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The F-35 and The Transformation of the Power Projection Forces

The F-35 is truly revolutionary technology.

The ability to bring in that much information into a single platform, share it together via machine language
and put that picture together is game changing. The ability to then coalesce that much data into knowledge is
unprecedented.

If you are operating over the battle space, like a counterterrorism situation, where you have a lower-end air-
to-air threat, you can operate, and persist over a ground battle space as you collect information and shape a
much more rapid strike capability as well. The decision cycle can accelerate in either the higher end or lower
end fights.

The point can be put simply: we are expanding our capability to shape an agile force to operate throughout
the battlespace and to deal with the spectrum of threats which a sea base would be tasked to operate
against.

The F-35 will be a contributor to shaping the overall modernization strategy.

The F-35 has a powerful ability to share information, the ability to sense the battlespace, whether it’s signals
from a surface naval vessel, signals from an air contact, ID-ing the air contact at long-range, or processing
and identifying targets on the ground, all tasks that we’re going to have to do going forward to win.

Question: When we were at Fallon, the air wing training to go out on deployment was in real time
communications with the Bush on deployment in the Middle East.

And the Fallon team is working hard to evolve the approach to Live Virtual Constructive Training in order
to be able to fight effectively in the expanded battlespace with higher speed warfare and operational
dynamics.

How do you view the impact of these new capabilities on shaping the sea base going forward?

Rear Admiral Manazir: The ability to share information between decision-makers and staffs that are not all
geographically located, is getting better and better. This allows not only dynamic combat learning but
provides greater fidelity to the training process as air wings prepare to deploy.

In the past, we only sent text reports. Now we are sending full motion video. The EA-18G Growler can send
actual data back to the warfighting center and say: “We have not seen this signal before, what is it?”

And then the labs can run it through their data libraries and work the problem to ID the signal and send their
findings back to the deployed fleet.

The F-35s coming to the fleet will add significantly to this process. It is about rapid combat learning in a
dynamic warfighting environment.

We are shaping the foundation for “learning airplanes” to engage the enemy.

LVC will enable us to train in a more robust environment than we are on our current ranges that are
geographically constrained, and currently do not have the full high end threat replicated. LVC will allow us to
train to the full capabilities of our platforms across a variety of security environments and do so without
exposing our training process to an interested adversary.

Question: What you are talking about is shaping real time combat forensics against an active and
dynamic threat?

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