18 dec 2013 - cde enduring challenge competition webinar

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Enduring Challenge Competition

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Enduring challenges

• protection • situational awareness • power • communications • data • lethality • mobility • human performance • lower cost of ownership • new capabilities

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Integrated Sensing


19 December 2013

Dr David Massey, Programme Manager

Programme vision

Wherever UK Armed Forces are, whatever their mission,

S&T has sensing capability to enable situational

awareness of land, air and sea, when they need it to

support appropriate military effects. By integration of a

broad range of sensor technologies, UK Armed Forces

achieve full coverage of the battlefield. Exploitation and

development of affordable sensor technology will enable

the UK to meet evolving threats and maintain UK

Sovereign capability and freedom of action.

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Scope – Integrated Sensing

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Programme drivers (1)

• Policy / doctrine trends

– need to generate evidence base capable of informing next SDSR

(policy and strategy formulation, capability/force structure design)

– Technology White Paper drives delivery

– managed reduction in manned ISTAR platforms and single function

collectors, replaced by introduction of multi-role platforms to provide

tactical flexibility (SDSR 10)

– future battlespace „congested, cluttered, contested, and connected‟ *

– unpredictable adversaries and threats, whose behaviour will be hard

to discern and ambiguous *

– tighter integration of capability and a greater adaptation needed to

overcome future adversaries *

UNCLASSIFIED

* Future Character of Conflict (FCOC)

2010


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Programme drivers (2)

• Economic pressure

– limited investment in capability change, thus S&T needs to focus on areas that

offer defence significant advantage in the near, medium and long term.

– continued maintenance/upgrade of the sensor inventory is economically

unsustainable

– traditional sensor development routes for land, sea and air are also

economically unsustainable

– sophisticated technology is expensive and takes time to develop

• Technology trends

– Technology now enabling multi-band, multi-function operation from one sensor

– Networked sensor operation and effective real-time fusion now becoming

feasible


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Core Technology

Programme workstreams


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Electronic Surveillance Novel Sensors Multi-Function & Networked Sensors

15%

35% 27%

23%

CDE enduring challenges

• Situational Awareness (sensors, precision navigation

and timing, reduced GPS dependability, persistent

surveillance, status of digital systems)

• Protection (personnel, platforms, facilities, digital

systems, materials)

• Lower cost of ownership (platforms, equipment,

facilities)

• New capabilities (challenging current convention,

disruptive)


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CDE themed competition

February 2014

• Novel electro-optic infrared technology

– Key attributes will be low size, weight and power, and often,

low cost

– Compact technologies and multifunction components are

envisaged as being necessary

– Novel optical configurations

– True phased array technologies, optical synthetic aperture or

direct holographic imaging

– Very sensitive imagers


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CDE Enduring Challenge -

Communications

Assured Information Infrastructure


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• Objective

– provide S&T support to MOD to enable the realisation of a

continuously evolving single, logical, reconfigurable, resilient

information infrastructure across UK and deployed, fixed and

mobile elements


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• the right information, to the right person, in the right

form, at the right time, to support the best decision to

initiate effective action


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The enduring challenge

• How can MOD provide cost-effective, robust

communications?

– reduced size, weight, power

– adaptable networks

– security and assurance

– resilience

– interoperability

– use of commercial technologies


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What we want

• Innovation

• Novel forms of communication

• Boundaries between networks

• Mobile communications

• Consideration of human factors


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What we don’t want

• Solutions that offer no significant defence and security

benefit

• Technology watch / horizon scanning

• Paper-based studies, roadmaps or technology

prediction

• New encryption algorithms


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Command, Control, Information

and Intelligence (C2I2)

Graham George, Programme Manager


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C2I2 Research Programme vision is: a collaborative partnership with the Defence & Security

community, that delivers exploitable S&T for realisable future capabilities and operations.

