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A New Approach and Attitude to Electronic Warfare in Australia

"Plan Jericho is addressing some of these challenges and sees as a key way ahead getting much greater
integration between the air, land and naval forces.

"But this will not happen if we cannot reshape our security processes and approaches.

"We need to cross-pollinate across the various elements of the force structure to get the kind of operational
integration which we need.”

“We need to shape the kind of cross platform Training, Tactics and Procedures (TTPs) which allow for and can
accelerate integration.

"We have done that on a case by case basis but have not figured how to do that across the board or at the
strategic level.”

“We are talking about the joint space, where we have influence but not ownership.

"We need to consider revolutionary innovation concepts, not the biological build approach which we are
pursuing.

"The RAAF could pursue revolutionary concepts but if everyone else is pursuing evolution we will have
significant gaps in our approach to achieve the kind of operational integration which we will need.”

Laird: At the end of the day, we're talking here about changing authorities.

We're recognizing the technologies can talk to each other, for example Wedgetail with Naval radars,

This needs to happen so that the ability of the machines to talk with one another, can unleash the man-machine
relationships which we will need for high intensity conflict.

We talk about man to machine, but it's machine to machine that we're unleashing as well.

Then we're changing what the man does with the machine to machine conversation.

We can make this sound harder than it is, but at the end of the day, you start with things Wedgetail or
Growler talking with your new naval radars and you are going down the transformation path.
The Plan Jericho Team: Absolutely.

We can see that.

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