Conference Day Two: Thursday 28th January 2010

09.00 Chairmans Address And Opening Remarks

09.10 Mine Countermeasures Developments At The Maritime Warfare Centre

• Insight into current MCM capability at Maritime Warfare Centre
• Harnessing increased autonomy of unmanned systems
• Future developments for MCM capability over both short and long term

Lieutenant Commander David Wright
MCM Specialist, Maritime Warfare Centre
Royal Navy

09.50 Unmanned And Robotic Systems UXO Remediation: Architecture And Capability Experiments

• Unmanned Systems Architecture development unreliable in a vacuum
• Small business component technologies hard to integrate in large experiments
• CONOPS for Unmanned Systems immature and evolving with rapidly changing technology

Gary L. Bullock
Unmanned Systems Manager, Joint Electro Optics Division, Airborne Electro-Optics Branch, Naval Surface Warfare Centre
US Navy

10.30 Coffee Break And Networking

11.00 Harbour Protection Methods

• Re-evaluation of Sonar capabilities at French Navy
• Overview of recent French harbour protection trials
• Plans for development of French Sonar capabilities

Stephane Guyonic
Sonar Systems
French Navy

11.40 Underwater Defence In Expeditionary Operations

• Underwater threat in expeditionary operations
• Defence against underwater threat
• Modelling of threat and defence in the Underwater Warfare Testbed (UWT)

Mr Hilvert Fitski
Senior Operations Analyst, Underwater Warfare
TNO Defence

Mr Jack Vermeulen
Senior Operations Analyst, Underwater Warfare
TNO Defence

12.20 Networking Lunch

13.30 German AUV Activities

• Contemporary AUV philosophy at German MoD
• Procurement initiatives including Sea Otter, Sea Wolf and Diehl
• Capabilities and specifications potential with respect to operations

Commander Guido Brach
Operational Planning Branch, Naval Staff
German MoD

Mr. Wolfgang Maier
Underwater Systems Branch
Federal Office for Defence Technology and Procurement (BWB)

14.10 Swedish Mine Countermeasures Capabilities And Procurement Plans

• Overview of current Swedish mine countermeasures capability
• Insight into challenges and planned capability improvements in underwater operations
• Plans for future development and next steps for procurement

Commander Pontus Krohn
Department of Naval Procurement and Training
Swedish Armed Forces

14.50 Afternoon Tea And Networking

15.20 Marine Mammal Research At TNO: Towards Integrating Better Environmental Awareness Within The Operational Defence Picture

• The challenge: integrating underwater environment awareness into effective sonar operations
• Current status of marine mammal research at TNO
• The way ahead

Myriam Sheldon-Robert
Sonar and Observation Systems
TNO Defence

16.00 Synthetic Aperture Sonar

• Insight into imaging sonar for detecting and classifying mines
• Analysis of vehicle, navigation, sonar and signal processing to decrease platform dependency
• Exploring the challenge to make it more robust and increasingly operationally proven

Dr Roy-Edgar Hansen
Principal Scientist, FFI
Norwegian Defence Research Establishment

16.40 Chairman’s Summary And Closing Remarks

16.50 End Of Conference