall Barry Thornton, Chief of Material, UK Ministry of Defence
	Professor David Kirkpatrick, Emeritus Professor of Defence Analysis, UCL		Major General Andrew Pringle (R’td), Vice President EMEA, Government and Defence, KBR		Professor David Dombkins, Deputy Chair of College of Complex Project Managers and Past President Australian Institute of Project Management
	Vice Admiral Sir Jeremy Blackham (R’td), Former Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Equipment Capability), UK Ministry of Defence		Mr. Mazen Madooh Managing Director The National Offset Company (NOC)

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