Centre Defence Enterprise

for

24 June 2015

Innovation Network

25 June 2015

CDE enduring challenge competition

Bruce Hardie - CDE Technology Manager

Enduring competition

Perpetual

Radical

£3 million per

year

Enduring competition

Challenges

Enduring

Framework

Enduring challenge: overview

Protection

Defence assets

Portable

Secure – COTS

Disposal /Denial

Situational awareness

Geography

Culture

Atmosphere

Social context

Situational awareness

Prioritising

Collating

Processing

Human Interaction

Power and energy

Key enablers

Mobile power

Alternative sources

Power and energy

Key enablers

Mobile power

Alternative sources

Right person –

Right time

Cost effective and robust

Secure - COTS

Communication

Cyber defence

Pace of change

Legacy systems

Social networks

Data

Data security

‘Big data’

Novel solutions required!

Data

Data security

‘Big data’

Novel solutions required!

Data

Storage and

supply

Scalability

Alternatives

Novel defences

Lethality

Lethality

Storage and

supply

Scalability

Alternatives

Novel defences

Strategic lift

Tactical agility

Fuel efficiency

MOD generic architectures

Mobility

Strategic lift

Tactical agility

Fuel efficiency

MOD generic architectures

Mobility

Support

Physical and

mental

performance

Training methods

Human performance

Training - realism

Preparation

Multi-use

equipment

Non-expert usage

Human performance

Rehabilitative care

Low risk

Human-machine ‘interfaces’

Human performance

Lower cost of ownership

Right person/time

Cost-effective and robust

Secure - COTS

Enduring challenge - linkages

How can you get involved?

Right person/time

Cost effective and robust

Secure - COTS

Centre for Defence Enterprise

Advanced Design and Manufacturing

Wing Commander Jim Pennycook

Centre for Defence Enterprise

030 67704236

cde@dstl.gov.uk

www.gov.uk/dstl/cde

CDE enduring challenge competition

[Big] data

Leo Borrett

Capability Advisor – Data Analytics

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• 640 TB data transferred every minute via internet

• Cost per Giga-FLOP:

– 2000 - $1,300.00

– 2015 - $0.08

• 90% of world’s data generated in last 2 years

• 1 Zettabyte per year generated by 2015 (to the moon and

back in stacked CD’s)

• ~ 290TB per hour generated by wide area surveillance

sensors

• ~10TB data per Reaper sortie generated

• TB’s to PB’s of unstructured data (text, imagery, video,

audio) generated on operations

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Who’s driving information technology innovation?

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Source:

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Enduring challenge themes

1. Big data

2. Machine learning

3. Synthetic datasets

4. Visualisation

5. Human language

6. Predictive analytics

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Big data

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1. Distributed querying with poor connectivity

2. Handling noisy and missing data

3. Handling privacy and legal constraints

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Sources:

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Machine learning

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Human error rate (red line) vs computer – ImageNet

Classification Challenge

1. Open source

frameworks optimised

for defence problems

2. Distributed learning

3. Training on fewer

examples

Sources:

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Synthetic datasets

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Dstl struggles to release

classified data to support

external research

Lack of synthetic datasets for

testing, training and

development

Requirement for an ability to

rapidly generate

operationally relevant

synthetic data

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Visualisation

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1. ‘Big data’ visualisation

2. Representing

uncertainty

3. Novel representation of

complex datasets

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Human language

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1. Machine translation of

poorly structured text

(eg social media)

2. Rapid development of

new language models

3. Speech recognition in

noisy environments

Predictive analytics

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Strategic requirement

across MOD

INSIGHT to FORESIGHT

Handling false alarms a

key priority

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Questions?

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