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© UK Defence Solutions Centre 2019Official
Maritime Autonomous System
Chris Shepherd
Head of Maritime Capability
Aberdeen - 19/09/2019
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Defence Growth Partnership
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Addressable Market by Capability Theme
Total market potentially
addressable by TeamUK
across the 32 assessed
countries and the 10
Strategic Capabilities,
2021-2030
$311bn
10 overarching strategic
Capability Themes
10
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Composition of the Maritime Task Group
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“The Royal Navy will lead and
win through
the innovative and robust
exploitation
of Maritime Autonomous
Systems.”
Autonomous Systems
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Opportunities in Navy
Figure 1: Navy Command Equipment Plan outrun and allocated
budget with Equipment Procurement Program
Opportunities exist for MOD to employ autonomous systems to affect
current operations. Furthermore, Royal Navy, Royal Marines, RAF and
Army have been tasked with the goal of transforming operations in
various environments through increased utilisation of autonomy.
Navy Command currently plans to spend approximately £32.5 Billion
on the Equipment Plan over the next ten years
One of the objectives for the budget expenditure is stated as initial
development work on locating, identifying and neutralising maritime
mines, using unmanned autonomous systems . The Navy plans to use
autonomy to enhance both Mass and Lethality in the following areas:
• Continuous At Sea Deterrent (CAS-D)
• Forward Presence
• Carrier Strike Group (CSG)
• Marine Mine Counter Measures (MMCM)
• Littoral Strike Group (LSG)
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Conceptual Maritime Force…..
It is likely to be
Networked, multi-
domain, autonomous
vehicles working in
unison with manned
force elements
underpinned by
Information Warfare
that could cripple
military effect if not met
head on and pre-
empted
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Autonomous Systems – Navy X
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Autonomous Systems
Near Term Developments –Next 5 years
Autonomous USV
Project Wilton
Sweep
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Future Use of Autonomy
1. Multi-role platforms (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR), mine counter-
measures (MCM), anti-submarine warfare (ASW), acoustic surveillance, and offensive
operations).
2. Enhanced threat detection (anti-submarine USV capable of detecting the silent diesel-
electric submarines in littoral waters).
3. Enhanced/alternative energy systems to increase range and endurance (hybrid, high
energy hydrogen cells).
4. Stealthy drone systems capable of carrying complex weapons, and enhancements for
undetectable loitering.
5. The Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) (platform maintenance, assisted
navigation, distributed tactical surveillance, mine reconnaissance, coordination and
monitoring of robot swarms).
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Artificial Intelligence
Sensor Data Fusion and Decision Support
They use software tools
limited to learning, reasoning,
and problem-solving within a
specific context.
They are not able to adapt
dynamically to novel
situations.
Operators want information
not “DATA”
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AI in Warships…..
Cometh the platform, cometh the app
Modern Warships will
become a platform
with a shared
infrastructure where AI
applications can be
down loaded and
updated with ease.
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Lets Just Buy The Kit?
• So why is it so hard?
• Denied Environments
• Defence Lines of Development (TEPIDOIL)
• Training, Equipment, Personnel, Infrastructure, Doctrine, Organisation, Information and Logistics
• Level of Autonomy – bored operators waiting to interject is not a solution
• Plug and Play different equipment, sensor fusion, truly open architecture (the USB of UXVs)
• Trust! Would you go first?
• Unmanned systems will be dominated by the organisations that smoothly transition their customers and are able to realise the benefits from technology rather than just delivering cool tech.
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Summary
• Remote and Autonomous Systems (RaAS) and their associated systems have the
potential to be transformative in both the defence and commercial sectors, by removing
operators and service personnel from areas, which are ‘dull, dangerous and dirty’.
• Applications across sectors such as; aquafarming, risk and disaster monitoring, O&G,
offshore renewables, in addition to defence and security will also be beneficiaries of
disruptive underpinning technologies.
• Unmanned Systems does not signal the end of the manned platform, at least for several
decades, but they will be a central component of the strategic balance and of Royal
Naval Operations.
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