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SMi Group Proudly Presents the 3rd Annual…
Maximising and Managing Information Warfare for the
Modern Navy
Warfare
Maritime
Information
18th - 19th
NOV
2019
CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN:
Vice Admiral (Ret’d) Duncan Potts CB, Former Director
General Joint Force Development, Joint Forces Command
MILITARY AND GOVERNMENT EXPERTS INCLUDE:
Commodore Ian Annett, Assistant Chief of Staff Information
Warfare and Chief Information Officer, Royal Navy
Captain Matthew McGonigle, Commodore, Littoral
Combat Ship Squadron One, US Navy
Captain Timothy Unrein, Operations Intelligence, NATO
MARCOM
Captain Alfred Turner, Joint Military Operations Specialist,
Naval War College, US Navy
Commander Lee Atkinson, Directorate of Naval
Requirements 6, Communications, Information Systems and
Cyber, Royal Canadian Navy
Commander Juan José Nieto Conde, SCOMBA Technical
Director, Spanish Ministry of Defence
Commander Miguel Bessa Pacheco, Head of Intelligence
Division, Portuguese Navy
Commander Amleto Gabellone, Program Manager -
Research Development, NATO STO-CMRE - Centre for
Maritime Research and Experimentation
Mr Bruno Bender, Information and technology Consultant
on the RIFAN system, Former French Ministry of Defence,
GICAN
Professor Richard Crowell, Joint Military Operations
Specialist, Naval War College, US Navy
Colonel (Ret’d) Ralph Thiele, Managing Director, Stratbyrd
Consulting
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING:
• Keynote Briefing from Commodore Ian Annett, Assistant
Chief of Staff Information Warfare and Chief Information
Officer, Royal Navy, on the Future of Royal Navy
Developments and Capabilities
• Updates on Maritime Systems and Platforms across
NATO and how they are improving Data Exploitation
• Emphasis on Cyber Warfare, and the importance of
more effective Cyber Defence as the maritime sphere
becomes more information technology-centric
• Close attention paid to Artificial Intelligence, in
particular how a mixture of automation, machine
learning and unmanned systems are being developed

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MARITIME INFORMATION WARFARE 2019
Day One | Monday 18th November 2019 www.maritimeinfowarfare.com
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8.30 Registration Coffee
8.50 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Vice Admiral (Ret’d) Duncan Potts CB, Former Director General Joint
Force Development, Joint Forces Command
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
9.00 Maximising Information Exploitation and C4I Capabilities to Prevent
Growing Technology Deficit
• How best to conceptualise the importance of technology and the
competitive advantage it provides
• Why technology debt is so dangerous and how to mitigate any
disadvantage
• Achieving greater efficiency in exploiting information to free up
manpower
• The benefits of automated systems in realising these goals
Commodore Ian Annett, Assistant Chief of Staff Information Warfare
and Chief Information Officer, Royal Navy
9.40 Information Exploitation on the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS): Sustaining
Operational Capability through Advanced Information Exploitation
• Application Network Sustainment and advancement on the Littoral
Combat Ships
• Highlighting the differences in capabilities and systems between the
Independence and Freedom Classes
• The ADEPT Distance Support Sensor Suite: Promoting data mining
and analysis abilities through an on-board sensor suite:
- Smart sensor platform using flexible hardware plug-n-play
instruments such as PXI, LXI and USB
- Script-driven data capture reducing development costs
- Standardised data formats permitting open architecture
- Platform local storage allowing connectivity loss tolerance and a
robust network
• The Future of the LCS Class and its Information Warfare Capabilities
Captain Matthew McGonigle, Commodore, Littoral Combat Ship
Squadron One, US Navy
10.20 Morning Coffee
INFORMATION RESILIENCE: SYSTEMS AND PLATFORMS
10.50 Advancing Future Combat Management Systems: The Spanish F110
Frigate Programme
• How the F110 Frigate programme is strengthening Spanish
information warfare capabilities
• Developing data-capture techniques to build greater operational
information superiority at sea
• Development of SCOMBA combat management system to
integrate and display data from a range of sensors
• Utilisation of open source architectures within SCOMBA to ensure
multi-mission interoperability
• Prioritising combat information system development and
advancement in future acquisitions
Commander Juan Jose Nieto Conde, SCOMBA Technical Director,
Spanish Ministry of Defence
11.30 Reserved for Sponsor
12.10 Advancing Combat Management and C4I from the Perspective of
French Naval Programmes
• Information warfare developments concepts
• How FREMM / FDI are strengthening information warfare capabilities
• Management systems (RIFAN COMMS, SETIS CMS and C4I) to the
benefits of naval information dominance
• Developing automated and AI driven data capture techniques to
build greater operational information superiority at sea
• Prioritising combat information system development and
advancement in future acquisitions
Mr Bruno Bender, Information and Technology Consultant on the
