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The UK’s Royal Navy has renewed their contract with Systematic to oversee the development of Message Text Format as well as the production of the NATO Message Catalogue, which oversees logistics requests from services and units across NATO.
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According to the company, the capability is deployable in narrow bandwidth and satellite-denied environments, with the UK’s Royal Navy developing and managing the asset on behalf of NATO. The Message Text Format (MTF) technology is based on the company’s IRIS Suite, a commercial off-the-shelf military C2 product.
According to Systematic, “IRIS simplifies orders, forms, reports, and messaging, ensuring correct and consistent data, and helps to reduce time and personnel costs through automation.”
As part of the announcement, the Danish prime contractor will continue delivering technical support to the UK’s Royal Navy for the entire lifecycle of the MTF and messaging processes from identifying operational needs, through to data capture, solution development, technical review, and publication.
“Systematic is proud to continue to serve in this vitally important role for the Royal Navy and NATO at large, particularly as interoperability with our allies and partners is increasingly critical,” Paul Fielding, Systematic senior manager, business development, said.
“Our support for the UK and Royal Navy through this program will extend to 20 years at the end of this contract period, and we remain ready to support greater digitisation now and into the future.”
The prime contractor stated that it will continue prioritising interoperability and standards alignment across the alliance.
Just last year, Systematic announced the development of a Danish joint venture CUBEDIN A/S.
According to the company, the joint venture aims to develop new modular, configurable, and multi-purpose vessels, enabling ships to transform between inspection, patrol, mine sweeping or environmental protection craft in hours.
The joint venture is between Systematic A/S and Odense Maritime Technology.
Under the partnership, the joint venture is expected to utilise Systematic’s expertise in software and IT, and OMT’s pedigree in ship design to create the futuristic vessels.
“Ships that are currently in service are not designed with flexibility in mind. They are usually created for a specific purpose and for a particular type of task,” Danny Ingemann, the recently appointed chief executive officer at CUBEDIN A/S, said.
“Using the CUBEDIN technology, shipbuilders can deliver modular vessels which, in the space of a few hours, can be adapted for different missions simply by replacing the modules. This is not just practical and flexible — it’s also far cheaper, because mission-specific ships are expensive to procure and maintain.”
According to the joint venture, the company has already received substantial interest from the market including a recent partnership with Thales.
“The functionality we can incorporate onboard the ships in this way offers countless possibilities, and therefore we’re very open to collaborating with companies that can build and deliver such functionality,” he continued.
“The goal is to have a ‘Cube store’, where customers can freely choose which functions they want their ships to have.”
