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Director General, French Ministry of Interior General Directorate for Civil Security and Crisis Management (DGSCGC)
Amentum Aviation is proud to be the Platinum Sponsor for the Aerial Firefighting Europe Conference 2025. Our presentation will not only serve as an introduction to our company and its distinct capabilities to the Aerial Firefighting Community but will also explore the CALFIRE mission and what Amentum's capabilities are within that mission set. We'll discuss aircraft, maintainers, pilots, fires response within our areas of operation, and our expectations and goals of keeping 95% of fires at 10 acres or less. The discussion will continue to review the impact and results of our aerial firefighting goals and conclude with the addition of our C-130 fire fighting program.
The Global AFF mission, as with all aspects of wildfire management, is seeing exponential growth in demand across most georgraphies. Although investments are increasing in many nations, the increase in demand far outstrips available and currently planned investments. What are the key chokepoints? Where are the greatest risks? This panel will look at important aspects of the AFF ecosystem to highlight and discuss the biggest challenges.
Having highlighted where shortfalls exist in the previous panel, we will now hear from key stakeholders on how they are addressing capacity challenges, and how they see resolution for some of the major factors, and what is needed, for the period ahead.
There are many benefits to dispatching a smaller aircraft to fly continuously over a fire, monitoring fire activity, mapping fire perimeters, assessing risk to nearby infrastructure, strategizing drops, coordinating aircraft, and communicating with pilots and ground crews. Learn from one of these fire experts on how this command and control aircraft works to help slow down and contain extreme wildfires, ensuring drops from multiple aircraft are strategically placed for best results.
New technologies are transforming the wildfire and AFF missions. The emergence of space-based and uncrewed systems offers significant benefits to all stakeholders. How best to harness these, and what are the options available today, and tomorrow?
As part of the FIRE DRONE project, the Directorate-General for Civil Protection and Crisis Management set up a working group made up of experts from the national land-based resources group (GMNT), the mine clearance response group (GID), the airborne resources group (GMA) and more than 20 fire departments from 7 defence and security zones in mainland France. This working group has defined and developed scenarios for use that will be test in the New Aquitaine region. The aim is to validate the specifications of the technical reference framework, particularly in terms of the added value of the integration and mass processing of the data captured by the drones.
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Nations in North Africa and Near/Middle East are not immune to the ravages of wildfire, and global warming. Nonetheless, the aerial fire mission is not yet as central to wildfire management for many, and it is in Southern Europe, and this panel is an opportunity for senior stakeholders from some of the key nations to share their experiences and growing requirements.
Explore how you can elevate your pilots' skills and enhance the safety of your fire-fighting operations with innovative and cost-effective flight training devices.
Every year brings new challenges, and new efforts to improve outcomes. 2024 was no different and the assembled panellist's have important insights to discuss and share.
How to maintain the efficacy and impact of aerial operations in the new environmental conditions, particularly high wind and other extreme weather? This panel brings science, front line practitioners and vendors together to consider the way forward.
Until recently, the predictable fire seasons in both Hemispheres allowed for efficient sharing of assets, people and resource around the world (when needed). With more and more nations experiencing in-season shortages, and extended fire seasons, collaboration is being re-defined. Our gathering of senior stakeholders will consider this challenge and suggest new methods that are working or need to be considered.
