MINE LINES Inside This Issue The Eleventh International

The Newsletter of the Mine Warfare Association
MINE LINES
December 2013
www.minwara.org
The Eleventh International
Mine Warfare Technology Symposium
SPRING 2014
Mine Warfare and Countering A2AD Threats
6-8 May 2014
Embassy Suites
Monterey, California
Inside This Issue
• President’s Letter
• Monterey Conference Information
• Highlights of Expeditionary Warfare
Conference
• In Memorium
• Individual Membership Information
• Corporate Membership Information
Government Industry Day
Arlington, Virginia
EARLY 2014
COMPLETE DETAILS
COMING SOON!
Date will be announced
via email
WEBSITE
WWW.MINWARA.ORG
Letter from the President
This fall we’ve had a complete change in mine warfare community leadership. MG Robert Walsh
has relieved MG Tim Hanifen as OPNAV N95, RDML Brian Antonio has relieved RDML Jim Murdoch
as PEO LCS, and RDML Bill Merz has relieved RDML Bob Hennegan as Navy Mine and ASW Command (NMAWC) in San Diego. In addition, Capt Glenn Allen has taken over as N952, the Mine Warfare Requirements Officer. Farewell and following seas to Tim, Jim and Bob.
Last December CNO signed a letter designating Commander, Submarine Forces as the Navy lead for
the Undersea Warfare domain. In addition, NMAWC has been assigned a new mission to unify air,
surface, submarine and mine warfare undersea efforts. At the Submarine League symposium in Oct
it was announced that this coming year the Navy will experiment with merging the Theater ASW Commander and the Theater Mine Warfare Commander into one Theater Undersea Warfare Commander.
I’m sure this will prompt some interesting discussion at our next Mine Warfare update with community
leaders.
Many of you attended the half-day Mine Warfare update MINWARA hosted at the Lockheed Martin Vision Center in Crystal City in May 2013. About 100 people attended, with briefs from N95, PEO LCS,
and NMAWC. VADM Michael Connor, COMSUBFOR, as the lead for the Undersea Warfare domain,
joined us via VTC and gave his perspectives on mine warfare. With the change in mine warfare
community leadership, we’ll be working to schedule another half-day session at Lockheed Martin this
winter. Once we’ve locked in a date we’ll email MINWARA members the details and post them on our
website.
The 11th Monterey International Symposium on Technology and the Mine Problem will be hosted
by Rear Admiral (ret) Rick Williams in Monterey in May 2014, pending approval by the Navy staff.
This symposium provides an outstanding opportunity to join with other military and industry personnel
who are concerned with the mine threat and our ability to cope with it. The scope of this symposium
has grown over the years, so that it now includes threats to port and river infrastructure. MINWARA is
planning to host the very popular social at the Monterey Aquarium during the symposium. More information is available on page 2 of this newsletter and on the MINWARA website (www.minwara.org).
Hope to see you in Monterey in May!
Paul Ryan
Rear Admiral, USN (Ret)
President
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS
31 January 2014
Submit to [email protected]
The Eleventh International
Mine Warfare Technology Symposium
Mine Warfare and Countering A2AD Threats
Embassy Suites
Monterey, California
May 6-8, 2014
(pending approval by Navy Staff)
The Naval Postgraduate School, the Office of Naval Research, the Program Executive Office, Littoral Combat Ships, OPNAV (N95), and the Consortium for Robotics and Unmanned Systems
Education and Research (CRUSER) are pleased to announce the ELEVENTH International Mine
Warfare Technology Symposium in Monterey, California, May 6-8, 2014.
In his September 2013 statement before the House Armed Services Committee, CNO ADM Greenert
reiterated the need for the Navy to project power despite Anti-Access Area Denial (A2AD) challenges.
An important response to the challenge is the Navy’s ability to neutralize mines while keeping personnel out of harm’s way. As with past Mine symposia, tactics, technology, and operations related to mine
and countermine warfare will be the dominant themes. The symposium is unclassified with foreign participation expected and welcome. Naval and Industry plenary speakers will address a broad range of
topics including the current status and future requirements of mine warfare technology, while break-out
sessions showcase basic scientific and emerging technology research. Applications to better assess
the undersea environment; and specialized breakout sessions focused on Littoral Combat Ship-centric
mine warfare, advanced undersea warfare systems, mine warfare applications in Maritime Homeland
Defense will play a large role in the break-out sessions. Many of the topics covered exploit unmanned
systems in meeting particular technical and operational requirements. This symposium is being collaboratively hosted by NPS CRUSER, chartered by the Under Secretary of the Navy; and hence topics
more directly related to unmanned systems, such as propulsion, autonomy, experimentation, guidance
and control, and energy to name a few, will also be addressed in break-out sessions.
