RFI0010 - Wilton Industry Show and Experiment for Mine Counter Measures WISEX

Most of you are aware of the Royal Navy's ambitious and ground-breaking transition towards autonomous Mine Counter Measures via MHC. This will be supported by WISE-X, which offers the opportunity to showcase exactly what your capabilities can do, and allow the case to be built for inclusion in the MHC programme down the line either in Block 2 or the perpetual spiral development that the "System of Systems" approach will allow us to embrace. Our revised plan is to undertake periods of DSTL assessed trials (similar to Weapon Practice Assessment) in the Clyde approaches in the September to October 2021 period, and then resume in March until September 2022, thereby avoiding the worst of the weather, but giving open windows for industry to demonstrate.