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A New Approach and Attitude to Electronic Warfare in Australia

Working integration of the digital battlespace among Growler, F-35 and Hawkeye would enhance the TTPs,
which could be developed to more rapidly evolve capabilities in the digital battlespace.

“There are many of us around here who think that the concept of the E2D the F35 and the Growler integrating
would accelerate our transition to where warfare is going with regard to the contested battlespace.

"There are many of us around here who think that would be an outstanding idea that we should really push
for and should be a focus of testing and evaluation.
"But there will be people around as well who will say but how does that lead to me dropping bombs?”

SHAPING AN INTEGRATED FORCE WITH DISTRIBUTED EW CAPABILITIES

Air Commodore Chipman on Electronic Warfare Within the Evolving
Integrated Force
Air Commodore Chipman, the Director General of Capability Planning in the RAAF spoke to the question of
force design to ensure that EW was an effect built into the force.

In this sense, he picked up on themes, which he discussed at the last Williams Seminar, which was specifically
focused on force structure design.

“We need to have broad enough of a perspective so that we can drive programs towards joint outcomes.
“For example, it will be crucial to bring E-7, with F-35 and air warfare destroyers into a common decision
making space so that we can realize built in capabilities for integrated air and missile defense.”

He continued this approach in his discussion at the latest Williams Seminar.

I met with him the week before the seminar at his office in Russell.

Figure 9 Air Commodore Chipman on a panel at the Williams Foundation Seminar on Electronic Warfare,
August 23, 2017

He would focus upon the effects or more generally designing the force to get the kind of information and
decision-making dominance you need to achieve against a reactive 21st century peer competitor.

“I am going to focus on the backend capabilities which we are not invested in enough at the moment, rather
than dedicated EW platforms.
Second Line of Defense

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