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Autonomy and Advanced Systems Showcase

Pushing Defence Capability to Market

Sir Brian Burridge

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Wouldn’t It Be Good If ….

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But Things Are Changing

The iPad Air Apple is universally acknowledged as the most beautiful tablet on the market.

[X] ‘moonshots’ driverless cars, Google Glass, contact lenses that

measure insulin in tears.

The connected home with touchscreen washing machines and curved televisions

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Other Things Are Also Changing!

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So Here’s The Problem….

Some ISR Challenges

• Reduced sensor size

• Complex urban areas

• Multi-level, multi-function sensors

• Common modules across domains and networks

• Co-existence on a crowded spectrum

• Multi-function architectures

• Data deluge • Next-generation devices

The Barriers

• Prospecting • IPR management • The valley of death • Business models and

finance • Teaming and alliancing

• Penetrating the crowded

market

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The Defence Growth Partnership But:

• Customer’s needs are changing in an uncertain world.

• Competition is fiercer and technology is driving new solutions.

• Governments use major defence acquisitions to generate indigenous capacity.

• The market wants tailored or integrated solutions supported by the UK Government with the provision of technology transfer, inward investment and local partnering.

So:

• How do we organise ourselves in the UK to respond to these needs?

• What new means might we apply to ‘developing product’ and then push it to market?

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The Defence Growth Partnership

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Project Zero

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Tiltrotor Configuration/Styling

Carbon Graphite Aircraft Exterior Surface

Project Zero Participants

Flight Control System & Rotor Design

Axial flux permanent electric motors

Diesel Engine Alternative/CNC Machining for Rotor & Drive System

Motor Cooling System Wiring Harness

High Bandwidth Electromechanical Actuators

Landing Gears

Blades Composite Structure

Electric Motor inverter/Motor Control Algorithm

Rotor Blades Aerodynamic Properties Design

Hybrid electric-diesel solution

High Integrity Flight Control Computer and Actuator Control Unit

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Project Management 101

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

Jimi Hendrix

The Barriers

• Prospecting • IPR management • The valley of death • Business models and

finance • Teaming and alliancing

• Penetrating the crowded

market

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Autonomy and Advanced Systems Showcase

Pushing Defence Capability to Market

Sir Brian Burridge