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DELIVERY OF TACTICAL

COMMUNICATIONS

IN THE 21ST CENTURYAn exploration of the Land Environment

Tactical CIS and MORPHEUS programmes.

A series of briefings and studies by Army Headquarters, Information

Infrastructure Branch, surrounding the challenges of introducing into

service a new family of equipment and capabilities using an ‘open

standards’ approach to procurement.

FOCUS ON OUR FORCES TO ACHIEVE IMPROVED OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS

DELIVER ENHANCED TACCIS CAPABILITY INTO THE HANDS OF THE USER OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS

BREAK OPEN THE ARCHITECTURE& CHANGE THE WAYS OF WORKING

DELIVER MULTIPLE CONTRACTS CONCURRENTLY AS AN INTEGRATED PROGRAMME

EVERGREEN CAPABILITY & RESPOND TO USER

INTEGRATE WITH OTHER SYSTEMS & PLATFORMS TO MINIMISE OVERLAPS, MAXIMISE CAPABILITY AND STAY ALIGNED WITH CHANGING PROGRAMMES

ENSURE THE USER RECEIVES THE BEST CAPABILITY FROM EQUIPMENT, DOCTRINE, TRAINING ETC.

The LE TacCIS Programme will:

Introduction

Benefits Led Approach

NOW - Delivering Capability Now

NEXT - Delivering Change – EvO Principles

NEXT - Delivering Change – EvO Approach

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FUTURE Capability Delivery (ECD)

Agenda

The Challenges

‘There is a broad consensus that the operating environment will be

Congested, Cluttered, Contested, Connected,Constrained and Combined.’

Future Land Operating Concept, 2012

‘Conflict will be linked across large physical distances and the virtual

domain. Maritime, land, air, space, information and electro-magnetic

boundaries will be porous.’ Future Land Operating Concept, 2012

The Vision

“Military commanders in the Land Environment enabled by agile ICS, making informed and timely decisions”

making informedand timely decisions

enabled by agile ICS…

‘Information is valued, exploited and protected as a critical Army asset to maximise advantage in a trusted Single Information Environment’

Army Information Sub-Strategy (2015 – 2018)

Land Environment Tactical CIS Mandate (Apr 16)

Bowman, Combat, Infrastructure & PBISA (BCIP)

Current situation is this…

50,000 Radios

21,000 Data Terminals

Situational Awareness

PlanningTools

Reports &Returns

SpecialistRadios

TacticalSatellite

Bespoke Software

ModularOps Rooms

16,000 Land Platforms 130 Naval VesselsThe ManIntegrated into…

MedicalCIS

Falcon - a completely separate network

UORs

SATCOM -various systems

Information Systems –often called OpCIS but used at the Tac level

over 200 Aircraft

Other Tactical CIS Other ProjectsGatewayDevices

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10:10 – 10:15

LE TacCIS Benefits

LE TacCIS Programme is focused on the realisation of two end benefits

• Improved Operational Effectiveness in the Land Environment through

• Reduced Whole life costs

Improved Operational Agility• User assured operation and

communication in complex terrain and challenging EM environments

Reduced Whole Life Costs• Ability to use best supplier for

each available technology

Improved Operational Tempo• Planning process is optimal• Speed of task organisation

substantially reduced• Enhanced shared situational

awareness• Information exchange fully

assured

Reduced Cognitive Burden• LE TacCIS is inherently useable and intuitive• Users can exploit services with minimal

training

Timeliness of upgrades• User access to latest CIS technology• User access to a wide scope of

defence networks and information

Reduced Physical Burden• Integrated solutions that

minimise size weight and power

• New devices avoided through service based approach

• Greater integration and commonality between systems and hardware

LE TacCIS Benefits

• User has adaptive, safe and integrated littoral manoeuvre and maritime strike

In order to fully realise these benefits it is necessary to:

• Introduce improved military communications equipment and best practice for using it

• Change the overall operating model• Requirement capture• Acquisition and contract lock in• Delivery and operation• Deployment to users

• Integrate effectively with all projects at the boundaries of LE TacCIS

How?

