SYMPOSIUM LOCATION: The Kossiakoff Conference and Education Center, The Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, Maryland
Description: Today’s Submarine Force, with its unique stealth, endurance and mobility, has the ability to gain
access to areas where other forces will likely be denied. Thus the Joint Force depends on submarines to penetrate
anti-access systems for essential intelligence and to defeat those systems to allow the flow of other forces. To
effectively exploit its concealment, today’s and tomorrow’s submarines require new organic and off-board payloads
that will operate against a range of adversaries and can evolve to changing world conditions.
Accordingly, this Symposium will highlight:
- Technologies to increase the submarine’s stealth and survivability, and to reduce the need to compromise its stealth;
- Submarine-delivered offensive means, including non-traditional means of influence, to penetrate and defeat anti-access systems, support the flow of joint forces into the area and impose risk on the adversary; and
- Technologies to further integrate the submarine with off-board sensors and assets to increase its value in the kill chain.
Session One will focus on penetration and defeat of A2AD systems, in order to better enable our submarines to maintain
forward area undetected persistent operations and enable the flow of joint forces. Technical topics should include
increased stealth and survivability, and reducing the need to compromise stealth; increased security for communications,
combat effectiveness in comms or GPS-degraded environments, defeating A2AD, situational awareness, exploitation of the
environment, Mine Counter-Measures (MCM), torpedo defense, and submarine-based Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD).
Session Two will focus on improving the submarine’s capabilities to conduct irregular warfare and support Special Operating
Forces. Technical topics should include SSGN and “stretch” Virginia capabilities related to Irregular Warfare, Information
Operations (IO), combat submersibles, Large Diameter Tube (LDT) payloads, communications for operating with Special
Operating Forces (SOF), SOF-directed cyber attack and call for fire support, and SOF logistic support.
Session Three will focus on means to improve or repurpose the capabilities and effectiveness of submarine weaponry and
weapon systems, both offensive and defensive. Technical topics should include weapons capable against shallow draft /
shallow water vessels, submarine-based Anti-Air Warfare (AAW), dual-purpose weapons to increase flexibility of forward
deployed submarines, technologies to reduce reload times for tube-launched weapons, next generation strike systems,
offensive mining, advanced torpedo concepts, payloads providing non-lethal means, cyber warfare, Anti-Torpedo Torpedoes
(ATT), and anti-satellite payloads.
Session Four will focus on multiplying the submarine’s impact through unmanned vehicles and sensors. Technical topics
should include UUVs, UAVs, autonomy and Command and Control (C2) of unmanned vehicles, remoting weapons, distributed sensors,
integration of National Technical Means (NTM), undersea data transmission, and leave-behind sensors.
Session Five will focus on increasing the submarine’s ability to integrate with other forces in the kill chain to provide
optimal and survivable operational-level employment of Undersea Forces in the joint targeting cycle. Technical topics should
include Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), third-party targeting (with the submarine as sensor or shooter),
communications at speed and depth, network security to ensure data is accurate and valid, C4, and Battle Damage Assessment (BDA).