Vice Admiral Flávio Macedo Brasil

Commercial Technical Director EMGEPRON

Flavio Macedo Brasil joined the Brazilian Navy through the Naval School in 1981. He’s an Officer with a specialization in Weapons Systems and perfected in Armaments, having also completed the “Weapons Engineering and Management Course” in the British Royal Navy.

He served in the armaments department at the Niterói and Greenhalgh Class frigates and at the Operating Systems Support Center. He also served in various functions of the General Staff, mainly in the Operations Sections, and was Chief of the General Staff in the 4th Naval District’s Command, based in Belém. He commanded the River Patrol Vessel Rondônia and the Defensora Frigate. He also commanded the Natal Naval Base in Rio Grande do Norte and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon’s Maritime Task Force.

In 2013, he was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral when he took on the Media Maintenance Coordination of the General Directorate of Navy Material. In 2015, he took command of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon’s Maritime Task Force. After his return from the peacekeeping mission, he took over the Directorate of Civil Works for the Navy. In 2018, he was promoted to the rank of Vice Admiral and took over as Head of the Armed Forces Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Ministry of Defense. In 2019, he was assigned to the Naval Operations Command where he assumed the position of Chief of Staff, and later in the same year the position of Commander of the 5th Naval District, holding it until March 2020, when he retired from the Brazilian Navy.

OPV & Warships Latin America - 1 July 2021 - Spanish Language Day

11:30 PANEL DISCUSSION 1: INDIGENOUS SHIPBUILDING AND THE OFFSET STRATEGY

 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?

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