BAE announces investment for MISC upgrade
BAE Systems is to invest £10 million to upgrade its Maritime Integration and Support Centre (MISC) in Portsmouth, the company announced on 12 April.
The facility provides support to the Royal Navy’s fleet whilst researching future combat systems and technologies. The facility replicates real-life ship conditions using the same combat system technology found across the Royal Navy’s surface fleet, including systems used to track threats, coordinate weapons and manage on-deck aircraft movements.
The centre enables the development and test of combat systems prior to their installation on ships and, once in service, provides them with through-life support.
BAE Systems’ investment will support research into new technologies including AI, information and EW, unmanned vehicles and new weapons. The MISC will benefit from new facilities including a visualisation suite that will be able to display live tactical data from any Royal Navy vessel anywhere in the world.
The technology will provide BAE Systems’ Naval Combat Systems Integration Support Services engineers with all the information they need to keep ships battle ready and support them in their deployments.
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