RIFAN system, Former French Ministry of Defence, GICAN
12.50 Networking Lunch
1.50 Maritime ISR for the NATO Alliance: Overcoming the Challenges of the
Increasing Complexity of Systems, Platforms and Data that Inform ISR
Capabilities
• Increasing the Alliance’s ability to respond to quickly evolving, real
world events
• Building and practicing processes to allow the concentration and
synchronisation of intelligence collection capabilities at short notice
• Working toward ensuring the operational fielding of NATO’s Alliance
Ground Surveillance, (AGS), delivery of which will occur in 2019
• Further developing the analytical team at Sigonella which conducts
processing, exploitation and dissemination
• Developing a GEOINT Policy to provide increased coherence
and lead to greater cooperation and better stewardship of both
Alliance and National GEOINT resources
Commander Thomas Smith, Section Head, Joint Intelligence,
Surveillance and Reconnaissance / Targeting, Strategy and Policy
Unit, Joint Intelligence and Security Division, NATO
2.30 Reserved for Sponsor
INFORMATION AS AN ENABLER: DATA EXPLOITATION
3.10 Transforming Data Gathering, Data Storage and Data Exploitation: The
Insight Decision Support System
• Optimizing Big Data and predictive analytics for Canada’s maritime
situational awareness
• How to gather and exploit intelligence using all of the below to
provide a holistic picture:
- computational intelligence
- adaptive behavioural learning
- predictive modelling
- pattern recognition
• Create actionable intelligence from vast amounts of data being
generated in real time from various sources without the need for
excessive human input
• Seamless integration into current platforms
• Challenging the trend towards complexity through a streamlined system
Commander Lee Atkinson, DNR 6 (Naval Requirements Communications,
Information Systems and Cyber), Royal Canadian Navy
3.50 Afternoon Tea
4.20 Using Machine Learning and Forms of AI to Improve Maritime Data
Gathering and Exploitation
• In what different ways can AI be used to further operational
capability and situational awareness through data in the Maritime
Domain
• Challenges in developing new techniques and how these can be
overcome
• Interoperability in information warfare amongst NATO countries and
how it can help achieve superiority
Commander Amleto Gabellone, Program Manager - Research
Development, NATO STO-CMRE - Centre for Maritime Research and
Experimentation
5.00 Boosting Naval ISR Abilities through the Exploitation of SIGINT, GEOINT
and OSINT
• Engaging with the challenges of gathering, storing and exploring
large quantities of data available
• Data mining to maximal effect and the need to balance between
under-examining and over-examining data
• Optimising the use of GEOINT and OSINT in support to Maritime
Operations
• Case Study on the Portuguese Navy’s use of Information
Exploitation and how it provides an operational advantage
Commander Miguel Bessa Pacheco, Head of Intelligence Division,
Portuguese Navy
5.40 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
Vice Admiral (Ret’d) Duncan Potts CB, Former Director General Joint
Force Development, Joint Forces Command
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8.30 Registration Coffee
8.50 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Vice Admiral (Ret’d) Duncan Potts CB, Former Director General Joint Force
Development, Joint Forces Command
OPENING ADDRESS
9.00 Developing MARCOM’s Information Warfare Doctrine and the Effect on the
Landscape of Maritime Information Warfare
• How will this new doctrine generate greater interoperability in the realm of:
- C4I
- ISR
- Cyber Warfare
- Information Exploitation
• What does this doctrine look like now and how was it developed with the best
interests of NATO forces in mind
• How does MIW doctrine improve on and make specific NATO Information
Operations doctrine
• The impact of this doctrine on intelligence operations
Captain Timothy Unrein, Operations Intelligence, NATO MARCOM
INFORMATION DENIAL: CYBER WARFARE
9.40 Defining Three Dimensions of the Information Environment to Improve
Engagement with Information Warfare
• Evolving Information Theory in 20th 21st Century Warfare
- Control of Machines
- Control of Humans
• The Nexus of Information Environment Cyberspace
- Controlling Machines Independent of the Owners
- Delivering Content that Drives Human Action
• Developing PRC Information Warfare Theory and control of machines of war
independent of the owner
• Mitigating Russian Information Warfare
• A Look to the Future – The Nexus of Information Warfare and Cyber Warfare
Professor Richard Crowell, Associate Professor, Joint Military Operations Specialist,
US Naval War College
10.20 Morning Coffee
10.50 Practical Application and Implications of Information Warfare and Cyberspace
Operations in Maritime Warfare
• The Past – Information warfare and cyberspace operations as demonstrated
capabilities in modern warfare
• The Present – Currently Capabilities and Maritime targets in the gun sights of
information and cyberspace operators
• The Future – Evolving information and cyberspace capabilities and potential
consequences for maritime warfare
Captain Alfred Turner, Associate Professor, Joint Military Operations Specialist, US
