The Royal Navy is hosting their fifth Marine Enterprise Planning Group

The Royal Navy is hosting their fifth Marine Enterprise Planning Group session on Littoral Strike and the Future Commando Force at 1300 on Tuesday 16^th March 2021. The event will be hosted virtually on Zoom

Royal Navy’s Maritime Enterprise Planning Groups

The complex problem set faced by the Royal Navy in the modern operating environment calls for a closer alignment with industry. This is required in order to both understand mutual requirements and to pursue transformative capability that will deliver operational advantage in a more agile way.
The inauguration of Maritime Enterprise Planning Groups, aligned to the Royal Navy Capability Planning Groups, will provide a means to have open and honest dialogue with industry. Set within commercial guidelines, they will bring together military and defence industry capability experts on a periodic basis to assist in resolving problem-led procurement questions.

The intent for the Maritime Enterprise Planning Groups is to:

•  Improve understanding. The problem led approach to future capability development will drive a closer relationship with industry.
• Enhance situational awareness. Providing industry with a common ‘customer view’ from which they can respond and develop solutions for RN capability requirements
• Enable alternative thinking. Creating a thought-space where Royal Navy and industry can focus on the requirements for a solution to a problem.
• Deliver agility. Leverage innovation and acceleration pathways to focus on solutions that provide accelerated development.

Outline Plan

Each Maritime Enterprise Planning Group meeting will be held between 1300 to 1600. The outline schedule is: 

• Introduction and strategic context
• Explanation of the challenges
• Open discussion
• Identification of next steps

Due to the current COVID-19 restrictions, the event will be virtual and hosted on Zoom. Therefore, discussion will be limited to OFFICIAL. The intent for subsequent events is to host them face to face to enable discussion at a higher classification.

To register your attendance please complete the sign up form – linked here
If you have any questions, please contact NAVYCOMRCL-MEPG(at)mod.gov.uk. Please do not contact individual RN personnel directly about the MEPG event/s.
Please note, due to the need to send out joining information ahead of time registrations must be submitted by 4pm on 10/03/21. The sign up form will be closed at that time and new registrations will not be possible.