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New Approaches to Air-Land Integration

THE PERSPECTIVE OF INDUSTRY AT THE AIR-LAND SEMINAR

The C2 theme, which the co-heads of Plan Jericho highlighted in their interview, was the theme of the first
industrial presentation. Major General Stephen Goldfein, USAF (Retired) from Northrop Grumman.
In his presentation, Goldfein highlighted not just the technologies but also the training necessary to achieve the
kind of decision-making superiority, which had been highlighted in the Australian White Paper, released
earlier this year.
His briefing provided an overview of the projected approach to be tested in the Jericho Dawn exercise from
which he provided the audience with background on the (then) upcoming exercise.

Next the representative from Rockwell Collins provided a perspective on the evolving technologies to better
enable the Joint Tactical Air Controller. Here the speaker highlighted that the trick to providing JTACs with
operational Situational Awareness is the fusion of multiple data streams, from link-16 for the air picture, the
ground picture via VMA and the video picture via a video downlink receiver.
The challenge as to provide a more convergent operational picture for the warfighter via a gateway which
can provide a solution that provides seamless interoperability between two or more different datalinks. And
where the gateway provides translation and forwarding to these networks taking into account the different
speeds of the networks.
Second Line of Defense

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