18 November 2014: Enduring challenge briefings

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Enduring competition

Challenges

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Protection Lethality Human performance

Mobility Lower cost of ownership

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Situational awareness Communication Data Power

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Aim

“To inspire and inform...”

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Data

CDE’s enduring challenges Communication

Human Performance

Lethality

Lower Cost of Ownership

Mobility

Power

Protection

Situational Awareness

Strategic trends

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Future Character of Conflict • Congested • Cluttered • Connected • Constrained • Contested


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Functions of the armed forces

Military power Projection

(Contingent capability for defence and

deterrence)

Forward engagement

(Standing commitments, orientation, conflict

prevention & overseas capacity building)

Defence of the homeland

(UK Engagement and Homeland Resilience)

Military power

Understand

Inform Influence


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Functions of the armed forces

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Deterrent and

operations

Prevention and goodwill

Help at home


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CDE’s enduring challenges

Communication

Data

Human Performance

Lethality


Mobility

Power

Protection


Communication

Data

Human Performance

Lethality


Mobility

Power

Protection


Maritime Communication

Data

Human Performance

Lethality


Mobility

Power

Protection


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Communication

Data

Human Performance

Lethality


Mobility

Power

Protection


Communication

Data

Human Performance

Lethality


Mobility

Power

Protection


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Communication

Data

Human Performance

Lethality


Mobility

Power

Protection


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Protection “It is not just armour!”

Communication

Data

Human Performance

Lethality


Mobility

Power

Protection


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Protection “It is not just armour!”

Communication

Data

Human Performance

Lethality


Mobility

Power

Protection


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Protection “It is not just decoys!”

Communication

Data

Human Performance

Lethality


Mobility

Power

Protection


Communication

Data

Human Performance

Lethality


Mobility

Power

Protection


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Communication

Data

Human Performance

Lethality


Mobility

Power

Protection


Communication

Data

Human Performance

Lethality


Mobility

Power

Protection


Capable Connected

Inter-operable Affordable

The future

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Summary

• 9 Challenges that define the technological battle space • 3 unique services operating within a blended

operational environment • Novel, highly innovative technology and science to

benefit your armed forces

CDE Enduring Challenge


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What exactly do we mean by situational awareness?


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Land perspective • Geography • Culture and customs • Social context • Key individuals • Atmosphere


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Air perspective

• Rapidly evolving, hostile and 3D environment

• Sensor and information fusion

• Sensory overload (human and machine) is a real concern


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Maritime perspective • Maintaining local operating

picture: – sensing, tracking – data fusion – persistent wide-area

surveillance

• Enabling for command and control

• Understanding intent is a key challenge

• Maritime environment


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Connected and complex battle space

• Overlapping domains • Shared networks • Coalition operations • Managing security • Cyber threat


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Technical challenge areas

• Sensors • Precision navigation and timing • Reduced GPS dependability • Persistent surveillance • Status of digital systems


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Sensors • Key themes:

– multi-functionality – high resolution / wide field of

view – processing closer to the sensor – distributed sensing (extending

the baseline) – exploitation of commercial-off-

the-shelf / dual use


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Reduced GPS dependability

• Primary source for position, velocity and time information

• Used for navigation, targeting, guidance, search and rescue, synchronisation for communications systems

• Vulnerability to jamming – satellite power (10s Watts) at 11000 NM (received signal fW) – mW at close range can cause problem – GPS jammers are available to buy on internet!


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Aspiration for military GPS • We would like military capability such as:

– foundation-level resilience to jamming – known functionality in operational environments

• With commercial attributes of – low space and weight – lower power consumption – no encryption overhead – short procurement times


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Precision navigation and timing

• Micro-electro-mechanical sensor technology

• Quantum II technologies • Challenges:

– synchronised sensing – navigation inside buildings – network synchronisation – platform time and frequency

transfer – geo-location / direction finding


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Persistent surveillance

• Pattern-of-life analysis • Anomaly detection • Automatic information

extraction • Managing and exploiting ‘data

deluge’ • Bi-directional processing • Regulatory and cultural

acceptability


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Status of digital systems • Digital system – software aspects of

a system and the information communication technology

• Learning the performance of digital systems

• Exploitation of Moore’s Law and sensor ubiquity

• Assurance / security / reliability


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• Integrated Sensing Programme Manager – sensor capability to enable situational awareness across all

domains – affordable – sovereign to maintain freedom of action


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Situational awareness owners in Dstl

• Command & Control / Information & Intelligence Programme Manager – measure the ‘pattern of life’ – exploit structured and unstructured information – predictive intelligence


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• Assured Information Infrastructure Programme Manager – affordable and robust communications – secure, resilient, interoperable networks

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