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Managing and mitigating acoustic impact risks during Royal Navy anti submarine warfare operations

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Event details
Event name:	Managing and mitigating acoustic impact risks during Royal Navy anti submarine warfare operations
Location:	Optima Training Centre, Leyland Trucks, Croston Road, Leyland. PR26 6LZ
Date/Time:	26/09/2011 19:00:00
End Date/Time:	26/09/2011 21:00:00
Organised by:	Manchester and North West Branch
Event type:	Branch Meeting

Overview

This meeting is organised by Manchester Branch Central Lancashire District.

Speakers

Matt Summers

From 2005 until earlier this year, Matt Summers led the Ministry of Defence's Underwater Acoustic Impact Research Programme within the MOD's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. This multi-million pound programme was designed to provide tools, techniques and knowledge to enable the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force to deploy active sonar to protect the UK's interests whilst complying with increasingly stringent legislation.

Matt's talk will discuss the issues that faced the Royal Navy from an operational, legal and moral perspective and the potential threat to a £320m equipment purchase, efforts that went into engagement with lobbyists and wider Government, and some of the world leading solutions that were devised and deployed into the Fleet to ensure that the Royal Navy, unlike some its international counterparts, could continue operating active sonar.