FUTURE delivery of LE TacCIScapability

LE TacCIS Programme – Now, Next, Future.

NOWProjects delivering military capability

over the next 5 years

NEXTProjects delivering

change to prepare for future capability delivery

in 5 years+

In this timeframe..

NOW - Delivering capability uplifts – Falcon EXPLOIT, JCRVT, BCIP 5.6

NEXT - Readiness for future capability – TRINITY, MORPHEUS Evolve to Open

FUTURE - Delivery capability in an agile way – Evolutionary Capability Delivery (ECD)









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LE TacCIS Programme - Now

Projects delivering military capability

over the next 5 years

LE TacCIS Programme – Falcon EXPLOIT

Falcon is the high bandwidth backbone network underpinning wideband C4I services

Falcon EXPLOIT enhances current Falcon capability with:• Traffic Network & Service Management (TN&SM)

• Falcon Early Entry Capability (FEEC) providing very high readiness and extremely high readiness forces with early entry TRUNK capability.

Falcon EXPLOIT

LE TacCIS Programme – JCRVTJoint Common Remote Viewing Terminal

TNR handheld

ROVER 6i ROVER 6i AeROVER 6i Ae

Joint Common Remote Viewing Terminal allows dismounted combatants to receive and re-transmit Full Motion Video (FMV) and Real Time Motion Imagery (RTMI).This replaces the ROVER 4 and STRIKEHAWK UOR capabilities.

LE TacCIS Programme – JCRVTJoint Common Remote Viewing Terminal

TNR handheld

ROVER 6i ROVER 6i AeROVER 6i Ae

Fielding & Training Strategy- Fielded to Jt Fires Integrators & ISR Tac Parties in 1 Arty Bde / 1 ISR

Bde and users in DSF / RAF Regt- Training delivered through RSA & JFACTSU- Fd Army Transition plan to be issued shortly

BCIP 5.6

NETWORKTactical Internet 2A Dynamic routing protocol and network reconfiguration which provides:• Reduced planning complexity• Lower training burden• Supports unplanned regrouping

through reduced setup time

VHF Bandwidth Optimisation• More efficient data packaging• Better SA for unit COP• Improved data transmission

SOFTWARE – ComBAT mod• Windows OS upgrade to Win 8.1• Easier User Interface –• Improved Staff mode and PBISA

interface• 3D mapping system with imagery

The final BCIP capability upgrade and the launch-pad for MORPHEUS

Feedback From Trials

Feedback from 1RRF

BCIP 5.6 will give a Battle-Group:

• Better data transmission

• Faster re-grouping (retaining data and SA capability)

• Improved situational awareness and COP

• Enhanced usability and staff planning tools

‘Its Office-based applications have made it a significantly more user friendly. Intuitive system that will

encourage more widespread use of ComBAT at the lowest levels.’

‘Previously I would not have touched ComBAT, it was too

complex and daunting, now I will definitely use it all the time’

Feedback from Rapid Observation Process (various units)

BCIP 5.6 - Improved capability

Level 0 Plan

2017 2018 2019 2020

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

RCP 214 Dec

FieldingJul 18

IOCNov 19

FOCOct 20

Fielding WindowJul 18 – Jun 20

RCP 1 19 Oct

SET 23 Oct – 4 NovEx Lightning Ace 1

UAT 13 – 24 NovEx Lightning Ace 2

Trials

BCIP 5.6 - Fielding

• Need to bring in quantities of BCIP 5.5 ‘just in time’ to upgrade and enable sufficient capability fielding

• 48 hrs to ‘transit’ through Ashchurch• Prior to uplift BSM/T3 training to have taken place• ‘Plug up’ and confirmation ex post training and

equipment issue

GD

De

live

red

BCIP 5.6 Uplift Training

GD LANBC2TACII

Train the Trainer (T3) CourseDelivered by GD to instructors so they can deliver the uplift training to Brigade

