Description

Defence logistics: The creation and logistics of a military mission

Always been curious how a military mission is created?
How the logistics are arranged within Defence, what happens when the soldiers are dropped in the desert?
And curious about the career opportunities as a WO student within Defence?

Then come Friday 1 December to the CEO lecture Defence Logistics of KIVI and Stress. Here, Major General Drs Ivo de Jong, deputy director of the Defence Materiel Organisation, will explain how logistics is organised within defence. Topics will include:

- Introduction about Defence: context and circumstances
- Logistics in general
- Ground operations logistics: practice, operations & missions, now and in the future
- High-tech maintenance including JSF maintenance and logistics.

In addition, opportunities to work, do internships or graduate at Defence will be briefly discussed.

Ivo de Jong held various operational positions after the KMA, including that of commander supply platoon at an armoured infantry battalion. After Higher Military Training, he worked at the Army Staff and the Defence Staff. He then went to headquarters Central Command in US Tampa and obtained his history degree at the University of Amsterdam. After a stint as commander 200 Supply and Transport Battalion, he led the return operation SFIR from Iraq and Kuwait. Policy positions and another training at the US Army War College in Carlisle followed. He then became the first commander of the Land Warfare Centre in Amersfoort. Since 2014, De Jong has been commander Operational Support Command Land. On June 16 2017, de Jong was appointed Deputy Director Defence Materiel Organisation.

The second speaker this afternoon is René de Koning. After working for 30 years at various logistics companies and Netherlands Distribution Country, he has been the F-35 Logistics Lead for the Netherlands since 2016. The main task is to link the best that the Netherlands has to offer in logistics (triple helix, government, knowledge institutes and business) and deliver it to the F-35 Joint Program Office in an integrated way.
Following the recent announcement that the Netherlands has been designated as the country to set up the European F-35 sustainment logistics, René has teamed up with LCW/Logistics Centre Woensdrecht and the logistics business community to roll out the whole thing. All this in close consultation with the OEMs (Lockheed Matin, Pratt & Whitney, Northrop Grumman) and the F-35 Joint Program Office.

The meeting will conclude with a networking reception, where there will also be ample opportunity for discussion and questions.

Location

University of Twente

Building De Waaier, room 3

Organiser

KIVI Students Twente

Name and contact details for information

Pim Cornelissen

p.cornelissen@student.kivi.nl

Ivo de Jong