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Designing the Integrated Force: How to Define and Meet the Challenge?
Mission: The VCDF Group Mission is to design and develop Defence Joint Capability and deliver military enablers
in order to protect and advance Australia and its national interest.
http://www.defence.gov.au/vcdf/
The organizational chart below indicates his direct reports, and two of them are especially important to the
focus of the seminar, namely the Force Design office headed by AVM Mel Hupfeld and the Joint Capability
and Management and Integration Office headed by RADM Peter Quinn.
In his presentation to the seminar, VADM Griggs underscored that “we are seeing real changes in culture and
behavior across defense.” In part this is due to the fact that the warfighting domains are blending and
becoming highly interactive with one another.
He argued that as we returned to a more congested and contested environment the five war fighting domains
are becoming increasingly blurred. Effective integration then is critical to gain superiority in 21 century
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warfighting.
He argued for an integrated strategic direction but flexibility in shaping operating concepts. “We need
central orchestration of the effort rather than a top down dictat.”
He highlighted the need to shape a continuous capability review cycle within which to manage ongoing
modernization, new acquisitions and effective management of trade offs in budget terms.
Second Line of Defense
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