Bowman System Managers (BSM)Delivered by GD to BSMs. BSMs will be required to attend training prior to fielding. T3 instructors will not have the capability to train BSM

Uplift TrainingCore requirement to ensure Bowman users can use the upgraded system. Delivered by newly qualified T3 instructors: Signaller (1 day), Staff User (1 day)

Steady State Training:Uplift course material integrated into current BCIP 5.5 training pack delivered by ARTD special to ARM schools

BCIP 5.6 – Uplift Training









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10:30 – 10:40

LE TacCIS Programme - Next

Change Principles

Change Delivery

WAYS OF WORKING

ARCHITECTURE

Change the ways of working to exploit the opportunity that the delaminated architecture gives

Change Operating Model & Governance Model

Change Principles

In order to change for future capability we need to change two things:

Change the technology to an open and delaminated architecture

Gain Architectural Control

WAYS OF WORKING

ARCHITECTURE



Change Principles




Architectural Control - how Industry does it

OPEN/AGREED

STANDARDS

DATADATA

DATADATA

Apps

Infra-structure

Network

Apps

Infra-structure

Network

Architectural Control - how MOD could do it

DATADATA

DATADATA

DATADATA

DATADATA

BISAs

FALCON

REACHER

MAGPIEDii-LD

Architecture - how MOD currently does it

BCIP

DATADATA

DATADATA

Open Standards – Tactical Architecture Forum

DATADATA

DATADATA

OPEN/AGREED

STANDARDS

LE TacCIS will use a body of Industry representatives known as the TAF for:

Architecting

Regulating Engaging

To ensure the architecture is open technically and commercially and services are partitioned appropriately

WAYS OF WORKING

ARCHITECTURE



Change Principles




In order to exploit the open architecture MoD need to have the Business processes in place to have ownership to act as a ‘quasi-prime’ undertaking all the functions a prime would have done:

• Design Authority• System and sub-system Integration• Test & reference• Platform integration• Support provision• Sub contract management

Exploit the Architecture..

NOW FUTURENEXT

Want to move from this… to this…

JCRVT

FALCON Exploit

MORPHEUS

DSA

BCIP 5.6

LDG

MORPHEUS

Ap

ps

Infr

aN

ets

TRINITY

Authority transition to quasi-prime and Design Authority

Other xDLoD projects

NOW FUTURENEXT

Programme making capability based decisions

JCRVT

FALCON Exploit

MORPHEUS

DSA

BCIP 5.6

LDG

MORPHEUS

Ap

ps

Infr

aN

ets

TRINITY

Other xDLoD projects

Move to Programme approvals with the ability to make ‘capability based decisions’

and trade across layers and upgrade different technology at different rates

Currently acting as a Portfolio of projects without ability to trade across project boundaries

Authority transition to quasi-prime and Design Authority









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10:40 – 11:00

LE TacCIS Programme - Next

Change Principles

Change Delivery

Evolving to Open within DaaP(D)

DATADATA

DATADATA

Dii-LD

MAGPIE

BISAs

REACHER

FALCON

BCIP

TRINITY releases the vendor lock in to Falcon and frees up more of the network layer

MORPHEUS releases the vendor lock in to BCIP across the architectural layers

MORPHEUS defines the future operating model to deliver new capability with the open architecture

NSoIT(D) and BLOS need to free up the reminder of the deployed architecture

LE TacCIS Programme

During the EvO timeframe the current Falcon capability will be replaced with a Wide Area Network (WAN) with:

• Greater reach• Greater resilience• Increased bandwidth

Supporting the EvO principles of:• Vendor independent, open architecture • Dynamic procurement through shared business functions

(some provided by MORPHEUS, others by wider ISS or Army)

The scope of the TRINITY project will be defined for IGBC later this year

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TRINITY

TRINITY

FALCON(Principal Limitations)

