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Defence Science and Technology
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Jack Lemon
Deputy Head DST Strategy
Agile Military Capabilities:How The Information Fusion Community Can Help Us
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Introduction
• Ever advancing technology means that the modern battlefield is more complex than it has ever been.
• Government policy paper, National Security Through Technology, outlines how the UK intends to maintain an agile and capable Armed Forces.
• Open Systems and Generic Vehicle Architecture crucial to success on both platform level and systems level.
• We are good on platform level, but more of a systems level approach is required.
• Information Fusion Community has a fundamental part to play in that approach.
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Big Technology –Astute Submarine
• The most powerful and advanced attack submarine the UK has ever sent to sea
• Designed entirely in CAD using cutting edge virtual prototyping
• Equipped with an extremely advanced sonar system
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Big Technology: Type 45 and F35
Type 45 Destroyer
F35 - STOVL
F35: Outstanding Mission Systems
T45: SAMPSON Radar
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Technology Insertion –Chinook Titan Turret
Fitted to Chinook squadrons
HD IR camera and low light cameras to provide imagery to crew
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Technology AdditionsClipIR
Clip on Thermal Imager
Clips onto existing in-service image intensifiers, fusing both thermal and near infra-red images together
Funding through Centre for Defence Enterprise
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Black Hornet
Nano Remotely Piloted Aircraft <200g
20- 40 minutes flight time
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Defence Is Not All About Technology
£££
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Global Strategic Trends
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Future Character of Conflict
‘No matter how clearly one thinks, it is impossible to anticipate precisely the character of future conflict. The key is to not be so far off the mark that it becomes impossible to adjust once that character is revealed’.
Professor Sir Michael Howard
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http://www.dodccrp.org
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An Uncertain Future
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Time is Important
Warning Time
Time needed to change UK Capability
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Maintaining Essential Science And Technology Investment
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Challenger 2
•First introduced in 1998
•Based on Challenger 1 but extensive upgrades mean only five percent of parts are interchangeable
•Over 150 major modifications, including a new turret and optics suite
•An Information Fusion success story
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Urgent Operational Requirements Bar Armour
• A UOR for Afghanistan
• Successful and highly effective technology addition
• However, a very simple augmentation
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• Launched May 2008• Centre for Defence Enterprise office:
– Harwell Science and Innovation Campus
• Electronic submission of proposals• 15 day decision cycle• Seminar - technology workshop
programme
Courtesy Diamond Light Source Ltd
Capturing Innovation – Centre for Defence Enterprise
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• Widely used in commercial systems
• Has great value in defence systems
• Allows wider range of suppliers (Increases opportunities to use off the shelf components)
• Makes incremental upgrades easier
• Allows legacy equipments to be used in new ways
• To ‘make it happen’ is never easy
Modular Open Systems
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A Capability Viewpoint - Localise Variability
adapt, update, replace cost effectively
maintain through life and manage obsolescenceadapt, update, replace
rapidly
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Foxhound
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Generic Vehicle Architecture
Equipment capability integrated from subsystems
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Coalition Tactical Networks
Hybrid networks: whose network?
How long does it take to:
•Bring together coalition partner networks securely
•Enable new systems to integrate into the network securely
•Enable new devices and applications to be introduced
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The International Technology Alliance
inNetwork and Information Sciences
The Gaian Database
A Secure Dynamic Distributed Federated Database
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Gaian Database
The Gaian DB consists of a set of interconnected nodes (N1, N2, …)
Data can be stored in any node
User is able to access internal and external sources as if it were one logical DB
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The land tactical battlespace
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Fixed infrastructure
GAIAN DATABASE TECHNOLOGYStore and Forward Tactical network
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A User Viewpoint
USER INTERFACE
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Conclusions• Generic Vehicle Architecture and Modular
Systems essential at platform level
• Systems Level Approach required to integrate platforms
• Complex task involving the Information Fusion Community to bring information systems together
