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

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Room 2 – Enduring Challenge Competition

2. Enduring challenge
Today’s Programme briefings:
Cyber
Combat Air

3. Defence research challenges
in cyber security
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4. The threat, the risk
• Increasing in complexity and scale
• Diverse, asymmetric & symmetric
• “Non-traditional” cyber threats
– Electromagnetic attack
• MOD’s business
– Working in dangerous situations
– An obvious target
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5. MOD Networks
• Large and varied
– 70+ countries
– 1200 UK Sites
– 800,000 IP addresses
– 225,000 Users
– 95% is made up of 19 LAN Systems with 1000 Applications
• Planned and ad hoc
• Bought as a service
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6. Platforms and weapons
• Increasingly cyber-enabled,
connected platforms
• Tighter integration with industry
• Complex logistics and support
• Supply chain security
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7. “Strange and charmed” systems
• Non-standard hardware, software and
protocols
• Legacy hardware, software and
protocols
• Low-bandwidth connectivity at the
fringes
• Outside the envelope of IA and
cybersecurity
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8. Defence cyber S&T
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9. Decision support
• Understanding cyber as a MOD
capability
• Developing techniques and models to
assess risks, costs, benefits
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Cyber Environment
Protect
Information Assurance
• Providing advice to MOD balance of
investment and business as usual
Enable Decision Superiority
Defend
Operate
Computer Network Defence
Service Operation
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Owner: Administrator

10. Vulnerability studies
• Assessing vulnerabilities in:
– Current and future MOD systems
– Networks, platforms, infrastructure
– Whole system, entire lifecycle
• Learning how to do it
– S&T challenges
– Organisational challenges in MOD and supplier community
• Mainstreaming it
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11. Defence and situational awareness
• Current operations
– S&T embeds into MOD units
– Advice on improving current tools and
techniques
• Future challenges
– Real world impact of cyber events
– Support to decision makers
• Learning how to do it!
• Mainstreaming it!
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12. The pipeline
• Sponsoring research
– Centre for Defence Enterprise
– Use of existing consortia
– Shaping and co-sponsoring academic research
– Commercial competitions
• Assessing candidate technologies
– Intelligent customer function
• Test and evaluation
– Testbed connected to MOD networks
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13. Future challenges
• Scale and sophistication of threat
– Situational awareness and defence
– Big data
• Pace of technical changes vs government
– Domestic/professional co-existence, bring-your-own-device (BYOD)
– Cloud
– SMART
• Defence-specific issues
– Cyber in MOD’s mission
– The “strange and charmed”
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14. Enduring challenge
Today’s Programme briefings:
Cyber
Combat Air

15. Dstl Combat Air Programme Brief
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16. Air strategic requirements for S&T
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Decision Support to Air
Air Network Interoperability
Air’s Contribution to Defence C4ISR
Critical Air and Space Technologies
Future Combat Air Capability
Human Component of Capability
Influence of Air Operations
RPAS/UAS Capability
Space
Survivability of Air Operations
Sustainable Air Force
Training and Simulation
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17. Air-related Programmes & Portfolios
Combat Air
Conventional
Weapons
Air
Survivability
Unmanned
Air Systems
Integrated
Sensing
Novel Weapons
C2I2
Strategy &
Capability
Cyber
Air Decision Support
Air Enablers
Test &
Evaluation
Training
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Human &
Medical sciences
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Defence
Intelligence

18. Air transport platforms
Tanker / transport
Transport
2010
2015
C130K
2020
2025
2030
2035
A400M ATLAS - UK 22 A/C ordered,
ISD 2015
A400M
C130J
C17
8th aircraft ordered in 2012
Tristar
Voyager
VC10
Voyager Airbus A330-200 Multi Role Tanker Transporter
14 a/c over 27yr PFI, ISD 2011 - 3 available in Jan 2013