TRINITYSubject to Assessment

Multi Bearer (managed) (Additional bearers require substantial re-engineering of the management system)

Any location, any bearer, using industry standard APIs

85 Points of Presence- Palletised- Wheeled (soft-skin)(No armour, so not suited to Direct Fire zone)

155 Points of Presence (JF2025)- Palletised (including very small format)- Wheeled (soft-skin)- Protected Mobility

Industry Standard Management SystemsBespoke Falcon Management System (Automates key tasks, but requires regular training, and is difficult to change)

Terrestrial - up to 100Mbps - SATCOM at the halt / on the move- Reduced reliance on standalone relay points (WASPs)

Terrestrial line of sight - up to 34 Mbps.(Non-IP radios which are heavy, bulky and require substantial power)

Encrypted LAS function for RAF DOBs and HQ ARRC (LAS is complex to manage, and frequently duplicated by other systems)

LAN services transferred to: - New Style of IT (D) (single-domain, non-hardened)

- MORPHEUS (hardened, tactical)

- Legacy LAS support project (hardened, bespoke)

Sophisticated telephony solution providing cross-domain dialling in an environmentally hardened NATO-compliant format. (Over-specified for most users, and does not conform to DaaP(D) architecture.)

Telephony transferred to:- New Style of IT (D) (App-based in-domain voice conferencing, non-hardened IP

phones)

- Legacy telephony support project (hardened, standalone, bespoke)

Single Domain, (black core in due course), protects for integrity and availability. End user systems protect for confidentiality.

4 principal domains, created by the FALCON system, protects up to Secret (Lacks flexibility; requires complex crypto solution; does not support DaaP(D) architecture)

WAN

LAN

TelephonyServices

Domains

SystemMgmt

Platform/Hardware

Bearer

TRINITY functions

LE TacCIS Programme

MORPHEUS eliminates ‘vendor lock in’ with a modular system, acquired as part of an open system architecture allowing evolutionary capability development (ECD) using a range of companies.

Sets the baseline for a system that will deliver user-driven rapid spiral development of applications and regular capability releases.

MORPHEUS Sub Programme

In order for MOD to become quasi-prime there are a number of projects within MORPHEUS that must deliver together in an integrated way to deliver and support the whole capability.

Transition Partner BMA TIBR DSA

SystemsIntegrator

Business Transformation

MTRC TSPTrials & Fielding

Training

MSPsPlatform Integration


As we become Masters of our own Destiny, these projects are:• Integrated by the ISS Design Authority and Coordinating Design

Organisation (CDO)• Project managed by the Joint Project Office (JPO) using agile

development methods• Supported by Private Sector Support (PSS) to fill SQEP gaps and

retain intellectual property within the MoD.


SystemsIntegrator


MTRC TSPTrials & Fielding

Training



General Dynamics Mission Systems GDMS(UK) as Transition Partner is working with MOD to design an open system to replace BCIP through:

• An open & delaminated architecture• The EvO baseline system design• Acting as System Integrator during the design phase• Developing 3 key products

Transition Partner

MORPHEUS – Transition Partner

A new Battlefield Management Application (BMA) will transform how we conduct Command and Control in the Land Environment by:

• Providing enhanced situational awareness, decision support and mission planning tools

• Ensuring future applications will evolve with emerging technology and changes in operational threat

Transition Partner BMA

MORPHEUS – BMA

MORPHEUS Sub-ProgrammeThe Sub-Programme Vision: Military commanders in the Land Environment enabled by agile Information Communication Services, making informed and timely decisions

Tactical Internet Backbone Radio is the project which will deliver the capability currently served by HCDR

Transition Partner BMA TIBR

MORPHEUS - TIBR


DSA will provide situational awareness capability to the dismounted user through:

• Radio – to provide voice comms, data bearer and GPS location information

• End User Device (EUD) – Graphical and Textual information

• Software – to compile and display the combat picture

DSA will be MCC Integrated


The timing and level of DSA integration is currently subject to review

MORPHEUS - DSA

Transition Partner BMA TIBR DSA Training

MORPHEUS era training should be simpler due to intuitive systems design.

