Over the three-day conference, UDT 2025 explored pressing challenges and opportunities within the undersea defence and security domain. It focused on technical challenges around undersea autonomy, submarine and systems technology, sensor and sonar capabilities, weapons and countermeasures, unmanned vehicle operations, critical national infrastructure protection and more.

The conference featured subject matter experts from industry, academia, government and military including end-users and capability specialists. The comprehensive discussions and technical presentations highlighted innovative solutions to real-life challenges in the undersea space.

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09:30
  1. Featured
    Keynote Address
    Keynote Theatre
    30 mins
10:00
  1. Featured
    Keynote Panel: Who is responsible for CUI defence?
    Keynote Theatre
    60 mins
11:00
  1. Morning break
    30 mins
11:30
  1. What does right look like when evaluating unmanned maritime systems?
    Keynote Theatre
    30 mins
    Undersea Autonomy
  2. The Norwegian and German common submarine program and its relevance for other potential partners within NATO
    Theatre 1
    30 mins
    Background and political ambitions behind the program Important factors in the program and behind common submarine availability Status, expectations and way ahead Other generic key elements in the pre …
  3. Norway's new standardized vessel class: potential littoral ASW capabilities
    Theatre 2
    30 mins
    Norway's new Long Term Defence Plan introduces a class of standardized vessels with some Anti-Submarine Warfare capabilities. They can potentially take a lead role in littoral * Anti-Submarine Warfare …
  4. Deep Threats: The seabed as the next frontier of strategic warfare
    Theatre 3
    30 mins
         Seabed to Space
12:00
  1. Connecting the Underwater Battlespace: Building the future network and data fabric
    Keynote Theatre
    30 mins
         Undersea Autonomy
  2. The Norwegian and German common submarine program and its relevance for other potential partners within NATO (continued)
    Theatre 1
    30 mins
    Background and political ambitions behind the program Important factors in the program and behind common submarine availability Status, expectations and way ahead Other generic key elements in the pre …
  3. SOSS: A sonar performance forecast tool
    Theatre 2
    30 mins
         Sensor to Effector
  4. Deep Threats: The seabed as the next frontier of strategic warfare (continued)
    Theatre 3
    30 mins
    Seabed to Space
12:30
  1. Lunch break
    60 mins
13:30
  1. Adaptive synthetic cognition for sentient underwater systems
    Keynote Theatre
    30 mins
    AUV Networking and Integration
  2. The Future Undersea Battlespace: Diving into the challenges and opportunities
    Theatre 1
    30 mins
    Battlespace Management and Exploitation
  3. Get a tropical fish sensing mode into your MCM toolbox
    Theatre 2
    30 mins
    Novel Sensor Technology
  4. Transparent Oceans, really?
    Theatre 3
    30 mins
    Maritime Domain Awareness
14:00
  1. Your degree one autonomy collision avoidance decision using artificial intelligence
    Keynote Theatre
    30 mins
    AUV Networking and Integration
  2. Application of a standard military approach to improving exploitation in the underwater domain
    Theatre 1
    30 mins
    Battlespace Management and Exploitation
  3. Ambient Sonar: A future threat to submarine operations
    Theatre 2
    30 mins
    Novel Sensor Technology
  4. Simulating ASW: Agent models and game theory
    Theatre 3
    30 mins
    Maritime Domain Awareness
14:30
  1. Unmanned Maritime System: A cyber perspective of their integration with “traditional” platforms
    Keynote Theatre
    30 mins
    AUV Networking and Integration
  2. Susceptibility Management for Warships: An industry view
    Theatre 1
    30 mins
    Battlespace Management and Exploitation
  3. Sound mapping: An innovative approach for detailed underwater sound localization
    Theatre 2
