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organisations could deploy at short notice with ADF elements or independently without acumbersome technical support requirement. The system commonality would ensure thatsupport could be gained through either bilateral or multilateral support arrangements fromthe nations scoped in the proposed architecture.Any proposal of this scale will have inherent risks. Immediate issues for resolution wouldinclude scoping support within Australia and then abroad. A project of this nature wouldalso require a fundamental rethink of Australian and coalition system administration,security policies and procedures, and technical configurations. The controlling authoritywould therefore need to be based on a governing body made up of representative nations toensure commonality and to achieve best practice in architecture, technology, accreditation,management, implementation and security.Funding would also be a major issue. Significant funding has already been invested in theAustralian strategic network and there are a number of agencies, with vested interests, whichcould lose relevance if such an initiative was progressed. Clearly, any decision to change theADF’s networks would require whole-of-government support and funding, although it is notedthat a network of this nature—in the context of information superiority—was flagged in the2009 Defence White Paper.Defence requires a fully integrated command support system covering all levels of operationand all environments, with the ability to participate in coalition operations, and to collaboratewith other agencies. To achieve these goals, the Government intends to enhance Defence’sjoint command support system, as well as protected, high-speed communication systems andassociated networking capabilities. 8The ADF is already pursing a number of network-centric initiatives. This proposal shouldbe considered as a natural strategic extension that will enhance the established diplomatic,intelligence and military networks.ConclusionNational information systems have been shown to provide a basic capability to communicateand share operational information and intelligence through ‘gateways’ and ‘air gap’ transfersolutions. Inherent security and architecture design issues limit the capability of these systems.Hence, it is in the interest of all coalition partners to contribute to and quickly leverageoperational information and intelligence to generate faster, more accurate and thoroughresponses. The reliance on timely liaison and information exchange will not diminish in thefuture. In fact, it will likely increase. Accordingly, this should be seen as the catalyst to developa globalised coalition information system to meet the needs of the operational commander.Captain Nathan Mark is a Royal Australian Army Signals Corps Officer. He has served as the S63 ofthe Overwatch Battle Group in Southern Iraq and more recently as the S6 of the Special OperationsTask Group in Afghanistan. The challenges of coalition interoperability at the operational levelserved as the catalyst for this article, which is an abridged version of a more detailed servicepaper (obtainable from the author at nathan.mark@defence.gov.au)86
NOTES1. Jill L. Boardman and Donald W. Shuey, ‘Combined Enterprise Regional InformationExchange System (CENTRIX): Supporting Coalition Warfare World-Wide’, p. 3: sourced from accessed 21 April 2010.2. Australian Department of Defence, Capability Development Group, ‘Joint Project 2090’: sourcedfrom accessed 23April 2010.3. SIPR is the US-based ‘secret internet protocol router’ network.4. Boardman and Shuey, ‘CENTRIX: Supporting Coalition Warfare World-Wide’, p. 3.5. The Griffin Project Document can be sourced at accessed 23 April 2010.6. Australian Defence Force, ‘Satellite Operations: Wideband Global Satcom’: sourced from accessed 21 April 2010.7. Benjamin A. Allan et al, ‘A Component Architecture for High-Performance Scientific Computing’, inInternational Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, Vol. 20, Issue 2, May 2006, pp.163-202: sourced from accessed 21 April 2010.8. Australian Government, Defence White Paper 2009: Defending Australia in the Asia Pacific century:Force 2030, p. 84: sourced from accessed 22 April 2010.87
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