Boeing Defence Australia (BDA) announced recently that the company’s Vigilare network centric command and control system (NC3S) developed for the Commonwealth of Australia has completed site acceptance testing at the Eastern Regional Operations Centre (EROC) at RAAF Base Williamtown.
During the site acceptance testing conducted March 7-18, Boeing demonstrated that EROC is successfully interfacing with all external systems and that Vigilare has the full range of system functionality to provide enhanced battlespace management and surveillance operations for the RAAF.
“EROC is the last piece of the puzzle for Vigilare," Lee Davis, Vigilare project manager, BDA, said.
"Once it joins the Northern Regional Operations Centre (NROC) in operations, the RAAF will have a truly complete and comprehensive operational picture of the skies above Australia and surrounding areas”.
EROC’s final test is an operational test that will take place from March 28 to April 8.
Operational testing prepares EROC for conditional acceptance, which is the last milestone before final system acceptance from the Commonwealth of Australia.
NROC, located at RAAF Base Tindal, Northern Territory, has been operational since September. 2.
Boeing and the Defence Materiel Organisation’s Vigilare Project Office recently received an ADM Judges’ Choice Award for their collaboration and commitment as they deliver Vigilare to the RAAF, a recognition of a relationship that had hit rock bottom but was salvaged by sheer force of will of both parties.
“The Judge’s Choice Award is especially gratifying as we prepare to complete delivery of this complex project to Australia,” Mike Scott, general manager of BDA’s Network & Space Systems division.
“We’re enormously proud to be recognised for excellence in collaboration with the DMO and our supplier partners.”
Vigilare, the RAAF’s ground-based air defence system, consists of two operations centres, NROC and EROC, which are equipped with operator consoles and equipment to form a recognised wide area surveillance picture that is distributed to national command and control centres.