C2I2 Programme thrusts

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INFORMATION &

INTELLIGENCE

COMMAND &

CONTROL

SPACE TECHNOLOGIES

•Space Situational Awareness • Affordable

Revolutionary Space C4ISR

• Future Int Environment • Int / Info Processing

•Met / GEOINT •Imagery / MASINT

Processing

• Future Concepts •IM/IX

• C2 Agility • Human in C2

Short term

• Improvement in the efficient (timeliness), effective (quality) and

economic (cost) production of I2

• Development and assessment of C2 & IS concepts: role of

modern technologies and understanding / options to support

human component of C2

• Understanding of the space environment, threats, SpSA and SBS

capabilities to support the Strategic Defence and Security Review

2015 options on “space technologies”


Medium term

• Structured and unstructured information being routinely exploited

• Improved understanding of pattern-of-life

• Delivery of targeted relevant information to deployed user

• Increased focus on early entry / contingent ops, reach-back for

C2, C2 agility - increased resilience in C2

• Enduring space weather and SpSA capability and niche

indigenous affordable space capabilities being matured


Longer term

• Predictive intelligence – estimate intent of actors and develop

threat analysis

• Cognition, sense making, problem solving, collaborative working

applied to C2

• Space will be a realistic and affordable option for reducing the

cost of current military capability / providing new indigenous

capability



• Situational Awareness (sensors, precision navigation and

timing, reduced GPS dependability, persistent surveillance,

status of digital systems)

• Data (cyber, information, big data, management and processing,

sense-making, visualisation, delivery, interoperability)

• Lower cost of ownership (platforms, equipment, facilities)

• New capabilities (challenging current convention, disruptive)


Dismounted Soldier Systems (DSS)

Ross Jones - Programme Manager, Dismounted Soldier Systems


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Outline

• Enduring challenges

• Dismounted Soldier Systems scope

• Issues


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• protection (personnel, platforms, facilities, digital systems, materials)

• situational awareness (sensors, precision navigation and timing, reduced GPS

dependability, persistent surveillance, status of digital systems)

• power (provision/sources, non-fossil, hybrid, management, fuel efficiency)

• communications (secure, unsecure, mobile, novel forms)

• data (cyber, information, big data, management and processing, sense-making,

visualisation, delivery, interoperability)

• lethality (weapons – conventional, novel, directed energy, defence, less-than-lethal)

• mobility (platforms [air, land, sea, space, human], means of propulsion)

• human performance (physical and mental, systems interface, survivability, sustainment,

training, medical)

• lower cost of ownership (platforms, equipment, facilities)

• new capabilities (challenging current convention, disruptive)


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SUSTAINABILITY

INTEGRATION

Dismounted Soldier Systems scope MOBILITY

C4ISTAR

SURVIVABILITY

INTEROPERABILITY LETHALITY

ENGINE ROOM

MOD requires a means of transferring

high volumes of time-synced data

while minimising power consumption

UNCLASSIFIED 19/12/2013

• Background:

– MOD are developing a Generic Soldier Architecture (GSA)

DefStan 23-12 to help the system integration and

interoperability of the soldier

– Running a Technology Development Programme (TDP)

looking at moving power and data around the torso of the

soldier, minimising resupply demand, physical and

architectural burdens

– Developing a demonstrator of power and data on the weapon

– Investigating the data needs of helmet mounted technologies

– „Green Ethernet‟ and IEEE 802.3az standards exist

19/12/2013 UNCLASSIFIED

• What have we learnt:

– Currently define USB 2.0 in GSA

• Good – Low Power

• Bad – Timing Synchronisation, data rates

in USB 2

– Ethernet

• Good – Timing Synchronisation, data

rate with 1Gb Ethernet

• Bad – Power

• What we want:

– 1GBaseT (1 Gb/s) Ethernet at as lower power as possible for a 6 node system

with 1 m lengths

– OR a method of solving synchronisation and latency issues with USB

– To include Integration/development of low power and bulk USB-to-Ethernet and

Ethernet-to-USB adaptors

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MOD wants to capture visual and

directional information, unobtrusively,

from soldiers on training exercises

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• Background

– Two types of effect are required from shots fired by infantry

weapons, the majority do not hit the enemy

– Use laser simulation system in training which records HIT and

NEAR MISS shots. The remaining shots (the majority) are of

significant interest:

• Fired at visible target but missed

• Fired to suppress a known target that was not visible

• Fired without an identified target

– Could resolve these if it was known what the soldier was

looking at, and supplemented by knowing the direction

(azimuth) the weapon was pointing


• What have we learnt:

– Need to be a attachable/removable self contained training

device

– Size and weight are significant factors

– Challenging environment (weapon fire, weather etc)

• What we want:

– Record the optical sight picture during periods of use, and

identify when shots are fired.

– Records the azimuth of the weapon at the time of firing.

– Ability to time sync

– Potential to be transparent to the user


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