Network Eabled Capability (NEC).ppt

Network Enabled Capability (NEC)
Duncan Russell
School puting
University of Leeds
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NEC Programme
Research Involving:
the Universities of Bath, Cambridge, Cranfield, Leeds, Leicester, Loughborough, Manchester, Queen’s Belfast, Strathclyde, and York
BAE Systems
Addressing four main topic areas:
Through-Life Systems Management
Systems Architectures
Decision Support
Control and Monitoring
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Network Enabled Capability
UK MoD response to rapidly changing conflict environment
Armed forces:
Flexible, ready, rapidly deployable
Controlled, precise force
BAE Systems, defence supplier
Contribute to capability supply
Product/Service lifecycle
Dynamic work of customer-supplier
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Conceptual Operational Capability Model
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anisational Capability Model
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Through-Life Systems Management
Identification of key business processes for exploitation worked solutions
Lifecycle models, including:
Architectures and cost models for evolutionary systems of systems
Critical Systems Features
Effective measurement techniques for NEC delivery
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Systems Architectures
Architectural representations of systems of systems
Evaluation of architectures
Through-life systems evolution
Architectural Frameworks
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Decision Support
Decision making capability in dynamically reconfigurable multiple anisations
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Control and Monitoring
Toolkit for managing uncertainty
Based on ponents of:
detection (system health),
assessment (prognostics), and
response (reconfiguration).
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Architecture Deliverables
Research Output
Provides
Delivered
Architectural frameworks, terminology, and definition
Novel Architectures for NEC
Metrics for NEC architectures
De-risking of cost, time and performance for business and customer through better translation of customer capability requirements into delivered products, identification of NEC-applicable architectures s