2026 SPEAKERS INCLUDED

 

2027 Operational Challenges

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Maritime Denial in the Age
of Autonomous Warfare

  • Data fusion and discrimination of low signature threats
  • Integrated C-UxS and EW to disrupt adversary autonomous systems
  • Resilient command and control enabling faster, distributed decision advantage

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Critical Undersea
Infrastructure Protection

  • Persistent undersea domain awareness
  • Layered sensing architecture integrating fixed, mobile and uncrewed systems
  • Detection and defeat of autonomous undersea and hybrid threats
  • AI-enabled targeting and command and control

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Deep Precision Effects: Digitally
Enabled Targeting and Strike

  • Planning strike operations with AI: target identification, prioritisation and engagement
  • Integrating networked cross-domain fires to deliver coordinated, precise effects at scale
  • Maintaining effective targeting and strike through degradation and denial

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Aerial Denial at the Front
and in Forward Areas

  • Counter- high value aerial asset operations
  • Deny enemy aerial reconnaissance and strike at the tactical edge
  • Facilitating manoeuvre with layered and mobile air defence
  • Integrating survivability, deception and signature management

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Adaptability at the
Tactical Edge

  • Designing for adaptation: modifications, updates and upgrades post delivery
  • Modular payloads and open architectures for rapid-in field configuration
  • Capturing and scaling soldier-led adaptations in real time
  • Compressing the feedback loop from operators to industry

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Competitive Logistics: Sustainment in
Contested and Denied Environments

  • Delivering sustainment under persistent reconnaissance and strike
  • Assured command and control of dispersed logistics nodes
  • Building redundancy, mobility, and rapid reconstitution into supply networks
  • Reducing sustainment burden to extend reach, endurance and manoeuvre tempo

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Sustainment of
Autonomous Systems

  • Designing autonomy for battlefield sustainment at scale
  • Enabling repair, adaptation and update at the tactical edge
  • Sustaining high-density autonomous mass through modular components, swappable payloads and forward regeneration capacity

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Deep-dive breakout sessions to
workshop and problem solve

  • Using autonomous systems for maritime denial

  • Sustaining Operations in the High North

  • Maintaining decision advantage in a contested EMS and retaining access to space based capabilities