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000007676 037__ $$aGENERAL
000007676 245__ $$aTowards deployment, how the UK MAPLE architecture is being developed ready for exploitation and its role at the centre of international experimentation involving maritime unmanned systems.
000007676 269__ $$a2020-10-05
000007676 336__ $$aConference Proceedings
000007676 520__ $$aPrevious papers have set out the importance of maritime unmanned vehicle command and control in unlocking future maritime capability and the progress made under the Maritime Autonomous Platform Exploitation (MAPLE) project. The relentless pace of technological development is now seeing a number of unmanned systems readied for deployment and the Dstl lead MAPLE project actively involved in increasingly realistic and robust operational experimentation; and there are active plans for a minimum viable product implementation under Agile principles at sea in the coming year. As MAPLE enters a fifth phase, the ambition is a baseline capability that will enable the UK MOD to procure a full Maritime Autonomous Systems Command and Control system. This paper will talk to progress in developing and de-risking the technology and systems enablers and the plan to generate requirements documentation and Concepts of Operation, Use and Employment for a range of military tasks. It will also explain how the project is deepening understanding of the human factors implications of managing human machine teams alongside the conduct of existing warfare tasks. Continuing a long running MAPLE theme of end-to-end command and control, an overview will be given of how Phase 5 is developing the persistent architecture to address use of multiple MAPLE systems in a Force, and the use of effector systems deployed from unmanned systems. More widely, the paper will touch on how UK projects including MAPLE are at the forefront of an international effort to exploit maritime unmanned systems (MUS) and to secure interoperability and interchangeability, under a new NATO sponsored initiative.
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000007676 6531_ $$aMaritime
000007676 6531_ $$aAutonomy
000007676 6531_ $$aUnmanned
000007676 6531_ $$aCommand and Control.
000007676 7001_ $$aSmith, P$$uDstl UK,
000007676 7001_ $$aAstle, J$$uQinetiQ Ltd UK
000007676 7001_ $$aBiggs, W$$uQinetiQ Ltd UK
000007676 773__ $$tConference Proceedings of INEC
000007676 773__ $$jINEC 2020
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000007676 8564_ $$97e2f9d8b-44f1-49e5-926b-8a7897013df7$$s1603820$$uhttps://library.imarest.org/record/7676/files/INEC_2020_Paper_49.pdf