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A New Approach and Attitude to Electronic Warfare in Australia

"And making that the reality is the challenge.

"And part of what we need to address is leveraging the forcing function of such efforts as Growler
integration to reshape the security piece.

"We see the Air Warfare Centre as an important piece of working the key problems of joint TTPs beyond the
single platform.

"We're not just building on what we've currently done.

"We're actually looking at developing tactics in a more integrated manner.
"And this approach is something we are looking to permeate through our force.

"For example, the Growlers are collocated with our Super Hornets.

"We need to see how to integrate these assets.

"The Growler is a very different payload asset; the Super Hornet community can not simply operate in a
legacy manner as a kill chain.

"We need to shape a kill web and clearly Super Hornet and Growler integration is part of the equation.
"And we are not simply inheriting approaches born elsewhere outside of Australia in this domain.

"And a major piece of the effort is about training the right kind of workforce.

"We need to shape a workforce very open to the kind of integration we are talking about here and indeed
demanding further progress as part of the professional lives."

Building in Integration: Reshaping Training and Encompassing
Development

The Australian Defence Force has set a tough bar for itself – shaping an integrated force and crafting an
ability to design such a force.

This is a tough bar but one which they are trying to energize in part by leveraging their new platforms to
shape a way ahead beyond the classic after-market integration strategy.

But how best to do this with regard to training and development of the force?

And how to maximize the combat effectiveness to be achieved rather than simply connecting platforms without
a significant combat effect?

When we visited Fallon this year, we were impressed that the training command is adding new buildings
which are designed to shape greater capability to get the various platform training efforts much better
connected.

Fallon is known as the Carrier in the Desert; but as the carrier and its role within the fleet evolve and encompass
distributed lethality and the kill web, so must the Carrier in the Desert evolve.

It starts with the addition of two new buildings, which embrace the shift.

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