2026 CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE

 

2026 Mission Sets

Sustaining forces in a contested and dispersed theatre of operations
  • AI / ML
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Cyber
  • Data Processing
  • Edge Computing
  • Logistics
  • Manufacturing
  • Operational Energy
  • Sensor & Data Fusion
Advancing interoperability and integration of autonomous systems for multi-domain operations
  • AI / ML
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Communications
  • Cyber
  • Edge Computing
  • EW & Jamming
  • Secure Autonomy
  • Sensor & Data Fusion
  • Theatre Analysis & Mission Planning
Detecting, identifying and defeating low-cost, rapidly proliferating UxS threats to infrastructure, personnel and manoeuvre force
  • AI / ML
  • Autonomous Systems
  • C-UXS
  • EW & Jamming
  • Kinetic Defeat 
  • Non-kinetic Defeat
  • Radars 
  • Sensor & Data Fusion
  • Threat Identification
Gaining an edge and winning autonomous warfare
  • AI / ML
  • Autonomous Systems
  • C2 & Battle Management Systems
  • Cyber 
  • Edge Computing
  • EW & Jamming
  • Radars
  • Secure Autonomy
  • Sensor & Data Fusion
Generating combat power inside the enemy's weapons engagement zone
  • Assured Communications
  • Autonomous Systems
  • C2 & Battle Management Systems
  • Cyber
  • Electronic Warfare (EW) & Jamming
  • Munitions
  • Sensor fusion
Countering next-generation undersea threats and protecting critical infrastructure
  • AI / ML
  • Anti-Submarine Warfare
  • C2
  • Radar & Sonar
  • Sensor & Data Fusion
  • UAS
  • USV
  • UUVs
Fighting in a contested EMS and retaining access to space-based capabilities
  • AI / Machine Learning (ML)
  • Communications
  • Cyber
  • Edge Computing
  • Electronic Warfare (EW) & Jamming
  • Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) & Inertial Navigation System (INS)
  • Space Technology
Protecting deployed forces and homelands from advanced air and missile threats
  • AI / ML
  • C2
  • Cyber / EW
  • Integrated Air and Missile Defence (IAMD)
  • Kinetic Defeat 
  • Munitions
  • Non-Kinetic Defeat
  • Radar
  • Sensor & Data Fusion
  • Space Technology

2026 SPOTLIGHT AGENDA

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08:45
  1. Combined
    15 mins
09:00
  1. Combined
    80 mins
10:40
  1. Stage 1
    45 mins
    • Survivable or attritable logistics platforms
    • Operationalising advanced manufacturing at the tactical edge
    • Assured command and control of logistic network nodes
  2. Stage 2
    45 mins
    • Enabling ad-hoc interoperability between disparate systems
    • Synchronizing cross-domain command and control
    • Managing cyber and EW threats
12:10
  1. Combined
    20 mins
12:50
  1. 55 mins
13:45
  1. Stage 2
    45 mins
    • Using autonomous systems for control rather than just denial
    • Sustaining autonomous system operations
    • Improving autonomous system lethality and reliability
  2. Stage 1
    45 mins
    • Detection and discrimination of small, low signature threats
    • Balancing layered and cost-effective defeat mechanisms
    • Attritable and mobile C-UxS capabilities
18:00
  1. Mission Control
    90 mins
08:45
  1. Combined
    15 mins
09:00
  1. Combined
    60 mins
10:20
  1. Stage 2
    40 mins
    • Detection and defeat of autonomous undersea vehicles
    • Surveillance and protection of deep-sea infrastructure
    • Using the seabed for military advantage
  2. Stage 1
    40 mins
    • Equipping and fielding edge/stand-in forces/mission area 1 forces in contested environments
    • C3 of forces in highly contested environments
    • Use of concealment, camouflage, deception, and EW (Electronic Warfare) to survive inside the WEZ (Weapon Engagement Zone)
11:45
  1. Combined
    30 mins
12:15
  1. 60 mins
13:20
  1. Stage 1
    50 mins
  2. Stage 2
    50 mins
14:15
  1. Stage 1
    45 mins
    • Spectrum management in an increasingly contested and congested EMS (Electromagnetic Spectrum)
    • Building cyber and EW (Electronic Warfare) effects at scale
    • Exploiting and sustaining access to space for C3 and targeting
  2. Stage 2
    45 mins
    • Real time threat identification and boost-phase engagement
    • Implications and challenges of spaced based interceptors
    • Interoperability across all domains to enhance detection, tracking, interception and defeat