Who We Are?

Executive Steering Committee

The Executive Steering Committee represents leaders from government, military, industry and academia tasked with administering Polish Mine Warfare & Maritime Security strategy around global security environments and regions of critical interests with a focus on aligning, developing and building inter-governmental alliances that promote advanced bilateral economic stability, defense cooperation, energy security and deterrence against complex maritime threats. The committee has the authority, as a master-umbrella entity to manage jointbilateral frameworks and agreements.

 

The security environments of interest are vital maritime choke points, strategic waterways, SLOCs, littoral seas, route surveys, deep-sea hydrocarbon explorations and maritime energy assets which are often targets for offensive mining technologies, advanced underwater IED and UUV threats.

 

The National Security Bureau is an institutional founder for this Executive Steering Committee for Mine Warfare and Maritime Security established along with Polish Naval Academy, Remontowa Shipbuilding and Consultancy Firm Advisors with a broad base of support from the government and the President of The Republic of Poland.

 

The Committee is also a forum for effective coordination and promotion of Poland’s technology-transfer in Mine Warfare domain to complement the indigenization and acquisition priorities of strategic country partners through integral business and security cooperation.

Executive Leadership

The Committee is chaired by an autonomy of leaders with proven expertise and authority in international diplomacy to secure, manage and execute advanced MCM programs & joint maritime operations in highly-contested environments of the major maritime zones of the world.

 

Our Committee’s adaptive leadership has multidisciplinary expertise from government, academia and industry especially in national security policy, international security cooperations, diplomacy, defense acquisitions, maritime trade protection, undersea research, naval warfare & doctrine, ocean-engineering and advanced military shipbuilding.

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Captain (N) Jarosław Wypijewski
Armed Forces Supervision
National Security Bureau of Poland
Co-Chairman – Executive Steering
Committee, MWMS

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Dariusz Jaguszewski
Member of Board
Remontowa Shipbuilding
Co-Chairman – Executive Steering
Committee, MWMS

Gani Aslam
Director of Defense Acquisition &
Security Cooperation /
Co-Chairman – Executive Steering
Committee, MWMS

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Rear Admiral Prof. Tomasz Szubrycht
Rector Commandant
Polish Naval Academy
Co-Chairman – Executive Steering
Committee, MWMS

Bartłomiej Pomierski
Commercial Director. Navy & Special
Vessels, Remontowa Shipbuilding
Co-Chairman – Executive Steering
Committee, MWMS

Mazen Gani
Joint Program Executive Officer
Executive Steering Committee, MWMS
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Committee Members

PERMANENT MEMBER

National Security
Bureau

The National Security
Bureau (BBN) is a body
providing aid and support
to the President of the
Republic of Poland in
executing security and
defense tasks.

The bureau acts as a
secretariat of the National
Security Council (NSC) and
the head of the BBN Is the
Secretary of the NSC.

PERMANENT MEMBER

Polish Naval
Academy

The Polish Naval Academy
(AMW) was established in
1922, making key
contributions to state
defense, security and
maritime security. It
provides military and naval
studies for officers and
students in accordance
with the values “Sea,
Fatherland, Duty” .

It is also the leading R&D
center for the Polish Navy.

PERMANENT MEMBER

Remontowa Shipbuilding

One of the Europe’s largest
shipbuilding companies
based in Gdansk with a
reputation building the
world’s most advanced
Mine Counter Measure
Vessel and 1040 ships over
the last 76 years.

Remontowa holding is the
largest shipbuilding capital
group in Poland.

PERMANENT MEMBER

Consultancy Firm Advisors

One of the founding
members of the MWMS
committee with an
autonomy of leadership
and proven expertise in
international business
diplomacy and securing,
managing and execution of
advanced defense
acquisition programs.

Advises and creates
strategies for government
and policy decision-makers
in bilateral ties and new
alliances.

Our Commitment

To uphold our responsibility and priority of strengthening our alliances and cultivating new partnerships to modernize and evolve across Doctrine, Organization, Training, Material, Leadership, Personnel and Facilities whilst integrating revolutionary technologies and adapting innovative concepts in the mine warfare and mine countermeasures domain for assured battlespace advantage and future operational environment readiness.

