Globally, naval forces are facing complex threats that will challenge our ability to compete with peer adversaries in future warfare. Recently our near peer threats have not been standing still, far from it. They have been observing our armaments, equipment, and tactics to develop an increasingly capable force of their own. As a result, naval forces now face a multitude of advanced threats; including uncrewed systems, anti-ship munitions and Cyber/EW effects to name but a few. As a result, naval forces are transforming physically, conceptually, and culturally to maintain advantage in an ever-shifting world shaped by technology, climate change and increasingly aggressive peers.

To address future challenges, nations must identify and anticipate their capability gaps and develop solutions to these at pace. This is critical for naval forces to deter conflict and, if called upon, counter and prevail over our adversaries in combat. Success in future naval warfare requires learning the lessons of the past coupled with innovative, and cutting-edge solutions to meet the characteristics of the information age battlefield. Increasingly our forces must operate jointly across domains, with allies and partners to contribute effectively towards large scale combat operations.

Future equipment is being designed to be more lethal, expeditionary, and integrated, centred around digital capabilities. Navy Tech brings together an authoritative speaker faculty with leading industry experts, programme managers, capability and requirements teams, front-line commanders, engineers and scientists to provide a forum for sharing common problems, networking and finding solutions to the problems naval forces face now and in the future.