MORPHEUS Training project will work with staff in FLCs, Army Training and the Defence schools to ensure:- EvO Baseline training meets the needs of

the user- Future training solutions can handle mixed

baselines

MORPHEUS - Training


Trials & Fielding

Training

MORPHEUS – Trials & Fielding

MORPHEUS Trials & Fielding is planned from 2023 onwards

Trials activities will:- Ensure each contracted element is accepted- Undertake User Acceptance of the entire

system at scale- Gather feedback for future capability

releases


General Dynamics as Transition Partner are also contracted to work with the MOD to enable Business Transformation by establishing the Joint Project Organisation (JPO) to drive quasi-prime behaviours

Transition Partner


MORPHEUS – Business Transformation


Trials & Fielding

Training

The MORPHEUS Test & Reference Centre (MTRC) will be established during EvO to provide a facility independent from GDMS(UK).

Initially the purpose of this will be:• As an independent assurance facility for the architecture and

system design• For systems integration and test

Coherence with Defence Test & Reference strategy in particular LSRC

Transition Partner BMA

Business Transformation MTRC

MORPHEUS - MTRC


Trials & Fielding

Training

TacCIS Support Project will replace the current GD contract for:• Logistic Supply & Storage Provision (LSSP) • Design Services Provision (DSP)

Transition Partner BMA TIBR


MTRC TSP

MORPHEUS - TSP


Trials & Fielding

Training




MTRC TSPPlatform

Integration

MORPHEUS will be integrated across the Land Environment fleet through two contracts:

MORPHEUS Integration, Design and Certification (MIDAC)- Platform Integration and Installation design of the EvO Design Lines - First of Type (FOT) platform installation and certification for ten platforms - Preparation Support for the EvO Operational Field Trials (OFT) and Fielding

Fielding & Conversion (F&C)Following main gate design approval and field trials F&C will be undertaken to field and convert the agreed land fleet

MORPHEUS – Platform Integration


Trials & Fielding

Training



MTRC TSPSystem

Integrator

Training

Platform Integration

MORPHEUS – System Integrator

After GDMS(UK) have delivered the EvO architecture and system design the role of System Integrator will be contracted to a third party, working for the MoD Design Authority to deliver all elements of system integration

Trials & Fielding


Trials & Fielding


MTRC TSPSystem

Integrator

Training

MSPsPlatform

Integration

Managed Service Providers will work with the Systems integrator to deliver a catalogue of products within one architectural layer and provide sub-system integration.

The exact scope and timing of the MSP contracts is not yet finalised but are expected to be:• Applications MSP• Infrastructure and Network MSP• Bearers MSP

MORPHEUS - MSPs


SystemsIntegrator


MTRC TSP

Trials & FieldingTraining


All elements of MORPHEUS have critical dependencies on each other and need to be delivered as a whole through the quasi-prime approach.

Delay to one element could have significant impact on the overall Programme.










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11:30 – 11:35

What is the LE TacCIS Programme boundary?

DaaP

Systems

& Services

(ISS)

Platform

Integration

(DE&S)

Capability

Delivery

(FLCs)

APPS

APP

HOSTING

JACKDAWMAGPIE

TASKS

DOCTRINECOMMAND

TRAINING

INFRA

NETWORKS

CYBER

ENTERPRISE

ARCHITECTURE

POWER

STAFF

PROCESS

AJAX

LE TacCIS

NSoIT

TRIALS

MIV

MRVP

SHIPS

AIRFATV

CR2

LEP

Must make best for Defence decisions on the boundaries

IdAM

WCSP









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11:35 – 11:45

Enterprise Architecture Approach

MoD Business ContextStrategy & Policy

Military TasksMission Types

Mission Mission

Army Business ArchitectureMission Threads

Business Functions Business Fn

Mission

Business FnBusiness Fn

ISS ICT ArchitectureISS Business Services

Functional ReqtsQualities

Info Service Info Service

Industry (and MoD) Solution ArchitectureDesign

DevelopContract

System Solution

(Physical)

