Northrop Grumman Australia's Chris Deeble discusses the importance of innovative solutions for enabling the Australian Defence Force's (ADF) 5th generation capabilities. He emphasizes the need for collaboration across defense, industry, science & technology, and academia to align on strategies that foster innovation and build skilled workforces. The document outlines a mission engineering approach that advocates for a shift from platform-centric thinking to a focus on architecting and integrating next-generation technologies and capabilities.

1. Northrop Grumman Australia
Williams Foundation
‘The Requirements of 5th
Generation Manoeuvre’
- An Industry Perspective
24 October 2019
Chris Deeble
NGA Chief Executive

2. Enabling the ADF’s 5th Gen Capability
3
Provides innovative ‘SOS’ solutions for the Australian DoD
Collaboration key to delivering create the scale to deliver innovative SoS solutions
to leverage Australia’s 5th Gen capability investments
Re-capitalisation across all three Services
plus Scale and Jointness creates opportunity
5th Gen manoeuvre will be enabled by
innovative SoS solutions
5th Gen concepts, architectures and
technology need to be harmonised

3. Fundamental Input to Capability
Innovation Drivers
4
Doctrine
Organisation
Technology
as a Catalyst
Industry, S&T & Academia
Skilling and Stem
Defence, Industry, S&T and Academia need to align to a strategy for innovation and
building skilled and innovative workforces
Industry as FIC needs to
become more than
rhetoric and is critical to
the Concept phase
People

4. 5th Gen Manoeuvre Innovation
Agility
Future Proofed
Legacy
Evolution

5. 5th Gen Manoeuvre Strategy Development
• Requires a new paradigm
– Joint alignment – concepts and
architectures
– Multi-Domain and Multi-Spectral
– AI and Autonomy - Predict-Sense-Respond
– Simultaneous defence and offence
– Leveraging scale and creating mass
• Cultural impediments
– Seeking quick wins
– Exploiting the Seams
• Technology release
– Technology V Concepts
Agility
Future
Proofed
Legacy
Evolution
Concept led, architecture enabled and technology as catalyst

6. A Mission Engineering Approach
Concepts TechnologyArchitectures
We can no longer think in Platform-centric terms and must now be
thinking about architecting first
Conduct local
R&D/prototyping and
leverage depth and
breadth of Industry
expertise and technology
Assist Defence to
develop requirements,
including
commercial models for
delivery
Assist Defence in
development of
architectures to deliver
concepts and leverage
Australian innovation
Defence requires an agile, resilient, secure and self healing network architecture to
support its unique force structure and future joint and coalition warfighting needs
Mission Areas Next Gen TechnologiesArchitecture Framework

7. Concept Demonstration and Experimentation
• Novel integrations /
configurations
• Hands-on capability
assessment
• Partner capability
integration
• Demonstration &
customer
engagement
• Capability &
Operational
architectures
• Operations research
• Integrated modelling
& simulation
• Virtual
experimentation
• Systems, SoS and
Architecture
Development
• Data & assumption
management
• Capability trade
studies
• Lifecycle cost and
business case
development
Mission Engineering
Analysis Environment
Systems Engineering
Environment
Prototype Integration
Environment
Integrated 5th Generation CD&E Environment
Distributed System Integration Laboratory (DSIL) Concept
Using Architectures in Systems Engineering & Acquisition
Operational Concept
System Functional Mapping
System Interface Mapping
OV-1
OV-4
OV-5
SV-3
SV-4
SV-5
OV-2
OV-3
SV-1 TV-1
SV-2 SV-6
Architecture Performance
and Behavior
OV-6C
SV-7
Executable
Model
CV-6 Capabilities Evolution Description
OV-1 High-level Operational Concept Graphic
OV-2 Operational Node Connectivity Description
OV-3 Operational Information Exchange Matrix
OV-4 Command Relationships Chart
OV-5 Activity Model
OV-6C Operational Event/Trace Description
SV-1 System Interface Description
SV-2 Systems Communication Description
SV-3 Systems Matrix
SV-4 System Functionality Description
SV-5 Operational Activity to System Function
Traceability Matrix
SV-6 System Information Exchange Matrix
SV-7 System Performance Parameters Matrix
SV-8 System Evolution Description
SV-9 System Technology Forecast
SV-10 System Activity Sequence & Timing
TV-1 Technical Architecture Profile
TV-2 Standards Technology Forecast
The Role of Engineering and Technology
Lesser
Greater
1st Order Analysis:
Functionality--
2nd Order Analysis:
Static Interoperability
3rd Order Analysis:
Dynamic Interoperability
OV-3
Note: There are dependencies between the Architecture
products that are not shown in the System
Engineering flow. Many of the products are
developed concurrently.
Architectures Provide the Framework for
Systems Engineering & Acquisition
SV-8
TV-2
CV-6
Acquisition Strategy
SV-9
SV-10
DRM
OpSits
TTP
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Need to populate with specific
coalition platforms and systems
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Underpinning Industry, S&T community and Academia
engagement
A DSIL enabled Mission
Engineering Approach:
• Help define mission focus areas
and needs
• Develop Mission requirements,
assumptions and constraints
• Conduct Mission Analysis and
trades
• Perform mission modeling and
simulation
• Develop Candidate Mission
Architectures and Solutions
Evolving concepts, architectures and technology requires a collaborative
and trusted experimentation environment