Overview
Air power does not exist in isolation. Integrating across domains and functions allows the ADF to find and exploit opportunities, while mitigating limitations of operating in each domain. However, integration is neither intuitive nor automatic. It requires a deliberate and sustained effort across the human, procedural and technical dimensions. Furthermore, continuous campaigning requires the effects within each domain to align and focus on an integrated force’s desired effects.
As a warfighting domain, cyber domain capabilities will be integrated with those of other domains to optimise integrated force effects. Cyber domain capabilities need to be factored into the design of all other domain capabilities. Similarly, integrated cyber domain capabilities need to be included in the force generation of all domains. The high degree of overlap between the cyber domain and other domains demands a more engaged and collaborative approach to capability management and effects generation.
While integrated with all domains, the cyber and space domains overlap. Both have near-instantaneous global reach and the aggregation of contributions has the potential to present decisive opportunities. These considerations and mutual dependencies therefore demand coherence and integration in ADF planning processes and combined operations. The modern and future information environment is critically dependent upon space, the EMS and cyberspace. Space systems depend on the cyber domain for their operation, control and data transmission through the EMS. The prevalence of cyber-attack vectors vulnerable for exploitation through the space domain are another driver for the high degree of space and cyber cross-domain integration.
