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Service budgets which drive capability acquisi=on. A lesson for Australia in this case is that
there needs to be an IAMD Roadmap, built by an integrated Defence team, that is a Direc=ve
and not just a recommenda=on. The smaller size of our Defence Bureaucracy and the
forma=on of the Defence Headquarters in mid 2017 should make an integrated IAMD
direc=ve, to which all Services and Agencies sign up to, feasible. This lesson could apply to
all Programs and not just IAMD.

There needs to be an IAMD Roadmap, that is a Directive and not just a recommendation.

IAMD Design. To explore IAMD, the study used the simple model illustrated below,
whereby IAMD was viewed through the components of Plaworms, C4ISR and Weapons with
an integra=ng IAMD CONOPS. The essence of being “Integrated” in an IAMD capability is
to ensure that all of the essen=al components are given appropriate considera=on. The
USAF Air Superiority 2030 Flight Plan Report highlighted “innova=ons must be paired with
valid concepts of opera=on to make them effec=ve in the expected opera=onal
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environment”. The integra=ng CONOPS is an essen=al component that is missing in the
Australian considera=on of IAMD.
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Examples of the US experience / issues related to these IAMD components that Australia
could learn from include:

➢ A top-down, integrated design across the IAMD components is necessary for force
effec=veness and for formal US cer=fica=on of the kill chain to assure interoperability /
integra=on with US Forces where appropriate. This implies the need for an IAMD
architecture, based on a CONOPS, that is established early in the design process.

13 USAF Air Superiority 2030 Flight Plan, Enterprise Capability Collabora=on Team, May 2016

14 Whilst Defence has an Opera=onal Concept for the 1 to 10 year =meframe, the AJOC, and a classified IAMD
Opera=onal Concept, there is not a Concept of Opera=ons (CONOPS) for IAMD. A CONOPS should deal with
the “how” the ADF will operate in sufficient detail to support the development of Force Architectures.

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