The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) will invest £30 million in the development of application software for the armed forces, the MoD announced on 11 March.
The funding will allow the rapid adaption of advanced technology to be used in extreme environments, from natural disasters to the frontline.
The technology will provide the military the ability to combat emerging threats through the development of responsive software that can visualise and automate secure, critical information, tailored to the mission, anywhere in the world.
The new approach, supported by Joint Forces Command, will allow defence specialists to develop and customise applications to meet operational requirements, assure its robustness and security, and deploy it on military networks in a matter of days. As a mission evolves, the application will be able to be adapted and changed to keep pace with the demands of the operation.
The capability, called the Platform for Rapid Exploitation of Digital Applications, is similar to the technology being introduced by the US Air Force (USAF) and US Marine Corps. The USAF has already delivered 18 customised applications to support planning and C2 functions at its air operations centres.
While the approach is initially expected to provide tools to support decision making and C2, the initiative could be rolled out to other disciplines, such as cyber defence, logistics and medical support.
The technology is expected to be in use by the end of 2019.
The airborne three-domain, the two ground-based and the ¼ ATR OpenVPX-based cross-domain systems were engineered to provide real-time security across multi-domain operations.
DARPA’s Mission-Integrated Network Control (MINC) programme was set up to develop an autonomous tactical network and enable critical data flow in contested environments.
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Defence-secure mixed reality headsets can save hours, or even weeks, of travel time to fix defunct equipment or get subject experts effectively “on-site” where they are needed.
The Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare (JCREW) counter-improvised explosive device (C-IED) and Drone Restricted Access Using Known Electromagnetic Warfare (DRAKE) counter-UAS (CUAS) systems are mounted and dismounted RF jammers.
Adarga’s Vantage information analysis tool is in service with the UK MoD and individual UK forces. It builds on the company’s Knowledge Platform which processes, organises and analyses open source material, as well as information held by the user’s military, security and intelligence services.
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