Intelligence
Surveillance Reconnaissance
and Networking Capabilities
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(Boeing
photo)
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The RAAF is
introducing its first AEW&C aircraft and networking capabilities.
Both are necessary prerequisites for the application of modern air
power. Unfortunately fleet numbers remain an issue with the Wedgetail
AEW&C, and deep problems remain with the fundamental thinking
underpinning the impact of networking. Important gaps remain in
Australia's planned ISR 'constellation', especially in ground
surveillance and ELINT/SIGINT/MASINT capabilities.
This website will post a selection of relevant articles, submissions
and papers.
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| AEW&C/ISR
Articles |
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| Australian Aviation -
September 1983 - Why Australia Needs an
Airborne Early
Warning Capability |
| Australian Aviation -
March/May 1989 - AEW &
AWACS Parts 1 & 2 |
| Australian Aviation -
June 1994 - AEW&C -
Phased Array Technology Parts 1 & 2 |
Australian Aviation -
June 1999 - Wedgetail - Australia's
'Pocket AWACS' (PDF)
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Australian
Aviation -
October 2000 - Wedgetail and
the Region
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Australian Aviation -
June 2004 - Wedgetail - How Many is
Enough?
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Australian Aviation -
October 2004 - Defeating
Cruise missiles
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| Defence Today - June 2004 - Wedgetail - Australia's Pocket AWACS |
| Defence Today - June 2004 - Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
during Operation Iraqi Freedom |
| Defence Today - Dec 2003
- The Changing World of Maritime Patrol |
Defence Today -
February 2005 - MMA for
Australia
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| Defence Today - July
2005 - Airborne Outpost 'Wedgetail' |
Defence Today -
September/October 2006 - UAVs - Can One
Size Fit All?
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Defence Today -
November/December 2006 - Hard
Kill Counter-ISR Capabilities Proliferate
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| RAAF APSC
Working Paper
33, Air Warfare
Applications of Laser Remote Sensing |
Air & Space Power
Chronicles, Maxwell AFB -
March 1996 - Laser
Remote Sensing - a New Tool for Air Warfare, Mirror@APA
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| ADFA/ADSC 'Control of the
Air' (Invited Paper) -
1999 - Sensors, Weapons and Systems for a
21st Century Counter Air Campaign |
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Defence Today - May
2005 -
NCW 101 - Part 1 - Information and Why it
Matters
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Defence Today - July
2005 -
NCW 101 - Part 2 - Digital Datalinks and
Networks
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| Defence Today -
September
2005 -
NCW 101 - Part 3 - JTIDS/MIDS |
| Defence Today -
January/February
2006 -
NCW 101 - Part 4 - Ad Hoc Networking
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| Defence Today -
March/April
2006 -
NCW 101 - Part 5 Optical Imaging Sensors
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Defence Today - May/June
2006 -
NCW 101 - Part 6 Thermal Imaging Sensors
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Defence Today -
July/August
2006 -
NCW 101 - Part 7 Synthetic Aperture Radar
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| Defence Today -
September/October
2006 -
NCW 101 - Part 8 Ground and Maritime Moving
Target Indicator Radar |
Defence Today -
November/December
2006 -
NCW 101 - Part 9: TCP/IP networking Protocols
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| Defence Today -
January/February
2007 -
NCW 101 - Part 10: Satellite Communications
in NCW |
Defence Today -
March/April
2007 -
NCW 101 - Part 11: Pseudolites and
Stratospheric Relays
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Defence Today -
June/July
2007 -
NCW 101 - Part 12: GPS in Networked Systems - Part 1
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Defence Today -
August/September
2007 -
NCW 101 - Part 13: GPS in Networked Systems - Part 2
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NCW, Network and
Computing Technology
Articles
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Tyson M and Kopp C - Proceeding
of MilCIS2007 - Canberra 18-20 November 2007 - LGSP:
A Lightweight GNSS Support Protocol for Military and Civil Applications
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Rockwell Collins - Tactical
Targeting Network Technology (TTNT) - Communicating at the Speed of
Battle
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Defence Today - August
2003 - Network Centric Warfare
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Defence Today - March
2004
- NCW - Buzzwords, Bytes and the Battlespace
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Defence Today - September
2004 - NCW - In the Land Environment
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| Australian Aviation -
