IMIWC combines years of global experience with international partners and cutting-edge technology to facilitate the free flow of commerce and access with effective protection and security for mariners and critical maritime infrastructure.
Using operational art and science to build comprehensive strategies and plans to achieve operational objectives.
Gaining insight into complex maritime problems and supporting operational planning and execution in fiscally constrained environments.
Minimizing training and support requirements while maximizing operational effectiveness.
Reducing the threat by the application technology and environmental factors.
Identifying inter/intra government/non-government opportunities to streamline capability for steady-state and surge requirements.
Building flexibility to support local, regional and international community objectives.
Focusing RDT&E resources against current and future requirements.
Reducing the threat by the application technology and environmental factors.
Advising on best practices when operating in, or near, areas of maritime conflict.
Maximizing resilience to maritime threats and rescuing economic impact.
Enabling cost-effective solutions to protecting and shaping the maritime environment during conflict.
Reducing offshore construction risks from Munitions and Explosives of Concern (MEC), Unexploded Ordnance (UXO), and Explosive Remnants of War (ERW), in an environmentally considerate, safe, and cost-effective way.
Andrew Elvin OBE
Captain, Royal Navy (Ret.)
Andrew Elvin OBE retired from the Royal Navy as a Captain in 2014, after 35 years’ service as a warfare officer, and 30 years as a mine warfare, diving and explosive ordnance disposal deep specialist. Having served 12 years alongside, and embedded with, various US Navy Commands, his final tour was as the Deputy US Mine Warfare Commander in Bahrain, and Captain UK Mine Warfare. During his career, he has amassed a wealth of experience, operating with multi-national commercial, military and industrial organizations from the Americas through Europe, to the Middle and Far East. A veteran of the 1982 Falklands conflict, 1991 Gulf War, and numerous operational tours, US and UK staff positions, RDT&E and doctrine commands.
Since retirement, he has continued to support the global mine warfare community and the International Programs Department of the US Naval War College, with the delivery of operational level training and education to international partners.
