Day 1

ASW 2009

The changing operational environment

0830 - Registration and Coffee

0900 - Chairperson's welcome and a look at the day ahead
Forging the revolution: ASW in the 21st Century
Rear Admiral (Ret'd), Chris Parry, Former Director General, Development, Concepts and Doctrine, Ministry of Defence, UK

0940 - The increasing effectiveness and diversity of underwater platforms
How has the diversification of the modern submarine's mission affected our ability to hunt them?

• What does the proliferation of underwater technology mean for your ASW capability?
• How do we decrease the influence of underwater threats on port security?

Rear Admiral Mark Anderson, Commander (Operations) to CINCFLEET, Rear Admiral Submarines and NATO Commander Submarine Forces North (COMSUBNORTH)

1015 - How serious is the future underwater threat?
The latest science and technology innovation to combat the increasing submarine threat

• What can we learn from our own submarine development programmes?
  
• What is the latest transition of ASW technology into the US Fleet?
  
• How is the threat evolving with recent advancements in underwater technologies?

Captain Paul Essig, Assistant Chief of Naval Research, Office of Naval Research (ONR), USA

1050 - Morning refreshments and networking

1120 - Affordable Anti-submarine warfare
Reducing the number of ASW sensor platforms at sea

• What is the reduction in capability?
• Reversing the trend: Making available budgets go further by reducing the cost of high performance sensors
• Field force multiplier concepts and novel technology now available

John Wickenden, Technical Director, Underwater Systems, Atlas Elektronik UK Ltd

1155 - Ultra quiet Conventional/Air-Independent Propulsion (AIP) submarines
Extending underwater endurance for conventional submarines

• Practical lessons from Sweden’s Gotland class attack submarines
• Maximising conventional systems to increase time underwater from days to weeks
• Leasing a AIP submarine: What did the United States learn from the exercise?

Captain Bo Rask, Chief of Staff, Maritime Component Command, Sweden

1230 - Lunch

1330 - Procuring and supporting effective ASW capabilities
What are the future requirements and can we afford them?

• Can smaller navies be successful at ASW?
• How do nations with fewer platforms perform in the ASW field?
• How can we achieve an integrated, networked and joint ASW capability?
• A Royal Netherlands Navy perspective on Underwater threats

Commander Anthonie Boon, Head Section, Underwater Warfare, Requirements Division, Naval Requirements Branch, Netherlands

1405 - Exploiting research with increased affordability
How have UK MOD funded research outputs historically provided contributions to in-service capability?

• Responding to the recent emphasis on affordability and the new technology challenges to which have developed
• Recent successes reviewed in the context of the technology transition process and research competition
• How can a vibrant research programme make a key difference to the provision of affordable capability to meet future requirements?

Dr Neil Skelland, Osprey Consortium Manager, Atlas Elektronik UK Ltd

Networks and sensors

1440 - Effective information management in Anti-Submarine Warfare
How must navies deal with the rise in information and data flow?

• How do we harness data flow across several detection systems?
• Is ASW missing out? How can ASW profit from gains elsewhere in information management systems?

Dr Dan Hutt, Head of Underwater Sensing Section, Defence Research and Development Canada Atlantic (DRDC), Canada

1515 - Afternoon refreshments and networking

1545 - Cooperative Anti-Submarine Warfare
Towards networked sensors with distributed intelligence

• What concepts exist for littoral undersea sensing? Scalable, persistent, cheap, autonomous and networked solutions
  
• The latest underwater acoustic communications and networking: Robust, interoperable and disruption-tolerant
• Planning tool development: Evaluation and optimization of maritime sensor networks

Mr Robert Been, Programme Manager Cooperative ASW, NATO Undersea Research Centre (NURC), Italy

1620 - The 'DeepSiren' system for greater connectivity when submarines operate below periscope depth
'The first step toward a transformational capability that will change the way we operate submarines in the future'

• Understanding how tactical information can be passed to dived submarines in near real-time over operationally significant ranges
• How can the system be used for target cueing, retasking and on-demand TLAM strikes from a deep submarine
• Providing paging coverage for co-operative ASW missions with aerial and surface platform

Robert Kerr, Managing Director, RRK Technologies Ltd, UK  

1655 - Affordability Vs Future Capability

An interactive panel discussion

• What capabilities do we need now?
• How can we pre-empt future submarine threats from unknown enemies?
• How can we build and maintain an effective ASW capability that is both affordable and capable?

- Rear Admiral (Ret'd), Chris Parry, Former Director General, Development, Concepts and Doctrine, Ministry of Defence, UK
- Captain Paul Essig, Assistant Chief of Naval Research, Office of Naval Research (ONR), USA
- Dr Fred Cotaras, Chief Engineer, Air and Naval Systems, General Dynamics Canada

1730 - End of day one and start of evening drinks reception sponsored by:



With a short introduction by Rear Admiral (Ret'd) Nigel Guild, Atlas Elektronik UK Ltd

December 2nd - Conference Day 2