@article{GENERAL,
      recid = {7628},
      author = {Rowley, C and Ford, G},
      title = {Digitally Empowering Naval Fleet Support},
      journal = {Conference Proceedings of INEC},
      address = {2018-10-04},
      number = {GENERAL},
      abstract = {Throughout history, the Royal Navy (RN) has invested in  technical innovation to gain warfare advantage over its  opponents. However, innovation often comes with change to  the asset design, its operation and through life support.  The most obvious example was during the turn of the 20th  century when the RN moved from coal to oil powered  propulsion systems, resulting in a major change to the  skills of the crew and the support chain.    <br>
The demands placed on the RN have  continued to grow during the 21st century, with a fleet of  highly complex surface ships and submarines that provide  the UK conventional and nuclear strike capability. This  paper explains how warfare advantage can be further  improved by information exploitation that is targeted at  the improvement of fleet availability, capability and  safety by empowering the operator and its shore-side  support organisation. <br>
The projects described in  this paper have been developed in collaboration with the RN  as part of the Maritime Support Information Exploitation  Strategy (known as MarSIX). The paper therefore discusses  the information principles used within Babcock’s  Support Strategy to deliver Navy Command’s MarSIX  vision.},
      url = {http://library.imarest.org/record/7628},
}