This constitutes a call for scientific papers. Of particular interest are papers on relevant research,
future capabilities, and novel ideas in technology applications of mine/countermine warfare,
undersea warfare, and unmanned systems.
Extended abstracts, 850-1000 words, are due on or before January 31, 2014. Final papers must be
submitted during the meeting to be included in the Proceedings. Please write to [email protected],
or call Laurie at (831) 656-7739, for more information.
MINWARA NEWS
Expeditionary Warfare Conference
(29-31 October 2013)
Almost 400 attendees heard from a number of key
USN/USMC leaders, most notably CNO (Admiral Jon
Greenert, USN), Commander Fleet Forces Command
(Admiral Bill Gortney, USN), and Commander, U. S.
Pacific Forces (Admiral Sam Locklear). They provided
their thoughts on doing business in a very unstable budget environment. CNO reiterated theme of Warfighting,
Readiness, and Forward Presence plus his continued
support for mine warfare improvements. CFFC emphasized preserving our vital “Kill Chain” through effectively
maintaining the means (procurement, maintenance,
etc.) and the ways (operational training, readiness,
etc.) to reach the desired ends. One speaker effectively
described the environment as “get the most with less”.
Finally, USCINCPAC provided interesting and logical
perspectives for the “pivot” of U. S. Forces into the
Pacific Theater.
Captain Glenn Allen, USN is the new Opnav N952 (MIW
Branch Head) on the CNO staff. He provides a wealth
of MIW experience and will be a key player for us in the
ongoing budget environment. He indicates that the Afloat
Forward Staging Base (AFSB - former USS Ponce)
has paid huge dividends in the Arabian Gulf providing
invaluable C2, sustainment and logistics to MCM forces
(a latter day MCM Command and Support Ship (MCS)).
The MK 18 UUV’s capability is adding a significant force
multiplier in search and classify missions. MCM Force
capacity is a continuing challenge, but the presence
of significant Allied MCM forces makes a huge difference. We need to do more to exchange classified info,
the Common Operational Picture, and more common
doctrine and orders with our allies.
As our President, Radm (Ret) Paul Ryan has indicated
on page 2 of this newsletter, we plan to have the half day
Government-Industry Day join up in Crystal City at the
Lockheed-Martin facility at a date this winter. (we’ll notify
everyone by e-mail soon). It will be a great opportunity
to get fresh perspectives from the three new leaders
of USN mine warfare (Opnav N95, NMAWC, and PEO
LCS). It’s going to be an event you don’t want to miss.
Also, the 11th Monterey Symposium on Technology and
the Mine Problem is always a very useful symposium for
mine warfare and an opportunity for industry to present
technical briefings on your ongoing research and capabilities. More to follow on this event, as well.
In Memoriam
It is with great regret that we inform our readers of the
recent death of Admiral Frank Kelso, USN (Ret), former
CNO from 1990-94. He may be best remembered, operationally, as Commander, Sixth Fleet in 1986. Under
his command at that time, U. S. Naval Forces effectively
bombed Libya and neutralized naval threats in the Mediterranean Sea from Libyan forces under Col. Muammar
Gaddafi’s dictatorship.
Admiral Kelso was a champion for mine warfare during
his tenure as CNO. He provided invaluable support for
our mine warfare forces during Desert Shield/Storm and
the subsequent clearance of Arabian Gulf sea mines.
He personally approved and supported the reinvigorated organizational, training, and fiscal initiatives that
catapulted mine warfare into a new era of prominence
in naval mine warfare in the early 1990’s and thereafter.
Farewell to an inspiring leader!!!!
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warfare issues and to assist government, industry,
and academia in optimizing their combined contributions to solving the challenges associated with naval
mine warfare. The MINWARA believed that many of
the solutions would be found in emerging technologies. The Mine Warfare Association looks forward to
continuing this educational effort in support of naval
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Naval Surface Warfare Center - Panama City, FL
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Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems
The Boeing Company
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ITT Corporation
Seebyte, Ltd.
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AAI Corporation, Inc.
Advanced Acoustics Concepts, LLC.
Bluefin Robotics
DRS Technologies, LLC.
Bronze Level
AgustaWestland, Inc.
Atlas North America
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General Dynamics Information Technologies
Hydroid, Inc.
Kaman Aerospace Corporation
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.
L-3 Communications Klein Associates, Inc.
Marport Deep Sea Technologies
Northrop-Grumman Systems Corporation, Underseas Systems
PURVIS Systems Incorporated
QinetiQ North America
Sonardyne
Technical Systems Integration, Inc.
Teledyne RD Instruments, Inc.
Ultra Electronics Ocean Systems
Whitney, Bradley & Brown, Inc.
