Integrated Air & Missile Defence (IAMD) Assessment for UK MOD
Situation. The MOD's Futures Lab needed a rapid, authoritative appraisal of current and emerging Air & Missile Defence systems to underpin a layered IAMD strategy. Kona Solutions was engaged to inject deep domain expertise and rigour into the rainbow team's analysis.
Task. Our mandate was to provide a seasoned RAF air defence specialist who could map, assess and correctly classify global AMD capabilities within the Mission System Catalogue (MSC). The output had to expose gaps and overlaps, giving MOD buyers a defendable baseline for future procurement decisions.
Action. Kona deployed the SME to support technical workshops, extract technical data, and apply MSC taxonomy to every sensor, shooter and control node in scope. He supplied essential information on key UK IAMD elements and doctrine, directly enabling a comprehensive analysis to be undertaken.
Result.The engagement resulted in a fully populated Mission System Catalogue (MSC), delivering a comprehensive capability data set tailored specifically to the IAMD sector. This foundation not only enabled immediate gap analysis and development planning for the MOD's air and missile defence strategy, but also established a blueprint for the MSC's full utilisation across all three services in future projects of a similar nature.