Symposium Program

Registration and Networking

Opening Introduction and Welcome to Country

Room: Royal Theatre
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Opening Introduction
CAPT Paul Yow, RAN

Welcome to Country
Elder Aunty Serena Williams

Opening Keynote Address

Room: Royal Theatre
Chair: Tim Gavel

CJC Landscape
AIRMSHL Glen Braz, AM CSC DSM - Chief Joint Capabilities

Keynote Address

Room: Royal Theatre
Chair: Tim Gavel

GWEO Landscape
RADM Nigel Smith, CSC RAN – Head of GWEO Systems Division

Keynote Address

Room: Royal Theatre
Chair: Tim Gavel

DGEO Landscape
AIRCDRE Adam Spinks, Director General Explosive Ordnance, Joint Capabilities Group

Keynote Address

Room: Royal Theatre
Chair: Tim Gavel

Speaker TBC

Panel Discussion

Room: Royal Theatre
Chair: Tim Gavel

Explosive Ordnance Safety Landscape from Conflict to Competition Environments - A Regulator's Perspective

• AIRCDRE Adam Spinks, Director General Explosive Ordnance, Joint Capabilities Group
• Mr Stephen Gillstroem McLean – UK Ministry of Defence
• Mr Gilles Belley - Director, Ammunition and Explosives Regulation - Department of National Defence (Canada)

Session 1A – Regulation and Risk Management

Room: Royal Theatre
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A Case Study for Modified QERA based on Weighting Factors for Operational Risk, Mission Urgency, Personnel and Asset Protection

Mr Rhys Centin, Thornton Tomasetti

Session 1B – Regulation

Room: Bradman Theatre
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Australian regulatory approaches to explosives – lithium batteries

Mr James Robertson, Directorate Ordnance Safety

Session 1C – Professional Development

Room: Menzies Theatre
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Rapid development of suitably qualified and experienced personnel in DSTG

Dr Chad Prior, Defence Science and Technology Group

Session 2A – Safety and Suitability for Service

Room: Royal Theatre
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The benefits of insensitive munitions

Ms Ann Leni Fladvad, Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency

Session 2B – Battery Technology

Room: Bradman Theatre
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Comparison of lithium ion battery thermal threat and NATO standardised fast heating threat

Mr Jean-Francois Fournier, Munitions Safety Information Analysis Center (MSIAC), Belgium

Session 2C – Regulation and Risk Management

Room: Menzies Theatre
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Beyond simple numbers – the critical importance of accurate TNT equivalency in international explosives safety

Mr Troy Gardner, Safety Management Services (US)

Insensitive high explosives qualification

Ms Elizabeth Francois, Los Alamos National Laboratories (US)

Integrating innovation without compromising safety – battery energy storage system consequence modelling

Mr Alex Waugh, AMOG Consulting

Proportional Approach to Weapon System Software Safety Engineering

Mr Warren Miller, DDG GWEO Systems Division DENG

Session 3A – Manufacturing

Room: Royal Theatre
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Applying digital engineering to support the introduction into service of complex GWEO systems

Miss Josephine Matthias, Australian Missile Corporation

LTCOL Jon Abundo, GWEO Group Systems Division

Session 3B – Storage and Distribution

Room: Bradman Theatre
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Proportionality in Exclusion Zones: A Physics-Based Method for Assessing Projectile Hazards from Underground Ammunition Storage Facilities

Dr Edward Gan, Kellogg Brown and Root Australia

Session 3C – Safety and Suitability for Service

Room: Menzie Theatre
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Energetic material qualification requirements

Dr Khuong Vuong, Directorate of Ordnance Safety (Department of Defence)

Building a sovereign rocket – Development of the Koonibba Rising vehicle and performance capabilities of a wholly Australian sounding rocket

Mr Christopher Norton, Southern Launch Australia

Investigation of quantitative explosive risk assessment approaches applicable to selected storage and transport scenarios of explosive ordnances in the ADF

FLTLT Franz Pulikkottil, Royal Australian Air Force

RF shielding effectiveness of metal ammunition boxes in EO safety applications

Mr Prodip Ghosh, Directorate of Ordnance Safety (Department of Defence)