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NDIA Targets, UAVs and Range Operations Jim
SmithVice PresidentPrecision Engagement
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Effective, Affordable and Timely Mission
Solutions Connecting Battlespace Awareness, C3
and Weapons Across the Effects Chain
Precision Engagement SBA
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Sheer size of battlespace has changed, as has the
method in which we plan and execute operations
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Observations in a Changing World

• Knowledge Trumps Mass
• Battlespace continues to evolve as more lethal
  and less dense
• Emerging capability for integrated planning
  drives appetite for integrated execution
• Capability Trumps Platforms
• Battlespace awareness is in, ISR is out
• Impact of Global vice Regional National Security
  Strategies
• More places simultaneouslymore stuff, less
  expensive
• Expectation of C2, ISR and fires regardless of
  size

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Observations

• Life in a World of Open Architectures
• Government owns the architecture
• How does it fit is key questionapplications
  are the market
• Domain knowledge and speed to market are
  discriminators
• Command and Control of Forces is Key Operational
  Imperative
• Must be joint, interagency and multinational
• Must integrate strategic and tactical assets and
  access all available fires
• System of elements will drive interdependence

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Voice of the Warfighter
the ability of joint forces to access, locate,
surveil, discern and track objectives or targets
select, organize, and use the correct systems
generate desired effects assess results and
reengage with decisive speed and overwhelming
operational tempo as required, throughout the
full range of military operations.
Joint Vision 2020
Achieve Desired Effects With Decisive Speed
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Effective, Affordable and Timely Mission
Solutions Connecting Battlespace Awareness, C3
and Weapons Across the Effects Chain
Precision Engagement SBA
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