Topics explored included advanced combat diver navigation and autonomy, undersea communications, portable sonar systems for EOD and salvage, as well as augmented reality HUD’s for zero visibility dives. The conference also discussed operational challenges of this most inhospitable environment.
Keynotes & Plenary Panels
Featuring the keynote address by Rear Admiral Jens Nykvist, Chief of the Royal Swedish Navy, a discussion on undersea defence in a deteriorating global environment, the Swedish Armed Forces Panel, and a look at the role of AI in undersea defence.
Platform Design
Platform Design is at the heart of undersea operations. The challenge is to improve survivability and adaptability without increasing investment. This stream focuses on submarine design developments around detectability, propulsion, and human performance in extreme operational environments.
Exploitation of Commercial & New Technologies
Exploitation of Commercial Technologies enables cost-effective and efficient adaptations of existing systems to be rapidly deployed, once they have been identified. This stream highlights potential areas of exploitation around covert and subsea communications, sensors and penetrators, and propulsion.
Operational Drivers & Imperatives
Platform Design is at the heart of undersea operations. The challenge is to improve survivability and adaptability without increasing investment. This stream focuses on submarine design developments around detectability, propulsion, and human performance in extreme operational environments.
Unmanned, Remotely Piloted & Autonomous Systems
Unmanned, Remotely Piloted & Autonomous Systems play an increasingly vital role in subsea operations, with a rapidly growing market. From human-machine interfaces to AI, this stream examines the challenges around UxV risk management, mission planning and MCM.