RUSI C4ISTAR Conference

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RUSI C4ISTAR Conference

• Adam Boothby

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Delivering Military Capability Enabled by Networks
Prosecuting TSTs
Pessimism of the intellect Optimism of the will
Antonio Gramsci
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Pessimism of the Intellect

• What about.
• Information management
• Data compatibility
• SoS design principles
• Bandwidth
• Boundary protection
• Enterprise architectures
• Organisational coherence

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Optimism of the Will

• The government doesnt have all the answers
• Right Information, right time, right place
• Persistent, flexible and available ISTAR
• Robust, survivable and re-configurable network
• Concept to capability
• Responsive planning tools across all domains

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PRAGMATISM ENGINEERING THE POSSIBLE
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TRIDENT WARRIOR 05

• Delivered an E2E service to the decision maker
• Joint and Coalition network
• Sensitive platforms and locations
• Target locations identified in between 1-10 secs
  at targetable levels of location accuracy
• Huge increase in amount of targets within JFCs
  ability to strike

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Lessons Learnt

• Partnering and competition
• The technology is net-ready
• Are we net ready?
• We can field capabilities now that have a
  positive effect on mission outcome
• Pessimism its a driving force
• Optimism its the directing force
• Pragmatism its delivers force

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