New Delhi: The second edition of Indian Navy’s biannual Commanders’ Conference 2025 commenced on October 22. Scheduled to be held over a period of three days at New Delhi the conference will conclude on October 24, 2025.
The conference assumes greater significance in the backdrop of ‘Operation Sindoor’ and the Navy’s high tempo of operations and combat preparedness. The Navy’s focus on enhancing combat capabilities, interoperability, and joint operations with Indian Army, IAF, and ICG underscores its resolve to deter emerging threats and showcase maritime prowess in the Indian Ocean Region and Indo-Pacific.
During the conference, Defence Minister and the Cabinet Secretary will address the Naval Commanders and provide a perspective on broader national interests and the vision towards Viksit Bharat 2047.
The conference serves as a platform for close interaction with national leadership and bureaucrats, and fine tune Navy’s outlook towards mitigating multi-dimensional challenges in current geo-strategic environment.
The conference also features addresses by the Chief of Defence Staff and the Chief of the Air Staff and embedded discussions with senior naval leadership. Interactions would aim for harnessing synergy in joint planning and execution of operations and optimising resources for capability enhancement.
The Chief of the Naval staff, along with the Commander-in-Chiefs, will review and assess plans pertaining to the overall security situation in the Indian Ocean region, Indian Navy’s primary area of responsibility. Paradigms related to Naval operations, training and resource-availability towards varied operations tasking in current scenario would also be agenda for discussion.
The Commanders would also delve on the Navy’s roadmap for the future prospects, including key enablers, improved Op logistics and digitisation. The discussions are planned to review disruptive technologies viz. AI, Big Data and ML for combat solutions and sustained seamless operations in a safe and secure environment.
On a broader canvas, Navy’s apex leadership will review its operational preparedness on Western and Eastern Seaboards, boosting indigenisation and innovation under Make in India scheme, furthering GoI’s vision of MAHASAGAR (Mutual and Holistic Advancement for Security Across all Regions), and promoting Indian Navy as the Preferred Security Partner in the IOR and Indo-Pacific.
