TY  - GEN
N2  - The Dstl Maritime Autonomous Platform Exploitation (MAPLE) project has played a leading role in shaping Royal Navy thinking about the integration of MAS into at sea platforms and in support of forces ashore. This paper touches briefly on the MAPLE context and the work being done to translate MAPLE research and development into an initial fielded solution under the Naval Strike Network programme, but the principle focus is on the next phase of the Dstl MAPLE 5 programme as it explores the challenges of exploiting a rapidly advancing technology base, looking beyond near term deployments and meeting MOD direction to unlock the potential of the generation-after-next. The paper explores: the integration of increasingly autonomous effectors and swarming systems and the need to consider MAS as force assets, operating across multi-national task groups and supporting new deployment patterns such as airborne crewed uncrewed teaming. As part of the ongoing MAPLE programme, the paper also will cover how international experimentation is moving beyond low level information integration to achieve a higher level interface, including recent work in Australian as part of Autonomous Warrior 22, as well as making extensive use of synthetic trials and federated facilities.
DO  - 10.24868/10677
DO  - doi
AB  - The Dstl Maritime Autonomous Platform Exploitation (MAPLE) project has played a leading role in shaping Royal Navy thinking about the integration of MAS into at sea platforms and in support of forces ashore. This paper touches briefly on the MAPLE context and the work being done to translate MAPLE research and development into an initial fielded solution under the Naval Strike Network programme, but the principle focus is on the next phase of the Dstl MAPLE 5 programme as it explores the challenges of exploiting a rapidly advancing technology base, looking beyond near term deployments and meeting MOD direction to unlock the potential of the generation-after-next. The paper explores: the integration of increasingly autonomous effectors and swarming systems and the need to consider MAS as force assets, operating across multi-national task groups and supporting new deployment patterns such as airborne crewed uncrewed teaming. As part of the ongoing MAPLE programme, the paper also will cover how international experimentation is moving beyond low level information integration to achieve a higher level interface, including recent work in Australian as part of Autonomous Warrior 22, as well as making extensive use of synthetic trials and federated facilities.
AD  - QinetiQ
AD  - QinetiQ
AD  - Dstl
T1  - Integrating maritime autonomous systems (MAS) into the future force, how the UK MAPLE architecture is being developed to enable generation after next capabilities.
DA  - 2022-08-18
AU  - Biggs, W
AU  - Astle, J
AU  - McIntyre, J
L1  - https://library.imarest.org/record/10677/files/INEC_2022_paper_30.pdf
JF  - Conference Proceedings of INEC
VL  - INEC 2022
PY  - 2022-08-18
ID  - 10677
L4  - https://library.imarest.org/record/10677/files/INEC_2022_paper_30.pdf
KW  - Autonomy
KW  - Command Control
KW  - Uncrewed
TI  - Integrating maritime autonomous systems (MAS) into the future force, how the UK MAPLE architecture is being developed to enable generation after next capabilities.
Y1  - 2022-08-18
L2  - https://library.imarest.org/record/10677/files/INEC_2022_paper_30.pdf
LK  - https://www.imarest.org/events/category/categories/imarest-event/international-naval-engineering-conference-and-exhibition-2022
LK  - https://library.imarest.org/record/10677/files/INEC_2022_paper_30.pdf
UR  - https://www.imarest.org/events/category/categories/imarest-event/international-naval-engineering-conference-and-exhibition-2022
UR  - https://library.imarest.org/record/10677/files/INEC_2022_paper_30.pdf
ER  -