DAY ONE: 29 January 2019 OPERATIONAL PERSPECTIVES This Day will provide you with an analysis of current Day One will: operations, ranging from MIO, counter-narcotics, mine Improve your understanding of operational challenges and warfare and anti-piracy to peer-on-peer contest. Ways allow you to align your solutions to the requirements of key to enhance operational versatility and multi-mission NATO Navies modularity to retain combat superiority against the Help you enhance interoperability and integrate a common full spectrum of asymmetric and conventional threats naval architecture for multinational operations by listening to senior naval officers about best practices will be covered. Strategic leaders from NATO navies and Debate how to attain strategic maritime superiority for partners will examine distributed lethality, CONOPS, operations against low volume threats, such as illegal TTPs, interoperability, and situational awareness in fisheries, trafficking, piracy congested and degraded C2 operating environments. Given Provide feedback from current operations to refine your the increasingly inter-connected operating environment, CONOPS and TTPs for future conflict speakers will outline current and anticipated capability, as Enhance your understanding of ways to strengthen well as emerging requirements to retain the competitive maritime security in your area of responsibility and edge in multi-domain warfare. upgrade C2and ISR in congested environments FEATURED SPEAKERS DAY 1 Vice Admiral Scott Stearney, Commander, Combined Maritime Forces Vice Adm. Scott Stearney is a native of Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame prior to commissioning in the U.S. Navy in 1982. He entered flight training and was designated a Naval Aviator in 1984. Stearney holds a Master of Science in National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University. His fleet assignments include the Golden Warriors of Strike Fighter Squadron VFA-87, the Knighthawks of Strike Fighter Squadron VFA-136 and strike warfare officer for commander, Carrier Group 4. Stearney commanded the Wildcats of VFA-131 and Carrier Air Wing Seven embarked on USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. He served in Kabul, Afghanistan, as chief of staff of Joint Task Force 435 and later Combined Joint Interagency Task Force 435. Ashore, Stearney served as instructor and readiness officer at Navy Fighter Weapons School, aide de camp to the chief of naval operations, deputy director J6 U.S. JFC, executive assistant to deputy commander, U.S. JFC and chief of staff, Strike Force Training Atlantic. His flag assignments include commander, U.S. Transportation Command’s Joint Enabling Capabilities Command, commander, Strike Force Training Atlantic, commander, Carrier Strike Group 4 and commander, Navy Warfare Development Command, director of operations, U.S. Central Command. Stearney assumed duties as commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, U.S. 5th Fleet, Combined Maritime Forces in 2018. Vice Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, Commander Joint Operational Command, Italian Ministry of Defence Born in Arquata Scrivia in 1957, Vice Admiral Cavo Dragone attended the Naval Academy in Livorno where he graduated in 1980. His initial tour includes Flight Training in Naval Air Station Pensacola (FL) and Corpus Christi (TX) where he was awarded the Naval Aviator wings in 1982. Prior to assuming his current position, Vice Admiral Cavo Dragone served in many areas of the Naval Aviation. He was assigned to the Naval Aviation Department at the Italian Navy General Staff as Head of the R&D Office. In 2002 he was appointed as the Commanding Officer of the Aircraft Carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi. His most significant “sea duty” assignments are: Flight Commander of FF MAESTRALE Class, C.O. of Minehunter MILAZZO, C.O. of AV8B Squadron (GRUPAER), C.O. of FF EURO, C.O. of CV GARIBALDI. 2005- 2008 he was appointed Navy General Staff Air Warfare and Naval Air Force Commander; 2008 -2011 Commander of the Italian Navy Special Forces Command (COMSUBIN).From 2011 through 2014 he was appointed Superintendent of the Italian Naval Academy. From January 2012 appointed as Head of the Board of Experts to advise and assist the designated Judge in the trial related to the shipwreck of Costa Concordia. From 2014 through 2016 he was appointed Commander of the Italian Joint Special Forces Operations HQ. From the 01st of July 2016 he has been appointed Commander of the Italian Joint Operations HQ Rear Admiral Paul Halton OBE, Commander Operations, Royal Navy After joining the Royal Navy in 1985, Paul Halton spent the early years of his career serving in a range of submarines and surface ships, operating far and wide, from under the arctic ice cap to the Far East. In 1999 this culminated in the Submarine Command Course or “Perisher”, after which he