Standards for Integrated C5ISR/EW Systems (STICS)

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A suite of open standards and specifications enabling modularity and interoperability in C5ISR and EW systems.

The electromagnetic environment is changing, with rapidly evolving threats and technologies challenging UK Defence’s ability to robustly develop, procure and deploy effective Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) and Electronic Warfare (EW) capabilities.

Standards for Integrated C5ISR/EW systems (STICS)

STICS is an approach that enables UK Strategic Command to achieve the rapid integration and reconfiguration of cost-effective, high performance C5ISR/EW capabilities. It is a set of federated open technical standards, system structures, modular building blocks and behaviours to enable industry to deliver open and modular C5ISR/EW systems.

STICS will strengthen our industrial partnerships, enhance the effectiveness of our procurement programmes and ensure the UK is ready to meet its defence commitments both now and in the future. The key goals of this approach are:

to advocate the use of existing and/or emerging technical standards

to allow open access to, and the exploitation of, applicable information

to coherently align with government narratives and policy

to enable affordable and on-demand solutions

to facilitate flexible and extensible systems

The STICS approach leverages the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) and C5ISR/EW Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS) initiatives established in the US and tailors them for UK use. Until November 2024, STICS was known as the Land CEMA Architecture (LCA). The new name reflects its wider applicability across other domains and capabilities.

The standards currently adopted by STICS are:

Open Component Portability Infrastructure (OpenCPI)

Modular Open Radio Frequency Architecture (MORA)

STICS benefits for UK Defence, industry and stakeholders

Improved interoperability with other UK Defence capabilities.

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