Defence The Next Generation Platform for Defence The Next Generation Platform for Defence Enabling Command, Operations and Training in a Complex World Delivering Operational Effectiveness presents many challenges… It is well known that delivering multi-domain operational effectiveness presents many challenges. We have identified the following problem areas in the current age of rapid technological advancement: Digital Transformation This is a critical enabler in striving to truly achieve technical advantage and information superiority in an era of complexity and constant competition. Synthetic Environments These provide a significant force-multiplication effect if used effectively to support force preparation. But synthetic environments and, in time, Digital Twins must be provided with the necessary scale and fidelity. Cross-Domain Integration Similarly genuinely effective and efficient force preparation can only be achieved when cross-domain live, virtual and constructive environments are integrated and delivered to the point of user need. Decision Support Harnessing next-generation technology will allow data to be fully exploited, made available rapidly and support effective and timely decision making. This has implications for both the supply chain and operational scenarios. Innovation Constant evolution and an innovative approach is key to ensuring that next-generation technology can be fully harnessed. This must be supported by agile acquisition. The Situation Today Complexity in an Era of Constant Competition Currently Governments and the Defence Industry face complexity and constant competition from emerging and traditional adversaries; either for information superiority or rapid technical innovation: Inefficient Force Preparation It is difficult to accurately represent the scale and complexity of a multi-domain, connected battlespace. Secure, Integrated and distributed training is unreliable and costly. This manifests as significant mission failure risk. Poor Understanding Obtaining and sharing live data and rapidly exploring multiple courses of action is difficult. Decision makers are unable to effectively explore all courses of action across a wide range of scenarios. This is particularly evident in Supply Chain and Logistic planning. This contributes to incomplete and unreliable information. Technical Dominance/ Open Architecture Adversaries are capitalising on cutting edge technology leaving defence organisations behind. Integrating novel and legacy systems is challenging. This creates innovation risk and a consequent inability to exploit emerging technologies. Digital Transformation and Synthetic Environments Enabling the Next Generation of Defence Capabilities The future of next generation Defence capabilities will be underpinned by Digital Transformation and modern synthetics. Current and future programmes are highlighting this focus, and global defence spending is set to rise. The following programmes are examples of current UK and US commitment to exploit next-generation technology and partner with Industry to achieve success: Collective Training Transformation Programme (CTTP) with its close links to the Defence Synthetic Environment Platform (DSEP). Future Combat Air Systems (FCAS). Digital Strategy for Defence and Defence Digital Twin Study in the UK. NATO Modelling and Simulation Strategy, M&S Centre of Excellence, and Mission Training through Distributed Simulations (MTDS) will continue to drive common architecture and standardisation. US Digitization Modernization Program and the Synthetic Training Environment Cross-Functional Team. Underpinning all of this is digital transformation, in the UK a Digital Backbone, connecting Sensors, Deciders and Effectors – bringing together data and computation at scale – and transforming the enterprise and the end-user experience. Enabling the Next Generation of Defence Capabilities Hadean’s next generation platform for defence delivers the compute power required to realise vast, high-resolution Synthetic Environments, data and multiple-scenario driven Situational Awareness, Digital Twins and Decision Support capabilities. Our Capabilities and Outcomes Synthetic Environments Enable and power multi-domain simulations with millions of entities and distributed participants Simulate the scale, complexity and fidelity of real-world scenarios Read more about Synthetic Environments Enhanced Situational Awareness Optimise and integrate multiple live datasets across a vast and distributed network to form a cohesive and accurate operating picture Empower personnel at all levels to command, operate and train with data-driven insight Read more about Enhanced Situational Awareness Digital Twins Enable accurate, vast scale Digital Twins to represent live data, systems, capabilities and environments More effective and efficient through-life systems and capabilities management Read more about Digital Twins Decision Support Rapidly simulate and explore unlimited what-if scenarios by leveraging the Hadean Platform’s smart scaling capabilities Confident predictions and a better understanding of risk to support logistic planning and decision making