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CSIIS Newsletter
Issue 2
First Quarterly Review Held
The current research project leads gathered to present their findings to a
gathering of Dstl staff in Farnborough. The 10 tasks presented covered Networks, Services, Communications, Information Assurance, Knowledge Management, Information Management and Information Exploitation.
Key Themes were:
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Removing linkages between content and routing and delivery systems, including improved interoperability
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Use of insecure infrastructure, including Bearers of opportunity
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Agility to respond to changing business requirements
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Improved collaborative working
across MoD, coalition partners and
allies
Dstl and the Industry teams split into workshops to discuss linkages between the CSIIS projects and also other extant research and demonstrator
programmes. The Work Strand Leads are currently working with Dstl to
produce Road maps to support the business case for further research.
CSIIS Contract Launched at Dstl
The CSIIS contract has been launched within Dstl. Key CSIIS staff presented to Dstl at both the Porton and
Portsdown sites. They then had a poster session with the work done on the Workstrands to date. A number of Dstl
staff came to discuss how CSIIS could be used to provide a contracting mechanism for their C4ISR work under the
Item 3 line of the contract.
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CSIIS Steering Group
Andy Hoyle, Airbus
Paul Wells, QinetiQ, Chair of Steering
Group
Paul has had a long and varied career covering communications and
security systems work in commercial,
defence and security markets. Originally a satcom specialist he has completed systems engineering, programme & business management roles leading to his current
role in creating, developing and growing successful new businesses. He has experience of research, design and delivery of
HF through to millimetre wave secure communications systems for challenging user environments. Notable achievements include the PTARMIGAN over SATCOM solution used
extensively in the first gulf war and being the principal UK advisor on military and security use of emerging civil satcom systems. Paul has just re-joined QinetiQ to lead the Communications, ISR and Information Services business after a 4 year role
in UK Government successfully introducing incremental development and build approaches for high risk and complex communications and security projects. He is the Chair of the CSIIS
steering board for the overall research and development programme.
Andy is a highly experienced communications engineer and senior manager
with 30 years satcom experience covering: payload equipment, payload, satellite mission, satellite systems, satellite
ground infrastructure, terminals and
satellite services from initial concept
study through design, development (with associated R&D)
and implementation to operation. Andy has contributed
significantly to all UK MoD major satcom programmes during this period: Skynet 4 Stages 1 and 2, NATO IV, Trimilsatcom and Skynet 5 for which he was the SDA and Chief Engineer for 10 years. With particular focus and expertise on
military and governmental customers requiring robustness
and security, Andy has worked closely with a wide range of
MoD stakeholders throughout his career and currently provides ad hoc seconded support to the JFC ISS DCNS BLOS
team at Corsham and has responsibility within Airbus Defence & Space for managing our relationship and engagement with DSTL on future BLOS.
Bob Dalgleish, Chemring
Bob Dalgleish has worked in military
tactical communications for over 35
Mark graduated in 1988 from Warwick Uniyears with brief forays into commercial
versity where he had studied Electronics Engiradio relay, cellular and satellite TV
neering. From university he joined CAP Scienground station developments. This intific as a software engineer where he develcluded VHF radio development in the
oped a range of specialist Naval Command
Plessey Company immediately postand Control systems. He spent some time
Ptarmigan, similar work in Siemens Plesworking abroad in Finland, Sweden and Canasey Defence Systems in a project management capacity
da as part of a number of successful export
campaigns. As he gradually moved from softduring which time Bowman emerged as an opportunity, to
ware engineering into programme manageMatra Marconi Space (now Astrium) for some light relief in
ment, his responsibilities broadened to runSatcom engineering management, then on to the Archer
ning a large department focussing on concept and assessment phase
Consortium in the last year of the initial Bowman contract.
contracts across all areas of Defence, particularly C4I Systems, missile
Bob then moved on to Roke Manor Research (now
defence and fire control applications. Throughout this period there was
Chemring Technology Solutions) initially as a project mana prolonged spell of Defence Industry consolidation which saw Mark
ager on cellular radio developments and latterly as a busibecome a BAE Systems employee in 1997.
ness development manager responsible for C4ISR-related
During 2000 Mark completed an MBA with Warwick University, specialdefence research and consultancy in most areas other than
ising in Strategy and Innovation. Following the MBA he spent a number
Electronic Warfare and Force Protection.
Mark Ashley, BAE Systems
of years in business development and strategy roles, looking at growth
strategies, industrial partnerships and acquisitions. In 2009 he was apJohn Shutler, Exelis
pointed Business Development Director at the CMMi Level 5 software
and systems house Aerosystems International, AeI, whose core business
Chief Engineer for Exelis Defence
includes mission systems, mission planning, tactical data links, human
(formerly ITT Defence) for the last
factors and logistics information systems.
In 2011 AeI was merged with two other business units to create a BAE
Systems Defence Information, where Mark is Head of UK Business Development. Mark’s focus is ensuring the continued growth in the increasingly competitive business sectors of tactical communications,
secure solutions, command information systems and synthetic training
solutions.
