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NDIA Air Armament
Symposium
General Bruce Carlson
5 October 2005
Integrity - Service - Excellence
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Overview
Future
Weapons
Challenge
Way Ahead
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Future Weapons – Directed Energy
Force Protection
Space Situational
Awareness
Long Range
Strike
Precision Engagement
RF/HPM Electronic Attack
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RF Active Denial System
Capability: Longest range non-lethal weapon available from
land, sea, or air
Ground Based Capability
1-5 years
Transformational Attributes
- Robust non-lethal effect
- Long range, deep magazine
- Large safety margin and invisible beam
Air and Sea Based Capability
6-10 Years
Field Non-lethal Defense Capability
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HPM Electronic Attack
Capability: Disrupt adversaries critical military and
infrastructure electronics and communications equipment
Transformational Attributes
- Wide area swath; speed of light delivery
minimizes acquisition, pointing, & tracking
- Multiple targets per engagement; multiple
engagements per mission
- Graduated effects from deny to destroy
- Little or no collateral damage (non-lethal)
against “morally-hardened” targets
Mid-term Capability
8-12 years
Graduated Effects, Minimal CD, Low Reconstitution Cost
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The Airborne Laser (ABL)
Capability: Destruction of boosting theater missiles at strategically significant ranges
with a high energy laser from a 40,000 foot loitering 747 aircraft
Family of Systems Provides:
Multiple Kill Opportunities
Different Kill Technologies
– Interoperability
– Flexibility
– Synergism`
–
MILSTAR
SBL
SBIRS
Low
Transformational Attributes
- Boost phase intercept counters MIRV
advantage
- Light speed time of flight for salvos
- Vital component of Family of Systems
- High potential as ISR platform
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ABL
JSTARS
AWACS
F-15
THAAD
Navy TAMD
PAC-3
PAC-3
Aggressor
F-22
ABL – Integral to Missile Defense
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Future Weapons – Directed Energy
Exciting weapon system capabilities
on the horizon ... but the challenge is to:
- Integrate effects with ongoing battlefield operations
- Provide effective command and control
Next-Generation Weapon Systems
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The Air Force Vision
AF Vision:
1990s
• Global Vigilance
• Global Reach
• Global Power
CSAF
Perspective
• Persistence
• Cursor Over the Target
• Predictive Battlespace
Awareness
• One Time of Flight
QDR 2005
• Persistent C4ISR
• Global Mobility
• Rapid Strike
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The Air Force Vision
AF Vision:
1990s
CSAF
Perspective
QDR 2005
Space
• Global Vigilance
• Global Reach
• Global Power
• Persistent C4ISR
• Persistence
• Global Mobility
• Cursor
AirOver the Target FIND
• Predictive Battlespace • Rapid Strike
Awareness
FIX
ASSESS
• One Time of Flight
ENGAGE
TRACK
TARGET
Cyber
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Narrowing the Gaps
Operation DESERT
STORM
EFX 98
Operation ALLIED
FORCE
JEFX 00
Operation ENDURING
FREEDOM
JEFX 04
Operation
IRAQI FREEDOM
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Operation DESERT STORM
- Air Tasking Order (ATO) Manually Generated Process
-- Disseminated by AUTODIN
- ISR Collection Management Plan
-- Not responsive to dynamic environment
- Coordination Accomplished by Phone
- Shooter Committed by Voice Relay from AOC thru AWACS
Zero Confirmed Kills of Mobile SCUDs
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Operation ALLIED FORCE
- ATO Generation Became Automated
-- Senior AOC Director could view ATO and make changes
- ISR Center Supported Combat Operations
-- Received ISR feeds; manual ID of TCTs
-- Coordination accomplished by phone
- Shooter Committed by SATCOM from AOC via AWACS
- EFX 98 Impacts
-- Space Support Teams in CAOC
-- Joint Targeting Workstation/Tactical Fusion Prototype
-- Limited SOF integration – enhanced CSAR of downed F-117/F-16 pilots
TCTs Remained a Considerable Challenge
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Operation ENDURING FREEDOM
- First TST Cell Within AOC Combat Operations
-- Spreadsheets used to manage TCTs
-- Falcon View used to manually update airspace control & fire support
- Theater Battle Management Core System (TBMCS) First Used
-- Enabled ATO generation and dissemination
-- Added applications to assist planners and Wing Ops Centers
- ISR Collection Manager Assigned Directly to Combined Forces CC
-- Most integrated ISR in modern warfighting history
- Shooter Committed by SATCOM from AOC via AWACS
-- Some B-52s and B-1s used Combat Track II – few had capability
Integration Still Limited and Cumbersome
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Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
- Significant Capability Improvement in TCT
-- Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures Developed
--- Used Lessons Learned from OEF, JEFX, INTERNAL LOOK, etc
- Collaboration Significantly Improved
-- TBMCS Became Web-enabled
-- Global Command Control System, Info Workspace, Chat, C2PC
-- Data Links and SATCOM improved C2/Cockpit Communication
- Non-traditional ISR Used
-- Targeting Pods on F-15s, F-16s, A-10s, and B-52
-- Provided High-Resolution Ground Target Video
Continuous Improvements…Integration Work Remains
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Work to be Done
- JEFX 04 – Implement Lessons Learned
-- Coalition and Service integration top priority – CSAF
-- Included 3,000 Joint and Coalition members
-- Demonstrated C2 Constellation and Constellation Net Vision
- JEFX 06 – Focus Areas
-- Continuous Air Planning and Execution
-- ConstellationNet
-- ISR Fusion
-- Homeland Security/Defense
- TBMCS
-- All five AOCs to be upgraded - Jan 06 through Sep 06
- AOC Weapon System Upgrades
-- FY06-08
--- Airspace management, improved coalition interoperability
-- FY08-09
--- Reduced manning, improved target mensuration and recognition
-- FY10-11
--- Deployable AOC, fused CoP, automated target recognition
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C4ISR / AOC Integration
- Real-Time Intuitive Information
- Seamless Integration of Combined,
Coalition and Joint Effects
- Machine to Machine ISR Sensor and
Platform Integration and Synchronization
“We are going to figure out how to have conversations
between airborne platforms, unmanned, on the ground,
in the air. We’ll build a constellation that marries up the
manned and the unmanned. Create that network in the
sky that will pass the information around.”
General John Jumper, CSAF
“Proficiency in the integration of air and space power is
going to be the hallmark for future AF leaders. It is crucial
that they have a well-developed aerospace picture to better
integrate AF capabilities into the joint arena.”
Lt Gen David Deptula, Commander, Kenney WFHQ
Shorten Sensor to Shooter Timeline
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The Air Force Vision
Air
Space
FIND
ASSESS
FIX
ENGAGE
TRACK
TARGET
Cyber
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Modern American Warfighting Capabilities
On the Threshold of a Major
Increase in Combat Capabilities
WWII
Isolated
and
Stovepiped
Korean War
Independent
but
Coordinated
Desert One
Collaborative
and
Interoperable;
Target-based
Desert Storm
Integrated
Operations
Future
Inter-dependent,
Net-enabled &
Effects-based
Operations
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Way Ahead
Disciplined Requirements & Development Process
Define User & Industry Standards
Enforce Standards
Increased Government & Industry Cooperation
Integrate…to Enhance Existing Capabilities 19
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