The Royal Navy will be hosting a central brief and 1:1 break-out sessions for industry on 22 Nov 2021 between 1000 – 1700. The day will be limited to OFFICIAL only.
The Navy Command Develop C5ISR/Digital Industry Workshop is aimed at the Business Development and Strategy community. The event will assist industry in understanding the Royal Navy’s C5ISR Problem Sets to closer align investment decisions with future military needs. This is essential for building the future Maritime Force in the medium to long term. The event will afford industry and the RN one-to-one discussions on areas associated with the following problems:
Communication and Information Systems (CIS)
The RN is seeking solutions to three key problem areas within CIS capability development. This includes the ability to integrate uncrewed autonomous systems into Maritime Platforms, the end-to-end coherence of multiple Maritime CIS systems and the ability to operate and fight in a Contested, Congested, Degraded and Denied Environment. This will require ‘Plug and Play’ capabilities, bandwidth management and the ability to prioritise deployed networks, enabling the Commander with assured and Resilient C2.
Intelligence and Intelligence Exploitation
With a rising volume of data from the Royal Navy’s increasing arsenal of sensors, data is being held in inaccessible silos without a standardised way of collecting, storing and exploiting it. This results in the Royal Navy finding it harder than ever to isolate any insight from this data to enable decision-making and gain the operational advantage. For data sets that we do have, we seek to better tag and catalogue for exploitation. The RN is focused on unlocking access to data, data cataloguing, data transformation and insight, data science (Machine Learning /Artificial Intelligence/ Human Machine Teaming), and intuitive web service/GUI.
Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA)
The RN is focused on operating more effectively in the Electro Magnetic Environment (EME) through better Understanding and the ability to use the Electro Magnetic Spectrum for Operational Advantage. The RN seeks to better utilise Electronic Attack and wider Cyber and Space capabilities to bolster lethality, as well as hardening our own protective measures, through technologies that enable the novel use of the EME. Critically the RN seeks the ability to test Information technology and Operational Technology in a representative environment for defensive cyber management, understanding and managing the EM Environment, and providing a greater ability to process CEMA data on platforms and ashore.
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