Collaboration at Cody

Boeing and Qinetiq officials today announced that they are establishing a centre for collaboration and experimentation at Qinetiq’s Cody Technology Park site in Farnborough, UK.

According to Qinetiq, the centre for demonstration and experimentation will offer customers the latest in modelling, simulation and analysis tools. These will be used to explore and understand implications of proposed systems in a real-time, dynamically-evolving environment.

Commercial and military customers will be able to network live, virtual and constructive assets in a collaborative, immersive, development environment to define requirements, evolve capabilities and discover new technologies to meet their needs. They will also have the ability to trade off competing alternatives or “what if” scenarios while optimising design concepts and their performance within the overall ‘system of systems’.

Initial capability within the simulation laboratory infrastructure will be supported by the Qinetiq Unified Experimental Services Testbed (QUEST), with networked nodes across the UK in multiple domains including land, missile defence, air and sea. QUEST provides connection to the UK government’s Joint Multinational Interoperability Assurance Network and, through that, to the US government’s Combined Federated Battle Lab network system.