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DSEI 2019

NavyX – Autonomy DeliveredCommander Sean Trevethan Royal Navy

Fleet Robotics Officer | NavyX Programme Manager

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What is NAVYX?

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• NavyX is the Royal Navy’s new Autonomy and Lethality

Accelerator, which will enable rapid, continual

transformational change in Mass and Lethality across all

Maritime Environments - over water, on water, under

water and across the littoral.

• By empowering a team with diverse experience, NavyX

will exponentially accelerate our speed of learning, our

capacity to procure and integrate these best-in-class

technologies, our ability to prove them in the real world at

pace, and when ready, enable delivery to war fighters.

NAVYX

VISION

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To exploit autonomous systems, develop experience and processes to maximise

comparative technological advantage and lethality and deliver to the war fighter.

To identify opportunities and gaps, through engagement with the innovation ecosystem:

MoD, academia, SMEs, the defence industry and the S&T community.

To enable experimental and technical integration into existing systems to initiate the early

adoption of interoperable autonomous systems.

To learn by doing, to prove through ongoing engagement and experimentation, to acquire

and shape knowledge.

To work with the innovation ecosystem to identify opportunities to accelerate and simplify

existing acquisition processes in order to identify the most effective route to scale

autonomous systems.

NAVYX

MISSION

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NAVYX

CONOPS

i. BUY IT ii. CONNECT IT iii. PROVE IT iv. SCALE IT

NavyX, working closely with

DE&S, will set the standard in

its capacity to procure both

COTS and MOTS hardware

NavyX will integrate, drawing

together COTS, MOTS and

bespoke hardware.

Collaborating and sharing

knowledge across all

stakeholders

NavyX will work closely with the

Warfighter to constantly

improve, developing

CONEMP, CONUSE and

KURs as well as DLOD

interaction.

NavyX will conduct rapid,

and iterative Test &

Experimentation as new

equipment is added to the

trusted inventory.

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NAVYX DELIVERY TEAM

HOTO

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NAVYX

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Unmanned Warrior (UW16)

Autonomous Warrior (AW18)

Commando Warrior (AAF)

Sustainable Warrior (SW19)

Cardigan Bay (CB19)

Information Warrior (IW Series)

NATO REP(MUS) 19

A key component to the

development of technology and

tactics

Potential for collaboration in all

exercises

OPERATIONAL EXPERIMENTATION (OPEX)

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NAVYX

EVENTS

DASA – Call for Innovation: Coming Soon

Live demonstration at DSEI of autonomous PAC24

NATO REP(MUS), With our allies United States and Portuguese Navy

AAF 2.0 next phase of Commando Warrior later this year

NavyX Briefing Pack7

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NAVYX

REPMUS 19 REA/ISTAR

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NAVYX

REPMUS AMPHIB ASSAULT

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NAVYX

RN MAS CAMPAIGN PLAN

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NAVYX

RN MAS CAMPAIGN PLAN

Superiority in the North Atlantic

•Mine Countermeasures (MCM)

•Anti-submarine Warfare (ASW)

•Hydrology & Meteorology (HM)

Carrier Strike

•Autonomous Resupply (AR)

•Force Anti-Ship Missile Defence (F-ASMD)

•Force Protection (FP)

Future Commando Force

•Pre-landing Operations (PLO)

•Amphibious Advance Force (AAF)

•Joint Fires (JF)

Forward Presence

•Non-combatant Evacuation Operations (NEO)

•Humanitarian and Disaster Relief (HADR)

•MOD A-Block (MAB)

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RN MAS CAMPAIGN PLAN

Domain Capability

Roles

Core Capability Outputs

Deterrence

(at Sea)

UWW Groups

Presence

(forward)

All Groups

Strike -

Air & Surface

Groups

Strike –

Littoral

Groups

Tasks (e.g.

SM, MCM,

ASW, HM)

Tasks (e.g.

NEO, HADR,

Afloat Spt)

Tasks (e.g.

ASMD, Force

Protection)

Tasks (e.g.

Amphibious,

Adv. Force)

UAV

Sense Enviro.

Communicate

Lift

Attack

Protect

Detect & Loc.

In Service Opportunity Concept Opportunity

USV Assessment Opportunity Opportunity Opportunity

UUV Concept Opportunity Opportunity Concept

UGV Opportunity Opportunity N/A Opportunity

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MAS CAMPAIGN PLAN

NORTH ATLANTIC

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MAS CAMPAIGN PLAN

CARRIER STRIKE

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MAS CAMPAIGN PLAN

FUTURE COMMANDO FORCE

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MAS CAMPAIGN PLAN

FWD PRESENCE

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MAS - CENTRE OF GRAVITY

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Collaborative C2 – MAPLE

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Options to engage with NavyX are:

1. Follow us and access the NavyX Newsletter online through

Twitter: @RNNavyX

2. Contact us directly through:

NAVYMARCAP-NavyXMailbox@mod.gov.uk

3. Register your interest in participating within working groups or

finding out more at: https://NavyX_front_door.eventbrite.co.uk

NAVYX

ENGAGE

19 OFFICIAL19 NavyX Briefing Pack

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Underwater Systems

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19/20 Activity

Delivery

• Operational Exercises (REPMUS, AAF

2.0. etc.)

• PAC 24 USV (Multi-Payload)

• Sub Launched UAV

• Amphib mini UAS

• Tactical Precision Strike (TPS)

• XLUUV Concept Demo

• USSV

• SF USVs

Planning

Trials Ship Capability

Infrastructure

Personnel

Engagement

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