From CVS to CVF: The UK Solution

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From CVS to CVF The UK Solution

• Rear Admiral Trevor Soar OBE
• Capability Manager (Precision Attack)

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Overview

• Challenge facing defence
• Equipment implications
• Solution

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UK Joint HLOC Operate Core Concept

• Agile, task oriented joint force
• Freedom of action to synchronise effects
• Maximum potential to exploit fleeting
  opportunities

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Current Capability
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Future Planned Capability
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Balanced Programme
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Industrial Strategy

• Maritime Coherency Study

Maritime Industrial Strategy
Defence Industrial Strategy
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Profit Lost
Industry Capability Impacts
Cost Time Over-runs
Un-affordable Programme
Capability Lost
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Capability Drivers

• Evolving Strategic Context
• Civil Technology

Dynamic Equipment Programme
Balance More Challenging
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Affordability

• Paying too much due to
• Requirements changes
• Accommodating uncertainty

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Living With Change

• Change is a Certainty
• Industry must recognize
• Design for it
• Approach to engineering
• Business enterprise model

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Operational Analysis

• CVF utility
• Real contribution - 85 of scenarios
• Mitigates access, basing overflight

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JSF Capability

• 4 x Ordnance
• 2 x Range
• Significant improvement in bring back capability

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Comparison with Other Carriers
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UK Joint HLOC

• Agile Mission Group
• to bring together force elements as a Group for
  as long as is necessary to achieve the assigned
  tasks..
• Force Projection
• Timely projection of mission-optimised forces..

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Defence Strategic Guidance CS Role

• Expeditionary fast jet capability
• Optimised for medium scale
• Utility at large and small scales
• Operate in uncertain ABO
• CVF also a base for helo and SF ops
• Or.offensive air component
• Or.mix of these as an Agile Mission Group

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CVS
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CVF
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CVS to CVF The UK Solution