The Internet of Things (for Defence)

Rob Rolley Internet of Things for Defence

• The growth of the internet

• Some examples from the commercial world

• How they translate to the military domain

• Some challenges

• Summary

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General Dynamics UK: Leading supplier to UK MoD in three critical areas:  In the UK for 50 years  More than 750 employees • Armoured Fighting Vehicles  £250m turnover, UK P&L • Avionic Systems  Global supplier to key customer segments: • Tactical Communications - Defence - Government agencies - Commercial organisations 1973

x 2.7 Billion

Total amount of internet traffic Traverses todays internet 180 Gbytes (est) < 1/100th of a second (Photo: Cityzen Sciences)

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IoT for Defence DSTL Future Soldier Vision

17 Milcan connected sensors

18 AJAX – The future of Armoured Fighting Vehicles

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HUMS highlights ‘Driving’ Use of Vehicles

Over the last 31 days, for every engine hour run the following vehicle types have travelled on average: • Coyote: less than 3km • Husky: 3.8km • Jackal: 4.5km HUMS highlights excessive engine idling

Over the last 31 days five of the above vehicles remained stationary with their engines running for more than 100 hours (5 hours a day). The estimated cost in diesel is over £3000 based on a sum of 694 hours using 3 litres/hour at £1.50 per litre. HUMS highlights poor fuel economy

Over the last 31 days these vehicles have not met their expected fuel economy targets.

User information bandwidth limit

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25 IOT for Defence Challenges

• Size

• Weight

• Power consumed ?*! • Connectivity

• Security

• HCI

26 CDE Open Challenges in IoT

27 Internet of Things for Defence

• Pulls on the many COTS developments in sensors, chips and algorithms.

• There are solutions fielded today they are already providing real value.

• SSWAP present real challenges

• HCI technology advancements are enabling some great capabilities. Questions ? http://edge-innovation.com/ http://www.the-edge-uk.co.uk/

About General Dynamics Land Systems

General Dynamics Land Systems provides: Platforms include:

• Worldwide experience in delivering • SCOUT Specialist Vehicle (SV) tracked and wheeled military vehicles • Abrams main battle tank • Specialist knowledge in complex, • and LAV wheeled combat scalable Electronic Architectures (EA) vehicles • Extensive expertise in UOR vehicles • MRAP family of vehicles and • Support and sustainment provision to the family of vehicles customer Systems integration At the heart of the Company Prime systems  C4I Systems Bowman in over 18,000 platforms  Armoured Fighting Vehicles Delivering AJAX the ’s new tracked vehicle  Avionic Systems Avionics equipment used in rotary and fixed wing platforms  Information Assurance  Force Protection ISO Persistent Surveillance (ISOPS) 

General Dynamics UK has installed Bowman Bowman equipment in:  18,000 land platforms General Dynamics UK has delivered Bowman, the Tactical Communication Information System (CIS)  120 maritime platforms for the British Army, since 2001. It first entered  60 air platforms service in 2004

It provides: To date, there are 74,000 Bowman trained service personnel.  Battlefield tactical internet

 Secure voice communication  High capacity network  Mounted and dismounted users  Hosts command and control applications

Ajax Specialist Vehicle (SV)

General Dynamics UK is delivering the Ajax Specialist Vehicle (SV), the future of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, to the British Army

• provides best-in-class protection and survivability, reliability and mobility • provides all-weather ISTAR capabilities • enables sustained, expeditionary, full-spectrum and network-enabled operations

Programme history

• Awarded £3.5bn by UK MoD to deliver 589 SCOUT SV platforms from 2017 through 2024, in September 2014

• Awarded £390 million by UK MoD to provide in-service support for the SCOUT SV fleet until 2024, in July 2015

• Opening a new Armoured Fighting Vehicle (AFV) Assembly, Integration and Testing (AIT) facility in South to assemble 489 SCOUT SV platforms