Accelerator First Innovation Fund network event Session 1
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The document discusses challenges with rapidly integrating new sensors for military use. It describes how sensors currently have different data formats and standards, making integration difficult. It proposes developing common preprocessing and postprocessing functions, as well as an open architecture algorithm repository, to allow automated integration and fusion of data from various sensors. This would help overcome issues around scalability and real-time performance when exploiting sensor data for military operations.
Accelerator First Innovation Fund network event Session 1
- 1. OFFICIAL Defence and Security Accelerator Defence and Security Accelerator Defence and Security Accelerator Innovation fund themed competition Revolutionise the human information relationship for Defence
- 2. OFFICIAL Defence and Security Accelerator Defence and Security Accelerator Defence and Security Accelerator Accelerator briefing Rob Solly, Head of the Defence and Security Accelerator
- 3. OFFICIAL 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?
- 4. OFFICIAL 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?
- 5. OFFICIAL How to work with us We 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
- 6. OFFICIAL Ideas Exploitation Users & Investors Innovation Fund Fund Advice & AccessAdvice & Access Wider Innovation Initiative Fund Suppliers & Inventors Our role
- 7. OFFICIAL 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
- 8. OFFICIAL 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 exploitation Experimental approach • developing our capability as we operate • we are keen to hear your ideas!
- 9. OFFICIAL Defence and Security Accelerator Defence and Security Accelerator Defence and Security Accelerator Setting the defence context
- 10. Joint Warfare DirectorateJoint Warfare Directorate Defence and Security Accelerator 23 February 2017
- 11. 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
- 12. 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
- 13. 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’
- 14. Joint Warfare Directorate Albert Einstein “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity”
- 15. Joint Warfare Directorate Define innovation – Scott Berkun Innovation is significant positive change. It’s a result. It’s an outcome.
- 16. Joint Warfare Directorate Adapt to win
- 17. Joint Warfare Directorate What factors resist successful adaptation? alignment motivation • national • organisational (budget) • personal structure and process timeline confidence/support authority/risk
- 18. Joint Warfare Directorate How could we support a culture of adaptation? Understanding • threat • opportunity Influence • being heard • compelling argument • delivering direction Evidence • operational analysis
- 19. Joint Warfare Directorate 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
- 20. Joint Warfare Directorate Understanding Now • Defence Intelligence • reporting • operational analysis Trend • perception • guesswork • risk Optimisation • lessons • education/training
- 21. Joint Warfare Directorate Threat Matrix AdversaryDenialCapability 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 Russia China Iran Syria Ukraine (Russian Hybrid Warfare) Libya Taleban Daesh
- 22. Joint Warfare Directorate Development Concepts • ideas/innovation Doctrine • best practice/training Capability • short/long term Experimentation • test and evaluation • wargaming • red team
- 23. Joint Warfare Directorate JF2025 JTF JTFHQ JTFCPX/FTX(LE/MIC) JEFLIVEX2(LE) DCMO XWH JV JEFJTFMISSIONREHERSAL–DEPLOYEX? DE C2 FPDA EX SP 21 DE C2 DE C2 JX JV JV JV JV CJTFHQ UK/FR CS FOC DE C2 CJTFHQ US/UK VJTF CC/sS FE@R T4 T3 T2 T1 DXP to 2025 - Framework DX Planning FIX DEVELOP SHAPE JF2025 HEADMARK Year 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 JF2025 HEADMARKSDSR WF@S JEF FOC JH JH JH *ML/MD Scenarios (SFD) *XWH by design *Integrate DE (Interoperability) Progressive Trg to FOC Sync with NATO MXP Jt Enablers JV JH JV *Develop emergent Capabilities SS FGen SS FGen SS FGen *Planned in Bi-lat Integration Trg TX FPT
- 24. Joint Warfare Directorate 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 Coalition Defence Exercises Programme (DXP) • Defence objectives • enable • learn
- 25. Joint Warfare Directorate 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
- 26. Joint Warfare Directorate ‘Adapt to win’
- 27. OFFICIAL Defence and Security Accelerator Defence and Security Accelerator Defence and Security Accelerator The Joint Context
- 28. Joint Warfare Directorate Defence and Security Accelerator competition The Joint Context
- 29. Joint Warfare Directorate 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
- 30. Joint Warfare Directorate JFC Strategy – the guiding purpose
- 31. Joint Warfare Directorate The Challenge
- 32. Joint Warfare Directorate Our conceptual thinking
- 33. Joint Warfare Directorate • not just technology • the competition team • road to exploitation The difference
- 34. OFFICIAL Defence and Security Accelerator Defence and Security Accelerator Defence and Security Accelerator Challenge 1 Military context
- 35. Royal Navy Information Warfare Division OFFICIAL Challenge 1: Allow for the rapid and automated integration of new sensors
- 36. Continuous Carrier Capability (CCC) Continuous Amphibious Readiness (CAR) Continuous at Sea Deterrent (CASD) The Royal Navy today Royal Navy Information Warfare Division OFFICIAL
- 37. MTTA • open architecture and standards • shared computing • shared networking • enabling fused ISR, sensors and information • enabling AI (Project NELSON) Royal Navy Information Warfare Division OFFICIAL
- 38. • 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 Royal Navy Information Warfare Division OFFICIAL
- 39. 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) Royal Navy Information Warfare Division OFFICIAL
- 40. 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 Royal Navy Information Warfare Division OFFICIAL
- 41. Royal Navy Information Warfare Division OFFICIAL 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
- 42. Royal Navy Information Warfare Division OFFICIAL 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?
- 43. OFFICIAL Defence and Security Accelerator Defence and Security Accelerator Defence and Security Accelerator Challenge 1 Allow for the rapid and automated integration of new sensors
- 44. OFFICIAL © Crown copyright 2013 Dstl 27 February 2017 UK OFFICIAL The military sense-making process 1,2,3 1,2,3 2,3 1,2,3 2,3 OFFICIAL
- 45. OFFICIAL © Crown copyright 2013 Dstl 27 February 2017 UK OFFICIAL 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
- 46. OFFICIAL © Crown copyright 2013 Dstl 27 February 2017 UK OFFICIAL Sensing chain analogue electronics signal pre- processing/ metadata ADC sensor analogue/digital converter human interpretable data content assessment computer readable data
- 47. OFFICIAL © Crown copyright 2013 Dstl 27 February 2017 UK OFFICIAL Integration of ‘raw data’ sensors Large 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 or Processing, fusion and sensor management architecture Open architecture algorithm repository
- 48. OFFICIAL © Crown copyright 2013 Dstl 27 February 2017 UK OFFICIAL 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/ machine interface Open architecture algorithm repository Autonomous Sensor Module Key challenges • learning sensor system and algorithm performance parameters • updating the system’s ontology on the fly
- 49. OFFICIAL Processing, fusion and sensor management architecture © Crown copyright 2013 Dstl 27 February 2017 UK OFFICIAL 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/ machine interface Autonomous algorithm selection Topographic_map_example - Public Domain wikimedia_curid=641544 Topographic-Relief-perspective-sample - By Kbh3rd, CC BY-SA 3.0, wikimedia_curid=12915572
- 50. OFFICIAL © Crown copyright 2013 Dstl 27 February 2017 UK OFFICIAL 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
- 51. OFFICIAL 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 © Crown copyright 2013 Dstl 27 February 2017