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Defence and Security Accelerator
Defence and Security AcceleratorDefence and Security Accelerator
Innovation fund themed competitionRevolutionise the human information relationship for Defence
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Defence and Security Accelerator
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Accelerator briefing Rob Solly, Head of the Defence and Security Accelerator
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A UK Defence and Security-wide organisation, hosted in Dstl
Providing customers with innovation-as-a-service • access to innovative ideas• accelerating the development of tangible solutions
Working with our customers -• to build advantage for the defence and national security of the UK• generating economic value for our nation
Who are we?
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A simple and straightforward way to bring your idea to UK Defence and Security customers
• no long applications; no wasted meetings and no questions over who owns the idea
• we will connect you with end users who have real needs• we will offer funding to develop, experiment and prove your
concept, and provide access to demonstration facilities• our experienced Innovation Partners will help you achieve
successful outcomes
Why work with us?
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How to work with usWe will run regular themed competitions to address specific Defence and Security challenges
• funded by the Innovation Fund and other customers
The Accelerator Enduring Challenge more broadly captures potential innovations that address the most important issues for Defence and Security
• launched last month in London
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Ideas Exploitation
Users & Investors
Innovation Fund
Fund
Advice & AccessAdvice & Access
Wider Innovation Initiative
Fund
Colla
boration
Suppliers & Inventors
Our role
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Accelerator Capability delivered to Defence and Security community
Improved understanding potential markets Marketable products
Procurable solutionsImproved understanding potential solutions
Suppliers & Inventors
Users and Investors
Ideas Exploitation
Collaboration to accelerate Exploitation
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How are we evolving from CDE?We will extend our reach to anyone with innovative ideas
• technology and non technology based ideas welcome• multiple points of entry for suppliers
We will develop enhanced collaboration mechanisms• virtual and physical, ideas generation and experimentation
We will increase our focus on exploitationExperimental approach
• developing our capability as we operate• we are keen to hear your ideas!
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Setting the defence context
Joint Warfare DirectorateJoint Warfare Directorate
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Joint Warfare Directorate
The challenge the distinction between war and peace and ‘home’ and ‘away’ are
increasingly blurred a whole of government ‘cooperative approach’ to protect the UK and
her interests
Joint Warfare Directorate
The environment explosion of - data, processing power and connectivity rapid development of - range, precision, lethality, choice of effects,
stealth…… proliferation of - unmanned systems, autonomous systems and
robotics exploitation of - military and commercial space
Joint Warfare Directorate
Deductions we lie on the cusp of some major changes to how we employ the
military instrument strategically, operationally and tactically the change required in some areas is so fundamental that it is both
difficult to conceive and disorientating the increasing tempo of change requires greater agility force multiplication requires the integration of the Security
Intelligence Agencies and other government departments, and international partners
‘Innovation, adaptation and integration’
Joint Warfare Directorate
Albert Einstein
“In the middle of every difficulty lies
opportunity”
Joint Warfare Directorate
Define innovation – Scott Berkun Innovation is significant positive change. It’s a
result. It’s an outcome.
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Adapt to win
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What factors resist successful adaptation? alignment motivation• national• organisational (budget)• personal
structure and process timeline confidence/support authority/risk
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How could we support a culture of adaptation?Understanding• threat• opportunity
Influence• being heard• compelling argument• delivering direction
Evidence• operational analysis
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Have we understood the need to adapt?What is the forcing function?• national objectives:
– people– prosperity– values
• total war• an evolving threat• military/strategic balance
Judgement/risk/insurance• evidence• compelling argument• options
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UnderstandingNow• Defence Intelligence• reporting• operational analysis
Trend• perception• guesswork• risk
Optimisation• lessons• education/training
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Threat Matrix
Adversary Denial
Capability
Level 5
Level 4
Level 3
Level 2
Level 1
Level 0
Level A Level B Level C Level D Level E Level F
Adversary Degradation Capability
RussiaChina
IranSyria Ukraine
(Russian Hybrid
Warfare)
Libya
TalebanDaesh
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DevelopmentConcepts• ideas/innovation
Doctrine• best practice/training
Capability• short/long term
Experimentation• test and evaluation• wargaming• red team
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Integration"to put together parts or elements and combine them
into a whole"Full Spectrum Approach (FSA)• Defence contribution not leadership• campaign planning• Defence alignment
CoalitionDefence Exercises Programme (DXP)• Defence objectives• enable• learn
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What does success look like? an adaptable Joint Force with a winning mentality integrated,
operating, learning and developing together to out think the enemy and improve joint capabilities for current and future warfare on our terms
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‘Adapt to win’
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The Joint Context
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Defence and Security Accelerator competition
The Joint Context
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The Joint Context
• Joint Warfare’s competition role
• developing the Joint Force:• directing high tempo force adaptation/integration• stimulating innovation and experimentation• exercising, evaluating and assuring• JFC Lead for Innovation
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JFC Strategy – the guiding purpose
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The Challenge
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Our conceptual thinking
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• not just technology• the competition team• road to exploitation
The difference
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Challenge 1Military context
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Challenge 1: Allow for the rapid and automated
integration of new sensors
Continuous Carrier
Capability(CCC)
Continuous Amphibious Readiness
(CAR)
Continuous at Sea
Deterrent(CASD)
The Royal Navy today
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MTTA
• open architecture and standards• shared computing• shared networking• enabling fused ISR, sensors and information• enabling AI (Project NELSON)
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• a socio-technical response - it’s not just the kit• a service-based approach• an extraordinary pace of change - buy, use,
discard/upgrade• innovation is not just a mindset - it needs resourcing,
organising for, policy (accreditation, procurement) and tolerance (fast to fail)
• once empowered, our people need to be left alone
The RN approach to innovation
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What have we been up to so far?
