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Presentation from Roke Manor Research Ltd at the Centre for Defence Enterprise Marketplace held on 6 September

Marketplace 2016
Chris Spence
Roke Manor Research Ltd

Roke Manor Research Ltd
• independent UK-based contract
research and consultancy
organisation
• providing expertise in cyber,
communications, networks and
sensors
• list X site with >350 employees

CDE41886: Confidence from
provenance
What data do I have?
What data do I believe?
Can I fill in the gaps though automated
reasoning?
=> timely, best estimate advice

Success to date
Determine time and position of events from
unattended sensors of varying reliability
Developed a domain specific language based on
constraint logic which allows us to build a
consistent model of events from potentially
unreliable sources

What next?
Add strategic and open source intelligence to the
information mix
Demonstrate visualisation of results derived from a
variety of information sources with differing
credibility

We’re looking for…
• opportunities to raise the technology
readiness level (TRL)
• technology partners
• exploitation partners

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