Collaborative Undertaking Focused on Data Science-Led Approach

Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) and Techmodal (a BAE Systems unit) have hosted their first Hackathon event, the companies announced on 21 November.

The event, which took place at the MoD’s BattleLab facility in Dorset, saw the companies join forces, using data from across the enterprise to bring new insights into operation and support of the Terrier platform. Centred on the Terrier vehicle, the event demonstrated the value of a modern data science-led approach to maximising availability and cost-effectiveness of land equipment. It also demonstrated the value in a collaborative approach, bringing together industry, MoD and the Army.

Richard Dobie, Data and Information Lead at RBSL said, “The hackathon demonstrated the enormous value of effective land equipment data exploitation in pursuit of the Army’s Mobilise and Modernise strategy […] It also demonstrated how bringing data and specialist capability together can deliver a key enabling service of any LIOS solution in the future.”

“The hackathon exceeded our expectations of what could be developed in such a short space of time. By re-using data science and analytic techniques that we’ve successfully used elsewhere in Defence, and applying them to a different problem set, we demonstrated the pan-domain utility and value of our work. We look forward to continuing to work with RBSL in this area,” added Richard Dixon, Land Account Director at Techmodal.