• UNMANNED WARRIOR 16• electronic warfare, radar and sonar modernisation• Ship digitisation programme • preparations for the arrival of F-35 and Crowsnest• Dstl’s Open Architecture Combat System (OACS)
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What have we been up to so far?• Dstl’s MAPLE open, drone C2 system• refining military air drones, and multi-sensor fits • proving utility of underwater drones• developing unmanned surface craft• virtualised, flexible, multi-domain ICT
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What are we up to now?• INFORMATION WARRIOR 17 • development of OACS• Capability Development and Integration Facility (CDIF)• 700X Naval Air Squadron • MarWorks (RN IW technology accelerator)• Project NELSON (RN Artificial Intelligence)
P r o j e c t N E L S O N
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Open sensors and systems - next?
P r o j e c t N E L S O N
• a truly open environment for all platforms• plug and play everything – radar, sonar, video…• even if different formats• any drone, any radar, any camera, any sensor…• buy, use, discard/upgrade• MarWorks, CDIF, NELSON, 700X
• generic command and control systems?• auto-scanning techniques?• unmanned systems collision avoidance?• autonomous decision making?• networks in GPS-denied environments?• sensing across the littoral (ship-shore)?• mesh networking and swarming?
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Challenge 1 Allow for the rapid and automated integration of new sensors
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The military sense-making process
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Available sensors are quickly adopted for employment in military situations • rapidly integrated into military collection systems without prior
knowledge of format standards• their outputs processed and fused automatically
The aspiration
Sensing is everywhere
• each sensor provides data in its own format, standards, update rate• on-sensor processing is mostly proprietary and uncharacterised
(hidden to user)• any sophisticated multi-sensor processing (for example fusion or
sensor management) requires deep, prior knowledge of the sensor and processing
The problem
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Sensing chain
analogue electronics signal pre-processing/ metadata
ADC
sensor analogue/digital converter
human interpretable data
content assessment
computer readable
data
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Integration of ‘raw data’ sensorsLarge variety of data rates, pre-processing algorithms, compression schemes, data formats or standards
To integrate a variety of sensors (including those we haven’t seen before), we could –
• develop a common pre-processing /metadata function
• develop a common post-processing function
Common input/output data format
orProcessing, fusion and sensor management architecture
Open architecture
algorithm repository
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Integration of ‘intelligent’ information sources
SAPIENT concept (Sensing for Asset Protection with Integrated Electronic Network Technology) www.gov.uk/sapient
Autonomous Sensor Modules (ASM)
ASM 3
ASM 1 Low bandwidth
*IP* based comms channel
Fusion and sensor management architecture
High-Level Decision Making Module (HLDMM)
Dynamic multi-sensor decision fusion algorithms
Dynamic sensor management algorithms
Human/machineinterface
Open architecture
algorithm repository
Autonomous Sensor Module
Key challenges• learning sensor system and algorithm performance parameters • updating the system’s ontology on the fly
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Processing, fusion and sensor management architecture
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Processing
Search Mission
Track
Challenges • characteristics of the sensor system are not known prior to the operation• some situations require dynamic re-optimisation and tasking as new
sensors are added
Anomaly detect
Open architecture
algorithm repository
Alg 1 Alg 2 Alg 3 Alg 4
Processing pipeline
Data Human/machineinterface
Autonomous algorithm selection
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Fusion and sensor management
Challenges• data sources that are
not fully characterised: uncertainty bias provenance and
trust• management functions
where the task implementation is not fully characterised
Mission assessment
Situation assessment
Object assessment
Data processing
Signal processing
Environment
Application
Data source
Mission management
Objective management
Task management
Data management
Sensor management
Strategy
Understanding
Knowledge
Data
Signals
Resource management
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What we want - summary
Accessibility that can• overcome the problems limiting seamless access and exploitation of new sensors• address issues throughout sensor-data-exploitation chain• support key issue of scalability• ensure real (or near-real) time performance• offer solutions that show strong linkages to challenges 2 and 3
Not interested in• non-cooperative access to collection assets
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