Interview with Pierre Eric Pommelet, CEO of Naval Group, during NEDS 2024, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Naval Group chose this Dutch defense event to strengthen its relationship with Dutch partners.=====================Naval Group signed the contract to deliver four Barracuda Family expeditionary submarines to the Netherlands Ministry of Defense on 30 September 2024. This decisive step marks the launching of the Orka-class program.At NEDS 2024, the French shipbuilder strengthened its relationship with Dutch partners with three more signatures, two weeks after the signature at Euronaval of contracts with Verebus and Van Halteren Technologies. In the frame of the Industrial Cooperation Agreement (ICA) reached in September this year, a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Marin and an agreement between Thales and Optics11 show a new step in the production of the submarines for the Royal Navy and Naval Group’s cooperation with Dutch knowledge institutes and industry. In parallel with the RNSC program, a cooperation contract has also been signed for the acquisition of countermeasure systems CANTO for Royal Netherlands Navy vessels.==========