Air ViceMarshal Stu Butler

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• Air Vice-Marshal Stu Butler
• Capability Manager (Information Superiority)

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Scope

• Last Years Exam Question
• Is NEC Dead?
• Through Life Capability Management
• My Intent
• This Years Exam Question
• Challenges for Directors Equipment Capability
• Challenges for Simulation and Training
• Questions ?

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Last Years Question

• What, to Industry, would success look like in
  implementing McKane with reference to TLCM?

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Feedback Enduring Messages

• MoD needs to change rather than Industry
• Both need to change?
• Improved stability will be key
• Openness and single set of data
• TLCM forces changes to conduct of business
• Nature and scale of change unclear
• Consider across capability areas

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Feedback Key Themes 1

• Partnering between MoD - Industry
• Views differ DIS v 2 will clarify
• Aspirations must be realistic and benefit both
  sides
• Organisation-centric thinking for TLCM delivery
• Whats done is important, vice what we look like
• CPG/CMG as the planning powerhouse
• Closer Research and Development required
• Better focused research goals?
• Industry seek incentivisation and rewards
• Stability a key driver
• But how do we handle poor performance?

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Feedback Key Themes 2

• Small/Medium Enterprise engagement?
• Not MoD business unless niche or capacity issue?
• Drive SME knowledge in Business Cases
• Common Models/Architecture/Tools/Standards
• We want them too!
• Programme Office project MIS and tools
• Faster more agile procurement
• Uncommitted headroom will help
• MoD will always move the goalposts need to
  recognise the impact on both sides
• Greater Transparency required
• Under consideration needs to be realistic

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Whither NEC? - Governance
Joint Command Group (E)
Chaired by VCDS
Senior Responsible Owner NEC CBM Lt Gen
Figgures, DCDS(EC)
NEC and CBM Executive Group
NEC Dimension Steering Groups 2 Programme
Directors
Networks
2 Programme Director AVM Butler, CM(IS)
Info
People
Joint Action
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The NEC ChallengeA VERY Personal Perspective!!
Ops Team
Guidance User Focussed IC Strategic Estimate
Risk and Benefits Analysis PR Practicalities!

• What does this look like ?
• How much is enough ?
• How do we know when we have got there ?
• How do we measure how far away we are ?

JCB
Tech Team
(Described in User Speak)
Network Enabled Capability
Current Position
(Audit)
Prog Office
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TLCM Progress

• Planning Round 08 not ideal context . and
• Savings Targets demanding.. yet
• TLCM already proving beneficial
• TLCM delivering Cross-DEC and DLOD coherence
• TLCM being used throughout the ECC
• CPG and CMG planning powerhouse
• Stakeholders fully engaged
• Much work to do
• Management Plans and Strategies at Step 1
• Industry feeds developing

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Capability Planning - Sponsor
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My Intent for NEC

• User Focussed
• Jargon Free
• Clear Direction through
• SRO
• Dimension Steering Groups
• Clear 2012 and 2017 Milestone Statements
• Revised JSP 777
• Purple Spotting
• Test Industry Compliance even more?
• Tech Team helping shape the standards
• A coherent , deliverable and realistic NEC Vision

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NEC Vision The Future

• Coherent Capability Plan to Deliver
• End-to-End Command Information System
• One general purpose network based on IP
• One Security Architecture
• Single family of applications
• One managed, globally accessible information
  domain
• Move to one Joint Operations Picture (JOP)
• Service Orientated Architecture
• Open architecture, mandated standards
  (particularly at the Interfaces)
• Joint and Coalition interoperability
• Recognise and Celebrate Success

Design for Integration not Integration of
Designs
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This Years Exam Questions

• What do you believe are the essential activities
  to be undertaken in order for the MoD to deliver
  NEC over the short, medium and long term?
• What do you understand by the term Open Systems
  Architecture and what standards do the MoD need
  to mandate in order to achieve it?

• ONE side of A4 per Question
• NO Annexes
• 12 PointRichard.Lushington481

Richard.Lushington481_at_mod.uk
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Challenge for Sim and Synth

• New simulation systems, and legacy systems on
  update, should
• Be progressively networked
• Use open Industry standards and architectures
• Have a mandated minimum level of interoperability
• Make maximum use of common services
• (e.g. computer generated forces, scenarios and
  geospatial data)
• Be rapidly reconfigurable
• Make maximum use of COTS technology

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The Joint Collective Training Vision

• Ends
• A Joint Collective Training capability that
  optimises FEs for effects-based operations in a
  joint, multinational and inter-agency context
  thereby embracing the ethos of training as we
  fight.
• Ways
• ensuring that the operational environment during
  operational and tactical level training is
  sufficiently represented
• exploiting aggressively developments in
  simulation technology and distributed training
  capability
• delivering a cost effective, coherent and rapidly
  configurable capability.

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Equipment Capability Organisation
Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Equipment
Capability)
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Challenges for DsEC

• Getting NEC Better defined
• NEC Buy-in from the Front Line
• Meeting Defence Industrial Strategy
• C4 better for Long Term Partnering?
• ISTAR more opportunistic?
• Planning Round 08
• Gripping Support Costs

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C4ISTAR Sector Challenges?

• Wide ranging sector
• Few UK only issues
• Wide Industry interest
• Breadth of Capability Planning Group cover
• Wide range of capability requirements
• Very small to very large
• Numerous procurement models
• Fast moving
• Not responsive to research and breakthroughs

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C4ISTAR Sector - Issues and Thoughts

• Greater financial flexibility will improve
  responsiveness
• UORs a good model, but TL support adds risk
  and all off the shelf
• How to show VFM without competition?
• Openness key for both MOD and Industry
• Changes to behaviour required on both sides
• DES need to force the pace do they have the
  skills?

Benefit required on BOTH sides
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Questions