Exclusive: British Army to receive Eve tactical comms system
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The LETacCIS programme progresses despite delays to some of its projects.
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is scaling out the experimental Eve digital network capability to the British Army to support its multi-billion-pound tactical communications programme LETacCIS, DSEI learnt.
This effort will expand the work undertaken by the Royal Marines and Royal Navy innovation teams which initially developed the system, with support from SNC Group, the head of Defence Equipment & Support’s (DE&S) Future Capability Innovation (FCI), James Gavin, told DSEI in March.
The system, known as Cain for the army, will be implemented across its 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team, Gavin continued.
“The MoD will learn from this [Cain], and it is the current intent to scale a larger pan-army/land forces system across all land forces in due course”. This will then inform the LETacCIS programme, he said.
Eve is based on an experimental digital network architecture that aims to enable data to be “processed forward, set the computational capacity for unmanned systems to be integrated and controlled when communications are challenged, and provide the battlespace-management platforms that enable the swift allocation of assets”, a RUSI report written by Sidharth Kaushal and Mark Totten detailed.
Both Eve and Cain have the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) smartphone-based battle management system at its core, Gavin said.
SNC Group is the Mission Partner for Eve, which is helping to scale and support the system. Using a company to support development and acquisition is being adopted across the MoD in an effort to maximise efficiency and accelerate adoption.
Along with Cain, the British Army will also receive a new command and control (C2) system supported by FCI and the Defence Digital LETacCIS team, building on a platform initially developed under the Human Machine Teaming (HMT) programme. The 4th Light Brigade Combat Team will use the system, Gavin said.
Under HMT, the system was used to control robots, based on ATAK, Gavin concluded.
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