MINE WARFARE ASSOCIATION OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
President
RDML Paul Ryan USN (Ret.)
Vice Presidents
RADM Chuck Horne USN (Ret.) (Navy Affairs)
MGEN Harry Jenkins USMC (Ret.) (Marine Corps Affairs)
Mr. Dave Heberlein (Technology)
Corresponding Secretary
Dr. Scott Truver
MINWARA Executive Asssistant
RADM John Pearson, USN (Ret)
Directors
VADM Hank Giffin USN (Ret.)
RADM Chuck Horne USN (Ret.)
MGEN Harry Jenkins USMC (Ret.)
RDML Paul Ryan USN (Ret.)
RDML Rick Williams III USN (Ret)
CAPT Bill Arnold, USN (Ret)
CAPT Barry Dagnall, USN (Ret)
CAPT Tom Davilli, USN (Ret)
CDR David Holt, USN (Ret.)
Mr. Dave Heberlein
Mr. Scott Truver
Mr. George Pollitt
MISSION STATEMENT
The Mine Warfare Association (MINWARA)
was formed in 1995 to create an awareness of mine warfare issues and to assist
government, industry, and academia in
optimizing their combined contributions
to solving the challenges associated with
military naval mine warfare. The MINWARA believed that many of the solutions
would be found in emerging technologies.
Accordingly, the MINWARA adopted a
program of conducting symposia to expose
as many personnel and organizations as
possible to these emerging technologies
and their potential application to the mine
problem. MINWARA remains the only
professional association which deals only
with military naval mine warfare and its
associated problems.
The symposia are an effort to cross - pollinate knowledge about mine warfare
among government, industry, and academia. Symposia address military doctrine,
policies, organization, concepts of operations, ongoing and needed research and
development, acquisition programs, and
logistics and training programs, for both
overseas and domestic current and potential threats.
It should be noted that mine warfare includes both mining capabilities and mine
countermeasures. Mine Countermeasures
includes the software, sensors, systems,
tactics, techniques and procedures required to address the traditional mine
threat as well as the potential threat from
terrorist placed mines or Improvised
Explosive Devices, IED, to U.S. ports.
The Mine Warfare Association is a strong
supporter of mining capabilities, based on
the tenet that knowledge of mine design
and effects are critical to maintaining an
effective mine countermeasures capability. The Mine Warfare Association is also
a firm supporter of mine designs that have
self-destruction capabilities after an appropriate period, so as not to pose a threat to
civilians after cessation of hostilities.
installations in the Washington, DC area.
Three international symposia on military
naval mine warfare were held in 1999,
2001, and 2004 in Australia, in co - sponsorship with the Australian Defence Science and Technology Office (DSTO).
The Mine Warfare Association has included the associated issues of humanitarian
demining and unexploded ordnance challenges in our symposia at times, even
though the present thrust of our association is military naval mine warfare. These
issues and challenges have, and will be,
included, based on the likelihood of historical and emerging solutions in these areas
having application to military mine warfare.
The subject of humanitarian demining is
now a primary thrust of the Society for
Counterordnance Technology (SCOT), the
Wilson Institute and other NGOs.
The Monterey symposia have previously
attracted up to 350 attendees. Regional
conferences in Panama City FL have
attracted up to 250 attendees. Speakers
have frequently included military flag/
general officers of all ranks and civilian
government employees of similar rank.
Other speakers include experienced military leaders, senior, experienced industry
leaders, and senior, experienced academic
researchers.
Past symposia have complemented and
drawn upon the recurring symposia at the
U. S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA held in 1995, 1996, 1998, and
every even-numbered year since. These
symposia on “Technology and the Mine
Problem” have addressed all areas mentioned above, including military naval mine
warfare. Between Monterey symposia, the
Mine Warfare Association has sponsored
a recurring series of regional symposia,
which usually focus on military naval mine
warfare depending on the host organization and its primary expertise areas.
These regional symposia have been held
at the Naval Surface Warfare Center,
Panama City, FL (1999 and every oddnumbered year since, to date) ; Sandia
National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM,
and U. S. Army and U. S. Marine Corps
The intent of symposia subject matter is to
have academia and industry become more
familiar with the technical challenges of
the mine problem, have government and
industry become familiar with academic
research efforts, and have government and
academia become familiar with industrial
research and engineering efforts.
The Mine Warfare Association understands
the increasing importance of commercial
industry in developing technologies which
will benefit the Department of Defense. Accordingly, a major activity of the association
is to expand outreach of the mine problem
to the commercial sector. As always, the
most useful exchanges between these attendees occur between seminar sessions
and during evenings. The Mine Warfare
Association looks forward to continuing
this educational effort in support of military
mine warfare and the associated challenges and problems.