January 2005 - Understanding Network
Centric Warfare |
Defence Today - July
2005 - Smart Tankers
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ADFA/ADSC 'UAV
Australia' (Invited Paper) - 2001 - The UCAV Ascendancy: What are the Problem
Issues? (Slides)
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Airborne
Ad Hoc Networks (Monash SCSSE)
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| Australian Aviation -
March 2003 - Uninhabited Combat Aerial
Vehicles |
| 5th Australian IW&Sec
Conference -
Nov 2004 - Boyd,
Metcalfe and Amdahl - Modelling Networked Warfighting
Systems (Slides) |
Asia/Pacific
Open Systems Review - March/April 1997 - Mobile Satellite
Communications - Part I - Part II
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| Asia/Pacific
Open Systems Review - May 1997 - An
Introduction to Spread Spectrum Techniques |
Systems -
July/August 1998 - Cryptography - Part I
- Part II
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| Systems -
November 1998 - Computing - Military Style |
Systems
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June 1999 - Ad Hoc Networking
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| Australian
Communications - September 1999 - Angels,
HALOs and Atmospheric Networks |
| Systems
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November 1999 - Flying High with VME |
| Comms World
- February 2000 - Optical
Amplification |
| Comms World
- May 2000 - Microwave and
Millimetric Wave Propagation |
| Systems
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June 2000 - Vector Processing Futures |
| Systems
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July 2000 - Moore's Law - is the end upon us?
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| Comms World -
July 2000 - Microwave Monoliths bring Moore's
Law to RF |
| Comms World
- September 2000 - Ultra Wide Band
Modulation |
| Comms World
- November 2000 - High Definition
Television |
Systems
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February 2001 - Firewire
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| Systems
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March 2001 - Wireless
Ethernet - the Next Generation (COFDM) |
| Comms World
- May 2001 - Shedding Light on Optical Datalinks |
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| The
Parliamentary Debate [Click for more ...] |
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Related
Links [Click for more ...]
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| Australia's
Wedgetail/MESA AEW&C system is the most advanced ever designed.
Analysis indicates that 7 to 8 aircraft will be required, rather than
the 6 now on order (Boeing photo) |
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Australia
is very likely to join the US Navy MMA program which is intended to
replace the P-3 series of LRMP aircraft. The MMA program presents a
good
opportunity for Australia to field a genuine SIGINT/ELINT capability,
and a future SAR/GMTI ground surveillance and targeting capability
(Boeing artwork).
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Australia
has no current plans to acquire a SAR/GMTI ground surveillance and
targeting asset, examples being the E-8C JSTARS or its smaller European
equivalent (U.S. Air Force).
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A
capability currently underdeveloped in Australia is
SIGINT/ELINT/MASINT. The most capable system in this category currently
operational is the US Air Force RC-135V/W Rivet Joint, equipped with
the
highly capable Raytheon 55000 Electronic Support Measures (ESM) and
85000 signals intelligence (SIGINT) receiver systems. The Rivet Joint
has proven exceptionally useful for both strategic reconnaissance
roles,
and in support of air campaigns in progress (U.S. Air Force).
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Networking
of combat assets in an increasingly common practice in modern air
forces. Aerial refuelling tankers are especially attractive as nodes
and
relays in networks as they are ubiquitous in areas of operations, and
persist on station for many hours. The U.S. Air Force is introducing
its
'SMART tanker' with ROBE equipment using the KC-135R (U.S. Air Force)
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High
Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) UAVs offer an important high footprint
persistent platform for ISR and networking payloads. With applications
as EO sensor platforms, SAR/GTMI/MMTI/AMTI radar platforms,
SIGINT/ELINT
platforms and network/communications relays, HALE UAVs will occupy an
increasing fraction of ISR roles historically performed by manned
platforms. Depicted is a Northrop Grumman RQ-4A Global Hawk in recently
adopted low visibility camouflage (Northrop Grumman).
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The
AP-3C is Australia's LRMP system. It is an important component of the
ISR 'constellation' providing conventional LRMP capabilities and an
electronic reconnaissance capability. It is likely to be replaced by
the
MMA (Paul Sadler photo).
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