served as the Executive Officer of the Royal Navy’s first TLAM equipped submarine, HMS SPLENDID. In 2004 he took command of HMS SPARTAN, decommissioning her in 2006 after pioneering trials of the Alamanda Dry Deck Hangar as well as deployments to the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Promoted to Captain in 2010, he commanded sea and shore training for submarines and mine hunters, based in Faslane. A stimulating tour in Afghanistan followed where he coordinated the UK/US judicial counter narcotics effort with ISAF; also leading a pan- campaign refresh of strategic targeting and influence operations. On return to the UK, in 2013 he undertook the Higher Command and Staff Course before experiencing the variety in Defence Intelligence Operations that an uncertain world provides. As a Commodore he was privileged to command the 15 Capital Ships, Frigates and Survey Vessels of the Devonport Flotilla through a highly active 30 months. On promotion to Rear Admiral, he was appointed as COMOPS in October 2017 and is relishing delivering current operations alongside the preparations to operate the country’s powerful new Carrier Strike conventional deterrence. www.asdevents.com - www.asdevents.com/event.asp?id=19050 DAY ONE: 29 January 2019 OPERATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 0800 REGISTRATION & COFFEE 0900 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS: Admiral Sir James Burnell-Nugent KCB CBE, Former Commander-in-Chief Fleet, Royal Navy 0915 HOST NATION OPENING ADDRESS: ROYAL NAVY OPERATIONS Examining current operations of the Royal Navy and outlining operational challenges Delivering operational support to NATO missions Maintaining high readiness and enhancing operational versatility Looking at the future of the underwater battlespace Rear Admiral Paul Halton, Commander Maritime Operations, Royal Navy 0945 STRENGTHENING NATIONS’ MARITIME CAPABILITIES Assessing the current threat environment and CONOPS against asymmetric maritime threats Providing insights into the evolving CTOC challenges Defeating terrorism and piracy through regional cooperation and multination operations Restricting illegal activities and disrupting freedom of manoeuvre of adversaries in the maritime areas of responsibility Outlining operational challenges and ways to enhance interoperability Vice Admiral Scott Stearney, Commander, Combined Maritime Forces 1015 THE STRATEGIC CENTRALITY OF MARITIME CAPABILITIES IN THE OVERALL GEOSTRATEGIC SCENARIO, WITH PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THE ‘ENLARGED’ MEDITERRANEAN SEA AND ITALY Centrality of “maritime” geopolitics Strategic versatility, tactical flexibility, logistic sustainability of the naval assets and component Capability to influence “on the sea” and “from the sea” every kind of environment Vice Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, Commander Joint Operational Command, Italian Ministry of Defence 1045 MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING 1130 CURRENT OPERATIONS AND MULTI-MISSION MODULARITY OF THE PORTUGUESE NAVY Ensuring full operational capability of recently commissioned Karel Doorman-class M frigates and Viana do Castelo- class OPVs Examining multi-mission modularity and reevaluating TTPs to prepare for the planned replacement of corvettes Addressing littoral warfare and repurposing M-frigates for low-intensity conflict Upgrading Mk-46 lightweight torpedoes launching systems to the Mk 54 standard, and integrating the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) to retain maritime superiority Vice Admiral Henrique Gouveia e Melo, Fleet Commander, Portuguese Navy 1200 OPERATIONAL PRIORITIES: FROM COUNTER-NARCOTICS TO ANTARCTIC AND MULTINATIONAL MISSIONS Aligning capabilities to the rapidly evolving regional security dynamics Ensuring high readiness and accelerating rapidity of response for counter-narcotics operations Establishing a permanent base on Antarctica in line with the Colombia Antarctic Program (PAC) Lessons learned from participation in NATO’s Operation Ocean Shield Vice Admiral Evelio Enrique Ramírez Gáfaro, Chief of Naval Operations, Colombian Navy 1230 POLAND’S STRATEGIC CONCEPT FOR MARITIME SECURITY Outlining Poland’s Strategic Concept for Maritime Security Assessing operational challenges and emerging requirements for air defence systems against aginst cruise and ballistic missiles Ensuring full operational capability of recently procured minehunters Validating TTPs and mapping out future capability development Rear Admiral Krzysztof Jerzy Jaworksi, Commander Maritime Operations Centre, Polish Operational Command 1300 NETWORKING LUNCH "Good selection - truly international. A very informative event - looking forward to the next one." – Fincantieri www.asdevents.com - www.asdevents.com/event.asp?id=19050 DAY ONE: 29 January 2019 OPERATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 1400 BUILDING MARITIME