Response: The RN has been working alongside the US Navy to learn from its experience as it invests in crewed and uncrewed vessels and platform types that can conduct power projection and Distributed Maritime Operations. The RN is sharing lessons with US allies to ensure coherence in harnessing new technologies and adopting new ideas. Our concept for distributed lethality demands that systems should be developed and procured as enabling elements to deliver SENSE-DECIDE-EFFECT. These elements can then be distributed across a balanced and networked Fleet of mixed crewed and uncrewed warships, auxiliaries, aircraft, land vehicles and underwater vehicles. The RN has begun experimentation of this approach through the concept work on the mission modules from the Persistent Operationally Deployed System (PODS).