Preserving capacity, General Tom Lawson, Chief of the Defence Staff, Keys to Canadian SAR
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INTEROPERABILITY like C2 and reintroduce these into education, training and exercises. What is striking is the amount of innovation that has gone on in joint land warfare based on recent operations: provincial reconstruction teams, observer, mentor and liaison teams, air-land integration, incredible intelligence capabilities, UAVs, airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) – operations pulled that innovation. What I observed in JOINTEX was the opportunity to innovate akin to the Afghan and other recent operations experiences. There is a huge opportunity – through these collective training events – to continue to innovate and evolve the force, and build experience in our leaders and our people, absent having thousands of them deployed. Q Where are the other government departments in this? Foreign Affairs participated and CIDA was modestly involved in Stage 4. There is room for improvement in how we integrate and involve our partners in exercises. In a real operation, they are all in but in a training environment it is hard to attract people when their day jobs are pulling them away. There is certainly interest from Foreign Affairs to incorporate this kind of activity into their training requirements. Q What will you be looking for from JOINTEX 2015? I 2015 will be similar in terms of its ambition. The CDS and I have gone over the big brush strokes and his Commanders' Council will be engaged to confirm JOINTEX 15 objectives. Fundamentally, we want to recreate the opportunity to fully replicate Canadian Forces in a coalition scenario, commanding a CJIATF, owning part of an AOR (area of responsibility) in the multi-national campaign, and to fully replicate the national command, ISR and sustainment backbone. All of this is to advance our capability but also to exercise the muscle of the people who do or prepare to do the business of operations every day. JOINTEX 15 will be informed by the lessons of RIMPAC 2014. In that multi-national live exercise, instead of having Canadians commanding a CJIATF, we are going to put people in component command positions – specifically maritime and air. And I will deploy the national command, intelligence and sustainment to take care of real people but also to plug into the scenario. While air, maritime and land forces will train within their respective components and will be supported by our national command element and JTFSC deployed to RIMPAC, we will be tracking the entire RIMPAC "in scenario" campaign back here in Canada. And I'll be able to exercise national command and control, intelligence, sustainment, including targeting and other operational level procedures. I am incredibly enthusiastic about JOINTEX 15 as are all those who saw and contributed to this year's incredible effort. LONDON, CANADA A LONG TRADITION OF DEFENCE SYSTEMS EXCELLENCE Join the LEDC, in collaboration with CADSI, for The Best Defence II Conference THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2013 The Hilton Hotel, Grand Ballroom 300 King Street London, Ontario, Canada WHO SHOULD ATTEND? From SME to Prime Contractor this Conference provides relevant and timely information on Canadian and Global opportunities in the Defence Marketplace. Register Online Today Best-Defence.LEDC.com www.vanguardcanada.com AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2013 17