Forge
Hadean has been working with data analytics experts, Cervus, simulation specialists, ST Engineering Antycip, and global leaders in modelling and simulation technologies, MAK Technologies Inc., to accelerate the British Army’s Operational Research Branch (ORB) use of technology to inform and support decision making.
In partnership with the Field Army and Army Futures, the team have spiral developed Forge, a data and simulation based, decision support service to transform the way the British Army experiments towards a Fifth Generation Force. Forge is currently a four-year effort which started in Feb 2023.
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What is Forge?
Forge automates the defence experimentation process, enabling continuous and iterative field testing in a ‘fail fast, fail early’ approach.
Forge integrates the UK’s defence experimentation processes with MAK’s VR Forces constructive simulation, Hadean’s AI-powered spatial computing platform and Cervus’ Hive, a leading data analytics engine.
Hadean's Role
Following a year of delivering FORGE, a next-generation data-driven and AI-powered simulation toolkit, the capability continues to be refined through its 4-year contract.
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Provided a scalable software backend to parallelise multiple simulations across on-premise, cloud, or edge computing environments.
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Fully integrated with Hive, Cervus’ open architecture AI-powered decision support tool, for the real-time orchestration and testing of simulations and scenarios.
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Displayed data in real-time on high-fidelity visualisation engines, with seamless filtering of the type and amount of data based on user preferences and needs.
Benefits
Large Language Models (LLMs) to extract and summarise relevant doctrine and research documentation.
A digital collaboration toolset to compare and test concepts.
Supported by experts, Army staff have rapidly simulated and explored unlimited ‘what if’ future force scenarios.
A rapid analysis stage, which typically takes 9-12 weeks, can now be completed in less than 24 hrs, providing Army staff with near-time force structure performance feedback.
The ability to trigger multiple simulation scenario runs with differing parameters to conduct sensitivity analysis and enrich the quality of the data.
Cervus are immensely proud to be working with our partners at Hadean. Integrating our analytics engine, Hive 2.0, with MAK and Antycip’s world-class simulation products and Hadean’s distributed computing platform will significantly reduce the associated costs and increase the speed of wargaming and experimentation.
Alan Roan
Managing Director