Warships & Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV) Conference Latin America

Topics

• Operational requirements for new-build OPVs and capability upgrades
• OPV requirements, acquisitions and upgrades
• Lessons Learnt from Surface Vessel Projects
• New build versus life-extension and modernization programs
• Designs of the future: Modularity in design, construction and outfitting
• OPV Design and Architecture
• Offboard systems and their integration
• Multi-mission design and construction
• Improving situational awareness for comprehensive Maritime Domain Awareness
• Habitability and manning
• Operational effectiveness and efficiency
• OPV Operations
• Helicopter operations and their challenges
• EEZ Patrol, oil-spill clean-up, fisheries control, SAR and HA/DR Operations
• Survivability, Structural integrity, and Human factors
• Use of UAVs to enhance surveillance and cut costs of helicopter operations
• Identification and interception of asymmetric threats, small and fast boats
• Mission feedback from task forces; Counter-Narcotics and anti-piracy
• Advancing C4ISR and network capabilities