- Air & Missile Defence
Assessment, Coordination, and Engagement
The Assessment, Coordination and Engagement (ACE) Branch provides cross-functional capabilities and expertise in concept development, doctrine and vision in support of the JAPCC’s activities and projects. The Branch’s Subject Matter Experts (SME) coordinate support to training and exercises, provide information and assessments available in the NATO Lessons Learned Process, as well as focused analysis of INTEL products. Additionally, they make sure that the newest developments in capabilities and defence planning related to NATO’s warfare development agenda are considered in the JAPCC’s program of work. The branch also supports planning and organization of the JAPCC’s main engagement events (the annual Joint Air & Space Power Conference, the Think Tank Forum and the Joint Air & Space Power Network Meeting) and manages the process to draft, layout and distribute the JAPCC’s publications.
Colonel
Thomas
Schroll
Joint Air Power Competence Centre
Colonel Thomas Schroll started his military career in 1989 and was trained as a ground-based air defence officer. He went through general staff training at the German Armed Forces Command and Staff College and the UK’s Joint Services Command and Staff College, and has subsequently served in national and international positions at various levels of command, including in the German CHOD’s office and for the SACEUR. Thomas earned Master-level degrees in Economics and in Defence Studies. Currently, he is the Branch Head Assessment, Coordination and Engagement in the JAPCC. In this function, he also serves as the Conference Director for the annual Joint Air & Space Power Conference.
Information provided is current as of March 2022
Featured Publications
NATO ISTAR
Establishing a NATO-owned Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance Capability
Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities of a coalition, such as NATO, have always played a key role in the success of operations. Although often this is considered an invisible job, the data collection and [...]
The TLP and the Pace of Change
TLP Challenges and Strategy
Change is associated in many cases with necessary actions, actions associated with positive effects, in politics, in aesthetics, in life. But this statement is not necessarily true if the changing subject already constitutes a relevant [...]
Meeting the Needs of Future Warfare
The JAPCC’s Experience as a Provider of an Opposing Forces (OPFOR) Element for NATO Exercises
In the first two decades following the end of the Cold War, NATO and its member states focused their training and exercises on the immediate needs of the new and diverse demands of crisis management [...]
Subject Matter Experts and Support Staff
Sergeant Major
Björn Aarts
Support Staff,
Publications, Promotions & Communications
Sergeant Major Aarts joined the forces in 2000 and, in July 2002, completed the Specialist Ground Defence Training and was assigned to Volkel Air Base as Group Commander within a Security Wing. In 2005, he became Training Sergeant of a Security Wing. In 2008, he was appointed as a Junior...
Lieutenant Colonel
Denis Dúbravčík
Subject Matter Expert
Plans, Concepts, Development and Vision
Lieutenant Colonel Denis Dúbravčík enlisted in the Czech Air Force in 1996. He graduated from the Brno Military Academy with a BSc in Military Rocket and Aircraft Systems and an MSc in Mechanical Engineering. He is a graduate of Squadron Offices School Maxwell Airbase US. He served, among other functions,...
Mr
Simon Ingram
Support Staff,
Publications, Promotions & Communications
For over 15 years, Mr Ingram has carried out the function as Chief Publications, Promotions and Communications and Section Head, informing and advising JAPCC staff and external authors on all aspects of publishing. Mr Ingram is principally responsible for developing and creating the organization’s Publications (covering promotion communications and engagement...
Lieutenant Colonel
Roy Milke
Subject Matter Expert
Education & Training
Lieutenant Colonel Roy Milke joined the military in 1979. He completed his training as Surface-Based Air Defence Officer in 1983. This was followed by three months of special training on SA-5 (Gatschina, Soviet Union). From 1984 through 1992 he served in various SA-5 unit functions. After retraining on the Patriot...
Lieutenant Colonel
Marco Sampimon
Subject Matter Expert
Analysis and Lessons Learned, Exercise Support
Lieutenant Colonel Marco Sampimon is the primary point of contact within the JAPCC for Exercises and Lessons Learned. He is also JAPCC’s permanent liaison to NATO’s Joint Warfare Centre in Stavanger. As JAPCC’s Exercise coordinator, he is actively involved with the development and scripting of NATO exercises as Ramstein Ambition...
Captain Commander
Daniel Teletin
Support Staff,
Assistant Editor and Public Affairs
Captain Commander Teletin joined the Romanian armed forces in 1996. He graduated from the Romanian Military Technical Academy in 2001 as an aircraft maintenance officer specialized on weapons, munitions and egress systems. Henceforth he served on various positions at the 95th Air Force Base, Bacau, Romania. Starting in Oct. 2008,...
Major
Andreas Wurster
Support Staff,
Research, Analysis & Intelligence Support
Major Wurster joined the German Armed Forces in 1993. He served as Military Security NCO in a Mechanized Infantry Battalion. In 2000 he became a Warrant Officer and attended officer training for three years, including a two-year study in economic computer science at the Bundeswehr College for business and computer...
