The Second Sir James Rowland
Air Power Seminar
“The Influence of Technology on Air Power: Historic and
Contemporary Perspectives”
This seminar series honours the contributions
of Air Marshal Sir James Rowland, the first
engineering officer to serve as Chief of the
Air Staff (1976-79) and a major contributor
to Australian thinking on the strategic use of
air power. The specific aim of the seminars
is a broadened understanding of the origins,
evolution, application and depiction of air power
in the national interest.
The seminar brings together air power
practitioners and academics, and wider Service,
governmental and industry parties interested in the utility of air power. Some
of the themes to be explored include: The Strategic Dimension of Air Power
in Securing the Nation; Future Force Structures; Emerging Air Power Threats;
the Ethics of Air Power; Air Force Culture and the Application of Air Power;
Technology and the Evolution of Air Power; the Navy, the Army and Air Power;
Space and Cyber Power; the Dynamics of Developing Air Power Doctrine.
Date
Wednesday 5 April, 2017
Place
Army/Air Force Rooms, Building 111,
Adams Auditorium, Australian Defence
Force Academy, Northcott Drive,
Campbell ACT
Time
0900 (registration from 0830)
CONTACT DETAILS
REGISTRATION
Dr Rita Parker
Centre Manager, ACSACS
UNSW Canberra
E: [email protected]
M: 0481 911 721
Holly Steer
Event Coordinator
UNSW Canberra
E: [email protected]
M: 0466 562 533
The Second Sir James Rowland Air Power Seminar
“The Influence of Technology on Air Power:
Historic and Contemporary Perspectives”
Program
Wednesday 5 April 2017
0900
Welcome
0905
Technology: the only strategic edge?
AIRCDRE Anthony Forestier
0915-0950
Looking Beyond the Planned Air Force:
Planning for Disruption
WGCDR Travis Hallen
SQNDLR Michael Spencer
0950-1025
Technology: The Mainstay of Air Power
Adjunct Professor Sanu Kainikara
Morning Tea
1045-1120
‘A flying machine for military purposes’:
Military aviation in the British dominions
before the First World War
Dr Michael Molkentin
1120-1155
Operational irrelevance or organisational
failure? Anti-G suits in the RAAF, 1940-54
Dr Peter Hobbins MPHA
1155-1215
Critical commentary
Dr Ross Mahoney
Lunch
1300-1335
Coding for Combat:
The new force multiplier
CAPT Jacob Choi
1335-1410
We don’t need no education’:
The RAAF and the tyranny of training
Professor Tom Frame
1410-1445
The importance of STEM Education to the future of
Air Force
SQNLDR Marija Jovanovich
1445-1500
Critical conclusions
AIRCDRE Mark Lax (Rtd)