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Improved Capability Through Interoperability
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Scope • History of the EAG • The Mission • EAG Structure • Achievements • Projects, Activities and Tasks • Interaction with other Organizations • VOLCANEX • The Budget Process
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EAG Mission
‘to improve the operational capabilities of
the Parties’ Air Forces to carry out
operations in pursuit of shared interests,
primarily through mechanisms which
enhance interoperability’
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1998 3 Member Nations (EAG)
1999 7 Member Nations
1995 2 Member Nations (FBEAG)
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Seven Air Forces that are able to operate together as one across the spectrum of conflict
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The Aim • To be the first organization thought of to improve European
interoperability
• To be relevant and to make a difference
• To avoid duplication
• To avoid un-winable and protracted projects
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How We Work • The EAG works with the Nations for the Nations
– Demand driven – Operational benefit – Tangible output – Permanent staff (not simply a working group) – Tactical level, but with strategic effect
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EAG
‘The EAG is currently the only full spectrum Air minded Defence organization within Europe’
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EAG Top Level Structure STEERING GROUP
Chiefs of Air Staff
Working Group Op Air Cmd, Air Staff
Operational Subject Matter Experts
Joint & Single Service
Permanent Staff
EAG HQ RAF High Wycombe
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The EAG Command Group
* All rotational posts
Deputy Director Brigadier General Giacomo De Ponti
Director Air Chief Marshal
Sir Andrew Pulford
Chief of Staff Colonel
Ron Hagemeijer
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CIS
Logistics
Force Protection
Air Ops Ground
Air Ops Flying
Director (OF-8)
Deputy Director (OF-6)
Chief of Staff (OF-5) EPRC IT Leader (OF-5)
Executive Secretariat Support
Joint Personnel Recovery
RAF High Wycombe
21 Staff Officers 2 Augmentees 7 Support Personnel
Matrix Management
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Director Air Chf Mshl Pulford
Deputy Director BG De Ponti
Chief of Staff Col Hagemeijer
Permanent Staff Located at EAG HQ
Fin Mgr (DEU)
Reg/Trg Mgr (GBR)
C & E Mgr (BEL)
IT Mgr-1 (ESP)
Outer Office (FRA)
IT Mgr-2 (ITA)
SO 009 (ITA)
SO 010 (ITA)
AM/SRNO BEL
SO EPRC Maj Coucke
AM/SRNO DEU
AM/SRNO ESP AM/SRNO FRA AM/SRNO ITA AM /SRNO/ExO GBR
SO EPRC LtCol Schleimer
SO 004 (DEU)
SO 003 (DEU)
SO 006 (ESP)
SO 007 (FRA)
SO 011 (NLD)
SO 012 (NLD)
SO 013 (GBR)
Adjutant (GBR)
-‐ Staff Officers
-‐ Admin & Support
-‐ Executive
VNC EPRC Col Fanelli
VNC EPRC Maj Doesburg
VNC EPRC Sqn Ldr Merritt
SO 005 (ESP)
SO 001 (BEL)
SO 002 (BEL)
SO 008 (FRA)
SO 014 (GBR)
VNC EPRC Lt Col Wesseling
AM/SRNO NLD
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RAF High Wycombe
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Weaknesses Strengths
Small
Permanent
Air Minded
Direct access to CAS
Security Level
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A Benefit of the EAG
‘There are not many international defence organizations that are prepared to agree some
5 or 6 key decisions around a table in one meeting, without recourse to seeking further
guidance or National approvals’.
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Achievements • European Air Transport Command (EATC) • Air Transport and Air Refuelling Exchange of Services
(ATARES) • Combined Air Terminal Operations (CATO) • Forward Arming and Refuelling Point (FARP) • Aeromedical Evacuation Medical Officers Course • European Personnel Recovery Centre (EPRC) • Combined Joint Personnel Recovery Standardization Course
(CJPRSC)
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Projects, Activities and Tasks
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What do we offer?
• SEMINARS • WORKING
GROUPS • TA • EUROVOX
• CATO • EATC • EPRC • FARP • FP
• VOLCANEX • COURSES • EXCHANGES • MANUALS
EDUCATION & TRAINING EXERCISES
NETWORKING OPERATIONAL CAPABILITIES AT TACTICAL
LEVEL
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• 4th /5th Generation Aircraft Integration • Predator User Group • Advanced Training Master Plan (ATMP) • Eurofight • Euro Typhoon Interoperability Project
Projects, Activities, Tasks
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Projects, Activities, Tasks
• Force Protection • Works under the umbrella of the STOX-TA • Promotes multinational training activities (e.g. FP
Master Plan) • Expeditionary Air FP Capability Matrix • Air Mobile Protection Team Manual • EAG FP Publication for Air Operations • Annual FP Seminar
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• Logistics • High Cost Equipment Exchange of Services TA and
Implementing Arrangement (IA) for AvMed • Aeromedical Evacuation TA • NATO Deployable Air Activation Modules (DAAM) • Interoperable Load Clearance TA • Combined Air Terminal Operations • Dangerous Goods by Air • Advanced Aviation Medicine Course
Projects, Activities, Tasks
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• Communications & Information Systems (CIS) • Policy & Planning • Provide Manuals and SOPs • EUROVOX • Cyber
Projects, Activities, Tasks
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Projects, Activities, Tasks
• EPRC Joint Personnel Recovery (JPR)
• Combined Joint PR Standardization Course (CJPRSC)
• Multinational Survive, Evade, Resist, Extract (SERE) training school Leaders Working Group
• Establishment of the European PR Centre (EPRC) in Poggio Renatico, Italy in Jul 15
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Executive Officer
• Deputy COS • Point of Contact for WG Members • Coordination of EAG TAs and studies • Coordinates Steering Group / Working Group
activities • Corporate Communications • Chair of Legal (Financial) Coordination Board
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25 19-Nov-14
European Personnel Recovery Centre (EPRC)
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European Personnel Recovery Centre
• The EPRC was established on the direction of the 7 Chiefs of Air Staff
• The interim location is at RAF High Wycombe
• In July 2015 it will be in Italy at Poggio Renatico
• EAG has OPCON of personnel until move
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EAG Interaction With Organizations • National Air Component Commands • NATO International Staff • Air Command Ramstein • Joint Air Power Competence Centre (JAPCC) • European Air Transport Command (EATC) • European Defence Agency (EDA) • EU Military Staff (EUMS) • FINABEL (Land equivalent) • Movements Coordination Centre Europe (MCCE) • Air & Space Interoperability Council (ASIC)
(GBR, USA, CAN, AUS, NZL)
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VOLCANEX
• Tests and refines EAG products • Bespoke training adding value to existing exercises • VOLCANEX FP, VOLCANEX LOGS etc
• However: • Steering Group endorsed major exercise every 2 years. • Multi-activity • Multinational interoperability opportunity
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‘Gentlemen, we have run out of money; now we
have to think’
Inspired by the words of Winston Churchill
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Budget vs Output • EAG provides for travel cost • Nations share running cost of the HQ
– EAG reimburses the UK all utility costs (building rental, electricity, gas, water and cleaning)
• EAG manages its own Admin and procurement of provisions • EAG is independent from GBR support on Information
Technology
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Conclusion • The EAG is 7 key European Air Forces cooperating • Tactical focus but with operational up to strategic impact • Interoperability at its core • A broker for interaction between 7 nations and partner
organizations • Small Permanent Staff with a very short step to the Chiefs • Essential in these times of reduced budget and of manpower
drawdown
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