Mark is married to Sue and has two children. His interests including
photography, music, rugby, football and cricket. He is still actively playing village cricket, but continues to toil for his first ever century score.
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twelve years, John has nearly forty
years of engineering experience in Military Communications design and development including ten years as a technical consultant working within the
MOD procurement organisation, and
before this more than ten years designing tactical military communication systems for Marconi Secure Radio Systems.
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Nick Beswick , General Dynamics
Tim Bostel, IBM
After a 30 year career
as an infantry officer,
Nicholas joined General Dynamics UK in
2004, bringing with
him a user’s experience of Bowman and
conducting trials and
experiments in the
Army’s Command and
Control Development
Centre. His responsibilities since then have included
providing military expertise to project and research teams,
and delivering customer demonstrations. He has contributed to several MOD-funded research programmes and Niteworks projects, focusing on command and control, and
information management and exploitation. Recent work
has included running an MOD/Industry workshop on command and control agility, providing an analysis of MOD’s
information management issues and leading an independent assessment of the Army’s divisional HQ experiment,
Project HORROCKS.
Tim Bostel has over 30 years’ experience in the Defence domain, for the
last 18 years as a Consultant, Programme Manager and Account Manager in the Defence industry and prior
to that as a serving officer in the Royal
Navy with expertise in both the operation of warships and of
maritime aviation.
Mike Dixon, HP
After over 24 years in the Army,
Mike joined EDS, now HP, in
2002 where he continued to
specialise in information exchange and interoperability for
target engagement systems. He
was a representative to various
national and international messaging groups during this
time, specialising in ADatP-3 and similar messaging formats.
A consultancy role in ATLAS followed, where he was the
lead for scoping several major site moves including that of
HQ Land from Wilton to Andover. He is now the Defence
Frameworks lead for HP, coordinating HP’s contribution
into Defence research as well as support to the FATS frameworks.
Mike retires in October 2014 and will be replaced on the
Steering Group by Bruce Avison
Jerry Frost, Rockwell-Collins; TIER 2 rep
Jerry has worked in a variety of
Engineering and Management
roles in his 20+ years at Rockwell
Collins UK. Subjects covered include military airborne, ground
and maritime communication and
data link systems. He is currently
a Programme Manager covering
Communication and Navigation
systems areas.
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He is a highly motivated and versatile professional leader,
with a broad experience of management within a demanding
and rigorous environment, covering programmes involving
complex systems integration through to cutting edge studies.
Tim has recently managed a number of projects within the
C4ISR domain, including the ISTAR Information Integration &
Management (I3M) project and Tactical Data Links
(provision of links 11, 16, 22 and JRE).
Prof Andrew Blyth, is the Head of Information Security Research Group, University of South Wales. He is the Academic
rep on the Steering Group
Gill Bates, QinetiQ
Gill is QinetiQ’s Account Manager
for C4ISR Research. She is an experienced account, project and programme manager, with experience
gained through applied research
and project support for the Ministry
of Defence. Gill has a technical
background in requirements engineering and computer security, and over 10 years’ experience in customer relationship
and account management. She is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the IET, and was part of the Dstl-led team that was
awarded a MOD Chief Scientific Advisor Commendation for
exceptional contribution to Science and Technology for its
work on Counter Improvised Explosive Devices Information
Management/Information Exploitation in 2011.
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Items Available
Task no
Deliverable Ref
Description
2-1-1 Airborne IP Node
02.001.D02
Interim Technical Progress Presentation
2-2-2 Information Based Security
Task No2-D02
Information Based Security Initial Vision Presentation
2-1-9 Heterogeneous Networks
02.009-D02
Heterogeneous Networks: candidate solutions within a SoS
model
2-1-10 Secure Wireless HQ Scoping
2-10-D02
Executive Summary Report: Secure Wireless HQ – Summary of Findings of Scoping Study and Demonstrator Options
2-1-10 Secure Wireless HQ Scoping
2-10-D03
Presentation: Secure Wireless HQ – Findings of Scoping
Study and Demonstrator Options
2-1-12 Baseline close combat C4ISR land
tactical environment
2-12-D01
Initial scoping deliverable
For further details please visit our Website : www.csiis.qinetiq.com
ISCO uses Item 3
The Information Superiority for Contingent Operations (ISCO) Project used Item 3 of the CSIIS contract
to place two pieces of work with the Consortium.
These were entitled Early Entry and Mission Configurable CIS and Reachback Optimisation. The work included:
 An Agile Early Entry HQ incorporating both Com-
pact Deployable Information Services Capability
(CDISC) - a low Size, Weight and Power (SWaP),
high power, multi-domain server set - and improved use of virtualisation to provide an agile
and flexible Local Area Network (LAN) infrastructure;
 Pre-Landing Force (PLF) communications improvement focussing on maximising the potential of the Harris
117G radio through exploitation of its wide band and X-Band (via a MANTIS terminal) capabilities;
 Radio over Internet Protocol (RoIP) technology to enable participation in, monitoring and control of remote
radio nets via any IP network.
 Providing an infrastructure which optimises intelligence information flows over available SATCOM capacity to
support the operational need to conduct Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) reach-back and
reach-forward activities for Contingent Operations
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