Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) Innovation Network. Dstl Programme Manager and Capability Adviser briefings on CDE's enduring challenge competition.

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Defence
Enterprise
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Enduring Challenge Competition Briefings
(Open Competition)
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2. Dismounted Soldier Systems (DSS)
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3. Outline
• Enduring challenges
• Dismounted Soldier Systems scope
• Issues
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4. CDE enduring challenges
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protection (personnel, platforms, facilities, digital systems, materials)
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situational awareness (sensors, precision navigation and timing, reduced GPS
dependability, persistent surveillance, status of digital systems)
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power (provision/sources, non-fossil, hybrid, management, fuel efficiency)
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communications (secure, unsecure, mobile, novel forms)
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data (cyber, information, big data, management and processing, sense-making,
visualisation, delivery, interoperability)
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lethality (weapons – conventional, novel, directed energy, defence, less-than-lethal)
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mobility (platforms [air, land, sea, space, human], means of propulsion)
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human performance (physical and mental, systems interface, survivability, sustainment,
training, medical)
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lower cost of ownership (platforms, equipment, facilities)
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new capabilities (challenging current convention, disruptive)
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5. Dismounted Soldier Systems scope
C4ISTAR
MOBILITY
SURVIVABILITY
ENGINE ROOM
INTEGRATION
SUSTAINABILITY
INTEROPERABILITY
LETHALITY

6. MOD requires a means of transferring
high volumes of time-synced data
while minimising power consumption
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7. • 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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8. 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
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Battery mass to support data network (kg)
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Additional battery mass required to support
data transmission (6 nodes)
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USB2 (100%
Transmit)
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6
USB2 (50%
Transmit)
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USB2 (20%
Transmit)
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0
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10 20 30 40 50 60 70
1Gb Ethernet
(100%
Transmit)
1Gb ethernet
(50%
Transmit)
Mission Duration (hr)
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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9. MOD wants to capture visual and
directional information, unobtrusively,
from soldiers on training exercises
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10. • 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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11. • 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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12. Maritime Freedom of Manoeuvre
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13. Maritime Freedom Of Manoeuvre
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The underwater elements of the MOD maritime S&T programme
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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
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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
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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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14. Enduring challenges – layered ASW
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Optimise current ASW assets – get the best out of previous
investment and improve adaptability to evolving needs
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Seek low-cost innovative (disruptive?) opportunities for the future
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Exploit opportunities in unmanned air, surface and underwater
systems to deliver future ASW as a distributed yet integrated system
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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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15. Enduring challenges – battlespace access and
understanding (submarines)
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Optimise effectiveness of current submarines and assist flexible
response to evolving needs through life
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Enable systems to improve the affordability and effectiveness of
future underwater platforms, particularly mixed solutions involving
manned, unmanned and remote components
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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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16. Enduring challenges – remote MCM
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Transformational change through exploitation of unmanned and offboard systems
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Reduces risk to people and improves speed/efficiency
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Must be affordable and adaptable
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Demanding command, control and autonomy needs
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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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17. Proposed CDE themed competition 2014
Maintaining the future sonar advantage – harnessing
discovery and invention (further details to follow on CDE website soon)
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Current UK ship, air and submarine sonar systems are world class,
underpinned by S&T investment from the 1990s
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Must respond to evolving threats and UK operational needs to deliver
effective and affordable future capability
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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
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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
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