Remote Operations and Mission Support

What gets done

• Mission planning. Objectives, route, timing, endurance, fuel or charge state, traffic, and the points at which the plan has a decision built into it.
• Route review of a plan your own team has written, which is often the cheapest hour anyone spends.
• Weather and window assessment against the vessel's actual limits rather than its published ones.
• Remote watchkeeping. Standing a watch, or standing behind the person who is.
• Operational decision-making. Continue, hold, divert or recover, taken against criteria agreed in advance rather than invented under pressure.
• Management of developing situations, including degraded communications, weather deterioration, traffic conflict, equipment failure and the point at which a mission stops being worth completing.
• Post-mission debrief and the changes that come out of it.

Range is a design problem, not a barrier

Uncrewed vessels are routinely operated from control rooms thousands of kilometres away, including across oceans. Whether that is open to you depends on communications architecture, watchkeeping cover, degraded-mode behaviour and how much authority sits with the person on watch. Those are all things that can be designed, and I have run operations at that distance.

What you get

Cover for the hours you cannot cover yourself, or a second experienced head during the ones that matter most. Where you want it, a written plan beforehand and a debrief afterwards.

How it runs

By campaign, by mission, or as on-call cover for a defined window. This works alongside your own operators rather than replacing them; the aim is that your team is better at it by the end than at the start.