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30. D. Korowicz, ‘Things Fall Apart: Complexity, Supply Chains, Infrastructure and Collapse’, presentationto ASPO/The Oil Drum Peak Summit, Alcatraz, Italy, 28 June 2009; see accessed 3 September 2009.31. US Government Accountability Office, ‘Global Positioning System: Significant Challenges inSustaining and Maintaining Widely Used Capabilities’, 7 May 2009, pp. 3-5; see accessed 16 October 2009.32. J. Rubin and B. Tal, ‘Will Soaring Transportation Costs Reverse Globalization?’, report in CIBC WorldMarkets website, 27 May 2008, pp. 4-7; see accessed 17September 2009.33. CTC Consulting Group, ‘The Impact of Peak Oil on the Australian Manufacturing and ConstructionIndustry’, research paper, 2007, p. 26; see accessed 3September 2009.34. R. Wylie, ‘Supplying and Supporting Force 2030: Defence Policy for Australian Industry’, SecurityChallenges, Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 2009, pp. 117-26.35. ABC ‘Insiders’ program, ‘Martin Ferguson joins Insiders’, 27 April 2008; see accessed 17 September 2009.36. For an overview of Australia’s oil supply situation, see C. Leckie, ‘Oil and the Lucky Country’, blogon ‘On Line’ (Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate), 30 April 2009: see 17 September 2009.37. Australian Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee, ‘Estimates (BudgetEstimates)’, 4 June 2009, p. 28; see accessed2 November 2009.56
Fast Operations Research in Support of ADFOperationsDr Terry Moon, DSTO and Dr Tim McKay, DSTOThe thing that everyone has to realise is that this is DSTO supporting a Defence Departmentat war—this is not a peacetime DSTO. That must be at the front of our minds: the safety ofour soldiers, their ability to prosecute their mission, their ability to have the most advancedtechnology that we can provide for them to operate in a highly dangerous environment—I thinkabout that every single day.Professor Robert Clark, Chief Defence Scientist 1IntroductionUndertaking studies in time frames commensurate with the tempo of current operations andrelevant to the decisions made by commanders in the field is particularly challenging. Studiesin support of such operations must not only provide sound, operationally-relevant scientificand technological (S&T) advice but deliver it in a timely manner.DSTO has a long history of supporting ADF operations, which have included deploymentsto South Vietnam, East Timor, Solomon Islands and, more recently, throughout the MiddleEastern area of operations. Support to ADF operations has traditionally been conducted on an‘as required’ basis, while DSTO’s mainstream S&T business focused on capability developmentand S&T support to major systems. A need to better formalise such support to operationswas recognised in October 2001 with the release of Defence Instruction (General) OPS 05-3‘Civilians in Support of ADF Operations’.Subsequently, it was recognised that rapid-turnaround studies in support of operations couldnot be readily accommodated through the usual DSTO mechanisms. Hence new approacheswere introduced to provide ready access to S&T advice by commanders on operations. The‘Operational Science and Technology Support Request’ (OPSTSR) process was specificallycreated for tackling technical problems that may arise in the course of Australian militaryoperations. S&T support to operations was further bolstered in 2007 through the creation ofthe DSTO Operations Support Centre (DOSC).There are two broad foci for this DSTO support to operations. Firstly, the provision of specialistS&T advice to enhance mission effectiveness, which sometimes leads to rapid applicationof new technologies. Secondly, direct support to commanders in the field through theattachment of an operations analysis team, usually comprising a DSTO scientist and an ADFofficer. Such two-person teams are deployed in-theatre to provide immediate S&T support tothe local commander. DSTO has also established a deployable S&T capability to complementthe successful deployable operations analysis capability.57
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