"You know, gone are the days where we wait for years, and then something gets delivered. What we've got now is every nine months there's going to be a release internally," Air Commodore Benjamin Sleeman, director-general for integrated air and missile defense, said.
"Our first challenge is to strengthen our workforce, more specifically to address the shortfalls in those specific masteries and experience levels that constrain our capacity to grow," the chief of the Royal Australian Air Force said.
“Tactical operating system” for warfighters has evolved to provide more situational awareness of the battlefield.
The tech was in part funded by the US Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Lockheed Australia's Tony Lindsay said.
"I read about so many people in my position, who say, I'm going to triple revenue by whatever. I don't get into that game. Perhaps that's because of my defense upbringing. I know how to turn capital into capability. I look at value in a company. Revenue to me is one marker. Value is the most important marker for me," Warren "Macca" McDonald, CEO of Lockheed Martin Australia, told Breaking Defense.
“This critical capability will allow the ADF to leverage information from across all domains at greater speeds, with better accuracy and at a greater scale than it is capable of today,” Stephanie Hill, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, said in a statement.
Lockheed Australia's CEO, Warren McDonald sees Air 6500 as part of what he called a "massive recapitalization" of Australia's military.
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Lockheed Martin Australia announced a $74 million AUD facility that will be modeled to some degree on its Lighthouse facility in Virginia, where it runs modeling and simulations, as well as wargames.
The F-35 "demonstrated its ability to pass data over various networks from aircraft that took off from Fort Worth, Texas, to other aircraft and bounced information through Hawaii to Australia to provide data to the exercise in Australia," Lockheed's Gary North noted.