2027 Operational Challenges
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Deep-dive breakout sessions to
workshop and problem solve
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Using autonomous systems for maritime denial
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Sustaining Operations in the High North
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Maintaining decision advantage in a contested EMS and retaining access to space based capabilities