Is the Air Force pulling the Secret Service?
Bureaucracy slows down the availability of intelligence data. The General of the Air Force Luca Goretti, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, is convinced of this during the hearing in the Defense Committee in the Chamber speaking of the programmatic lines of the armed force. Here's what he said
Bureaucracy slows down the availability of data, linked to the operations of the Air Force.
Bureaucracy often "takes up time" when instead it is necessary to immediately have sensitive data, intelligence data which are then to be linked to operations in the skies. This is what was claimed by the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General Luca Goretti, in a hearing in the Defense Committee of the Chamber on 8 March.
And speaking of Defence, General Goretti added the need for a single control room to protect the cyber domain, the "most transversal one ever". Among other issues, the head of SMA also underlined the need to support aerospace engineering training in the Italian industry, which is certainly of excellence.
All the details on the hearing of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force.
AIRLINE OPERATIONS REQUIRE IMMEDIATE AVAILABILITY OF DATA
As for faster intervention times, "bureaucracy often takes up time" remarks the Chief of Staff of the Air Force. In the intelligence sector, the need to have information passes through very long processes and perhaps they are the legacy of a history of the past that should be changed” underlines General Goretti.
It should be recalled that intelligence is the instrument used by the State to collect, store and disseminate to interested parties, whether public or private, information relevant to the protection of the security of institutions, citizens and businesses. In our country, with law 124/2007, this task was entrusted to the Department of Security Information (DIS), whose Director General is appointed directly by the President of the Council of Ministers, and to the two operational agencies that deal with internal (AISI) and external (AISE) dimensions of national security.
"With the friendly relations we have with the security sector, we are able to pass data to each other in real time" reassures the number one of the Italian Army, "but the bureaucracy remains, perhaps streamlining these processes could be an opportunity" reiterates the general Goretti.
"Often and willingly we ask for data and waste time – explained Goretti -, a pity that these data are needed now, the dynamism of air operations also requires a change in the orders of operations and the data counts a lot".
Today "the winner is whoever is the owner of the data, who is able to possess information, and whoever is able to prevent others from having the data wins". Hence the need for an "osmosis of data information", Goretti said again.
SPACE NEW DOMAIN FOR COMPARISON
Speaking of new challenges, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force underlined that "space is the new domain of confrontation" and the blue force "is ready to enhance its personnel in this new scenario". Obviously "it is necessary to undertake a new production process", it is necessary to combine adequate levels of defense and deterrence "even against new types of threats" and space is a "new field of competition and confrontation, and the Air Force is the protagonist to the extent that it is called to operate".
A UNIQUE CONTROL CABIN IS NECESSARY TO PROTECT THE CYBER DOMAIN
"In this general articulated framework, it is unthinkable not to consider the rapid evolution in the most transversal domain of all, the cyber one" highlights General Goretti. "The regulatory and organizational innovations recently introduced in the cyber field, above all the establishment of the National Agency for Cybersecurity" have determined a natural turning point.
Therefore, a single control room is needed to provide Italy with a protective cyber 'umbrella', so as to "avoid unnecessary duplication" in a sector where high competence and professionalism are difficult to create in a few minutes, and this must be of the Defense General Staff. This is what General Goretti underlined, adding that "We must not proceed in watertight compartments", underlining that this control room must be put into a system with everything concerning cyber protection. The Chief of Staff of the Air Force also added "we can find affiliated external companies that try to enter the protection systems and thus it is possible to verify, precisely through the control room, whether they resist or not".
VULNERABLE LAND AND SEA FORCES WITHOUT THE AIR FORCE UMBRELLA
But without control of the skies, “land and sea forces also become vulnerable. It is unthinkable to operate without an adequate protective 'umbrella'” highlighted General Luca Goretti, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, during a hearing in the Defense Committee in the Chamber. "It is imperative to program today – he added – a new generation aircraft modernization system", and this applies both to fighters and to so-called 'rotary wing' aircraft, i.e. helicopters, about which we need to immediately think about a new model that is able to respond to new needs. Goretti also expressed the need to increase the skills of the personnel of the blue force, personnel who will have to grow in numbers. In addition, "to make our aerospace industry grow", which already has excellent results.
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE GCAP PROGRAM WITH THE UNITED KINGDOM AND JAPAN
The recent collaboration signed with the United Kingdom and Japan in the ambit of the Gcap “comes from the natural need to replace obsolete machines. Technology is the blood that flows in the Air Force as the aircraft tool lives off of it. To be relevant, defend yourself or be on a par with others, software is the keystone of military aircraft: we need to grow our industry and create effective devices to put inside the box” aircraft, said the general.
AIR FORCE: WHY WE NEED MORE F-35s
Finally, to achieve Air Superiority, the Air Force is asking for a turnaround compared to the choices made in the past, rapidly bringing the F-35 and Eurofighter fleets back, “at least to the number of aircraft that had been carefully studied before 2012. ” [ Here Startmag 's in-depth analysis Why more F-35s are needed. Word of Goretti (AM)]
"The F-35 and F2000 (Eurofighter Typhoon) fighters still prove to be "winning" endowments and therefore "a turnaround compared to past choices" which aimed at a reduction of these aircraft is needed" underlined the top Air Force .
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/laeronautica-militare-strattona-i-servizi-segreti/ on Mon, 13 Mar 2023 06:56:33 +0000.