“Establishing a common understanding of the future, and our part within it will help us and those within the wider Defence Sector have a better understanding of what we want and need,” he said.
“Integrated Warrior is a great opportunity for industry, academia and Defence to share their ideas, understand requirements, develop solutions and test them quickly to understand where we should be investing public money wisely.
“The Navy’s own technology accelerators such as NEMESIS, NavyX, MarWorks, DARE, NELSON and OCTO are already developing some great capabilities in support of our transformation priorities which include Operational Advantage in the North Atlantic, Future Commando Force and Carrier Strike.”
During the event, the Royal Navy stand had various pieces of equipment on show including the unmanned underwater vessel Remus, tactical precision strike Hero missile system and Anduril’s unmanned aerial vehicle.
Going forward, Integrated Warrior will see industry and the Royal Navy work together on trials and experimentation of new technology to see how the equipment would work for frontline services.
Lt Col Sutherland added: “We don’t hold all of the answers and will need to be more collaborative if we want to want to be able solve some of the challenges we face in the future development of the Royal Navy.
“Events such as Information Warrior, Advanced Autonomous Force 2.0, and Commando Warrior have already seen the Royal Navy and Royal Marines work alongside industry experts and partners, and similar experimental exercises are planned in the future – we need to keep up this momentum going in order to get after our future capability faster.”
