Delivering comprehensive situational awareness

How can the MOD utilise existing technologies to support operations in an agile, responsive, scalable and deployable manner? What operational benefits lie in integrating new and legacy systems across mature and proven technologies? Is it possible to leverage cost benefits while delivering the flexible, complex services demanded by Network Enabled Capability? In short, can the MOD deliver comprehensive situational awareness on operations, now?

Myriad sources, including anecdotal evidence, news coverage and attendance at MOD presentations to industry, lead to the conclusion that Commanders on current operations are still being hampered by their inability to exploit information, leverage the network and use their people’s skills to the full in order to take decisive action.

It is clear that advantage is not being taken of current, available technologies that may link systems through a service-orientated approach. A service-orientated approach could provide a common architecture for both sides of the Shared Situational Awareness ‘coin’; that is Network Enabled Capability (NEC) and Directed Logistics.

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