We are committed to training, educating, equipping and modernizing our global-reach of allies and partners with our state-of-art capabilities, infrastructure, technology and products to develop a fully comprehensive approach to maritime cooperation and gain deeper understanding of each other’s cultures, tactics, techniques and procedures to align, enhance and synergize our interoperability.

We are driven by the strategic momentum to alleviate and unburden human operators and shorten OODA & clearance cycles in mine-countermeasures missions by our agility and advances in modular end-to-end maritime robotics, autonomous systems, C5ISR & networking technologies and AI/ML capabilities for a high level of survivability, lethality and force multiplication.

PRESIDENT ANDRZEJ DUDA’S SPEECH

IN REMONTOWA SHIPBUILDING ON 1.07.2021

It was said that this was impossible in Poland. The ships were built in this shipyard, entirely according to the most modern world technologies. Today, they are the most modern mine-hunters in the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO).

Andrzej Duda, President of the Republic of Poland

Poland has demonstrated their commitment to maintaining a robust and professional naval capability. Poland contributed to BALTOPS with an amphibious vessel, surface combatant, mine countermeasure vessels, as well as several fixed and rotary wing aircraft. This represents a true multi-mission capability to the BALTOPS force, and directly supports NATO operations in the region.

Vice Admiral. Andrew Lewis, Commander, U.S. Navy – 2nd Fleet

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Our Strengths

Capabilities

We have distinctive competency and world leadership in mine warfare with a strong naval and defense technology industrial base that designs, develops, integrates, manufactures, delivers and maintains a wide-range of naval ships, ship sub-systems, unmanned vehicles, weapon- systems, C5ISR equipment, radars, sonars, electronics, C2 & mission command systems, undersea systems, propulsion systems and other mission-critical components.

 

We enable large-scale infrastructure optimization and execute dynamic shipbuilding plans and demanding force-structures with our high-rate, highperformance, high-quality shipbuilding capacity powered by one of Europe’s largest and modern shipyards, which has built and delivered during the last 76 years, over 1040 ships and more than 400 naval ships for navies worldwide.

 

We have oversight of mine warfare and undersea science and technology (S&T) and research, development, testing and evaluation (RDT&E) activities with an ecosystem of academic institutions, government laboratories, R&D centers and engineering centers of excellence to synchronize our consolidated resources, investments and capital with allied communities of interests and international scientific communities especially in intelligent autonomy of marine robotics, experimental unmanned vehicles, manned-unmanned sensor-networking for advanced teaming, computational sciences and data-modeling, computer vision, underwater stealth & sea-borne signature reduction and alternative-energy power systems.

 

We have the capability to conduct high-speed, deep water and littoral MCM operations with the world’s most modern MCM ships, multi-domain networking, long-endurance unmanned system-of-systems, ultra-high undersea imagery, next-generation PNT (position, navigation and timing), machine-to-machine cuing & automated ISR&T, real-time mission analysis, advanced battlespace awareness & management for unmatched detection, tracking, reacquisition, ID, sweeping and neutralization of the full spectrum of mine threats in complex and degraded environments.

Readiness

We have high-level capability & operational readiness with assured winning capacity against all mine threats in an ever-changing operational environment and our ability to execute timeless day-to-day mine-warfare missions. Today, The Kormoran is the tip of Poland’s spear across the Baltic and a maritime shield to Europe and NATO Response Forces for the next decade and beyond.

 

We have a large and robust readiness of professional naval industrial workforce and skilled technical personnel with a strong base in science, technology, engineering and mathematics oriented towards solving complex maritime-security challenges.

 

We are in a continuum of applied research to support, improve and evolve tactical and strategic dimensions of expeditionary MCM operations & undersea mission-engineering using our state-of-art ship-technology development, R&D infrastructure and test facilities.

