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The global security environment is evolving, and so must combat airpower. As several air forces continue to procure 5th generation planes, NATO and its partners are being drawn into an operating environment which is both information-centric and multi-domain. If they are to capitalise on the extraordinary capabilities which these new platforms provide, the fighter community must improve its approach to information management, so that the fighter can be deployed to maximum effect against a peer - or near-peer - adversary.
Returning to Berlin, the International Fighter Conference 2018 will open with sessions on particularly pressing topics; data fusion and the light attack concept. With information superiority now a critical objective for airborne operations, we must continue to examine the ways combat aircraft gather, process and exploit data. A sophisticated technical approach to fusion between air, land and sea must be matched with training model fit for the data-age pilot. The light attack segment acknowledges that, in a stealth-focused fifth generation age, the multi-role fighter might have its limits. Investment in expensive high-end platforms might well need to be balanced with lower-spec aircraft, which can operate decisively - and without extensive support - in a more permissive operating environment against an asymmetric threat.
Days two and three will once again invite senior commanders to debate fresh approaches to strategy, mission planning, interoperability, multi-domain operations, MRO and acquisition. Underpinning the debate will be the recognition that cyberspace and the electromagnetic spectrum have well and truly infiltrated airborne operations. Preparing for sustained engagements against a peer threat will demand a combat platform which can manage cyber, offensively and defensively, and which can leverage EW/counter-EW to support a decisive approach to combat airpower delivery.