Dr Sandy Wilson to give keynote speech at AFV Symposium
Above: Dr Sandy Wilson.
He will acknowledge that the MoD's Generic Vehicle Architecture programme is a positive enabler of incremental acquisition and cite the open, modular electronic architecture for the next generation of AFVs to ensure new technology advances are easily incorporated.
The Symposium will focus on the key issues of how to deliver capabilities that are easily upgraded in order to keep up with the rapidly changing nature of today’s operations and how to deliver increased military effect through interoperability between AFV platforms. The participants will discuss the importance of platform interoperability and the resulting cost and operational benefits.
Colonel Peter Flach (Retd) will provide the audience with a progress report on the Scout SV programme, highlighting how the vehicle has been developed to deliver easier through-life upgrade capability to its user and how as an ISTAR hub with Bowman at its core delivers on the aspiration for better interoperability for the British Army and with coalition forces in future operations.
Kevin Lindsay, General Dynamics UK’s Electronic Architecture (EA) expert, will discuss the role of the company’s open standard EA in rapidly delivering upgrade technologies to meet the latest threats and reducing operating costs for the user, whilst General Dynamics UK will also share its expertise in Armoured Fighting Vehicle (AFV) capabilities, gained as one of the UK Ministry of Defence’s key land systems suppliers delivering programmes such as the Scout SV, the Systems Information Exploitation / Health and Usage Monitoring System (SIE/HUMS) and Bowman for Britain’s Armed Forces.
The Scout SV programme is the British Army’s core AFV programme under the Army’s Force 2020 programme. It will be key to ensuring that the Army achieves increased interoperability between AFV platforms and the ability to more easily upgrade those platforms throughout their lives, whilst delivering improved value to the taxpayer.
The SIE/HUMS system will monitor on-board systems on the British Army’s operational training fleet of vehicles and automatically download vehicle data, simplifying the job of the Army’s fleet managers.
