Executive Courses
Upskilling Your Workforce through TDSI’s Executive Courses
TDSI’s Executive Courses under its Continuing Education arm look at domain-specific disciplines in systems thinking and systems engineering, as well as any in-trend/ emerging technologies, to upskill the Singapore defence workforce in line with the nation’s advocacy for lifelong learning. Embracing the digital transformation landscape today, participants will benefit from these courses, learning from subject matter experts from the defence technology community and/or academic institutions, on valuable topical knowledge and skillsets to manage real-world applications. This allows course participants to strengthen their capabilities and value-add to their employing organisations.
TDSI’s Executive Course “Military Navigation Systems Workshop” for Singapore’s Defence Technology Sector
Given the critical importance of navigation in modern military systems and operations that leverages on smart technologies, access to reliable navigation data is imperative while denying them to adversaries during military operations. The executive course on “Military Navigation Systems Workshop” aims to highlight the vulnerabilities in military navigation systems under different deployment scenarios, and share potential corresponding counter-measures. Participants from the defence technology community were appreciative of the knowledge gained from the workshop and acknowledged that the learning was highly relevant and impactful to their current field jobs/ projects. This workshop is well-recognised by the Professional Engineers Board and qualified for 6 Professional Development Units.
TDSI’s Executive Course “Systems Engineering and Analysis of Emerging Advanced Technologies for Defence Applications”
It is important for the Singapore defence forces to be at the frontier and be knowledgeable about emerging technologies for defence applications. The executive course on “Systems Engineering and Analysis of Emerging Advanced Technologies for Defence Applications” aims to present concepts and methods for engineering and analysing emerging advanced technologies, that include artificial intelligence and directed energy weapons, for defence applications. Course participants from the defence technology community have learnt and gained insights from the course that introduced concepts in complexity theory, strategic thinking, technology assessment, systems engineering and systems analysis. Course participants were appreciative that the learning gained have value-added to their current work with their primary affiliated organisations in the defence eco-system.
TDSI’s Executive Course “Generative Artificial Intelligence”
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have been widely adopted in operations and work processes/ systems at the national level and in various industries. Generative AI is the latest cutting-edge technology that has been launched to extreme popularity, with progressive adoption by enterprises and industries because of its capabilities that can boost productivity and value-add decision-making, alongside many other deployment opportunities. Recognising the increasing importance of Generative AI for the defence sector, TDSI organised the executive course on this in-trend technology for the Singapore defence technology community to equip them with the fundamental knowledge of key concepts and applications of Generative AI, included algorithms such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) and variational autoencoders (VAEs). Course participants learnt how Generative AI could enhance military operations, from synthetic training data generation to scenario planning and decision support systems. This course is well-recognised by the Professional Engineers Board and qualified for 12 Professional Development Units.
Do Diminishing Air-fleets Equate Diminishing Fire-power
Overview
It has been over 40 years since the president of Martin Marietta has published his famous laws, the most famous of which is that “In the year 2054, the entire defence budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.”
In this seminar, we will examine how well this prediction holds up, for both the U.S., and militaries of smaller countries. I will attempt to show that air-fleets, where they shrink, do so as a result of political will more than actual incapability to fund future aircraft.
The second part of seminar will deal with the main operational "output" of fighter aircraft, namely "firepower". We will examine some definitions of firepower, and ask:
- What firepower do we have?
- What firepower do we need? What is the right mix of firepower types we need?
- How to get there?
In terms of attrition rates of targets, firepower has been increasing rapidly over the past 30 years. But the continuing technological advancements spell trouble for the future of aerial firepower. On the one hand, air-defence systems are continuously improving and proliferating, reducing the efficiency of future aerial raids. On the other hand, surface launched systems such as missile and drones are becoming a competitively priced replacement for some of the potential targets. These trends will make it easier for decision-makers to reduce their fighter fleets and base the military overall firepower on a more balanced portfolio.
Learning Outcome
Course Outline
Who Should Attend
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Speakers
Dr. Ittai Avital
Dr. Ittai Avital served over 25 years in the Israel Defence Forces, retired in 2019 as the Head of the Center for Systems Analysis at the rank of colonel. He has actively supported many decision-making processes across various areas of the military planning, spanning all services. During his military service, he joined the first cohort of MDTS, and earned his PhD in Operations Research (OR) from the Naval Postgraduate School in the U.S. Dr. Avital now works at SolarEdge, a world leader in photovoltaic power manufacturing, as the Director of advanced planning. Dr. Avital is also a faculty member of the Temasek Defence Systems Institute (TDSI), and teaches the military aspects of introduction to OR in TDSI Master of Defence Technology and Systems (MDTS) programme.
Details
- 20 Apr 2023, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- 2 hours
- NUS College of Design & Engineering, Blk EA, Level 6, Seminar Room 06-05
Status
This event is now closed.