System Solution

(Physical)

Architectural Approach

MoD Business ContextStrategy & Policy

Military TasksMission Types

Mission Mission

Army Business ArchitectureMission Threads

Business Functions Business Fn

Mission

Business FnBusiness Fn

ISS ICT ArchitectureISS Business Services

Functional ReqtsQualities

ABB

Info Service Info Service

ABBABB

Other Service

ABB

Industry (and MoD) Solution ArchitectureDesign

DevelopContract

SBBSBB

System Solution

(Physical)

System Solution

(Physical)

Up until now we have been talking at the solution architecture level defined by the current boundaries of BCIP and Falcon

Work is underway in ISS and Army to define the functions and services at each level. However this will take some time

Current Situation Future Aspiration

• The Enterprise Architecture maps the full set of required Military services to ICT provided services

• Using architectural layers to clearly define responsibilities, dependencies and to maximise re-use of services

• Overlap of services provided by different projects

• Individual agreements between Programmes without full context

• LE TacCIS is currently working with BLOS, NSoIT, DaaP, ECySim, IdAM, Enterprise Crypto, JCKP and others to develop together whilst the full architectural context is matured

• Flow of information replaces traditional URDs and SRDs and aligns with 2OAs and 3OAs

• Requirement flow is not constrained from top down, which allows innovation in each layer

Enterprise Architecture Approach

Architectural Coherence

Need to ensure the MORPHEUS EvO and TRINITY architectural work aligns with the overall ISS Enterprise Architecture

MORPHEUS modular Architecture

• Bowman doesn’t easily do patching

• Tightly managed execution control

• MORPHEUS will have a new security architecture to allow better integration

• MORPHEUS EvO will not change the underlying security mechanisms

Cyber, Security & Crypto


• Enterprise Security & Service Management (ESy&SM) are generating the Cyber principles for freedom of manoeuvre of UK forces in a contested, congested and connected environment

• MORPHEUS will be more enterprise integrated than Bowman so dynamic patching will be possible

• Enterprise Crypto – Joint Crypt Key Prog is looking at the fundamental mechanisms for security accreditation

• Future spirals intend to enable better blue connections to NSoIT in the future

Interoperability


• ‘Interoperable by Design’

• Aiming for standardisation by international bodies. This could take many years.

• Network and application layer interoperability

• Working with 5 EYES partners on waveforms and crypto standards

• Interoperability in Bowman via UOR radios 117, 152.

• MORPHEUS presents a future opportunity for interoperability by opening the architecture and allowing integration of any radios from other countries

• Needs to be aligned with Doctrine development









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Platform Integration Principles

LE TacCIS and Platform Teams all working towards:

• Single Information Environment (SIE) at all levels

• Sensor to Shooter Optimisation• Minimising obsolescence /

backward engineering• Open Systems / Commonality• Best Value-for-money

KEY MESSAGES:

• Need for ISS and DE&S to work together in their approach to unlock difficult issues

• Need for mission systems to be considered as a whole and control to be with Platform DTs to manage with BATCIS and other mission system DTs in support

The Platform Integration Challenge

AJAX

MIV

WCSP

CH CSP

AH CSP

2020

2023

2020

CR2 LEP 2021

MRVP 2019

2035

2025

2025

2023

20262022

2027

2020

2026

Legacy VehiclesMASTIFF LAND ROVER HUSKYFOXHOUND JACKAL etc.