19. C4ISTARreplaced by 3xRivet Joint
MR 1
Broad C4ISTAR
2010 purchased second hand from the USAF
2015
2020
and called Air Seeker – ISD 2014
MR4A cancelled in SDSR 2010
Tactical Strategic
Local
2030
2035
AWACS
E3D Sentry
Nimrod
Sentinel
UAV
2025
MR2, R1 MRA4
ISD
UOR to fulfil Herrick (Afghanistan)
Full Motion Video requirement.
Core requirement – Armed or not armed?
More Reaper or Mantis
Scavenger
UOR for Herrick and
Telic (Iraq) - being taken
into core
WatchKeeper
Desert Hawk
Black Hornet
UOR for Herrick –
Mini/Nano UAVs, UOR
well regarded being
taken in to core

20. Helicopters
• Move towards 4 helicopter types
– 14 additional Chinooks + Upgrades
– Life extension for Puma
– Capability sustainment for attack helicopters to 2040
– Replace all Lynx with Wildcat (Army and Navy variants)
– Ship optimization for Merlin Mk3
– Commercially operated SAR in UK
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21. Combat Air Capability
2010
Typhoon
Tornado GR4
2015
Future weapons integration will include
Meteor air-to-air missile, Paveway IV,
2020
2025
Storm Shadow, Brimstone and
Small Diameter Bomb.
Upgrade the radar to an Active
Electronically Scanned Array.
2030
2035
OSD
Tornado F3
Harrier
GR9
JCA
(JSF STOVL)
FCAS – Options
- UCAV
- More JSF
- Typhoon - Upgrade or
replacement?
Lightning II first UK flight Mid 2012
UK Manufacture of two Queen Elizabeth underway
ISD 2018
TARANIS UCAV - Flight
test, 2013
FCAS – UCAV Fight
Demonstrator 2022

22. 10-year equipment plan
• Combat Air
– Typhoon Tranche 2 & 3 aircraft fully into service
• Develop and enhance the aircraft’s multi-role
and ISTAR capabilities
– Lightening II (Joint Strike Fighter – F-35B STOVL
variant)
– Growing investment in unmanned aerial vehicles,
including co-operation with France
• Preparations for demonstrator ~ 2022
– Future investment to expand our investment in
simulated pilot training
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23. Key combat air research elements
• Value: ~£16M p.a.
• Air survivability
– Air Vehicle Signature Control
– Weapons integration
– Countermeasure integration
• Aerospace science enablers
– Aerodynamics
– Structures
– Guidance and control
• Future Air Concepts
• Propulsion
• Mission systems and
avionics integration
• FCAS Focussed Research
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24. CDE areas of interest to Combat Air (1)
• Novel air vehicle & weapon aerodynamics assessment methods
• Air vehicle structural analysis
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Novel materials
Aero-elastics
Ice and lightning protection design
Bird-strike analysis
Assessment methods / modelling (FE analysis techniques).
• Air vehicle and weapon guidance and control
– Analysis & Design Techniques, Modelling, performance assessment
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Propulsion and energy systems modelling and performance assessment
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Internal combustion engines, electric propulsion systems, fuel cells and batteries
Hybrid propulsion technologies
Energy harvesting technologies
Fuel reduction technologies
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25. CDE areas of interest to Combat Air (2)
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Low observability technologies (signature reduction technologies)
Environmental protection technologies (platform and engine) - FOD, sand,
volcanic ash, salt, snow – Detection, prevention, protection
Power & thermal management technologies & assessment techniques
Health & usage technologies/assessment techniques (diagnostics/
prognostics)
Novel / non-traditional air vehicle concepts – eg airships, hypersonic air
vehicles, future rotorcraft concepts, micro and nano UAS
Whole platform analysis methods for future air vehicle concepts
Mission systems and avionics technologies
– Improved networked tactical mission battle-space integration technologies
– Technologies to exploit external networked information products to enabling aircrew situational
awareness
– Technologies and techniques to improved air decision making and prioritisation
– Improved aircrew systems – safety and cost reduction
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