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

Question: Who are your initial customers in the ADF for the Growler produce?

Group Captain Braz: Clearly, the Joint Operations community, and special operations are key clients of
interest. We are making sure that the Air Operations Center and the Joint Ops Command framework have
appropriate access to Growler expertise.

Another joint customer is our Deployable Joint Force Headquarters, which is conveniently located here in
Brisbane.
Question: Clearly, the Australian Army modernization approach is built around small engagement
packages, which can have significant effect. Does not a Growler capability fight right into their mental
furniture?

Group Captain Braz: It does. We know that a small force over a wide geographical area like Australia, we
do need to be maximized in our lethality and our personal security, including force protection.

We need to make sure that we can have that relative advantage over our adversaries. Growler gives us that
opportunity to shape that role, not always being able to protect ourselves entirely from that attack from the
potential adversary, but certainly to inflict similar pain upon them, and retain the relative advantage in
decision superiority that gives our small force what it needs.

Question: What can be missed is how important cross learning is among the professional military
working together as allies. I like to argue that if you want to make America great again, accelerate
learning with allies.

This certainly applies to your area of work.
How would you describe your work as an Air Force officer with the US Navy?

Group Captain Braz: We couldn't have done this without a huge commitment from the U.S. Navy. There's
simply no other way to describe that.

They have wanted us to be on this journey, and they have supported us wholeheartedly throughout it, both on
what we do with the Growler training and the operational experience, the exchanges we've established, and
how we prepare the team.

That's furthered by exchange opportunities. We have U.S. Navy Growler aircrew joining us here, but we've
also used folks connected to intelligence organizations and data management organizations and used U.S.
Navy expertise in those areas to bring us along and further on the journey.
It's no accident that when the Growler officially arrived in Australia at Avalon International Air Show a month
or so ago, one of the four humans to step out of those two aircraft was a U.S. Navy aviator. That was very
deliberate, because we wanted both to recognize the amazing support we have had so far from the US Navy
and the fact that we're in this together.
It's a partnership for the long term with cross learning on all sides.

Shaping Cultural and Generational Change in the RAAF: The Perspective
of Air Commodore “Zed” Roberton
During my visit to Amberley Airbase on April 3, 2017, I had a chance to discuss the work of the Air Warfare
Center and of new training programs in the Air Combat Group to shape a more effective fighting force.

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