The Director General Capability Planning for the RAAF discussed integrated force design at the Williams Foundation Seminar on April 11, 2107.

1. Integrated Force Design – An Air Force Perspective
AIRCDRE Rob Chipman, DGCP-AF

2. "We must operate as an
integrated team...failure to act
as such will incur unacceptable
risk in future opera9ons"

3. Isolation Collaboration Cooperation Integration
Augmented/Artificial
Intelligence

4. “If we don’t design the integrated force we
are commi=ed to a>er-market integra9on.”
“Operations will become
increasingly joint and ultimately,
integrated and interdependent
within a whole-of-nation approach
to security” – Air Force Concepts for
2015, Nov 2000
“For the best effect and cost, a
networked ADF must be based on
capabilities that are designed to
be interoperable from inception,
not as an afterthought in the
development process” – NCW
Roadmap 2009
“The Australian Defence Force
(ADF) now has a coherent vision
and has made steady progress
towards its goal of a networked
force over the previous two years,
due in no small part to more
robust tri-service ‘joint’
structures” - The networked ADF—
C4ISR Capability Summary 2010, ASPI
“To ensure mission success, the
ADF must be capable of the
flexible application of coordinated
effects across multiple domains…
This requires a whole-of-force
design, rather than simply
combining single Service
capabilities.” – AJOC, Oct 2016
“Articulating a vision of a seamless force—internally with each other (the three
Services) and externally with the range of providers, supporting entities and the
community—the ADF highlighted the fundamental need to transform from a
platform-centric force to a network-centric one…the fundamental building
block of networked operations would be a comprehensive ‘information network’
that linked the sensor grid (for detection), the command and control (C2) grid
(offering flexible, optimised decision-making), and the engagement grid (for
precision engagement)” – ADF Force 2020, 2002

5. “Design is about more than just plaCorms and
systems – it is also about how we acquire,
operate and sustain an integrated force in a
more complex interconnected global context.”