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Enduring Challenge

Competition

(Open Competition)

Centre for Defence Enterprise

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Room 2

Command, Control, Information

and Intelligence (C2I2)


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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


CDE enduring challenges

• 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)


Integrated Sensing


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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 *

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* 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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