Digital Targeting Web
Volt4 Reconciliation
The DTW programme requires an API management service as an element of its integration layer — applying the Exploitable-by-Design pattern to the sense/decide/effect mission thread. This page maps every assessed requirement against Volt4 features.
Targeting Vision
Enhance the UK's warfighting capability by 2030 by creating the ability to sense, understand, decide, effect and assess at a pace that overwhelms adversaries.
Scale Objective
Increase targeting scale, pace, precision and accuracy — with a ×10 capability uplift by 2027 and ×30 by 2030.
What the DTW Is
"An adaptive, secure and evolving set of digital services that unite users, systems, and platforms to enable targeting accuracy, precision, speed, and resilience across all domains." Delivered NATO-first, aligned to DTW-RA v0.3 and AJP-3.9.
Cycle 0 Challenge
Develop an API management service as an element of the DTW integration layer, taking the Exploitable-by-Design pattern and applying it to the targeting mission thread including sense/decide/effect integration.
Accelerate speed, scale & effectiveness
Integrate AI into the targeting process with human oversight. Faster sense → decide → effect cycles.
Trusted, NATO-compliant data
Data-centric security as default; confidence-scored provenance; NIST-aligned; quantum-safe key options; STANAG 4774/4778 binding in development.
NATO-first, agile, enterprise governance
Declared, auditable distributed policy as governance. Standards-based interoperability with cross-organisation federation.
Resilient in contested environments
Bearer-agnostic, offline-resilient, no central chokepoint, tamper-evident telemetry, edge-deployable under degraded conditions.
Submissions are assessed against ten criteria. All ten are fully addressed by Volt4.
Six challenge areas define the problem space. Volt4 addresses all six.
The EbD framework frames APIs in a data-fabric architecture where data is treated as a product and domain-oriented teams own it. Volt4 satisfies all seven principles.
Discovery API + signed declared data; standardised interfaces; multi-protocol access.
Signed schemas fuse sources; Cortex agents wrap any source; Synapse combines data products.
Distributed policy — defined and enforced through declared, signed, auditable policy with continuous assurance.
Signed Verifiable Credential Schema (metadata must be signed); operational metadata assembled across supply chains via synchronised VCs (NIST SP 1800-36, TAIBOM).
Distributed resilience + redundancy; signed VC schema/API model lets new data be added to live systems without compromising security.
Multi-dimensional, integrity- and provenance-bearing telemetry through Synapse.
Standards-based, decentralised data fabric addresses the n² connectivity problem at its root.
Volt4 is deployed/under evaluation with NATO, MoD OFEME, BAE InteACT and reviewed in NIST NCCoE labs — supports a TRL-6+ claim; cite the specific deployment per criterion.
Key management supports quantum-safe methods — state the specific algorithms and roadmap explicitly in submission.
Binding is in development — flag as roadmap item, not delivered.
DTW programme expectations not directly claimed by a feature; position Volt4 as the resilient fabric on which those capabilities run.