Fill in any massive amounts of errors I put down in this blog post as needed.
There appears to have been allocated, $587M as of 2012..
This has gone on for some years yet we are unsure if we can communicate with our joint allies in a land war:
Challenges ahead
There has been some speculation about whether the Australian BMS will be able to interface with the systems of other nations – especially the United States. Both Elbit and Defence have been conscious of the issue and have been aware of the sensitivities – if not outright paranoia – of Washington. However, the news so far is encouraging. The Australian system has undergone a number of exercises involving the US and while this has been hardware-limited to brigade and below, data exchanges using Variable Message Format (VMF) are understood to have been very successful.
Some history from 2008:
Following termination of the JP2072 contract in October last year, and to overcome delay in acquisition through JP2072, the high priority BMS communications solution was included in the RFT for the re-scoped L75/L125 BMS, now the BGC3 project.
Now back to 2007.
01 Nov 2007
By Tom Muir
The DMO has taken an unusual step in terminating General Dynamics Canada’s prime systems integrator (PSI) contract for Joint Project 2072. Further delay now seems inevitable, but the ADF need an NCW capability quickly. What happens now?
In what appears to have been a particularly drastic step by the Defence Material Organisation, General Dynamics Canada, the prime systems integrator for JP 2072, Battlespace Communications Land, had its contract terminated last month.
It seems that following delays with the project, and an unsatisfactory Systems Engineering Review by the Commonwealth and GDC, the company had prepared a recovery plan to get the project back on track. But the initiatives proposed in the plan were rejected.
GDC was well qualified to undertake the task, its successful involvement in the somewhat similar Bowman and Iris programs attest to that.
Earlier in the piece, the DMO's David Marshal, in an interview with British defence journalist Adam Baddeley, said the JP2072 project office had visited the Bowman integrated project team while developing the statement of work for the JP2072 prime system integrator request for tender.
“JP2072 can be likened to a cross between the Bowman and Falcon projects in the UK, analogous to the US Warfighter Information Network–Tactical.
Moving along:
Dec 22/13: Elbit Systems announces a $229 million pair of Australian contract modifications for Risk Reduction Activities, and additional Battle Management Systems. The exercised options and risk reduction survey and quote were separate items, but both fall within the existing contract. Work will be performed over the next 3 years. Sources: Elbit Systems, “Elbit Systems Awarded Options and Risk Reduction Activities Under Extant Contract Valued at Approximately US$229 Million to Supply Additional Battle Management Systems to the Australian Defence Forces”.
So... now up to $816M ...just the Elbit fun, not the previous unpleasantness.
So many years. So much money. It must be "complex".
Again. someone with a better explanation of all this, please chime in.
Here is a warning in 2005:
The ugly reality is that networking has become a cure all panacea in the DoD bureacratic machine, one which can magically offset all force structure limitations, and one which magically only Australia can possess and use properly in the Pacrim.
Lastly: how secure and survivable will that network be?
The ADF might want to consider the kinds of NCW threats faced in the Ukraine war.
We have great signals intelligence, and we can listen all day long, but we can't shut them down one-tenth to the degree they can us," she said. "We are very unprotected from their attacks on our network."
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