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The Maritime Services, the Allies and Shaping the Kill Web

“We need to develop to an operational outcome; not stay in the world of slow motion requirements
development platform by platform.

Laird: Our visit to Fallon highlighted the crucial need to link joint TTP development with training and hopefully
beyond that to inform the joint integration piece.

How best to do that from your point of view?

Blackburn: Defence is procuring a Live/Virtual/Constructive (LVC) training capability. But the approach is
reported to be narrowly focused on training.

“We need to expand the aperture and include development and demonstration within the LVC world.

“We could use LVC to have the engineers and operators who are building the next generation of systems in a
series of laboratories, participate in real-world exercises.

“Let’s bring the developmental systems along, and plug it into the real-world exercise, but without interfering
with it.

“With engagement by developers in a distributed laboratory model through LVC, we could be exploring and
testing ideas for a project, during development.

“We would not have to wait until a capability has reached an ‘initial’ or ‘full operating’ capability level; we
could learn a lot along the development by such an approach that involves the operators in the field.
“The target event would be a major classified exercise.

“We could be testing integration in the real-world exercise and concurrently in the labs that are developing
the next generation of “integrated” systems.

“That, to my mind, is an integrated way of using LVC to help demonstrate, and develop the integrated force.

“We could accelerate development coming into the operational force and eliminating the classic requirements
setting approach.

“We need to set aside some aspects of the traditional acquisition approach in favor of an integrated
development approach which would accelerate the realisation of integrated capabilities in the operational
force”

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