S&T for Regional Security

– Singapore’s Perspective

RADM Harris Chan, Future Systems & Technology Architect

Future Systems & Technology Directorate
Ministry of Defence, Singapore

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 Our S&T Budget
Our S&T budget is about US$380M
Defence Budget R&T Budget
(4%) of the defence budget.
US$10B US$800M

US$9B US$600M

US$8B US$400M

US$7B US$200M
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Our Population: 5.4 million (2013)

Our GDP: US$295.2B (2013)
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 Key Interest Areas for S&T
Guidance Protective Machine
& Control Systems Intelligence

- Localisation in GPS-deprived Envr

- Mission Execution in Unregulated
- Advanced Navigation - Electric Armour
Terrain

Power & Chem-Bio Autonomous

Energy Defence Underwater Tech

- Portable Fuel Cell - Toxin Detection and Diagnosis - Towed Side Scan Sonar
- Graphene for Energy Storage - Microbial Forensics - Long-Endurance Sonar Buoys

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Collaboration with Foreign Partners
Sweden

UK

Germany

France
USA

India
USMC AFRL

DRDO

Australia

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 Our Principles for Foreign S&T Collaboration

 Collaboration should be mutually beneficial

 Collaboration should be balanced, e.g. co-funding, exchange of

information/data/technology

Singapore provides USV for trials. France provides towed side scan sonar and expendable mine disposal
system for trials.

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 Our Domestic Challenges
Shrinking Pool available for Conscript

25,000 20% Due to our falling birth rate, and

tighter immigration policy, our pool
20,000
for conscript will by 20% in the
15,000 next 15 years.
10,000
2013 2018 2023 2028

Evolving Socio-Economic Attitudes of Singaporeans

- Our people are calling for more
government support on social needs.

- There may also be greater public

scrutiny on defence spending.

SAF will need to be prepared for a leaner force and

leverage on technologies that can deliver force-multiplying effects.

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Technology Enablers to Support SAF 2030

Big Data Analytics Robotics

Swarming UAVs Unmanned Convoy

AUV

UGVs

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Singapore’s Maritime Security Command Post
Maritime Security Task Force to ensure Singapore's maritime security.

Command Post

Anomaly Detection
4x in coverage
in effectiveness of Early
Warning and Actionable
Intelligence
Big Data Analytics

Machine Assisted Ops Planning,

Control & Monitoring
Seamless Integrating
Cognitive Tasks Analysis of Ops Workflow

60% in Manning
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Proposed Regional HADR Coord Centre (RHCC)
RHCC provides a platform to facilitate fast and coordinated
military response to regional natural disasters.

At the Control Centre On the field

Comprehensive Impact Consequence Response

Awareness Assessment Management Coordination

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RHCC’s Capabilities enabled by Technology

Shared Situation
Awareness Terrain
Mapping Crowd Sourcing
Augmented Reality

Real-time
Collaboration
Email, Chat and Social Media Mobile Apps Enabled

Analytics
Sentiment Cognitive Inference of Language and Speech
Analysis Resources Prioritization Translation

Tools
Site Casualty Route Resources
Assessment Management Planning Planning

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Greater use of Robotics for
Security Ops and HADR in the future
Land Search
Stabilisation Patrol Aid Delivery
Operations

Underwater Search
Operations Casualty Evacuation

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 Singapore - Building a Smart Nation
Modeling &
Simulation for 3D mapping using drones
Town Planning

Computer models to
detect disease

Wireless sensors CCTV feeds with data

to detect water analytics to improve
quality & leaks public transport

Satellite-based
Electronic Road Pricing Driverless Buoys with sensors
Auto-tracking of Security cars to test waters for
forces and fast response pollutants

Singapore will need to step up its efforts in defending the nation against cyber attacks,
which extend beyond borders and threaten daily life of ever more connected global citizens.

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Priority Research Focus Area: Cyber Defence
Protect Detect Respond Recover

Corporate IT
System Trusted &
High Assurance
Malware
System
Analysis
Anti-virus &
Anti-Intrusion SW
Embedded
(Mobile)
Virtual
Machine Planning Stage
Cyber Physical Customised Sensors
System
(e.g. SCADA)
End-to-end
Design for
Big Data Analytics
Resilence
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Q&A

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