Land Based ISR and Common Operating Picture Managed Service

Channel Operations leads the overall response to clandestine entry to the UK. It is tasked with ending the viability of the small boats route as a means of entering the UK and preventing other forms of high-risk clandestine entry.

The land based ISR and common operating picture is required as part of a wider Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) package to support decision making and the tasking and coordination of operational assets; and to reliably and autonomously detect, track, and identify small boats at range, fusing this with data generated by existing platforms, and presenting it to end-users.

The overarching requirement is to provide enhanced tactical domain awareness in the area of operations to autonomously support decision making and the tasking and coordination of operational assets. This requirement will need to be delivered via a managed service that provides the domain awareness via a connection to HO owned TAK (Team Awareness Kit) server, this will provide a common operating picture that is made available to key decision-makers and operational first responders.

This domain awareness will need to be provided through a web API and common operating picture and command interface that can also connect to HO owned TAK (Team Awareness Kit) server.