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Designing the Integrated Force: How to Define and Meet the Challenge?

“I don't own the Air Warfare Center, but I think what I can do is start to influence the goals that we set for the
Air Warfare Center so that we start to drive the kind of collaboration we need to integrate Air Force, and the
Australian Defence Force.”

And clearly there needs to be practical cases or thrusts within program development which can provide the
push necessary for greater program design for integration.

“We need to have broad enough of a perspective so that we can drive programs towards joint outcomes.
For example, it will be crucial to bring E-7, with F-35 and air warfare destroyers into a common decision
making space so that we can realize built in capabilities for integrated air and missile defense.”

“And that needs to be informed by shaping a common perspective with the USN and USAF as well. Let's take
integrated air missile defense as an example, because the project part of that at the moment within Air Force
is Air 6500, a project that I'm responsible for.

“We've received strategic guidance that we should be interoperable with the U.S. in their Pacific theater. We
need to put a little bit more definition to that. What is our vision for a theater air missile defense system
between Australia and the U.S.? We need to integrate our platforms with a clear view of how to maximize
our working relationship with the USN and USAF as a key driver for change as well.”

He emphasized the need in effect for practical steps forward at the tactical levels as key drivers for change
as well. “The force is clearly innovating tactically and we need that innovation to be informing ways to
reshape integrated capabilities going forward.”

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