Naval War College
11.30 Reserved for Sponsor
INFORMATION AS AN EFFECTER
12.10 Information Warfare and Strategic Communications from an All-Arms Point of
View
• Engaging with the concept of Information Warfare from a broader perspective
• Delivering the advantage through cooperation between Military Branches
internally and internationally
• Engaging with strategic communications and why in the maritime domain it is
still very relevant
• Negating the growing emphasis placed on information warfare by NATO’s
potential aggressors
• Meaningfully highlighting when the aspects of Information Warfare should be
seen as a unified subject and when they shouldn’t
Mr Simon Paterson MBE, Strategic Communications Specialist and Senior
Consultant, Edelman UK
12.50 Networking Lunch
PANEL DISCUSSION
1.50 How can NATO Nations Unify Information Warfare to Improve Interoperability?
• The relation between Intelligence, EW, Cyber Operations, Information
Operations, four tribes – one nation analogy
• What is the future of information warfare: will it become an equal domain to
that of Sea, Land and Air?
• How can we improve interoperability amongst branches to succeed in the IW
domain?
• Why are approaches to IW so different?
• And further questions from audience and panellists
Vice Admiral (Ret’d) Duncan Potts CB, Former Director General Joint Force
Development, Joint Forces Command
Commander Matt Garrison, Information Operations Planner, NATO Allied
Maritime Command
Captain Alfred Turner, Associate Professor, US Naval War College
Professor Richard Crowell, Associate Professor, US Naval War College
Mr Simon Paterson MBE, Strategic Communications Specialist and Senior
Consultant, Edelman UK
HYBRID WARFARE: CYBER AND MARITIME DOMAINS
2.30 Maritime Cyber Threat Landscape and Lessons Learnt From the Front Line
• Moving forward to the autonomous ship vision
• Building maritime industry business resilience
• Meeting the industry’s challenges and developing cyber initiatives focussing
on:
- threat intelligence
- situational awareness
- enforcement of risk-based approaches,
- implementation of agile and adaptive security controls
- compliance with industry’s regulations
• Expanding to ship OT environment mainly due to the limited view and control of
this environment
Mr Christos Vidakis, Principal, Risk Advisory, Deloitte, Greece
3.10 The Growing Emphasis on Hybrid Warfare in the Maritime and Information
Environments
• An Introduction to hybrid warfare and its importance in the Baltic
• Using hybrid warfare tactics and techniques in the maritime environment
• Countering hybrid warfare within the information environment
Dr Adrian Venables, Senior Researcher, Tallinn University of Technology
3.50 Afternoon Tea
4.20 Enhancing Cyber Warfare Through New Technology and Artificial Intelligence
• Developing the role of cyber warfare and the cyber domain in hybrid warfare
• Applying theoretical methods of Cyber Warfare to use them as an Offensive
Measure and how effective this could be in future
• Implementing Cyber Warfare Strategies and capabilities from naval systems
and platforms to optimise cyber ‘lethality’
• The future of cyber warfare and its potential for aggressive action
Colonel (Ret’d) Ralph Thiele, Managing Director, Stratbyrd Consulting
5.00 Security in an Increasingly Connected Network: Risks to the Increased use of Big
Data and the Possible Solutions
• How the development of satellite networks is changing the game and how to
gain from this development
• Maximising the benefit of advancing MIW to amphibious forces and their
operational capability
• Protecting networks and network nodes as they become more numerous
• Choosing the best principles upon which the Royal Navy can further its
information advantage
Professor Kevin Jones, Executive Dean, Faculty of Science and Engineering,
University of Plymouth
TRAINING FOR INFORMATION WARFARE
5.40 A Training and Simulation Perspective on Maritime Information and Automation
• Training in a more data driven and autonomous future
• Training Measurement and Evaluation: Can training data be better captured
and exploited to enhance military capability?
• Developments in simulation systems and their role in training people and
autonomous systems
Mr Andy Fawkes, Director, Thinke Company Ltd
6.20 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two
Vice Admiral (Ret’d) Duncan Potts CB, Former Director General Joint Force
Development, Joint Forces Command

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