ENHANCING COMMAND AND CONTROL SUPPORT FOR AIR OPERATIONS

The Defence Materiel Organisation has acquired new technology that will enhance the Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) management and scheduling of its flying units.

A contract for the Unit Level Tool for Resource Allocation (ULTRA) was signed on 3 October by Wayne Ryan, Director General Command and Support Systems of the Defence Materiel Organisation and Moshe Meydan, Managing Director of Meydan Group and Ocean Software Pty Ltd.

The system will be implemented as a component of project JP2030 Phase 7B (Air Command Support System) and is expected to be fully operational by the end of March 2008.

The contract with Australian company Ocean Software Pty Ltd was awarded following an open tender process. ULTRA is a tailored version of the company's FlightPro product which will be modified to interface with other Defence systems. FlightPro is currently utilised by the Air Force Training Group and by foreign Air Force establishments.

The project will commence immediately and early work will include achieving important interfaces to the Air Command Support System and to Defence's personnel management information system.  Further enhancements will ensure that ULTRA can be implemented across the Defence classified information network. 

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