Platform Connectivity Concept

Router&

Firewall

Router&

Firewall

Home Network









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xDLoD Capability Delivery

In order to deliver enhanced LE TacCIS capability to the user the Programme will require:• Training organisations to evolve with the ability to manage multiple baselines

in the synthetic and real environment

• Trials teams to support regular trials

• Fd Army to support Fielding activities and help develop the ECD Deployment model (see later slides)

• Concepts & Doctrine teams to determine future capability requirements

• DIO support for some infrastructure elements

Info TDU

A modern version of the C2DC?:

• Command development (C2 & Command Support)

• Low-level trials and development

• High-level trials and warfighting experimentation

• Training development, courseware and training delivery

• Evolution of tactical doctrine, TTPs and SOPs

• Combined-Arms user expertise to inform the capability & acquisition community and industry;

• Leadership of user acceptance activity

• Oversight of fielding activity across all formations in concert with commitments

ECAB have endorsed in principal the formation of an Info TDU to support these activities

…Future Cap Dev









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The Future delivery of LE TacCIScapability

LE TacCIS Programme - Future

LE TacCIS Programme seeks to deliver capability enhancements through ECD, where the system baseline is continuously developed to deliver new or enhanced services, as opposed to being replaced by a new system.

Why?

• Deliver new or enhanced services to the user more frequently

• Be responsive to changes in user need and feedback from use

• Exploit emergent technology

• Support continuous management of obsolescence

Aligned with ‘Timeliness of upgrades’ Benefit

Evolutionary Capability Delivery (ECD)

How?

ECD will adopt an agile methodology to close the gap between expression of need and delivery of fit for purpose solutions.

• Fixing cost and time – flexibility of requirements and solutions until the last responsible moment

• Continued user feedback – ensuring users get the features that they want, and that features are useable

• Iterative release of solutions – ‘fail small, fail fast, fix early’

ECD – Agile Delivery

ECD Lifecycle Approaches

Cost and/

or Risk

UncertaintyIn

Reqtsand/or

Solution

ExploitExtant

Architecture

Ability to

Regressto

Known Baseline

Qualifiedprior To

Deployment

TrainingReqt

Frequency of Change

SPIRAL(e.g. non-safetycritical app)

Low High

Refined through iterative

operational use

HighWithin force generation

and force readiness cycle

INTERVENTION(e.g. replace UDT)

Low Low

HighWithin force generation

and force readiness cycle

INCREMENT(e.g. implement new security architecture)

High Low

LowAligned to force

generation and force readiness cycle

ECD Operating Model

DEPLOYMENT undertakes continuous test, trials, training, acceptance and fielding of multiple and concurrent baselines

Delivery

DemandDeployment

DELIVERY supports intimate user engagement and enables dynamic requirements trading

DEMAND develops priorities for future capability change based on: • capability need • operational feedback • technology & obsolescence drivers against a clearly defined roadmap

Ensures that change is delivered at a rate that can be absorbed by the Army

ECD Operating Model

GOVERNANCE to direct and synchronise multiple and changes across the delaminated layers

APPROVALS that ease the burden of approvals submissions and supports varying lifecycle approaches.

Governance & Approvals

Delivery

DemandDeployment

ARCHITECTURE which describes Business, Information Service and Solution layers and against which future change can be identified, evaluated, implemented and accepted

RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, ANALYSIS, EXPERIMENTATION & INNOVATION that fully integrates RDAE&I resources and activities into the Demand, Delivery and Deployment Models

Architecture

RDAE&I

FUTURE Change

Future Change will be defined based on 3 things:

• Technology Roadmap – the best available technology to meet the Programme benefits

• Obsolescence Events

• Capability need – based on C2 and Info Manoeuvre doctrine and prioritised funding

FUTURE - Capability Roadmap

Target Technology Roadmap (not endorsed)




DELIVER MULTIPLE CONTRACTS CONCURRENTLY AS AN INTEGRATED PROGRAMME – ‘BE ONE TEAM’





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Summary & Questions

Afternoon question session

• Procurement approach and agile delivery

• ECD challenges

• XDLOD delivery, training and skillsets

• Future technologies (across layers)

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