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Delivering Combat Advantage
Ken Thompson RUSI Future Maritime Operations
Conference 2006
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Drivers on the combat system

• Faster threat evolution
• Less ships with greater flexibility
• Faster deployment
• Flexible role requirements
• Advance of commercial technology together with an
  increasing expectation from the end user
• People, skills, manning, retention, training and
  development
• Flexibility for incremental change and growth

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What has changed?Command Systems

• Bespoke hardware design and specialist
  manufacture
• Bespoke software architecture optimised to
  achieve performance
• Full software development
• Custom LAN

• PC architecture and hardware
• Standard software components (Windows, IE)
• Commercial IP based LAN
• High level of reuse and minor modification (75)
• Significant widening of supply base

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What has changed?Sensors

• Full bespoke development
• Primarily hardware based processing
• Design and Manufacture primarily in house
• Capability improvement through major upgrade

• High level of Integration and Modularity
• Software programmable functionality
• Major increase in supply chain including SMEs and
  Commercial suppliers
• Huge increase in processing power allows real
  time adaptation to environment, situation and
  threat
• Major increase (100x) in fidelity

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What has changed?Training

• New ship types required major hardware
  investments
• Limited configurations driven by full fidelity
  ship operation rooms
• Limited connectivity to other environments

• Modular, reconfigurable and scalable
• Commercial standards and equipments
• Reasonable hardware fidelity through games
  visulisations
• Full system fidelity through use of operational
  software
• Capable of full integration with other training
  and system integration environments

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Key changes

• Increasing use of commercial technology and
  products gaining from massive research activity
  in this sector
• Use of commercial technology allows cost
  effective but capable and compatible solutions
  across the whole fleet
• Drive towards Open System Architectures
• Increasing functionality and capability delivered
  through software
• Increasing use of de-facto Industry standards
• Inherently greater modularity and flexibility in
  combat system elements
• Widening of the supply chain
• Use of a variety of contracting models
• Complex systems are capable of being simpler to
  operate and maintain

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Development Environment
OA Concept Development
Design Development
Training Mission Rehearsal
Logistic Support
Manufacture Operation
Delivered Capability
Support Environment
Synthetic Models
Initial Prototypes
Delivered Product
Training Solutions
Upgrade Environment
Common Engineering, Simulation, Integration and
Test Environment
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Development Environment
OA Concept Development
Design Development
Training Mission Rehearsal
Logistic Support
Manufacture Operation
Delivered Capability
Support Environment
Synthetic Models
Initial Prototypes
Delivered Product
Training Solutions
Upgrade Environment
Common Engineering, Simulation, Integration and
Test Environment
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How does this help versatility?

• Ability to experiment with real systems in the
  loop
• Increasing software based functionality drives
  the overall process to software timelines
  (months, even weeks, not years)
• Scalable environment which is itself an open
  system
• Investigating system trade offs at all levels
• Takes immediate account of other DLODs,
  particularly People, Training, and Support
• Understand what commercial technology can offer
• Cross domain maximises use of skills and smoothes
  design load
• Delivers the underpinning process and controls to
  allow high levels of interaction between all
  stakeholders
• Underpinning engineering environment makes it
  easier to describe, specify and control changes
  across the whole process

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Open System supply chain issues
Scale
Design maturity
For a given partner or supplier
Defence maturity
Driving requirements
Level of interaction

• One size doesnt fit all
• Managing a multi dimensional problem
• The required agility and speed of deal making
• Coping with expectation

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How do we turn this into real advantage?

• From a engineering perspective we understand how
  to use technology to underpin through life
  capability management of the combat system
• Combat advantage is likely to be driven by the
  speed of introduction
• Emerging nations and threats potentially have the
  technical ability without the process
  restrictions
• Key issue is therefore how to enable this
  incremental evolution
• This is a joint Industry and MOD problem
  requiring a joint solution
• Address fundamentals of Authority, Business
  Models, Process, and Risk
• But in doing this we need to keep focussed on,
  and meet the real output criteria
• The best capability, at the right time, for the
  funds available

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