Starting from scratch: building a CUGS innovation operational capability

The CUGS program must deliver both a combat operational capability and the innovation lifecycle needed to sustain and evolve it. For the Royal Netherlands Army, this means mastering a new discipline: continuous engineering of a complex, integrated system. The ambition is bold – updating deployed systems within days, or even hours, through an agile engineering approach. The greatest hurdles aren’t technological, but organizational: changing structures, processes and mindsets to make continuous engineering a reality.