Electronic intelligence system

Tender description

DE&S, on behalf of MoD, are looking to procure a Tether System that can be integrated with a MoD Air Platform to support and enable trials of a Tethered UAS to evidence and inform MarCap capability and decision making on the potential future use. DE&S, on behalf of MoD, are looking to procure a Tether System that can be integrated with a MoD Air Platform to support and enable trials of a Tethered Unmanned Air System (TUAS) to evidence and inform Maritime capability and decision making on the potential future use. A TUAS could be a viable method of granting increased situational awareness and command and control capability for ships. The current sensor horizon on RN ships is limited by physical mast height. This could be extended many times if the sensor/payload was elevated further to support a range of potential future payloads/use cases. The Navy requires such capabilities be investigated to provide decision support to technology development and system procurement. This TUAS Capability Concept Demonstrator (CCD) shall be conducted to investigate the physical limitations of tether height and impacts on power/data capacities as well as exploring and understanding technical feasibility.