David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 5 March 2012:

(1) Given that video communications are integrated into robots, soldiers and unmanned aerial vehicles, network centric warfare is becoming the organising principle of war fighting, and frontline demands for bandwidth are rising at a rapid rate, for the period 1 July to 31 December 2011, what did the Australian Defence Force do and how much did it spend on:

(a) establishing a network centric warfare capability; and

(b) addressing the issue of increased bandwidth?