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A New Approach and Attitude to Electronic Warfare in Australia

For example, during our recent visit to the Naval Air Warfare Development Center at Fallon, we discussed
with many of the participants the security challenge and the critical necessity to shape a new approach.

Figure 13 Director Plan Jericho, Group Captain Pete Mitchell (right) briefs personnel attending the Senior Airman Conference
held at the Air Warfare Centre, RAAF Base Williamtown. August 2017. Credit: Australian Department of Defence

We concluded during that visit the following with regard to this challenge:

One of the critical advances in the coming together of many 21st Century technological advances is the
exponential growth in ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) is a critical component of a countries
military battle planning and execution, and that can be a very good thing.

However, what we picked up at Fallon builds on some of the comments we heard in our visit to the Navy Jax, P-8,
Triton community.
To put it in our words the “mechanics” of getting actionable timely intelligence to the aircrews and Fleet
commanders is often a weak link. The “Intel” can be there but the process is often not helpful. It can be both a
macro issue and a micro issue.

On a “macro” level there is a move to send “Intel” up first to higher command then back down. This challenge was
discussed at Jax Navy in the context of declaring Triton ocean surveillance information part of a national
strategic collection effort. Of course it is an easy solution to let the Intel flow both up and down concurrently.

Hopefully this is in work toward a successful resolution.

http://www.sldinfo.com/air-wing-fallon-the-challenges-facing-predeployment-training-for-the-carrier-air-
wing/
The conversation with the Plan Jericho co-leads started with this security challenge.

“One of our challenges is the security and policy framework needed to engage at the appropriate level with
our Joint colleagues in shaping a transformation approach.

Second Line of Defense

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