 

Poland demonstrates active readiness for immediate mine-warfare response and can deploy highly-trained mobile, quick reaction forces capable of integrated mining, mine-hunting and mine-sweeping operations, worldwide. It has commanded NATO SNMCMG1 and SNMCMG2 (Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures groups) operating in the Baltic Sea, North Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea. It has also taken part in over 300 international exercises and is also permanently undertaking some of the largest maneuver exercises for MCM operations such as “Open Spirit”, “BALTOPS” , “Dynamic Move” and “Passex”. Poland has taken part in BALTOPS for the last 29 years and has actively cooperated with BALTRON mine-defense squadron to demonstrate it’s permanent preparedness. Poland has also hosted important international multi-domain MCM operations and exercises such as recently the “Solidarna Belona” for NATO, where The Kormoran MCMV demonstrated unmatched lethality and readiness to converge, synchronize and integrate effects in a multi-domain battlespace environment to achieve operational and tactical objectives whilst rapidly seizing the initiative and stabilizing the environment.

 

The Kormoran is an all-domain ready, digitalized MCM ship with the ability connect and integrate sensors and shooters across all domains (Air, Land, Sea, Space and Cyberspace) for enhanced calibrated force-posture, superior situational awareness and winning readiness in all future operational environments.

 

Poland readily executes global MCM effort by sponsoring the NATO Mine Warfare Center of Excellence and by actively contributing to EU PESCO (Permanent Structured Cooperation) as a member of MAS MCM (Maritime Autonomous Systems for Mine Countermeasures) and HARMSPRO (Harbour & Maritime Surveillance and Protection) programs which enable EU PESCO member states to protect and ensure safety of maritime vessels, harbours, off-shore installations, SLOCs, chokepoints and all maritime trade routes.

Capacities

The committee provides guidance for future mine-warfare fleet architecture, joint requirements, joint planning, technology assessments, joint R&D, evaluation of proven systems & sub- systems, systems engineering and human systems integration, actionable strategies & intelligence, academics, training, framework for cooperation with acquisition life-cycle support through government, industry and institutions in Poland.

 

We have the total ship-building and naval-engineering capacity to build, repair and sustain Mine-warfare ships, infrastructure & maritime-complexes, anywhere across the globe with our advanced integrated manufacturing technologies, materials S&T, digital-processes, techniques and equipment.

 

We have the 21st century workforce-capacity with specialized knowledge, skills & abilities to build greater academic, knowledge-capital and workforcedevelopment partnerships with our allies.

 

We provide world-class integrated mine warfare program capacities with smart S&T into a balanced portfolio of breakthrough technologies, innovative research, talented people and critical capacity development in areas such as:

  • Dynamic and highly automated route survey & clearance for active maritime force protection and military traffic and commercial & priority transit petroleum/energy infrastructure
  • Global maritime logistics & trade protection
  • Hydro-acoustics, ocean-engineering and oceanography
  • Deployment of advanced mine-warfare technologies
  • Fast mine-clearance cycles with high search-to-kill rates.
  • Undersea Situational Awareness & Computing Infrastructure
  • Maritime geospatial intelligence and advanced mapping
  • Intelligence preparation of the Environment (IPOE) and Indications,Warning & Intelligence Exploitation (IW&IE)
  • Undersea Surveillance, PNT and Maneuver
  • Expeditionary and Littoral Sea Control
  • Amphibious operations and safe EOD/U-IED disposal operations.
  • Advanced naval replenishment in challenging environments
  • MCM Center of Excellence, MCM TTPs and Experimentation.
  • MCM Force training and certifications
  • IV&V (Interoperability, validation and verification) testing activities
  • C5ISR and Battlespace Networking
  • Network planning, integration, interfacing, interoperability of advanced data-link architecture for net-enabled maritime operation.
  • Cooperative MCM engagements within the join, inter-agency, intra-agency and multinational environment.
  • Building of joint long-range, dynamic ISR architectures
  • Advanced Manned-Unmanned Teaming Missions
  • Management of payload & integrated mission-modules
  • Joint C2 & Autonomous operations of multi-mission UUVs/USVs
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