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Purpose

This document is the Maritime Service Catalogue. Its purpose is to describe the set of Mission System Services – the stable and enduring high level descriptions of abstract (yet precise and specific) functionality - currently present on RN Platforms, and which are expected to be present in future RN Platforms. The intent is to establish a common language for describing the functional machine services, at a high level.

For a full understanding of the scope of this document, it is necessary to define what is meant by ‘RN Platform’ and ‘Mission System’ in the context of the implementation of Open Architecture in the Maritime Environment.

The scope of Open Architecture in the Maritime Environment includes the mission systems that contribute to, or support, the delivery of RN Maritime Capability. The primary focus is on the Mission Systems that are present on RN Platforms (Surface and Sub-Surface) and assets deployed from those platforms, which include air assets (Helicopters, Fighters and UAVs) as well as surface and subsurface assets (e.g. RIBs, USVs and UUVs). These Mission Systems are composed of Mission Information Systems, e.g. a radar, which make up the Combat Systems, Platform Systems and Operational Information Systems that are deployed on RN Platforms.

The full scope of the RN Open Architecture Vision and Framework extends beyond just those systems that are deployed on RN Platforms. The full scope includes aspects of the architecture of Ashore establishments that support RN Maritime Capability. These Ashore establishments include those that create reference material (e.g. JEWOSC and UKHO) and those that provide Training (e.g. HMS Collingwood).

It should be noted that although the majority of the Services described in this document deliver functionality, some of them deliver physical services. For example, RN Platforms must make provision in their structure (physical architecture) for delivering appropriate physical environments for equipment and humans, in suitably configured workspaces, and for providing facilities for accessing and transporting material on to, off and within the RN Platform.

For ease of utilisation, a model containing Services described within this document is available from ASPIA upon request.