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Canberra Program Thursday 26 July Rydges Lakeside, Canberra
0730 - 0850 Registration 0850 - 0950 Opening Remarks & Keynote Address Chair: Dr David Stevens Opening Remarks Vice Admiral Russ Shalders, RAN, Chief of Navy Keynote Address Professor N.A.M. Rodger, Exeter University 1000 - 1030 Morning Tea 1005 - 1015 Book & Video Launch - Vice Admiral Russ Shalders, RAN Chief of Navy
1030 - 1200 Stream 1 - Chair: Dr John Reeve Securing the airwaves at sea: US Navy Communications security, 1917-1945 Professor John Schindler, US Naval War College The communication of Australian naval intelligence 1915-45 Lieutenant Commander Tim Coyle, RANR	Stream 2 - Chair: Dr Gregory Gilbert 'Let's keep in touch': communications by the Admiralty and Colonial Office with the British Empire’s Pacific possessions and HM Ships in the 19th century Bob Nicholls, author The strategic importance of cable and radio for Germany in the Asia-Pacific region before WWI Dr Peter Overlack Questions
1200 - 1300 Lunch
1300 - 1430 Stream 1 - Chair: Dr David Stevens ‘Unlikely partners’: the destruction of Emden and the paradox of Japanese naval cooperation with Australia during WWI Lieutenant Colonel Tim Gellel, Australian Army Signals that made history: AE2’s last signal revisited Captain Richard Arundel, RAN (rtd)	Stream 2 - Chair: Dr Ian Pfennigwerth The evolution of communications in the RAN before, during and after WWII Captain Wally Rothwell and Commander Ted Lesh, RAN (rtd) The defence of sea communications on the Australia Station 1939-45 Air Commodore Norman Ashworth (rtd) Questions
1430 - 1500 Afternoon Tea
1500 - 1630 Stream 1 - Chair: Dr Norman Friedman The Convoy Signalmen Dr Ian Pfennigwerth, author The fighter control revolution of the Second World War Dr Eric Grove, University of Salford	Stream 2 - Chair: Mr Joe Straczek Secret communications between Australia and Germany in two World Wars Captain Peter Hore, RN (rtd) The HMAS Armidale tragedy: a failure of C3I John Bradford, author Questions
1900 to 1930 Dinner (Anzac Hall, Australian War Memorial) After Dinner 'When things go wrong': communications during the midget submarine attack on Sydney Peter Grose, author
Canberra Program Friday 27 July Rydges Lakeside, Canberra
0830 - 1000 Stream 1 - Chair: Captain Peter Hore, RN (rtd) RN cruiser policy between the Wars: the requirements of trade protection David Chessum, University of Wollongong/AMOG Consulting Inter-Allied communication during the Korean War Commander David Hobbs, RN (Rtd) Questions	Stream 2 - Chair: Dr Eric Grove Collective amnesia and miscommunication in Whitehall 1981–2007 Lieutenant Desmond Woods, RAN SLOC, ‘Choke points’ and the Soviet Naval Cold War: The maritime communications factor in Soviet naval strategy and force development 1962-92 Dr Alexey Muraviev, Curtin University of Technology
1000 - 1030 Morning Tea
1030 - 1200 Stream 1 - Chair: Commander David Hobbs, RN (rtd) The Canadian naval experience of network-enabled operations, 1980-2005 Dr Richard Gimblett, Canadian Navy Command Historian Networking naval coalitions: Challenges and opportunities Associate Professor Paul Mitchell, Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies Questions	Stream 2 - Chair: Lieutenant Desmond Woods, RAN Countering Iran’s unconventional maritime threat: US joint operations to protect Kuwaiti oil, 1987-88 Dr David Crist, Office of the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Misdirection amidst the ‘fog of relief’: problems with communications interoperability in Operation UNIFIED ASSISTANCE Research Professor Bruce Elleman, US Naval War College
1200 - 1300 Lunch
1300 - 1430 Stream 1 - Chair: Dr Richard Gimblett The triumph of communications over command of the sea: American naval strategy and operations in the wars of the 20th and 21st centuries Professor Ken Hagan and Associate Professor Mike McMaster, US Naval War College Pax Americana and the consolidated ocean web of communications Dr Bruce McLennan, Defence Materiel Organisation Questions	Stream 2 - Chair: Dr Sally Paine Communications, C2 Entropy and Maritime Operations Dr Alexander Kalloniatis, Defence Science and Technology Organisation ‘Maritime chokepoints, oil supply lines and SLOCs: A threat assessment Michael Richardson, Institute of South East Asian Studies
1430 - 1500 Afternoon Tea
1500 - 1630 Stream 1 - Chair: Captain Peter Leavy, RAN Communications for the global maritime partnership Captain George Galdorisi, USN (rtd) The ship’s command team and network centric warfare Commander Stephen Dryden, Fleet Headquarters Questions	Stream 2 - Chair: Dr Bruce McLennan ‘All’s well in the goldfish bowl’: SLOC - the inside view of maritime strategy Captain Peter Martin, MNI Communications from the modern battlespace Dr Tom Lewis, Department of Defence
1630 Closing Remarks Commodore Steve Gilmore, RAN, Director Navy Strategic Policy and Futures