The Ministry of Defence has awarded a £19.68 million contract to SixWorks of Farnborough to sustain and grow the NEXUS to Core (N2C) Air Information Platform (AIP).
The award, published on 2 October, will ensure the long-term development of a cloud-based data fabric designed to give aircrews decision superiority by connecting sensors and effectors across domains.
According to the award notice, the AIP is the fundamental enabling component of NEXUS architecture. It delivers integrated solutions for secure processing, connectivity, and data management, supporting time-sensitive operational decision-making in complex environments.
Sustaining the platform includes maintaining the integrity of the existing infrastructure, while growth will focus on onboarding new information sources, integrating additional customers, and expanding to allied networks.
The contract continues work first developed under the Titan II agreement in 2021, which established the initial solution. Officials said that switching suppliers at this stage would risk “capability regression” and create “disproportionate technical difficulties in operation or maintenance.” SixWorks has developed bespoke interfaces and orchestration mechanisms for ingesting and disseminating mission-critical data, making them uniquely positioned to sustain and grow the platform.
The NEXUS programme consists of five mutually dependent work packages, with the AIP described as essential to delivering the overall capability. It underpins interoperability not only within the RAF but across UK services through integration with programmes such as Army ZODIAC and Navy StrikeNet. The platform is also aligned with NATO’s Data Fabric for Shared Situational Awareness and the US Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System.
NEXUS will, it is hoped, enable a single data layer to generate a common operating picture for allied forces.
Yep, understood all that 🤦
Neither did I….I may be totally wrong, but with the picture influencing me it may be connected to the RAF ACC Force ( Air Command and Control Force ) so C2, which operates the RHH ( Remote Radar Heads ) and CRC ( Control Reporting Centre ) regards the UKADR ( UK Air Defence Region ) which produces the RAP ( Recognised Air Picture ) for Air Command of airspace in and around the UK. They use various data links and such, maybe something enhancing all that?
Assume it might also feed into deployable elements of the RAF, so 1 ACC and the JFACH….Joint Force Air Component HQ.
Davey or RAF types will probably know to relieve our ignorance!
This seems very straightforward. To whomever wrote it I suppose, though it does take gobbledegook to a new level.
I have grown to understand that people can be educated to the highest possible levels of Stupid.
There is a House in Londonistan full of them. Sometimes they even wake up and say stuff.
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The core parameters (notwithstanding certain constraints in multi-dimensional conceptualisations) represent a growing connectivity and ecology of types in planar and linear modes across a spectrum of effects that have both (inclusively so) a measure of confidence that exceeds the remit posited in the initial paradigm. Clear pathways now exist and these will be made available though seeding and propagation pro tem. The Doctor’s tell me there is room for hope.
Exactly.
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