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Slide 1 of 55 DSTL/PUB77392
Enduring Challenge Competition Briefings (Open Competition)
© Crown copyright 2013 Dstl
04 December 2013
Enterprise Centre Defence
for
Dismounted Soldier Systems (DSS)
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Outline
• Enduring challenges • Dismounted Soldier Systems scope • Issues
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CDE enduring challenges • protection (personnel, platforms, facilities, digital systems, materials) • situational awareness (sensors, precision navigation and timing, reduced GPS
dependability, persistent surveillance, status of digital systems) • power (provision/sources, non-fossil, hybrid, management, fuel efficiency) • communications (secure, unsecure, mobile, novel forms) • data (cyber, information, big data, management and processing, sense-making,
visualisation, delivery, interoperability) • lethality (weapons – conventional, novel, directed energy, defence, less-than-lethal) • mobility (platforms [air, land, sea, space, human], means of propulsion) • human performance (physical and mental, systems interface, survivability, sustainment,
training, medical) • lower cost of ownership (platforms, equipment, facilities) • new capabilities (challenging current convention, disruptive)
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SUSTAINABILITY
INTEGRATION
Dismounted Soldier Systems scope MOBILITY
C4ISTAR
SURVIVABILITY
INTEROPERABILITY LETHALITY
ENGINE ROOM
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 • Bad – Power
• 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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Maritime Freedom of Manoeuvre
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Maritime Freedom Of Manoeuvre
• The underwater elements of the MOD maritime S&T programme • Anti Submarine Warfare:
• Ensure the ability to find and prosecute threat submarines as they evolve and to defend against their underwater weapons
• ASW sensors, torpedoes (light) and torpedo defence • Submarines:
• Enable UK submarines to continue to deliver required capabilities in the future
• Submarine sensors (mostly in water), stealth, torpedoes (heavy), platform systems and C2
• Mine Counter Measures: • Ensure the ability to find and neutralise the evolving threat
from sea mines • MCM sensors (hunt), influencers (sweep), disposal systems
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Enduring challenges – layered ASW • Optimise current ASW assets – get the best out of previous
investment and improve adaptability to evolving needs • Seek low-cost innovative (disruptive?) opportunities for the future • Exploit opportunities in unmanned air, surface and underwater
systems to deliver future ASW as a distributed yet integrated system • Key Challenges:
• Improve detection and classification of the increasing variety of submarine types in complex environments:
• Better processing and waveforms in current sonar systems • Next generation sonar hardware for ships, aircraft and UXVs • Complement acoustics with non-acoustic opportunities • Integrate detection at force level, including multi-statics
• A family of in-water weapons better suited to threat and delivery • Improved torpedo defence against increasingly clever weapons • Provide supporting environmental data and understanding
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Enduring challenges – battlespace access and understanding (submarines)
• Optimise effectiveness of current submarines and assist flexible response to evolving needs through life
• Enable systems to improve the affordability and effectiveness of future underwater platforms, particularly mixed solutions involving manned, unmanned and remote components
• Key challenges: • Reduce operator loading through automated aids and improved
ways of working • Ensure next generation stealth for underwater platforms • Provide next generation sensors (acoustic and non-acoustic) • Enable alternative in-water weapon options to 21” tubes • Provide effective strategic and tactical communications, including
between underwater components • Provide supporting environmental data and understanding •
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Enduring challenges – remote MCM • Transformational change through exploitation of unmanned and off-
board systems • Reduces risk to people and improves speed/efficiency • Must be affordable and adaptable • Demanding command, control and autonomy needs • Key challenges:
• Detect an increasingly wide variety of mine types in complex environments, on the sea-bed, in volume, shallow and deep
• Improved techniques for classification and discrimination between real and non mines
• Improved mine disposal systems and neutralisation techniques • Autonomy to allow unmanned systems to deliver detection,
classification and disposal with minimal human intervention, particularly to overcome difficult underwater C2
• Provide supporting environmental data and understanding
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Proposed CDE themed competition 2014 Maintaining the future sonar advantage – harnessing
discovery and invention (further details to follow on CDE website soon)
• Current UK ship, air and submarine sonar systems are world class, underpinned by S&T investment from the 1990s
• Must respond to evolving threats and UK operational needs to deliver effective and affordable future capability
• Transition to a more flexible capability delivered from a mixed force of traditional manned platforms and, increasingly, deployable or disposable unmanned and remote air, surface and sub-surface systems
• Acoustics are likely to remain key to underwater sensing (working with complementary non-acoustics) and sonar solutions are required that are compatible with the future force mix whilst delivering: • Reduced - cost, size, mass, power needs and environmental impact • Increased – reliability, directionality, sensitivity and robustness