    30 mins
    Novel Sensor Technology
15:00
  1. Afternoon break
    30 mins
15:30
  1. Development and operations of the Royal Navy's First XLAUV, CETUS
    Keynote Theatre
    30 mins
    AUV Challenges 1
  2. Submarines of the Future: Enhancing submarine safety and usability through augmented reality
    Theatre 1
    30 mins
    Submarine Design Techniques
  3. Generating realistic sonar data in virtual ASW operations
    Theatre 2
    30 mins
    Active Sonar Systems
  4. Networked capability and the demise of the costly platform
    Theatre 3
    30 mins
    Exploiting MUS for UDA
16:00
  1. From concept to demonstrator and beyond: Lessons from BAE Systems' first XLAUV demonstration
    Keynote Theatre
    30 mins
    AUV Challenges 1
  2. Advanced simulation of submerged submarine hydrodynamics, propeller effects, and wake tracking with SIMULIA PowerFLOW
    Theatre 1
    30 mins
    Submarine Design Techniques
  3. CNN based reverberation filter for active sonar systems
    Theatre 2
    30 mins
    Active Sonar Systems
  4. Maritime Uncrewed Systems (UxS): Why navies should place data at the heart of their transitions towards autonomy
    Theatre 3
    30 mins
    Exploiting MUS for UDA
16:30
  1. Surviving the underwater battlespace, without a crew
    Keynote Theatre
    30 mins
    AUV Challenges 1
  2. Leveraging artificial intelligence techniques to enhance navigation safety and situation awareness on periscopes
    Theatre 1
    30 mins
    Submarine Design Techniques
  3. AUV62-MR: Extending the functionality together
    Theatre 2
    30 mins
    Active Sonar Systems
  4. Sustainable undersea maritime domain awareness: Getting after the best of both worlds
    Theatre 3
    30 mins
    Exploiting MUS for UDA
17:00
  1. Conference close
    0 mins
09:30
  1. Featured
    Keynote Address: The role of autonomous technology in CUI defence
    Keynote Theatre
    90 mins
11:00
  1. Morning break
    30 mins
11:30
  1. REPMUS 24 Swarm Directional Gliders: Strategic persistent maritime surveillance
    Keynote Theatre
    30 mins
         Undersea autonomy 
  2. Sustaining submarine superiority through human-machine partnership for the long haul
    Theatre 1
    30 mins
  3. Strategic Integration and System Dynamics in Seabed Warfare: Bridging Technological Advances and Strategic Imperatives
    Theatre 3
    30 mins
    The Strategic Gap in Seabed Warfare: While technological advancements in seabed warfare, such as autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), are rapidly progressing, …
12:00
  1. Concept demonstration of a NATO ASW barrier with Maritime Unmanned Systems
    Keynote Theatre
    30 mins
    Successful demonstration of an autonomous, multi-static Anti-submarine warfare barrier with active and passive nodes. Interoperability between NATO partner nations achieved through the use of the Coll …
  2. Sustaining submarine superiority through human-machine partnership for the long haul (continued)
    Theatre 1
    30 mins
  3. Strategic Integration and System Dynamics in Seabed Warfare: Bridging Technological Advances and Strategic Imperatives (continued)
    Theatre 3
    30 mins
12:30
  1. Lunch break
    60 mins
13:30
  1. Planning in circles: Autonomous planning for circular synthetic aperture sonar imaging with AUVs
    Keynote Theatre
    30 mins
    ASW operations from AUVs
  2. Submarine Automation Framework: A standardized approach for future automation systems
    Theatre 1
    30 mins
    Submarine Automation & Crew Performance
  3. Lightweight torpedo from small and unmanned surface vessels
    Theatre 2
    30 mins
    Weapons
  4. The use of autonomous subsurface drones and devices to enhance port security
    Theatre 3
    30 mins
    Ports & Harbour Security
14:00
  1. Securing the abyss: opportunities and challenges for AI and autonomy in undersea warfare
    Keynote Theatre
    30 mins
    ASW operations from AUVs
  2. Can current and future digital tools support effective and efficient evaluation of the human impact on submarine capability?
