Defence Secretary Keynote Speech at DSEI 2017 바카라 사이트“ 13 September
Secretary of State for Defence Sir Michael Fallon delivered the keynote speech at the Defence and Security Equipment International 2017 at the Excel Centre.
INTRO: PERIOD OF CHANGE
It바카라 사이트™s a huge pleasure to be back at the world leading DSEI.
Apart from the fact this exhibition has grown in size and scale, with some 141 international delegates here from 60 countries, it has remained a remarkably stable landmark in an otherwise turbulent world.
Since last time we were here the UK has had two elections and a referendum in which the British people decided to leave Europe.
Meanwhile, on the international front we바카라 사이트™ve seen North Korea threatening nuclear Armageddon, Russia maintaining its aggressive posture, waves of cyber crime like the Wannacry virus hit our hospitals and businesses and, touching on our theme today, terror, which has spread across the globe hitting us here in the UK in London and Manchester and recently devastating innocents in Barcelona.
At the start of the year the Doomsday Clock moved thirty seconds closer to midnight it seems they weren바카라 사이트™t exaggerating. As the danger proliferates defence바카라 사이트™s stock rises and the demand for the best kit goes through the roof. And today you바카라 사이트™ll find us making maximum use of our capability; whether it바카라 사이트™s sending HMS Ocean, C-17 and Puma Mk2 helicopters to the Caribbean to support humanitarian efforts in the wake of devastating Hurricane Irma, dispatching our Typhoons to bomb Daesh and protect Black Sea skies or deploying Challenger and Warrior to Estonia to provide critical reassurance to our Eastern European allies.
In an age of technological marvels and transnational threats this level of activity appears to be the new normal, which is why our response is evolving to meet new challenges.
It바카라 사이트™s based around three key elements:
- CHOICE
The first is choice.
We바카라 사이트™ve chosen to grow our defence budget by 0.5 per cent each year.
In 2015 our forces received some £34bn. In 2016 £35bn. This year it will be £36bn. And next year it will be £37bn. We바카라 사이트™re using that money to invest in the full array of high end kit across all domains.
In the past year you바카라 사이트™ll have seen a flood of announcements, from sailing new carriers to naming Dreadnought submarines, from buying Apache attacks helicopters to testing Ajax armoured vehicles and from the arrival of more F35s, to last week바카라 사이트™s announcement about future frigates.
And our new fifth generation kit offers much more than firepower and protection. These are flying, driving and floating sensors able to soak up information and instantly relay it from the battlefield to the battle station.
More than that, capabilities like dreadnoughts and carriers give us both a strategic nuclear and a strategic conventional deterrent, ensuring that whatever the future holds in the 2040s, 2050s, 2060s, the next generation will have the tools to cope. Innovative choices
But we바카라 사이트™re not just choosing to spend but choosing to invest in innovation, putting aside £800m so that by working with industry and academia we have the disruptive capability to keep ahead of the curve.
Take big data.
We바카라 사이트™ve given 30 firms a share of £3 million pound to develop machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence so it can crunch all the big data collected by our vehicles and translate it into a four dimensional picture of the battle space.
Or there바카라 사이트™s the sort of ship바카라 사이트™s brain we tested last year. It바카라 사이트™s able to root through information and recognise threats in much the same way as a human being recognises fear, allowing the crew to predict where system failure might occur next.
Inevitably, such technology triggers dire warnings about the march of machines. But software isn바카라 사이트™t a substitute for soldiers, sailors or pilot, it바카라 사이트™s there to optimise our time. Computers are simply better at rifling through data and doing mundane tasks.
ANNOUNCEMENT: ROBOTIC BOMB DISPOSAL
Just as robots are better suited to picking their way through bomb strewn battlefields.
That바카라 사이트™s why today I can announce we바카라 사이트™ve signed a contract worth up to £55m with Harris Corporation for 56 bomb disposal robots. Equipped with high-definition cameras, lightning-fast datalinks, an adjustable manipulation arm and tough all-terrain treads, these sophisticated systems use advanced haptic feedback that allows operators to 바카라 사이트˜feel바카라 사이트™ their way through the intricate process of disarming potentially the terrorist바카라 사이트™s favourite weapon the Improvised Explosive Device from a safe distance.
