THE UK’S APPROACH TO OPEN
SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE IN
THE LAND DOMAIN
1 August 2014
AGENDA
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Ultra Electronics background
What are we trying solve & why?
Open Architecture – what is it?
Land Open System Architecture – LOSA
Generic Vehicle Architecture
Generic Soldier Architecture
Generic Base Architecture
Common Open Interface (Land)
GVA compared with Victory
A means of interoperability…
Conclusions
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Ultra Electronics background
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Company Secretary*
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Naval Systems
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Outline Brief
This presentation suggests that within the Land domain,
there is not only a need to define an approach to open
architectures, but also to mandate their use, in order to
provide an agile framework for our fighting forces going
forward.
This presentation also discusses how the UK GVA
relates to the US Victory standard and how
interoperability may be achieved.
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Real life issues…
“ A dog’s breakfast of federated
sub-systems”
“Bases where nothing is
integrated; multiple sets
of cabling, laptops and
antennas”
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“Soldiers carrying up to 75kg of badly
integrated equipment, with many
different types of batteries”
“Power anarchy’; about 50
different types of generator
in service”
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Army 2020 Transformation
Open Architecture – what is it?
• “An architecture whose specifications are public. This
includes officially approved standards as well as
privately designed architectures whose specifications are
made public by the designers.” Wikipedia
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Land Open Systems Architecture
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LOSA is the architecture for the Land Environment and
is owned at 3-Star level at Army HQ
Its purpose is to ensure the delivery of integrated,
interoperable, agile force elements
It operates in 3 domains:
– Operational, which describes the operational need and use
– Capability , which describes the functional requirements
– Technical, which describes the technical solution space
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It provides a well defined boundary with other
environments
Working with industry & building on 15+ years of joint
research
CAPABILITY
OPERATIONAL
LOSA
TECHNICAL
Land Open Systems Architecture
CAPABILITY
OPERATIONAL
LOSA
Land
Land
Maritime
Air
Common Open Interface
(Land)
TECHNICAL
Joint
Enablers
Vehicles
Soldiers
Bases
C4ISTAR
Training
Logistics
Weapons
Coalition
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Land Open Systems Architecture
Land Open Systems Technical Architecture
Common Open Interface (Land)
(COI(L))
Generic
Vehicle
Architecture
(GVA)
Def Stan 23-09
GVA
Generic
Base
Architecture
(GBA)
Def Stan 23-13
GBA
Generic
Soldier
Architecture
(GSA)
Def Stan 23-12
GSA
Def Stan 23-14
LOSA and COI(L)
Defence Standards, Joint Service Publication
and Joining Rules
Other Domains:
Maritime
Air
Joint Enablers:
•C4ISR
•Weapons
•Logistics
•Training
Coalition and NGOs
Civil Emergency Services
OGDs
External Standards
and Rules
Standards are not a design!
Generic Vehicle Architecture
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Generic Soldier Architecture
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Generic Base Architecture
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Common Open Interface (Land)
COI(L)
COI(L)
Internally facing Architecture
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Common Open Interface (Land)
Vehicle/Soldier/Base
(Internally facing)
COIL language(s)
(Externally facing)
Any Bearer
Not yet formally published
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How does COI(L) work ?
PLATFORM - A
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Soldier
USB Lean Service
PLATFORM- B
GVA Vehicle
DDS Middleware
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GVA compared with Victory
GVA:
• The Integration of any subsystem on the vehicle
• Defined Power and Data interfaces
• A detailed description of the HMI
• A detailed description for data exchange
(using DDS middleware)
• V&V backed up by experimentation & trials
• Is being adopted by NATO
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Victory:
• Integration of C4ISR subsystems on the vehicle
• Definition of shared processing resources
• Data Interfaces to platform subsystems
• A detailed description for data exchange
(using Web Services)
• A robust V& V process
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COI(L) – a means of
interoperability…?
Victory DB
PLATFORM - A
GVA DDS
PLATFORM- B
HOST NATION owned
ITAR partition?
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Conclusions
By mandating the adoption of open standards, UK MOD can
realise:
• Improved operational effectiveness:
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Rapid response to changing situations.
Reduced training burden.
Increased platform availability.
Improved interoperability and easier system management.
• Reduced cost of ownership:
– Faster, simpler, and cheaper procurement.
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The ability to procure heterogeneous, multi-vendor open systems.
Easy to upgrade.
Reduced TL costs.
Prevents proprietary lock-in.
• The possibility of coalition interoperability
Thankyou for your attention…
Questions?
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