Multi-domain integration to be Thales theme at a ‘hybrid’ DSEi 2021
Multi-domain integration is the focus for the Thales Zone at this year’s Defence, Security Equipment International exhibition, reflecting a realignment in Defence procurement and doctrine to meet an unpredictable future.
Multi-domain integration (MDI) means more than closer cooperation between military components in shared battlespaces, it requires a concerted effort across all instruments of national power, alongside allies and partners and at speed, and across a range of intensities from peacetime competition to all three levels of warfighting.
DSEi 2021 is an opportunity for Thales to showcase the application of digital technologies to make MDI possible, from ‘sensing the battlefield’ to processing and sharing data to tasking flexible, multi-purpose platforms to deliver a wide range of effects.
Reflecting a new way of security thinking
Traditionally, DSEi has been organised around new systems within the main operational domains of land, sea and air. This year, Thales’s exhibits reflect the company’s alignment with customer thinking around operating in a multi-domain environment, including space and cyber.
Visitors to the Thales Zone can experience, through displays and demonstrations, how Thales digital technologies, including autonomy, AI, big data analysis and open software architectures will advance MDI:
- Transverse information sharing within the UK Royal Navy Carrier Strike Group and the Royal Air Force’s MD-MSS, fusing data feeds from multiple sources and domains.
- Maritime autonomy, with physical demonstrations of mission control systems to demonstrate integration of autonomy into hybrid missions and showcasing a variety of autonomous capabilities including an Ariane Mine Warfare demo.
- In the security and resilience areas, the focus will be on cyber security and protection of CNI while satellite systems exploit the space domain for greater geospatial and electromagnetic activity awareness.
- On land, Thales will demonstrate its missile systems with a range of FIRES effects including LML-NG, STARStreak, LMM and Free Fall LMM, new helicopter capabilities and counter UAS measures.
- Screen demos will explore the use of real data, digital twin environments and AI computer-generated force (AI CGF) in training, with manned Air Mission Training System pilots fly against AI opponents generated at the event.
A hybrid event with DSEi Connect
DSEi will be hosted from 14-17 September 2021 in an innovative, ‘hybrid’ format. Thousands of international visitors, representing national security and defence forces, thought leaders in manufacturers, academia and industry are expected at ExCel, London Centre. They will be joined by virtual delegates participating in parallel via a secure digital platform. ‘DSEi Connect’ will allow remote visitors access to presentations, keynote speeches, interviews, podcasts and a secure community for building relations.