Read more about Decision Support Who are we? Delivering unparalleled distributed computing and vast synthetic environments Hadean is a distributed computing company that has designed and built a distributed cloud platform that enables unlimited scalability and reliability in distributed cloud environments. By leveraging the platform and its underlying smart scaling capabilities we are able to partner with Defence System Integrators and military clients across the world to achieve business and operational efficiency through the power of distributed computing. Hadean’s next-generation Platform for Defence enables command, operations and training in a truly complex world. Video: Next Generation Platform for Defence eBook: The Synthetic Training and Decision Support Handbook Blog Defence Partnerships Working with Hadean CAE City Scale Synthetic Environment with 2M entities “The complimentary skills and resources of CAE and Hadean will allow both parties to accelerate together towards these newly evolving applications, helping our customers realise their ambition to plan, train and rehearse quickly and efficiently in a complex and scalable digital environment of our making.” Andrew Naismith, Managing Director - Defence and Security, CAE (UK) Challenge Desire to simulate an entire city, but previous synthetic environments restricted to a few thousand entities Number of users connected into simulations restricted to 50-100 Need to include activity and lifestyle routines of entities and integrate Unreal Engine’s behaviour trees feature Solution Area was divided into a grid of cells, with each cell assigned a worker and each worker given an individual engine Hadean Simulate handling cell boundary hand over comms Hadean Connect given responsibility for calculating the relevant actors to send to each connected client Simulation logic e.g. behaviour, terrain and physics all supported within UE instances Outcome Supported 2.2 million continuously active, AI controlled entities in a dense urban environment composed primarily of humans and ground vehicles and a smaller number of aerial vehicles Supported a minimum of 300 independent, simultaneously connected and interactive actors Insightful training operation completed Cervus Enhanced decision support for UK MoD's Defence and Security Accelerator “Cervus are immensely proud to be working with our partners at Hadean…Hadean’s distributed computing platform will significantly reduce the associated costs and increase the speed of wargaming and experimentation.” Alan Roan, MD of Cervus.ai Challenge Incumbent decision making processes with defence are currently inefficient Deliberations between experts are time-consuming, expensive, and risk being derailed by subjective viewpoints rather than based on fact Organisations that are slow to action can miss key deadlines and risk serious negative outcomes Solution Simulations of different scenarios are parallelised for speed, with Hadean Orchestrate delivering the computational power Invariant scaling across any on premise, cloud or edge environments Simulations are realised on the front end using Cervus’ AI analytics engine Optimum decisions are then derived from results Outcome Developing and testing innovative solutions to pressing strategic issues, capability gaps and operational optimisation Injecting agility into the decision cycle, continuous testing of concepts, and the rapid development of capabilities and doctrine Enabling effective outcomes to avoid technology shock, counter adversaries and reduce operational risk BAE Collective training solutions "By combining Hadean’s computing expertise with that with BAE Systems' intimate understanding of our customer built on decades of working with the world's leading militaries, we believe we can prove the benefits of this technology and deliver real advantage to training systems of the future. The battlespace our customers are operating in is changing rapidly so we need to change with it and by partnering with agile companies like Hadean and others we can meet this challenge.” Andy Kendall, Director of Training Strategy, BAE Systems - Air Challenge Desire for a larger scale synthetic environment that all domains can plug in and train collectively, providing also decision support and situational awareness Want for digitalisation to enhance fidelity, immersion and sustainability of training Rapidly changing and increasingly complex battle spaces demanding an agile response that utilises all emerging technologies Solution Initial proof of concept using Hadean’s technology to create a large scale synthetic environment Hadean platform used to parallelise simulations increasing the speed of scenario analysis Compute power allocated dynamically to where in the simulation it is needed most, ensuring platform performance Outcome Enabled complex collective training scenarios in a secure environment Leveraged data analytics and insights to improve the training capability and output Provided the computational foundation of a future training and planning platform that makes use of emerging technologies, offering governments a significant step towards a digital backbone
