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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMME
2. Awarding Authority: Ministry of Defence, GB Email: NAVYCOMRCL-RFI@mod.gov.uk. (Navy Commercial)
3. Contract type: Service contract
4. Description: NavyX, as the RN’s innovation, lethality, and autonomy accelerator, has 3 surface platforms XV PATRICK BLACKETT, MADFOX and an Autonomous Pacific 24 Seaboat (APAC 24) which can meet the aims of NavyX by hosting, demonstrating, and aiding in the evaluation of autonomous systems. To enhance NavyX’s capability a system enabling experimentation and assessment in a synthetic environment would be beneficial. It would enable NavyX to offer the ability to assess and evaluate full and partial autonomy systems or elements of such systems alongside, and complimentary to the capabilities offered by NavyX’s live surface assets.
The Royal Navy has ambitions to use Uncrewed systems (and Systems of Systems Autonomous platforms) to add Mass and Persistence in support of current crewed missions in the detection and tracking of threat submarines in areas of operational relevance to the specified location.
Given the need to control a variety of Uncrewed Capabilities (UxVs to include UAV/UUV/USV and static anchored autonomous nodes) covering a given geographical area, what infrastructure should the RN be prudently anticipating with respect to a future Command and Control floor plate (as a working premise this is anticipated to be front end C2 i.e. control of Navigation and ‘life support’ activities and not necessarily the ‘back seat’ acoustic processing capabilities – as this latter requirement would need an assessment of the likely ‘edge processing’ capability of an proposed ‘solutions’). Should Industry believe it is able to support an assessment of the ‘acoustic’ wet end processing, any observations on this impact on the watch floor would also be welcome.
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5. CPV Code(s): 73410000, 72000000, 72260000
6. NUTS code(s): UKJ, UKJ3, UKJ31
7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: South East (England), Hampshire And Isle Of Wight, Portsmouth.
8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Project Code 703712451
FY 22/23
9. Estimated value of requirement: Not provided.
10. Listing Deadline 7.8.2023 (12:00:00).
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