The Army Warfighting Experiment (AWE) series (previously
URBan EXperimentation or URBEX) has been an ongoing Army
experimentation programme for the last 10 years. It has
consistently delivered high quality evidence for the army and
invaluable military feedback to industry. It explores technology
suitable for exploitation in the short-to-medium term. It pushes
the boundaries of technology and military capability, testing a
range of prototype systems by putting them in the hands of the
user while giving invaluable military feedback to industry.
Agile C3 has been identified as one of the 9 fundamental
deductions and insights judged most critical to guide strategic,
joint and command force development.
AWE18, code named Autonomous Warrior, saw more than 50 companies
from large primes to one-man, garden shed innovators engage
with DE&S in a bid to
secure an opportunity to showcase their products to the military.
AWE20 is
expected to surpass that both in scale and level of industry
engagement. The topic provides a broad scope, looking at all
aspects of battlefield headquarters from deployable
infrastructure, data aggregation and analytics
to HQ resilience and
decision support.
The project aims to:
- engage with industry technology providers of all sizes to
explore what innovative approaches to traditional issues can be
leveraged to give the army a competitive edge
- expose capability and knowledge gaps
- explore technology ready for rapid exploitation
- create a community of industry partners that will encourage a
collaborative approach to problem solving
AWE20 seeks
to answer the following questions:
How can technology:
- improve data exploitation for situational awareness and
understanding
- enable us to make faster and better-informed decisions
- reduce the detectability and improve the resilience and
agility of HQs at all levels in order to enhance their
survivability
- enable more efficient deployment and employment of our HQs on
operations
- improve command on the move and facilitate dispersed HQs
For more information on the AWE20 project and the
requirement to provide solutions to the AWE20 questions check
the British Army website.
