In this presentation given by BG Blaine to the Williams Foundation Seminar on Integrated Force Design on April 11, 2017, the focus on capability stream management as a way to get a handle on ways to design the integrated force form the outset rather than after market is the focus of attention.

1. Brigadier Jason Blain
Director General Force Options and Plans
Force Design Division
11 April 2017
Achieving An Integrated Force By Design:
Challenges and Opportunities
Williams Foundation Seminar: Air / Sea / Land: Integrated Force 2030

2. The Imperative
"Integration is a force multiplier. All key systems
and platforms of the Joint Force need to be
integrated into a network. The networked force
facilitates decision superiority and enables the
force to generate tempo, be agile and manoeuvre.
This is a foundation of how the ADF will remain
agile and potent as a relatively small force"
Australia's Joint Operating Concept 2016

3. If we don’t “design” the integrated force we are
committed to “after-market” integration.
Enablers/
FIC
Siloed design leading to a federated,
not truly joint force, or…
Enablers/
FIC
…an integrated force by design.

4. Force Design Division has developed the Force Design
Cycle to enable an Integrated Force by Design
Strategic
Direction
Collate &
Understand our
gaps & opportunities
Prioritise our
gaps & opportunities,
& Develop
options
Design our force &
Recommend
our response to all
gaps & opportunities
Approve our
responses to all gaps
and opportunities &
Decide our force
structure
Baseline our
current force,
strategy, &
investment plan, &
Assess our gaps &
opportunities
The Force Design Cycle

5. 6 Capability Streams
40 Capability
Programs
Achieving An Integrated Force By Design: Stream and Program Approach

6. If we’re not an integrated team from the design to the
operation of the force, we’ll incur unacceptable risk in
operations.
• Force Design must play the role of
strong strategic centre, but equally
must be a conduit for the expertise
across the broader Defence community
• Our Service Chiefs now have a vital
joint role in addition to their
service role: Stream Leads. They
will understand and prioritise their
challenges in a joint framework
• Force Design will be coordinating
a joint view of our gaps and
opportunities across the whole of
Defence, to ensure our solutions are
always developed in a joint context
Intel.
Strategic
Policy
Cost &
Finance
RAN,
Army &
RAAF
Industry &
Innovation
Force
Design
Whole of
Govt.
Exec
Govt.
Whole of
Nation, &
other
partners
Prepared-
ness

7. Force Design Division will engage in dialogue across
the industry and innovation ecosystem.
G&O input
Industry has the
opportunity to input
innovation
opportunities into
Force Design through
Innovation Hub and
through CMs
Options
Industry and
innovation options
are tested for
suitability as part of
force option
development
Priorities
Force Design
Priorities will be fed
to industry, through
the Innovation
Steering Group, the
IC and Government
Force Exploration
A Force Exploration
function, coordinated
by FDD and
supported by DSTG,
will explore
revolutionary
innovation over
longer timeframes
Maximising Industry and Innovation Opportunities

8. “Design” is about more than just platforms and
systems … it is about how we design, acquire, operate
and sustain an integrated force in a more complex
interconnected global context.
Force Design
unified view of
gaps and
opportunities
Stream view
and
prioritisation
of gaps and
opportunities
Prioritise joint
needs and
develop force
options
Force Design analysis of gaps and opportunities must consider the
complete Program Design, including understanding new
integration challenges.
The Stream view will drive deeper understanding of how critical
these challenges are to the warfighter in achieving joint effects,
and reinforce the joint understanding of our gaps and
opportunities
Force Options must be developed with Integration and
Interoperability part of the upfront design

9. Achieving a Warfighting Domain