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The Impact of a Z Axis Air System on Combat

With the F-35 Cockpit Z-axis the key words are actually now embedded in the second
half of his OODA –the words “decide, act.”

The quest for US way of war to always fight and win is to now embrace the entire spec-
trum of Boyd’s OODA by not questing for Situational Awareness, because that is only
half way but rather everything should be now focused on developing technology, train-
ing tactics and C&C at all levels to empower “Situational Decisions.”

This is the true revolutionary step beyond just SA that the “z-axis” F-35 Fusion engine
brings to the fight as a catalyst for a 21st Century refocused way of support equipping
and training all Service joint con-ops.

I have been trying to formulate a way to expresses the human/machine evolving ac-
tion/reaction cycle understanding that everything is always relative. “Beef” (an Air
Command and Control Officer then at MAWTS) gave me the insight I needed to com-
plete a year’s worth of research on ways to look at this dynamic.

Based on our discussions with Dean Ebert, (NGCO employee and former USMC EA-6
driver) I have been focused on the combat learning cycle associated with the new cock-
pit, the sensors in the aircraft and fusion prospects.

I seized on an MIT concept of the “engagement process of content” to understood how
learning evolves. Similar to some of the thinking of Piaget, that one’s ability to learn
evolves over time with age and learning, we now need to understand that learning in
the cockpit powered by the fusion engine is not simply a linear repetitive experience. It
is a learning experience and is done so within the fleet, both flying, just returned and
about to engage.

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/deb-roy-the-birth-of-a-word

In our very robust discussion with “Beef,” he added “in context” to the statement and

clarified the approach. We are now not talking about Situational Awareness as the key

dynamic but Situational Decisions.

Second Line of Defense December 2014

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