ARMY AL&T
KNOWLEDGE COMMON
Since 2021, the U.S., U.K. and Australia have been partnering to standardize and share battlefield sensor data.
by Claudia Flisi I
nformation is the ultimate weapon in the future of warfare. All the traditional equipment of war—whether offensive weapons such as guns and bombs, defensive devices like radar and light detection and ranging, known as LIDAR systems, or transport vehicles including tanks, planes, ships and submarines—depend more and more on information-generating sensors to carry out their missions.
Better, deeper, clearer and faster information is essential to a winning strategy as weap- ons become more powerful, defense devices become more advanced and vehicles become faster and more complex. Australia, the United Kingdom (U.K.) and the United States (U.S.), the three countries that make up the AUKUS alliance, are well aware of these changes in the military landscape and have joined together to adapt in coordinated fash- ion. AUKUS is working with the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors (PEO IEW&S) to ensure that the information gener- ated by each country’s sensors can be understood and shared by all partners.
Te focus on interoperability began well before the creation of AUKUS in 2021, explained Christine Moulton, acting strategic integration manager for the Integration Directorate at PEO IEW&S. “Around 2013, we began discussing how to better use stan- dards to provide true interoperability. We wanted configuration coordination to be able to connect systems and share information, at least on a basic level.”
Tat led to the development of Integrated Sensor Architecture (ISA), which will meet the challenge of combining unique technical requirements from various modalities of sensors, types of data, distinct platforms and specialized implementations. Te Army began working on ISA in 2011 and had compiled significant experience within the DOD when the PEO IEW&S Integration Directorate was asked to assist with interoperabil- ity within AUKUS. ISA is designed to make systems and their capabilities accessible to Soldiers and platforms without prior training or specific integration and regardless of
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