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Welcome to the Distributed Systems and Service Group at the School of Computing, University of Leeds website for the Network Enabled Capability Through Innovative Systems Engineering Project
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Dependable Architecture Workshop - NECTISE
27 November 2008, Leeds, UK
Conference - Realising Network Enable Capability 2008 (RNEC'08)
13-14 October 2008, Leeds, UK
Network Enabled Capability (NEC) is the UK MoD's response to the rapidly changing conflict environment in which its forces must operate. The armed forces must be flexible, ready and rapidly deployable, and must possess attributes that allow the application of controlled and precise force to achieve realisable effect as part of a wider scene that includes diplomatic and political aspects. The implications of this operational goal are immense and will stimulate significant organisational changes throughout the entire defence supply chain, with knock-on effects in other industrial sectors and civilian environments.
MoD has noted that:
NEC will influence equipments and systems across their entire lifecycle, from concept development through upgrades throughout their in service life and until their disposal or replacement.
Defence suppliers, such as BAE Systems, must develop with the changing, defence requirement as capability suppliers adept at managing such capability through-life, within large dynamically connected network of supplier-customer organisations. Thus, one may reasonably ask of all organisations operating in the defence environment:
Are you prepared for NEC?
Leeds University is extending the knowledge of system architectures for NEC. This includes development and evaluation of a set of architectural representations of system of systems to support NEC and through-life system evolution with specific links to developing MoD Architectural Framework, MODAF.
Fully embedded capability management: developing a culture of capability management across defence, that focuses on the delivery, evolution and sustainment of operational capability, rather than on individual platforms. (Developing Smart Acquisition for NEC, p36)
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