Login
iscover
The Capability Acquisition & Sustainment Group (CASG) has revealed that Systematic’s SitaWare software has been announced as the sole-source winner for Army’s new digital command and control battle management system.
To continue reading the rest of this article, please log in.
Create free account to get unlimited news articles and more!
The decision comes following the first pass approval of LAND 200 Phase 3 Battlefield Command Systems project in mid-July which is designed to improve the security and performance of Defence’s tactical communications network and battle management systems.
Defence said the implementation of this new battlefield command and control system “will increase the speed and quality of decision making, which is essential to success in military operations. The new system will also improve communication and coordination within Army and between the land, sea, air, space, and cyber elements of the Australian Defence Force”.
The SitaWare suite offers C4ISR solutions for battle management across the entire battlespace – on land, at sea, in the air, or in the joint domain.
Systematic’s SitaWare suite of capabilities provides a combat proven, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software, delivering command-and-control capabilities and seamless interoperability, which will enable Defence to share information with coalition partners.
Defence will issue an open tender for an integration partner for the Battlefield Command Systems project in 2023. This open tender provides opportunities for Australian companies to fulfil this role.
This decision comes following the contentious scrapping of Elbit’s combat management system in service with the Australian Army in March 2021 following its failure to achieve stringent Defence’s ICT security standards.
A second tranche of the project is scheduled to deliver enhancements to the tactical communications network and consider additional battle management systems.
Further details on LAND 200 Phase 3 will be published on the AusTender website.
