Luigi Durante
Mr. Luigi Durante, after graduating at the scientific high school in 1989, joined the Naval Academy in Livorno in the same year and, completed his academic studies graduating in telecommunications engineering in 1996.
Subsequently, as engineer officer, Mr. Durante made his experiences first on-board Nave Durand De La Penne, destroyer of the Italian Navy's fleet, for 2 years then, as Head of the Weapons and Operations Technical Department, on board the Italian Frigate Espero.
Ended this operational assignment, Mr. DURANTE was appointed to the Italian Navy's Telecommunications and Electronics Centre in Livorno for about five years as Head of the Electronic Warfare Department. Then he returned back on board of the destroyer Durand De la Penne, to serve as Head of the Technical, Weapons and Operations Department for about two years, after which he was appointed first to the Directorate of Naval Armaments in Rome, in the Combat System Department where he spent more than three years in the field of telecommunications and electronic warfare domain.
After passing the selection for the international posts, he was appointed to OCCAR Paris in order to work in the FREMM Programme Division for the 3 years as Combat System Officer Assistant. At the end of this experience, he returned in Rome to the Joint Intelligence Centre as Head of Technical Operations Office, for more than 3 years.
He was then transferred back to NAVARM, appointed as Head of the New Construction and European Naval Programmes Office for 5 years.
Later, he passed the selection for international status posts, becoming the Programme Manager of the FREMM Programme Division from September 2021. During this period, he has been involved in the negotiation of the MLU HRZ contract which, once signed at the end of July 2023, created the new Programme Division HORIZON.