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Adelaide, SA, Australia - Jun 30, 2009 - At the announcement of the successful applicants for round 13 of the Capability and Technology Demonstrator program for 2009 Saab was selected for a demonstration of a tool to establish an integrated C4I environment. The Minister for Defence Personnel Materiel and Science, Mr Greg Combet congratulated Saab for this innovative application.
Saab will use its Widely Integrated Systems Environment (WISE) tool to establish data exchange connections between a range of maritime, land and air C4I systems to build displays in a Joint Force HQ. The initially systems will be BCSS1, ANZAC 9LV combat system, GBAD TaCCS and Data links 11 and 16.

The WISE tool is an innovative, Swedish developed, software technology that permits systems to be rapidly connected together such as within a Network Centric Warfare environment. This allows operators to monitor and view operations and events in real time or near-real time. WISE integrates information flows between systems, regardless of architecture, communication standards and protocols.

The key benefits to the ADF will be the development and dissemination of a common operating picture (COP) from existing C4I systems through the merging of operating pictures within currently independent maritime, land and air C4I systems to create a Joint COP.

This low cost technology will enable a wide variety of systems from different sources to be connected without the need to re-write the software of either system. It can be used to determine future C4I systems requirements and as a test bed for evaluation of competing systems to see how they will interact with existing Australian network based systems. Finally, it can be used to optimise the performance of operational C4I systems and to align scenarios with operational systems for on-the-job training opportunities.

 

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