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all of your weapons system modes up in the air, live, there are surveillance systems that can pick
up what you’re doing.

In this way, you can protect high end modes with encryption, and then create an architecture
where LVC allows you to train to the complete capability of your fifth generation platform inte-
grated into the advanced air wing and connected to AEGIS and the aircraft carrier as well as op-
erations centers ashore. And that’s what we’re looking to do.

We realize that the fifth generation platform has now bumped us up against the limits of our
training ranges and that we do not quite have the LVC components built yet, so that is where our
current focus lies.

And in that interview, the head of N-98 highlighted that recently the USN headed a
government wide group looking at the approaches to shaping and implementing VLCT
across the combat enterprise.

The F-35 is a key element of shaping Navy thinking about operating in an expanded
battlespace.

Aviation leadership is looking forward to the impact of F-35 on the evolution of the
strike fleet, much as a leaven for change than the sum and substance of that change.

Again, as Admiral Conn put it:

Looking forward, we need to continue to provide trained and ready aircrew to operate forward. In
five years we are going to have JSF in the fleet.

In five years we may have UCLASS on our carriers. In five years, the Super Hornet of today is
going to be different. In five years the E-2D capabilities and our networks will have matured. In
five years the threat is going to change and competitors will have more capability.

In working with Naval Aviation Leadership, we are on a journey of discovery of how to best cre-
ate a training environment that replicates potential adversary’s capabilities.

Training to operate in the expanded battlespace is a key requirement to deal with the
threat and to leverage what the F-35 brings to the force and to an ability to tap into the

Second Line of Defense December 2014

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