Research and Development Programmes

Network Enabled Capability (NEC) for system integration and information sharing has been identified as a priority objective by the UK MoD.

The VRC under the NEC umbrella has a number of research activities as illustrated in the diagram below. Although the work primarily focuses in NEC for Ground Manoeuvre (Land Systems), the application environments of the VRC investigations can further be seen as relevant to wider military and civil sectors.

Research and Development Facilities

The centre is supported by three well-equipped laboratories with specialised hardware and software development tools for modelling, simulation, design and prototyping utilising our new PCB production facility. Demonstrator test-beds including a dedicated Controller Area Network system employing MilCAN , FlexRay and TTP development clusters, and various distributed control systems, wired and wireless communication networks using re-configurable FPGAs, general customised embedded processors, network processors, and DSP development, integrated environments.