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Paris Air Show: UK RAF re-organises to plug NEC gaps
By Tim Ripley
19 June 2007
UK air chiefs have ordered a major re-organisation of the UK Royal Air Force's (RAF's) network-enabled capability (NEC) programmes after declaring that existing efforts "lack coherence and adequate direction", making them "ineffective".
The initiative has been ordered after a team of experts from RAF Strike Command (now Air Command) delivered a report into gaps in the service's network-enabled air capabilities (NEAC) efforts.
As a result, Air Vice Marshal Tim Anderson, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff, has been appointed as the RAF's 'NEAC champion' to implement the recommendations of the study, entitled 'The Delivery of Network Enabled Air Capability'.
AVM Anderson told a recent airpower conference at the Royal United Service's Institute in London that the report provided initial analysis, key activities and vectors for solving the problems identified. He said that ambitious NEAC projects would have to be scaled backed. "The 'big bang' is that the aspirations of NEC are unaffordable," he said.