Robots will never replace humans.
It takes a soldier to search a house, calm a villager, win hearts and minds in a war zone.
But we바카라 사이트™re letting the machines take the load so people can get on with hard work of saving lives.
ANNOUNCEMENT: ACTIVE PROTECTION SYSTEM
At the same time, we바카라 사이트™re making sure our troops have the tech to protect themselves in difficult and dangerous situations.
So today I can announce Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has placed a £10m contract with Leonardo to improve the survivability and protection of Land Armoured Vehicles, by fitting them with an Active Protection System.
This can detect and defeat threat missiles within 100 milliseconds less than half the time it takes a human to react to a visual cue.
Providing a shield against Rocket Propelled Grenades and Anti-Tank Guided Weapons.
ANNOUNCEMENT: DRAGONFIRE
When it comes to weapons we바카라 사이트™re also devising some of our own.
If you haven바카라 사이트™t seen it already allow me to point you in the direction of the naval stand where you바카라 사이트™ll find a prototype of Dragonfire a directed energy weapon or laser to the layman.
Science fiction has become science fact.
Even more remarkable we바카라 사이트™ve come up with a bit of kit that will appeal as much to the accountant as the warrior because, instead of spending hundreds of thousands on missiles the energy in a high-intensity laser costs pennies.
I know you like to try out new capability but I바카라 사이트™m afraid this one isn바카라 사이트™t a working model.
Its state-of-the-art precision targeting system that can knock out a target up to six kilometres away.
I바카라 사이트™m afraid we couldn바카라 사이트™t take the risk of over eager guests pressing the wrong button.
But don바카라 사이트™t worry Dragonfire will soon be tested on a British warship.
You come to DSEI to be wowed and I hope we바카라 사이트™ve whetted your appetite.
But I don바카라 사이트™t want to overdo it so I won바카라 사이트™t mention our hover bike that바카라 사이트™s being tested on the water outside this building.
I바카라 사이트™ve talked so far about innovative Defence decisions we바카라 사이트™ve made that you can actually see here at DSEI.
But I haven바카라 사이트™t mentioned the way innovation is now influencing Defence below the surface, the way it바카라 사이트™s now woven into our tactics, honing our pioneering cyber techniques against Daesh in Iraq and Syria.
Nor have mentioned how innovation is transforming our approach in the boardroom.
Since the 2015 SDSR international threats have intensified.
So, rather than resting on our laurels, we바카라 사이트™re currently conducting a National Security Capability Review.Â
Defence will be a critical part of this cross-government refresh led by the National Security Adviser.
Our aim, across 바카라 사이트, is to ensure that we are implementing the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review in the most effective and efficient way possible.Â
The fact is, though our budget might be rising, so too are demands.
That바카라 사이트™s why we must keep asking searching questions, re-examining whether we are making the right choices, so we can prioritise the right things.
Critically, the UK isn바카라 사이트™t alone in going through this process. So too are our closest allies - the United States and France.
- COLLABORATE
Choice is key to addressing the threat we face.
The second aspect of our approach is collaboration.
If we바카라 사이트™re going to make the most of all our resources we need to do more to work together across the Defence Enterprise.
Carrier is a case in point. Built in blocks by over 10,000 people across the UK, before being shipped to Rosyth for assembly, it is a truly co-operative nationwide enterprise.
Or consider F35, an innovative partnership between BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman working alongside our Defence Electronics and Components Agency in Sealand. So successful in its bid that it wasn바카라 사이트™t just chosen as the European repair hub for F-35 avionic and aircraft components, but as the global support provider, sustaining hundreds of jobs directly and thousands more high value jobs across the supply chain.
From the start the F-35 programme itself has been not simply an exemplar of domestic collaboration, but of international collaboration, where we바카라 사이트™re proud to be a Tier One partner with the US, and to build 15 per cent of each and every aircraft.
