RUSI Future Land Warfare Conference

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RUSI Future Land Warfare Conference

• Major General Dick Applegate
• Capability Manager
• (Battlespace Management)

9 June 2006
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A New World Order

• Wars of choice not necessity
• Unpredictability
• short notice deployments
• wide ranging military tasks, locations, ROE
• asymmetric threat enemy identification, tactics
• Politically driven
• unclear and complex end states
• multi-national contributions vary
• low tolerance of casualties
• High level of commitments

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A New World Order so what?

• Armed Forces
• Easy to deploy and sustain
• Tough reputation based on success (credibility
  and influence)
• Adaptable
• Precise in effects delivered
• Quick to attune to environment

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A New World Order so what?

• Equipment Capability
• Project quickly then track
• Gain and exploit intelligence (fact and intent)
• Quality over mass (broad utility is key)
• Menacing dilemmas

• Avoid buying today for yesterdays war
• Meet todays need
• Prepare for an uncertain future

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A New World Order so what?

• Industry
• Greater transparency and engagement between MOD
  and Industry
• More agile contracting
• Better harnessing of research and innovation
• Reduce risk in systems integration
• Improved requirement setting

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Solutions now for Current Operations and with
wide utility
Armour for B Vehicles
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Solutions now for Current Operations and with
wide utility
Stand-Off Disruptor
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Solutions now for Current Operations and with
wide utility
GMLRS
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Solutions now for Current Operations and with
wide utility
MAMBA
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Solutions now for Current Operations and with
wide utility
Attack Helicopter
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Solutions now for Current OperationsForce
Protection (a digression)

• Force protection is
• 60 Tactics Techniques and Procedures
• 30 Equipment
• 10 luck
• 100 force protection not achievable
• Force protection must be flexible, layered,
  interoperable
• Posture is key, what I need is unseen force
• protection Commander 16 AA Bde, Afghanistan,
  2006
• Aim to enable Commanders to manage risk

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Driving our future capability MWCap Definition

• The joint MWCap contributes to the full range of
  strategic effects in all military tasks within
  the core regions, and is most likely to be used
  for focused intervention, power projection and
  peace support operations at up to medium scale.
  It has the land components medium forces at its
  core, supported and enabled by a range of joint
  capabilities. It has a balanced, small scale
  element that can be deployed by air in the most
  demanding timescales.

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Medium Weight Capability - Summary
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Driving our future capability MWCap progress

• Rhetoric into reality
• Initial Capability by 2008
• 4 RIFLES Battle Group (drawn from 12 Mechanised
  Brigade)
• AFV 432 Mark 3
• Improved mobility, protection, firepower
• Joint Fires and ISTAR
• A basis for experimentation
• Deployment exercise in 2009

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Driving our future capability MWCap Progress

• Benefits already realised
• Increased Defence output
• Broadening the tasks that can be undertaken,
  force structures, operational and tactical
  versatility
• Understanding our strategic lift requirements
• Art of the possible, informing balance of
  investment, air/sea mix, pre-positioning
• Bounding the Future Rapid Effect System
  requirement
• Air-portability scale and implications

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Driving our future capability MWCap Progress

• Anticipated benefits
• Alternative force mixes to achieve desired
  effects
• Better Joint training at Small and Medium scale
• Faster Receipt, Staging and Onward Movement and
  Integration

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Doing Things Differently Through Life
Capability Management

• Future Rotorcraft (FRC)
• Manages a total capability programme within given
  resources through-life
• Improves coherence and enables long-term planning
  for MoD and Industry
• Enables trading across the capability, with
  better use of Defence funds
• Drives development of a new business model
  partnering and business transformation

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Doing Things Differently- Pathfinders

• Pathfinders Defence Industrial Strategy in
  Action
• Goals
• Effective, inclusive working relationships with
  industry so fostering greater mutual
  understanding
• Innovative and pragmatic programme approach to
  through-life capability management
• Effective integration across Defence Lines of
  Development to deliver sustainable military
  capability
• http//www.ams.mod.uk/ams/content/docs/pf/index.ht
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Doing Things Differently- Pathfinders

• Sustained Armoured Vehicle Capability Coherence
• Team Leader Darrell Midgley
• Telephone [phone]
• E mail Darrell.Midgley802_at_mod.uk
• Sustained Surface Combatant Coherence
• Team Leader Steve Brunton
• Telephone [phone]
• E mail S2C2TL_at_mod.uk
• Pathfinder Industry Day 28 July 2006,
  Farnborough
• http//www.ams.mod.uk/ams/content/docs/pf/index.ht
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Doing Things Differently- Capability Concept
Demonstrators

• Aim
• Explore the military utility of new system
  concepts using mature technologies
• Seek to find early solutions to immediate or
  near-term operational needs
• Assess extent to which potential capability
  benefits can be delivered
• Explore requirements rather than technology

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Doing Things Differently- Capability Concept
Demonstrators

• 15 CCDs approved including
• Micro-climate personnel cooling
• Deployable conditioned storage
• Solar power
• Mounted countermine
• 3-D visualisation
• Mission training through distributed simulations
• Stand-in jammer

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RUSI Future Land Warfare Conference

• Major General Dick Applegate
• Capability Manager
• (Battlespace Management)

9 June 2006