Lieutenant Commander Manuel Alejandro Ariza Zuluaga

 What are your current engineering projects and future programmes to increase combat capability

of your navy?

 Which technological developments are critical to future ship design? How do you plan to work with

international industry to drive indigenous shipbuilding capability?

 Technology transfer as a driver for the procurer: Does consideration of systems and module

capability outweigh hull design?

THURSDAY 1 JULY 2021:

WARSHIPS & OPV LATIN AMERICA

 As navies embark on ambitious shipbuilding programmes, industry has an instrumental role in

supporting naval construction and strengthening national industrial bases of naval operators. How

can industry better collaborate with local shipyards to tailor solutions and provide the desired

technology to the operator?

 The Latin American operating environment has a unique set of lower-end, asymmetric threats,

ranging from transnational criminal networks to natural disasters and illegal fisheries. How can

industry best tailor solutions to the regional threat environment? How can industry ensure

interoperability of newer platforms with legacy vessels?

 The future maritime battlespace will require increased connectivity and digitization. How we

ensure that platforms have open architectures to enable integration of newer software at pace?

What solutions are needed to ensure resilience and minimize cyber vulnerability?

 Maritime operations will require an ever-increasing ability to collect and act on sensor data to

build the tactical picture for operations. How can industry advance collection, processing, and dissemination of data to help defeat transnational organized criminal networks?