21 September 2021

RN seeds plans for Naval Strike Network as digital backbone

by Richard Scott

The Royal Navy (RN) is moving forward with plans to develop and field a so-called Naval Strike Network (NSN) intended to act as the information backbone for an increasingly distributed and disaggregated future fleet.

Conceived as an overarching information architecture that will enable a mix of crewed and uncrewed assets to work together within a single integrated network, the NSN in large part mirrors the aims of the US Navy's Project Overmatch initiative. Project Overmatch is intended to deliver the USN with an integrated, multi-domain battle network for communications and information sharing across all platforms.

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