During the Airpower Conference hosted by the Chief of Staff of the Royal Australian Air Force, the co-leaders of the Plan Jericho project, Group Captains Andrew “Jake” Campbell and Peter Mitchell, provided an update on the Plan Jericho effort. And the approach permeated the discussion at the Williams Foundation seminar on new approaches to air-land integration, notably because there has been a significant effort to better align the airlift and support sector with the evolving approach of the Army and its approach to ground maneuver warfare. But what highlighted in many ways the approach and the way ahead was seen on Friday after the Airpower Conference and the Williams Seminar, namely in a Jericho Dawn exercise which focused on ways to provide better situational awareness for the ground maneuver force.

1. Delivering Plan Jericho
Integrating the Future Force

2. Government Intent –
A more capable, agile and potent
future force
There will be more emphasis placed on the joint force – bringing
together different land, air, sea, intelligence, electronic warfare,
cyber and space capabilities so the ADF can apply more force
more rapidly and more effectively when called on to do so.
Defence White Paper 2016

3. The Jericho Vision
The Jericho Vision is to develop a future force that is agile and adaptive,
fully immersed in the information age and truly joint.
The vision is underpinned by three core themes:
Theme 1: Harness the Combat Potential of an Integrated Force
Theme 2: Develop an Innovative and Empowered Workforce
Theme 3: Change the Way we Acquire and Sustain Capability

4. Why We Must Transform
A rapidly changing strategic
environment means we must look
for new and better ways of staying
ahead of our adversaries.

5. § Evolving Threats
§ Increased
competition for
global commons
§ Unprecedented
ability to access data
§ Government needs
rapid and agile
military options
§ Introduction of 5th
generation
technology
Why Transform Implementation Themes
Harness the combat potential of a fully
integrated force
• Future Air and Space CONOPs
• Enhanced C2 through Decision Superiority
• Train as we fight
• Integrated simulation and experimentation
Develop an innovative and empowered
workforce
• Culture of innovation
• Contemporary trade structures
• System of systems thinking
• Simplified horizontal and vertical organisational
structures
Change the way we acquire and sustain
capability
• Acquisition times match technology
• New ways to sustain capabilities
• Attending to the enablers
• Force by design
Vision
Agile
Adaptive
Information Age
Truly Joint
2015 2025Air Force Implementation Plans
How We Will Transform

6. The Future Force will Demand More
that Just a Top-down Design
The following design principles are shaping the implementation
of Plan Jericho:
1. Top-down design meets bottom-up innovation
2. Strategy led: compass not map
3. Combat Mission focused

7. Over the last 12 months Jericho has
Designed a Framework to Set the Vector for
Our Future
Activities Undertaken:
• Jericho Spring War-gaming workshop
• Developed the AF CONOPs
• Jericho Program of Work (15 projects)
• Jericho Dawn activities
Outcomes Achieved:
• AWC IOC Jan 16
• AirView 360
• FARP capability for C17/C-130
• Enhanced AP3-C
communications
• LVC capabilities

8. Over the next 12 months Jericho will Focus on
Delivering the three transformation themes
Over the next 12 months Jericho will undertake the following
implementation activities:
• Progress the Program of Work
• Foster Bottom-Up Innovation
• Refine AF CONOPs
• Conduct Acquisition Sprint
• Support new industry engagement models
• Transition Jericho Dawn to AWC

9. Jericho Experimentation – Maintaining
our Technological Edge
Over the next 12 months Jericho will be conducting a series of combat
mission focused experimentation activities that will enable Air Force to
maximise the delivery of air and space power effects.
The experimentation activities will include:
• Force level EW experimentation (geolocation)
• Airborne gateway demonstration
• Quantum Cryptographics
• OSA Demonstration
• LVC Study

10. Acquisition Sprint – Responding to Jericho
Theme 3 Through Prototyping Innovation
To maintain our Air Power advantage, Theme 3 of Plan Jericho intends to
change the existing paradigm and methodologies by which Air Force
acquires and sustains capability.
Current Acquisition Environment
• Process in lag of threats
• Contract relationship with Industry
• MOTS/COTS
• Crippled by Risk
• Stop Gap Upgrades
• Rapid by necessity
Future Acquisition Environment
• Responsive acquisition
• True Defence / Industry Partnership
• Innovation and Prototyping
• Risk aware
• Responsive Spiral
• Consistently Rapid by design

11. Procurement
Acquisi/on
&
Sustainment
Select
3
prototype
teams
Select
Prototype
to
develop
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compe,,on
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in
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§ Prototype
§ Learn
§ Test
§ Op,mise
§ Hand
over
Exploration
Need
Iden/fica/on
Analysis
of
Broad
Op/ons
Analysis
of
Realis/c
Op/ons
Requirement
Ar/cula/on
Procurement
§ Viable
proposals
for
the
prototyping
stage
§ Viable
proposals
for
the
prototyping
stage
§ Viable
prototype
for
acquisi/on
§ Innova/ve
contract
for
procurement
of
selected
prototype
capability
Pre-­‐prepara/on
Prepara,on
Concept
Concept
Refinement Pre-feasibility Feasibility
Acquisition & In-
service
New
CLC
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Forum
-­‐Services/Groups
-­‐ DSTG/Academia
-­‐ Industry
-­‐ Stakeholders
JCN
§ Reframe
the
problem
Gate 0 Gate 2Gate 1
§ Design competition commencement
§ Development of contracting
mechanism for acquisition of
capability
§ Define Air Force by Design concept
§ Test CLC process (document
development)
§ Development of prototypes
§ Complete contracting mechanism
for acquisition of capability
§ Continue to refine Air Force by
Design concept
§ Test CLC process (document
development
Acquisition Sprint – Responding to Jericho
Theme 3 Through Prototyping Innovation

12. Future Focus
To achieve this Jericho’s future focus will include:
• C4ISR enabled Information Control to support
o Decision Superiority
o Local Tactical Effects (lethality +
survivability)
• Open System Architecture
• Big Data (visualisation tools)
Jericho is committed to transforming Air Force into a fully integrated force that
is capable of fighting and winning in the information age.

13. Open Systems Architectures
DARPA “seeks to develop and deliver systems architecture
concepts for rapid integration of new U.S. technologies as they
are developed, without requiring significant re-engineering of
existing capabilities, systems, or systems of systems.”

15. Imagine Joint Combat Where…
• Every decision maker has access to
every bit of data on the planet – but
has the tools and experience to find
what is important
• Every sensor shares rich
information with every other sensor
in the battle
• Intelligent agents use the entire
combat system to deliver an effect –
ROE is in the software