BAe delivers innovative command and control system

June 16th, 1999

British Aerospace Defence Systems has supplied advance copies of GP3, the British Army's new software-based command support system to the UK Ministry of Defence. They will be used for personnel training, and to ease the development of new Army Command and Control operating procedures.

GP3 is the main element of the comprehensive Army Command Support Application Suite (ACSAS). This will be deployed operationally at headquarters in 2000 and is at the heart of the first stage of the British Army's digitisation of the battlespace. ACSAS will combine, and integrate, three separate command support applications being developed by British Aerospace Defence Systems, which is leading a team that includes Logica (UK) Ltd, SCS Ltd and CSC:

• GP3 will provide functionality principally to G2 (Intelligence) and G3 (Operations and Plans) staff officers, although all operational staff will use aspects of the software.

• QP24 will provide functionality to G4 (Logistics) staff officers. It is currently deployed at HQ from Corps to Brigade. British Aerospace has started work with CSC on integrating QP24 into ACSAS.

• AP3 will provide functionality principally to G1 (Personnel) staff officers. British Aerospace Defence Systems' software engineers are currently developing this as an

The system is being developed by British Aerospace within a rapid prototyping environment in partnership with representatives from all elements of the Army user community, which recently endorsed a final evaluation variant. The 'beta' version now being supplied will enable the Army to realise the full potential of GP3 when the first operational issue enters service in late 1999.

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