18 Dec 2013 - CDE enduring challenge competition webinar

Centre for Defence Enterprise

Enduring Challenge Competition

19 December 2013
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19 December 2013

Enduring challenge
competition

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

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Integrated Sensing
Dr David Massey, Programme Manager

19 December 2013

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 *
* 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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Programme workstreams
Multi-Function &
Networked Sensors

Novel Sensors

Electronic Surveillance

23%
27%

Core Technology

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15%
35%

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)
19 December 2013

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

19 December 2013

CDE Enduring Challenge Communications

Assured Information Infrastructure

19 December 2013

• 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

C2I2 Research Programme vision is: a collaborative partnership with the Defence & Security
community, that delivers exploitable S&T for realisable future capabilities and operations.

19 December 2013

C2I2 Programme thrusts

INFORMATION
&
INTELLIGENCE

COMMAND
&
CONTROL

SPACE
TECHNOLOGIES

• Future Int Environment
• Int / Info Processing
•Met / GEOINT
•Imagery / MASINT
Processing

• Future Concepts
•IM/IX
• C2 Agility
• Human in C2

•Space Situational
Awareness
• Affordable
Revolutionary Space
C4ISR

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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

19 December 2013


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Outline
• Enduring challenges
• Dismounted Soldier Systems scope
• Issues

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

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situational awareness (sensors, precision navigation and timing, reduced GPS
dependability, persistent surveillance, status of digital systems)

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

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communications (secure, unsecure, mobile, novel forms)

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data (cyber, information, big data, management and processing, sense-making,
visualisation, delivery, interoperability)

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

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

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human performance (physical and mental, systems interface, survivability, sustainment,
training, medical)

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lower cost of ownership (platforms, equipment, facilities)

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new capabilities (challenging current convention, disruptive)

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Dismounted Soldier Systems scope
C4ISTAR

MOBILITY

SURVIVABILITY

ENGINE ROOM
INTEGRATION

SUSTAINABILITY
INTEROPERABILITY

LETHALITY

MOD requires a means of transferring
high volumes of time-synced data

while minimising power consumption

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• 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

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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

Battery mass to support data network (kg)

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Additional battery mass required to support data
transmission (6 nodes)

• Bad – Power

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8

USB2 (100%
Transmit)

7
6

USB2 (50%
Transmit)

5

USB2 (20%
Transmit)

4
3

1Gb Ethernet
(100%
Transmit)
1Gb ethernet
(50% Transmit)

2

1
0
0

10 20 30 40 50 60 70

Mission Duration (hr)

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

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• 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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