C-E Solutions is accepted to join ISR Focus Group
C-E Solutions was recently invited to join a joint Defence and Industry Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Focus Group that is being initiated by ADIESA.
The Defence Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance Branch, under the leadership of the DG-JCC as the Joint Capability Coordinator responsible to VCDF, is required to deliver timely and relevant intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capability is support of the ADF. ISR is also an important element of engagement with our allies and where high levels of interoperability and cooperation are required. The provision of these capabilities, products and services is in an environment where the demands are both dynamic and more diverse, operational tempo and imperatives are high, the available information is growing exponentially, and the available resources are constrained. The operating environment and the work of the ISR systems and processes is also subject to increasing scrutiny and demanding time frames.
To match these challenges requires an innovative approach and marshalling of all the resources available, both within the ADF and in the wider Australian community, to provide both improved technology and adaptive systems that are agile and able to deal with massive amounts of data and the diversity of requirements and priorities, while remaining secure and resistant to direct and indirect attack.
An important part of the mix that can assist the ISR environment is Australian industry. A close and on-going engagement with industry is seen as a major source of ideas and technology to enable reliable and capable systems to meet the needs of the ADF. Such engagement also enables industry to understand the context in which ISR is required to operate, to anticipate ISR requirements, and to contribute to the development and sustainment of the Defence ISR capability.
The ISR-FG will function within the framework of the Australian Defence Information and Electronic Systems Association (ADIESA) in enhancing Defence and industry capabilities by facilitating increased Defence-industry collaboration in the areas intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance.
The purpose of the Intelligence Focus Group (ISR-FG) is to develop and promote an overall industry engagement strategy with the ISR Branch to:
- Promote and facilitate the interaction between, companies involved in ISR and related business, as well as with other elements of Defence involved in ISR capability development and sustainment.
- Provide visibility of the extant industry involvement with ISR elements, and coordinate collective involvement where necessary and consistent with commercial considerations.
- Provide industry with insight into the capability challenges facing the ISR environment and Defence planning to meet those challenges, including the development of major new Defence ISR concepts, capabilities and projects.
- Provide Defence with insight into the capabilities of industry, including alliances and similar arrangements that could assist the ISR environment and identify areas of potentially increased industry involvement in supporting ISR activities.
- Facilitate the exchange of information on emergent technologies, concepts and systems which may be relevant to ISR and its operations, and to identify industry’s capability to contribute to the exploitation or development of these.
- Identify areas that might be exploited for collaborative research and development between industry and the ISR envieonment.
- Identify mechanisms to overcome impediments to effective ISR Defence/industry interaction.
C-E Solutions has participated so far by attending meetings and providing feedback on actions arising.
