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Land Warfare Conference 2008

The Conference Committee will be looking for papers that ensure that the LWC 2008 Program is addressing the latest developments in the field of Land Warfare methodologies and systems.

Conference theme: Force Protection in the 21st Century: D4STI

(D4: deterring, detecting, disrupting and defeating; STI: sustaining, training and informing)

 

Abstracts of papers for oral or poster presentation can be submitted in the listed categories.  However, an abstract of papers that may appeal to the conference, but do not necessarily fit any of the categories listed may still be submitted for consideration.

Areas of special interest:

• Future objective force
• Hardened and networked Army
• Counter terrorism/counter insurgency
• CIED
• Urban combat and operations
• Cross cutting technologies: detection, surveillance, and monitoring
• Operational support to enhance capability
• Rapid insertion of technology
• Information and knowledge management

 

Focal Areas

 

Lethality:

• Direct, indirect, conventional, non-conventional weapons
• Technology drivers for enhanced fire power
• Weapons for special operations
• Warheads and lethality
• Weapon systems effectiveness modeling/validation
• Payloads and delivery systems
• Propulsion technologies
• Fuze technologies
• Target engagement (static and mobile)
• Future concepts
• Area denial weapons
• Less than lethal systems
• Tank armaments
• Mortars
• Precision munitions
• Sensor and seeker systems
• Weapons effects
• Guidance and fire control systems

 

C4ISREW

• Command, control, communication and computers, surveillance, intelligence and reconnaissance
• Interoperability
• Technology drivers
• Situational awareness
• Detection
• Recognition
• Combat ID
• Battlefield digitisation
• NCW

 

Strategic Lift

• Amphibious lift
• Air lift
• Technology alternatives

 

Soldier Modernisation

• Technology issues: lethality, human performance, C4I, survivability, mobility, sustainability, modeling, simulation and evaluation, training
• Operational issues
• System integration concepts
• International programs
  • Interoperability
  • Situational awareness for dismounted troops
  • Remote armaments systems
• Close combat
• Counter terrorism
• Objective force
• Mechanised forces
  • Human factors
  • Power systems for dismounted soldiers

 

Simulation, Modelling and Training

• Technology driven training
• Combat training
• Weapons training
• Role of modeling and simulation in training
• Role of synthetic environment for training
• Virtual simulation
• Individual, team and collective training
• Behavioural sciences and human performance
• Artificial intelligence and decision making
• Performance measurement, verification and validation

 

Force Protection

• CBRND
• Electronic warfare self protection (EWSP)
• ECM
• Ballistic and blast protection
• Personnel protection
• Vehicle protection
• Survivability
• Biotechnology
• Bio/chemical defence

 

Mobility and counter mobility

• Land/air/sea
• IED detection, validation and threat mitigation
• Obstacle/barricade breaching and construction
• Civil affairs

 

Sustainability

• Logistics technology
• Casualty evacuation
• Battlefield clearance
• Maintenance of re-supply
• Distribution

 

Emerging Technology

• Robotics
  • Autonomous/unmanned systems
• UAV
• ULV and slaved land vehicles
• Artificial Intelligence in defence applications
• MEMS and photonic technologies
• Nano-technologies
• Computing technologies
• Novel energy generation devices
• Energy harnessing technologies
• Space based systems
• Innovative technology enhancements
• Enabling technologies
• Dual use technologies
• Wireless networks
• Networking in extreme conditions
• UAV/UGV/UUV armaments
• Advanced materials and manufacturing technologies
  • Biomedical technologies

 

There is no restriction on the number of papers by each registrant. However, no more than two papers per registrant will be accepted for presentation with a view to maximise the opportunities for other researchers to present their work.