    Theatre 1
    30 mins
    Submarine Automation & Crew Performance
  3. Enhancing the “sting” to defeat emerging threats: The development of an upgraded lightweight torpedo
    Theatre 2
    30 mins
    Weapons
  4. Improved situational awareness and command efficiency for military divers
    Theatre 3
    30 mins
    Ports and Harbour Security
14:30
  1. Developments in the performance vs Cost benefits of thin-line towed arrays
    Keynote Theatre
    30 mins
    ASW operations from AUVs
  2. Optimizing crew performance and resilience in submarine operations: Next generation fatigue management strategies for the future workforce
    Theatre 1
    30 mins
    Submarine Automation & Crew Performance
  3. Optimizing torpedo trajectories in dynamic naval combat: A deep reinforcement learning approach to real-time target interception and obstacle avoidance
    Theatre 2
    30 mins
    Weapons
15:00
  1. Afternoon break
    30 mins
15:30
  1. XLUUV stargazer® in Mine Warfare Applications
    Keynote Theatre
    30 mins
    AUV Challenges 2
  2. Digital engineering: The enabling factor to address today’s undersea defence challenges
    Theatre 1
    30 mins
    Submarine Support Improvement
  3. A passive torpedo countermeasure system
    Theatre 2
    30 mins
    Countermeasures
  4. Subsea resident drones
    Theatre 3
    30 mins
    Seabed Resident Systems
16:00
  1. HUGIN Endurance: From days to weeks of AUV operation
    Keynote Theatre
    30 mins
    AUV Challenges 2
  2. Design for in-water engineering, how ballast tank apertures design could unlock potential for improved submarine availability
    Theatre 1
    30 mins
    Submarine Support Improvement
  3. Deep reinforcement learning approaches for torpedo acoustic countermeasure
    Theatre 2
    30 mins
    Countermeasures
  4. Cordless Seabed Power
    Theatre 3
    30 mins
    Seabed Resident Systems
16:30
  1. Human factor considerations for autonomous underwater vehicle deployment, launch and recovery
    Keynote Theatre
    30 mins
    AUV Challenges 2
  2. Project TONINA, LTE of 209 Class Submarines: Lessons learned and operational takeaways
    Theatre 1
    30 mins
    Submarine Support Improvement
  3. From expandable to recoverable, challenges to develop RECALL the first recoverable micro-AUV ASW Training Target
    Theatre 2
    30 mins
    Countermeasures
17:00
  1. Conference close
    0 mins
09:30
  1. Featured
    Keynote Address: How do we know when CUI is threatened?
    Keynote Theatre
    60 mins
10:30
  1. Morning break
    30 mins
11:00
  1. Enhancing coastal infrastructure protection with Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) technology
    Keynote Theatre
    30 mins
         Seabed Cable Security
  2. Future Power & Propulsion Technologies
    Theatre 1
    30 mins
  3. Distributed fusion in underwater network of passive acoustic sensor nodes
    Theatre 3
    30 mins
11:30
  1. High sensitivity hydrophones based on distributed acoustic sensing (DAS)
    Keynote Theatre
    30 mins
    Seabed cable security
  2. Future Power & Propulsion Technologies (continued)
    Theatre 1
    30 mins
  3. Distributed fusion in underwater network of passive acoustic sensor nodes (continued)
    Theatre 3
    30 mins
12:00
  1. Lunch break
    60 mins
13:00
  1. Defending critical undersea infrastructure at the right place and time: a risk-based approach to seabed security
    Keynote Theatre
    30 mins
    Seabed Infrastructure Protection
  2. Navigating an Age of Detection – The critical role of AIP and the complementary power of lithium-ion batteries for modern submarines
    Theatre 1
    30 mins
    Advances in Submarine Propulsion
  3. Are submarine integrated combat management systems (CMS) really integrated? 4th Generation Submarine CMS
    Theatre 2
    30 mins
    Submarine Combat Management Systems
  4. Mission Possible: Streamlining Data for AI-Powered Performance
    Theatre 3
    30 mins
    AI Sonar Processing
13:30
  1. Critical seabed infrastructure protection
    Keynote Theatre
    30 mins
    Seabed Infrastructure Protection
  2. Higher power submarine diesel generator sets
    Theatre 1
    30 mins
    Advances in Submarine Propulsion
  3. ORCCA® - The most modern, fully integrated combat system for conventional submarines
    Theatre 2
    30 mins
    Submarine Combat Management Systems
  4. SONAR AI: Key technology for revolutionary underwater surveillance
    Theatre 3
    30 mins
    AI Sonar Processing
14:00
  1. An effective survey methodology for SLOC and CUI using through-the-sensor performance estimation
    Keynote Theatre
    30 mins
    Seabed Infrastructure Protection
  2. Electrical power distribution in depth
    Theatre 1
    30 mins
    Advances in Submarine Propulsion
  3. Accelerating AI impact in submarine C2 – augmenting operators
    Theatre 2
    30 mins
    Submarine Combat Management Systems
  4. Generation and evaluation of underwater out-of-distribution sonar signals using generalized virtual outlier synthesis
    Theatre 3
    30 mins
    AI Sonar Processing
14:30
  1. End of conference
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