JERNEC

RED provided support as a member of the NECSUS consortium to DEC CC&II on the Joint Enablers for the Realisation of Network Enabled Capability (JERNEC) Framework Contract.

DEC CC&II, in their lead DEC role for Network Enabled Capability (NEC), required strong support from a broad-based industry consortium, incorporating military and civil expertise, to assist in communicating to all stakeholders what NEC is and their roles in achieving its practical realisation.

Specifically, the need was to sustain the Joint Capability Board NEC Delivery Strategy through a number of detailed tasks and closely support the ECC and Customer 2 in identifying: where NEC can deliver benefit to defence, the associated delivery actions and how to leverage previous work.

It was critical that the activity encompasses all Defence Lines of Development (DLOD) and thus the closest possible interaction with military and procurement staffs was critical to success.

To achieve this, an exceptionally robust, broadly based and responsive industrial consortium, underpinned by a shared understanding of the definition of NEC and experience of how the civil sector has addressed similar challenges, was needed to develop the tools and processes to make NEC 'business as usual'.

Team NECSUS, led by 5 Executive Partners supported by a large range of Capability Partners selected for their complementary skill sets, was selected to meet the needs of DEC CC&II and the wider stakeholder community. Each Executive Partner had responsibility for a specific area within the overall programme:

This executive group determined collectively who should lead a task and allocate responsibility for task leadership.

RED Scientific were selected to lead the very first task on Collective Training supported by consortium members on a "best athlete" basis.

A full range of tasks were subsequently placed through this Framework to meet the needs of the NEC Stakeholder Community.