And as Britain바카라 사이트™s looks to go global we see our equipment as a platform for stronger partnership.
Consider P8 maritime patrol aircraft.
A few months ago we struck an agreement with our fellow P8 nations Norway and the US, to pursue closer co-operation on training, logistics, and support and address the changing security environment in the North Atlantic.
- COMPETITION
International success brings me to the third element of our new approach to defence competition.
I바카라 사이트™m a big believer in competition.
I know it바카라 사이트™s power not just to strengthen our industry and bring in the wealth that benefits the UK, but to bring down prices as well meaning we can afford to buy even more kit.
And as we look to life post Brexit and seek to spread our wings across the world, it바카라 사이트™s high time we do more to compete for a share of this international export market.
We바카라 사이트™ve already got an enviable reputation in advanced manufacturing, we바카라 사이트™re leaders in intelligent systems, we already build wings for half the world.
And the UK continues to perform strongly in the international market, securing defence orders of £5.9bn in 2016, retaining its position as the second largest defence exporter globally over the last ten years
But now it바카라 사이트™s time to build exportability into our thinking from the off, aligning it with the requirements of international clients, allowing for the open architecture that can plug and play with different bits of capability.
In other words, the sort of pioneering approach we바카라 사이트™ve adopted with Type 31e.
바카라 사이트 has laid out a clear challenge to the sector to design and build five new lighter, General Purpose Frigate to replace the General Purpose variants of our ageing Type 23 Frigates with a clear in-service 바카라 사이트“ of 2023.
Type 31e will be flexible and adaptable.
The aim is in the name. E바카라 사이트¦stands for exports
Above all we바카라 사이트™ve set the price we want each frigates to cost.
At no more than £250m.
That바카라 사이트™s the maximum price.
This is a competition.
And I want to see great companies competing to lower the cost
But it바카라 사이트™s also a pathfinder
We haven바카라 사이트™t built frigates for another country since the 70s
We바카라 사이트™re changing all that
This frigate will rock the exports boat and it바카라 사이트™s a model for the way we will approach shipbuilding in future
Yet we바카라 사이트™re not just focusing our export drive on ships but planes.
The UK and its European partners are fully focused on working with industry to maximise Typhoon바카라 사이트™s export potential in the worldwide combat air jet market.
And the MOD, in particular, are pleased to now be supporting and leading some of those campaigns in Europe, the Middle East and South East Asia, where we believe Typhoon meets the requirements of our international partners.
We바카라 사이트™ve already seen the first plane delivered to Oman earlier in the year and more orders for Kuwait.
And today you바카라 사이트™ll see for the first time our Land Ceptor missile able to blast high speed, evasive, low signature and complex airborne targets out the sky
It바카라 사이트™s already in high demand with the Italian Army
Even as we look to sell more platforms, we바카라 사이트™ll continue banging the drum for British systems, from Scotland to Southampton, whether it바카라 사이트™s defensive aid suites, digital jammers or laser target designators, whether small satellites or secure communications.
So we바카라 사이트™ve got high hopes for UK companies.
And what better place to bring the message home than DSEI, where the kit is the star of the show and where the globe바카라 사이트™s investors gather in one place.
All those looking to become exporters will find help at hand.
Not only is our Defence Growth Partnership now working with industry to anticipate future market opportunities, but we바카라 사이트™re now adopting a Team UK approach, packaging up the vast array of expertise our nation has to offer so that international customers looking for solutions into anything from subsurface systems and synthetic environments to persistent surveillance or information systems, needn바카라 사이트™t hunt around for the right contact, but can simply go to our Team UK representatives and get the details they requires.
There바카라 사이트™s a UK team stall in the hall here today waiting to work with you to face up to the challenges to come.
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So two years down the line Britain바카라 사이트™s transforming its approach. Â And if you needed convincing that MOD really has changed its style look at the experts who make up our new innovation advisory panel. Â The former owner of a racing car company and an astronaut. Â The message is clear. Â The UK바카라 사이트™s moving at pace.
And we바카라 사이트™re about to hit the heights.