Plan Jericho aims to change how innovation is achieved in the defense sector by improving collaboration, establishing consistent funding models, and commercializing defense innovations. It outlines impediments such as poor collaboration, inconsistent funding, intellectual property issues, and security concerns. The Jericho Dawn Program status provides updates on projects ranging from unmanned aerial vehicles to force-level electronic warfare experimentation. The document advocates connecting operators with industry earlier, establishing pathways for commercializing defense-inspired innovations, and building enduring partnerships between defense and industry to deliver capabilities.

1. Plan Jericho
Changing the way we fight

2. Innovation: The application of better
solutions to new or existing needs
delivered through more effective human
resource management, products,
processes, services, technologies or ideas

3. Impediments to Innovation
POOR
COLLABORATION
INCONSISTENT
FUNDING
MODELS
FUNDING
CONTINUITY
INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY
Export
Controls
SECURITY
RISK
APPETITE
COMMERCIALISE
DEFENCE
INNOVATION
INTER-
OPERABILITY

4. An Industry Perspective…

5. Jericho Dawn Program
Status Serial Event Timeframe
Complete 15-1 Heron FMV on C-17 via SATCOM Apr 15
Planned 15-4.1 Autonomous UAVs for FP Aug 15
15-2 Link 16 on AP-3C for FCP Sep 15
15-3 Wideband HF IP Oct 15
15-5 Air-mobile FARP on C-130J and C-17 4Q15
15-4.2 CTP for airbase security Dec15
16-1 E-7A and F/A-18F cooperative engagement Feb 16
16-2 Force level EW experimentation (geolocation) Apr 16
Concept 16-3 BACN demonstration: Eurogrid to L16 Mar 16
TBD BMS to L-16 Gateway TBD
TBD Virtual Wedgetail to DTEN for LVC capability In Trial

6. Aspiration
• Connect operators with industry to collaborate at
the needs/requirements phase
• Pathway to commercialise Defence inspired
innovations and deliver into service
• Funding mechanism for innovation with risk-
tolerant evaluation and approval processes
• Enduring/trusted partnerships with industry to
deliver non-core business
• Engagement mechanisms that promote long-term
relationships

7. Imagine if…

8. Workshop Questions
1. What do you think Australia does really well when it
comes to innovation? Where should Defence Industry
and Academia focus their innovation efforts?
2. Where and how can we bring Defence together with
industry and academia to innovate?
3. What would a ‘first principles’ system for turning
innovation into Defence capability look like?
4. How do we change behaviours between Defence,
Industry, Science and Academia to enable best
practice? What can we do right now – starting today?