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Joint Air and Space Power Conference 2025
Disrupting Dominance: The Future of Air Superiority?
We cordially invite distinguished delegates, stakeholders, and experts in the field of Joint Air and Space Power to attend our annual conference, which will take place from 30 September to 2 October 2025 at the ‘Grugahalle’ in Essen, Germany. This event offers a forum to explore the theme of ‘Disrupting Dominance: The Future of Air Superiority?’.
For decades, NATO’s unrivalled air and space superiority has been a cornerstone of its collective deterrence strategy. That era is over.
Deteriorating geopolitics and disruptive technologies have fundamentally altered NATO’s strategic landscape by widening the spectrum of potential threats and challenging its previous foundations of air and space deterrence. On one end of the technological spectrum, cheap, commercially available drones and other weapons have lowered the barrier to entry onto the modern battlefield, enabling state and non-state actors to contest the air and space domains at a fraction of the cost of previous eras. Simultaneously, on the other end of the spectrum, advancements in space capabilities, sixth-generation fighters, and autonomous platforms are set to render legacy combat systems obsolete, demanding a significant and urgent modernization effort from NATO members.
This broadening array of threats requires NATO to reevaluate its deterrence strategies, defence plans, and overall combat capabilities. Investments in high-end systems must be balanced with the need for ‘affordable mass’ capable of countering new and diverse threats ranging from low-cost drone swarms to advanced hypersonic weapons. To address this challenge, NATO requires a comprehensive assessment of its current defence posture, a willingness to promote rapid innovation, and a commitment to interoperability and collaboration between Alliance governments, militaries, and industry partners.
As NATO reorients to a changing battlefield, it must answer the question, ‘How will we achieve air and space superiority in future operations?’
The 2025 Joint Air and Space Power Conference provides a forum to address these complex challenges. Participants can look forward to a comprehensive two-day programme featuring intellectually stimulating panels, thought-provoking sessions, and active engagement and networking opportunities.
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What’s the organization of the JAPCC ?
Based on a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the JAPCC is sponsored by 14 NATO nations who provide a variety of experienced Subject Matter Experts (SME) that come from all three services. Through its multi-discipline organization, the JAPCC chooses the most suitable SMEs for the task and combines their knowledge and experience to fully contribute to transforming NATO’s A&S Power. More importantly, the JAPCC is not constrained by the need for consensus or by political expediency in developing ideas. It can offer independent military advice across the spectrum of A&S Power to NATO HQs and national policy-making bodies.
What can the JAPCC do for you ?
Our primary customers are NATO Headquarters (Allied Command Operations, Allied Command Transformation, NATO Joint Commands and Air Command) and sponsoring nations. However, the JAPCC does accept Requests for Support (RfS) from other sources via our RfS form, which can be accessed via the link below. With numerous successful products and ever-increasing connections with industry and academia, the JAPCC continues to build upon its reputation as NATO’s preeminent advocate for the development and enhancement of Joint A&S Power
How does the JAPCC accomplish its mission ?
A&S Power SMEs, drawn from the Land, Maritime and Air components of the 16 MoU nations, conduct collaborative research into areas in which JAPCC assistance is requested by leveraging their independent thought and a global network of experts that reach across the military, academic and industrial spheres. The resulting analysis and solutions are disseminated via studies, reports, journal articles, seminars, panels and conferences.
