BOWMAN Combat Radio System
2026-06-11 · Ministry of Defence · 9479 · Official question
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the ability of Bowman 5.7 to provide sufficient resilience, bandwidth and capacity to support the Digital Targeting Web.
Answer
The Programme team does not recognise the term “Bowman 5.7”. Bowman refers to the radio element of the wider Bowman Common Battlefield Infrastructure and Platform (BCIP), which is often used as shorthand for the overall system. BCIP 5.7 is a proposed upgr...