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Quantic Thistle are attending! Looking forward to engaging on the design and manufacture of custom encoders for mission critical motion and control applications on sub surface platforms.
Esteban Amirante from BEASY Innovative Solutions will be there and is looking for to meeting the experts to share his wealth of knowledge on our Digital Twin and corrosion-related magnetic fields technology.
Past experience tells us there is a fair gap between recognising any element as a fundamental input to capability and actually treating it as such. There appears to be a persistent gap between rhetoric and action.
The in-service capabilities we read about in open-source reports which are struggling with sustainment, supply, workforce and infrastructure issues (indicatively) are testament to the lip service often paid to the FIC to 'fit' projects into the IIP.
Two other elements contribute to this issue: The necessary practice of programming to meet a budget outcome rather than a capability outcome, and the frequent failure to view ADF capability as a joint 'systems of systems' rather than siloed projects.
The latter is a profound issue. The ADF 'aspires' (those who know, know 😉) to fight as a joint multi-domain force.
Yet many Australian 'strategic experts' continually and zealously advocate for favoured singular capabilities without any clear expression of how they fit in a coherent, balanced operational warfighting system. This confuses the debate and policy, to the real detriment of Australia's defence requirements and the ability of our ADF service personnel to fight, survive and win should conflict arise.
Chief Business Development Officer @ Navantia Australia
Pat Conroy, Minister for Defence Industry addresses 🇦🇺 defence industry today at Defence Connect Defence Industry Development Strategy Summit 2024. Refreshing to hear that #sustainment is finally recognised as a critical FIC beyond acquisition. Whilst the SDIPs provide much needed focus for capability development by Defence Australia, the challenge now is balancing speed to capability and minimum viable capability (MVP) with the cost of sustainment to improve the equipment acquired to incorporate the modifications that will undoubtedly be required to improve the MVP to better meet the ADF’s needs.
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Pat Conroy, Minister for Defence Industry addresses 🇦🇺 defence industry today at Defence Connect Defence Industry Development Strategy Summit 2024. Refreshing to hear that #sustainment is finally recognised as a critical FIC beyond acquisition. Whilst the SDIPs provide much needed focus for capability development by Defence Australia, the challenge now is balancing speed to capability and minimum viable capability (MVP) with the cost of sustainment to improve the equipment acquired to incorporate the modifications that will undoubtedly be required to improve the MVP to better meet the ADF’s needs.
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This truly is great news Cindy. Sustainment continues to be the capability element of major acquisitions that is sacrificed when budgets are reduced. Mission systems without sustainment are not capabilities.
May we consider then a new approach, Minimum Viable Logistics (MVL) or Minimum Viable Sustainment (MVS). What does this look like from an Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) / Integrated Product Support (IPS) perspective, flowing into interim support and Through Life Support?
Some consider that MVC is some variation of military-off-the-shelf (MOTS). I don’t agree with this in a binary fashion. My own views are that MVC may come in a number of forms depending on the level of product development required: 1) full developmental, 2) modified off-the-shelf or 3) MOTS.
In the case of a full developmental or modified off-the-shelf MVC, they may take a developmental approach that is akin to a ‘Fitted For, Not With” approach. This would allow a mission system capability to be developed progressively (MVC1, MVC2, etc) with the full mission system capability end-state in mind. Essentially, the system is developed based on building blocks to be added to the MVC as it steps through its product maturity.
This approach then lends itself to a similar approach to MVL, where the ILS and interim support are established with the maturity of the MVC. MVL would include undertaking ILS on the product components of the MVC that have reached design maturity (engineering freeze). This process continues through the stages of MVC releases. There may (likely) be the requirement for some ILS rework to be undertaken through MVL/MVC releases as a result of integration/interface of new building blocks. This is not a new process, as this is experienced with upgrades and modifications to any mission system capability.
This approach should reduce the total cost of ownership by the avoidance of ILS rework and only purchasing spares based on the maturity of the MVC building blocks to support a period of time equal to the next MVC/MVL release, which will avoid obsolescence issues.
I welcome discussion on the topic.
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Chief Business Development Officer @ Navantia Australia
Pat Conroy, Minister for Defence Industry addresses 🇦🇺 defence industry today at Defence Connect Defence Industry Development Strategy Summit 2024. Refreshing to hear that #sustainment is finally recognised as a critical FIC beyond acquisition. Whilst the SDIPs provide much needed focus for capability development by Defence Australia, the challenge now is balancing speed to capability and minimum viable capability (MVP) with the cost of sustainment to improve the equipment acquired to incorporate the modifications that will undoubtedly be required to improve the MVP to better meet the ADF’s needs.
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Navy STP will highlight participating small businesses in this year’s Cohort. These small businesses are on a current US Navy SBIR Phase II contract developing innovative technology to meet a Navy-need.
Barron Associates, Inc
Development of a Psychometrically Validated Spatial Disorientation Skills Assessment Tool: Spatial Disorientation (SD) is a contributing factor in many fatal aircraft accidents, resulting in significant loss of life and equipment. A tool that measures the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) for combatting SD hazards will play a role in developing improved SD training. Our team developed a design and psychometric validation protocol for the SD Skills Assessment Tool (SD-SAT), a survey and observation tool for assessing KSA for SD hazard mitigation. One application will be evaluation of SD training programs. Other potential uses for SD-SAT include assessment of SD skills. The effort will implement the SD-SAT tool and execute the psychometric validation protocol for SD-SAT.
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FYI: the new Challenger 3 "60/40" UK Main Battle Tank: poster child of UK defence land industrial strategy?
"The Challenger 3 Main Battle Tank programme is the first British-built tank in 22 years [sic] and supports hundreds of UK jobs in Telford, Gateshead, Bristol and Bovington. Over 60% of the value of the Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) contract will utilise the UK supply chain" (MinDP, written answer to Shadow Defence Secretary John Healey, 1/5/24, https://lnkd.in/eNZhdvzc).
Fascinating illustration I suggest of the challenges of sustaining a fully comprehensive British defence industrial base over time, in this case for AFVs. Roll on (pun intended) the further development of the 2022 Land Industrial Strategy, with its vision of "An innovative, globally competitive, and highly skilled sector in the UK that can develop, deliver, and sustain the capabilities we need in the land domain, collaborate domestically and internationally on key defence projects, export overseas, and contribute to our national prosperity".
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Quantic Thistle are attending! Looking forward to engaging on the design and manufacture of custom encoders for mission critical motion and control applications on sub surface platforms.