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Supporting multi-domain operations: “Thinking And Living Through MDO”

7 March 2024

Moderated by Hawa-Léa Sougouna, director of the Coges conference program, the panel brought together three defense players particularly well placed to tackle the subject of multi-domain operations (MDO) in the USA and NATO, as well as M2MC in France for multi-field, multi-domain: Lieutenant-Colonel Bradley Cooper, Commander of the 194th Support Battalion, US Army, deployed at Camp Humphreys in Pyongtaek, South Korea; and Dr. Michael Shurkin, Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council; and Colonel Emmanuel Devigne, MDO Division Head at the Center for Command Doctrine and Lessons Learned at the Future Combat Command. Before tackling the issue of Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) support, Hawa-Léa Sougouna oriented the discussion towards a betetr understanding of what MDO covers and to what extent this concept is transposable among all NATO allies.

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Cubic Defence UK: Delivering an Integrated Fires Training System For Today’s Artillery-Intensive Battlefield

2 February 2024

Cubic was founded seventy years ago in the United States and is known for its innovation in both the transportation and the defense sector. Cubic is in particular the largest provider of Live Training Systems (LTS) to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization members, having “fielded more than a quarter million systems at over twenty-five fixed and mobile combat training ranges in thirty-three countries”(1). Its European branch, Cubic Defence UK “delivers technology-driven solutions to Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (C4ISR) and training”. It also “delivers a tactical Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) indirect fires ecosystem, improving live firing competence through immersive training solutions” (2).
The interview below focuses on the latter and the challenges of training in the context of the transformation of ground warfare and artillery given the combination of the return to high intensity warfare and new ways of using innovative and game-changing technologies. Andrew Gales and Martyn Armstrong discuss these issues.

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Hypersonic technologies: coercion vs defense

12 December 2023

In an age of rapidly evolving technologies, hypersonic capabilities have changed the game. These advanced systems have the potential to revolutionize the balance of power between nations. At the COGES EVENTS e-conference entitled “Unveiling Hypersonic Challenges – Missiles and Countermeasures in Modern Military”, held on September 19, 2023, the experts Dr. Richard Weitz, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Politico-Military Analysis at the Hudson Institute in Washington D.C. (USA), Dr. Iain Boyd, Director of the Center for National Security Initiatives at the University of Colorado (USA), and Lionel Mazenq, in charge of hypersonic missile defense programs at MBDA (France), described the technical evolution and geopolitical impact of hypersonic technologies. The panel was moderated by Hawa-Léa Sougouna, Conference Program Manager for COGES Events.

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Eurosatory 2024: meeting the challenges of the new “big global disorder”

6 November 2023

A few months ahead of the next edition of Eurosatory, to be held from June 17 to 21, 2024, General Beaudouin gives a grim outlook of global geopolitical developments, and explains his ambition to ensure that the show continues to adapt, as it has done for over half a century, in order to provide answers and solutions to crises – whichever their types – that are shaking the international community today.

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3d printing in the armed forces: an “emergency generator” for the supply chain

27 October 2023

A recognized expert in digital manufacturing and 3D printing, Tali Rosman became CEO of Elem Additive at Xerox in 2020. She describes this experience as her “greatest achievement”, as she was responsible for creating a new company, Elem Additive, from scratch, and launching a brand new product, ElemX. In fact, she is well known in the military field for having worked with the Naval Post Graduate School to test the very first liquid metal projection 3D printer installed in July 2022 on a US Navy ship, the USS ESSEX, while deployed at sea. In this interview, she describes the state of the art in metal 3D printing, its advantages and disadvantages, and the prospects she sees for this revolutionary field.

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Ammunition supply: the growing role of Australia’s NIOA Group on the international stage

27 October 2023

In this interview, Robert Nioa, CEO of the NIOA Group, explains the evolution and vocation of a family business born in the early sixties – and celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year – which today has become not only the gateway to over fifty international partners, but also Australia’s largest privately-owned supplier of small arms, ammunition and related products to the Australian and New Zealand military, police and commercial markets. A company in line with the Australian Armed Forces’ desire to strengthen their autonomy and sovereignty in this field, and to be able to contribute to the supply chain of their partners and allies.

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Judging German Strategy by how it uses the Navy: On strategy, foreign policy and the navy’s contribution to Germany’s global responsibility

17 May 2023

Dr. Brake is an independent expert on maritime security, a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Security, Strategy and Integration Studies (CASSIS) at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn, and a reserve naval officer at the German Institute for Defense and Strategic Studies (GIDS) of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg. In this article, he explains the evolution of German defence strategy through the prism of the transformation of naval missions. He expresses his concern that the fleet might become overly focused on NATO’s northern flank, in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, to the detriment of other crucial missions such as the protection of critical maritime infrastructure and the increasingly threatened freedom of navigation.

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NATO Military Stockpiles Policy : Reversing the Just In Time Logic

25 April 2023

The return of high-intensity conflict in Europe is having a major impact on the way NATO countries are reconsidering their military stockpiles policies.
During the iDeaS by COGES EVENTS e-conference entitled “Military stockpiles challenges within NATO?” held on March 21, three international experts looked into this specific issue.

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France – Frugality, modernity and mutualization: a triptych for strategic thickness and better sustainability of land equipment

15 April 2023

General Christian Jouslin de Noray, central director of the Structure intégrée du maintien en condition opérationnelle des matériels terrestres (SIMMT) (Integrated Land Equipment Maintenance Structure) since 2020, gives us his vision of an incremental land equipment support strategy and a realistic inventory policy that will enable our armies to acquire the industrial depth that is essential for any high-intensity scenario.

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