Director of Technology Sea Urchin has spoken to the media about 2115 and revealed that the upgrade budget will increase by 6% over 2114. "This is the biggest increase for sometime and is needed to help us accelerate upgrades and new technology into service."
The key upgrade in 2115 will be of the Quasar 15A fleet which will receive worm drive. However the Isometric 41A fleet will also be fully wormed by the end of 2115 and good progress will be made on the Freedom 41B and Rome 46A fleets. The DDS aim to have their entire Medium Combat Ship fleet wormed by the end of 2116.
EA-X is also going to see much wider use apart from the small number of ships currently updated. The energy absorbent layer will be part of the Quasar upgrade and will added to the Panther 35A as part of its yearly update.
A fleet wide upgrade in astral-navigation will also be made as the DDS switches to a new system standardising and improving on the several navigational systems currently in service. Communications will also be updated across all combat ships (and beyond budget depending) with a new data stack introduced with much improved data security and resilience built in.
