The Frontline of
Information Warfare
The evolution of traditional battlespaces
Information Warfare is increasingly transcending traditional battlespaces to influence and exploit people and communities. Australia’s Defence Force must be prepared to meet this and other contemporary challenges in collaboration with a skilled and innovative Australian Defence Industry.
The Australian Information Warfare Alliance (AIWA) is Australia’s only sovereign consortium that provides Defence with a complete end-to-end solution within the Information Warfare domain, including expert support, training services and innovative capability solutions.
Initiatives
Founded in 2023 by four veteran-owned and operated Australian companies with IW capability - CyberOps, DEWC Services, Elysium EPL and the School of Information Operations (SOIO) – AIWA provides services that capture the entire Defence capability lifecycle for Information Warfare.
The AIWA works to address Australia’s Information Warfare (IW) related priorities and objectives as set out by State and Federal Governments in several capstone strategic policies, documents and roadmaps.
AIWA has four foundational priorities:
Enabling Government priorities
Collaborating on initiatives that support the Government priorities relating to Information Warfare.
Innovation through R&D
Drawing on and augmenting pre-existing
internal research and development programs to boost innovation, asymmetric advantage and improve response to IW threats.
Workforce growth and development
Leveraging pre-existing graduate, upskilling and training programs developed by Alliance members to augment the resources available for Defence in highly technical areas such as Electrical, Electronic, Systems, Software Engineering and Defence Project Management for use within the information domain.
Developing critical infrastructure
Developing critical infrastructure to enable all priorities, as well as improve Industry access to sensitive workspace and training facilities to support classified Defence projects.
Priorities
The below outlines how AIWA is responding to these priorities and some of the initiatives underway.
Priority: Whole of Nation Defence
In response, AIWA is:
1. Developing and establishing collaborative arrangements with other Australian Defence companies to increase the capability and capacity generated to Defence.
2. Supporting the development of advanced capabilities, technologies and tactics for use within the IW domain, in line with intent of the Defence Strategic Review (DSR).
3. Supporting and enabling Defence to prioritise capability development, relevant to threats within the IW domain.
Priority: Acceleration of Strategic Capabilities
In response, AIWA is:
1. Contributing to Australia’s sovereign Industrial capability through accelerated growth of critical capabilities by investing heavily in science and technology research and development.
2. Developing a skilled workforce that can support future strategic capabilities.
3. Supporting several identified strategic capabilities now through the provision of IW services to several extant Australian Defence Force (ADF) platforms.
Priority: Sovereign Capability & Infrastructure
In response, AIWA is:
1. Committed to developing an IW-relevant sovereign supply chain for sensitive componentry.
2. Developing the size and skills of the sovereign workforce within IW.
3. Investing in infrastructure to boost support, upskilling and R&D in the IW domain.
Priority: AUKUS Pillar II
In response, AIWA is:
1. Increasing and diversifying efforts to support Australia’s sovereign IW capabilities by augmenting pre-existing support to various groups within the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and across multiple projects.
2. Exploring new IW concepts through industry-wide collaborative efforts in partnership with Government.
3. Maintaining and increasing co-investment in infrastructure and innovation projects relevant to AUKUS Pillar II.
4. Growing the job-ready size of the IW workforce through significant investments into upskilling and graduate development programs.
Our Members
As a collective, the AIWA provides the Australian Defence Industry, the ADF and its partners with completely sovereign professional services, training, product development, research and development, manufacturing, and sustainment solutions that span the Defence capability life cycle (pertaining to Information Warfare).
Individually, each AIWA company brings existing collaborative relationships with other entities to the table, allowing the Alliance to adapt and evolve to the changing needs of both the Commonwealth and State Governments.
Local industry alliance brings information warfare expertise to Global Information Conference
April 30th, 2024 - Australia’s leading Information Warfare (IW) consortium, the Australian Information Warfare Alliance (AIWA), will join Government, industry and academia from across the world at the Global Information Conference - Phoenix Challenge being held in Adelaide on 11-14th June.
New industry alliance to deliver AUKUS Pillar 2 capabilities
The Australian Information Warfare Alliance (AIWA), an Australian defence industry-led consortium, has been established with aims to boost Australia’s sovereign information warfare (IW) capabilities and deliver on AUKUS Pillar 2 capabilities.
New industry alliance to deliver Australia’s AUKUS Pillar 2 capabilities
The Australian Information Warfare Alliance (AIWA), an Australian defence industry-led consortium, has been established with aims to boost Australia’s sovereign information warfare (IW) capabilities and deliver on AUKUS Pillar 2 capabilities.