On 16 November 2010 EDA and OCCAR organised a Conference on Through-Life Management (TLM), gathering more than 100 participants from participating Member States, EU institutions and industry.
TLM represents a natural bridge between the capability-driven EDA and OCCAR, a procurement programme executive organisation. The EU Military Staff played a central role by briefing on recent and ongoing European operations, demonstrating the objective of successful TLM. This conference showed how standardisation is a critical issue for TLM. Participants have generally underlined that industry is a key entity in TLM issues.
The Conference has been a step in the right direction, but there are still issues to be addressed. Discussions about interfaces between the four active entities – participating Member States, EDA, OCCAR and industry – will continue. Therefore, it is intended to proceed with this kind of interactive conference - probably on a yearly basis.
Briefings presented can be downloaded here.
Picures of this event are here.