FOUNDATIONAL ROLES

With Integration Specialists hailing from the Navy, Army and Air Force, Bonboo are experts in Tactics through to Strategy. Bonboo was founded to deliver capability central to Defence’s Mission.
The Bonboo Foundational Roles are focussed on Operations Support, covering:
Air Combat
Maritime Warfare
Program Management
Training and Operations
ISR and Intelligence
Joint Fires
Cyber Security
Airspace Control

SPECIALIST ROLES

  • Building on our Foundational Roles, Bonboo’s qualified Subject Matter Experts contribute advanced capability in the following specialised areas:
Integration
Bonboo Integration Specialists are currently involved in the conduct of the following force-multiplying roles across the Department of Defence:
  • Providing tactical and operational air combat and electronic attack expertise
  • Guaranteeing that training outputs mirror real-world air combat
  • Providing data in support of mission debriefing
  • Developing documentation during exercise design
  • Management of security levels
  • Developing and facilitate airspace requirements
  • Working with technical staff to ensure effective IT and communications systems are in place to support an exercise or operation
  • Providing support to White Force elements during mission execution
  • Providing expertise to mission planning, integration and execution
  • Holding authority where required to modify or shape individual elements to meet learning outcomes and facilitate valid training paradigms
  • Supporting AIR 6500 and ASD’s REDSPICE initiatives by contributing trusted, technically advanced integration expertise aligned with each program’s secure capability frameworks.
BATTLE WORTHINESS
Bonboo Integration Specialists are currently involved in providing the following Battle Worthiness functions to the Commonwealth of Australia:
  • Systems networking development and effectiveness assessment
  • Mission engineering development and Operational Analysis (OA)
  • Ensuring exercise design objectives enable effective post activity review gap analysis
  • Inputting into the Integrated Tactics Development (ITD) cycle and Force Generation
  • Providing Joint Intelligence and Future Effects to Multi-Domain operations
  • Military aviation operations (as an operator and mission commander)
  • Multi-platform operations, particularly integrated and joint operations
  • Exercise design, planning and execution
  • Aviation safety and the RAAF Aviation Safety Management System
  • ADF and RAAF education frameworks
sIMULATION and Modelling
Bonboo Integration Specialists are currently providing advanced Simulation and Modelling support to the Australian Defence Force, including:
  • Simulation software and network technical support for complex engineering systems
  • System modelling and the development of system architectures using digital software and tools
  • Establishment and implementation of change management policies to ensure awareness, approval, and successful application of changes to network infrastructure
  • System administration duties, including failure mode analysis and resolution, as well as managing operator access for event conduct
  • Systems administration support, including service pack releases, patches, hot fixes, and security configurations
  • Facilitation and coordination of Test and Evaluation activities to support the integration of distributed training connections across multiple ADF units and coalition partners, through the implementation of repeatable processes
  • Exercise support, providing efficient and effective engineering and technical assistance to synthetic and blended exercises
  • Integration of components, systems, and subsystems, including new acquisitions
  • Monitoring of system performance, resource utilisation, and capacity to ensure availability and reliability
INTEGRATED AIR AND MISSILE DEFENCE
Bonboo recognises that Defence industry working collaboratively on operationally focused solutions for IAMD will be fundamental for excellence in asset delivery and service provision.
Bonboo maintains integrated specialist support from individuals with Airspace Management, Fast Jet, Maritime Warfare, C2, ISR, Targeting, and Joint Fires and Effects experiences to offer robust solutions to major IAMD Projects, including AIR 6500, and beyond. Through the following roles, Bonboo supports Integrated Air and Missile Defence development:
  • Replicating Blue (friendly) and Red (opposition) C2 plans
  • Working with the Air Operations Centre to simulate communications to the Coalition C2 team
  • Providing information to exercise participants through C2 channels
  • Developing contingency plans for system degradation/failure and advise of options during alternate or contingency operations
  • Evaluating weapons systems, and weapons effectiveness in a networked environment
  • Evaluating the effectiveness of combat capabilities
  • ‘Whole of force’ interoperability
  • Coaching and controlling injects into operational level targeting effects
  • Providing simulated and constructive Strategic and Airborne ISR collection feeds
  • Controlling long-range Joint Fires and Effects in the field
C2 and Information Analysis
Bonboo are C2 and Information Analysis Experts, with proven experience integrating into JADC2 and ABMS systems. Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) is the concept to connect sensors from all of the military services— Navy, Army, Air Force and Space —into a single network. With the speed of data challenges that we are facing today, and the integration of new technologies like Artificial Intelligence, edge computing and autonomous systems, the value of collaboration between the military, tech companies, and the wider community is more important than ever. The Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) is the latest effort to create a next-generation command and control (C2) system. Together JADC2 and ABMS vision is a unified domain and control system that connects existing sensors and shooters, and distributes the available data to all domains (air, land, sea, cyber, and space).
Weapons and Tactics
Over the past decade Bonboo's Operations Specialists have represented the Commonwealth at various Operational and Tactical focused conferences including Tactical Analysis Teams (TAT) and Weapons and Tactics Conferences (WEPTAC) in the Air and Maritime domains. The purpose of Bonboo's Weapons and Tactics experts at a TAT or WEPTAC is to foster an analytical environment that brings together warfighters, domain experts and analysts to exchange information on Air and Air Defence topics that reflect current and emerging solutions for the joint employment of forces. Through WEPTAC and TAT our Integration Specialists gain valuable insights into Air-to-Air, Maritime, Ground and Joint tactics. These assessments hugely influence the guidance we develop for Adversary Threat Courses of Action during Live and Synthetic activities throughout the year. This also positively impacts the accuracy, quality and realism of what Bonboo provides to procedures and exercises it develops for the ADF. WEPTAC scope and purpose brings the future faster and accelerates change in the Australian Defence Force. WEPTAC and TAT provide feedback from warfighters directly to general officers and decision-makers that lead to substantive enhancements and improvements across the Joint Force, both from tactics development and science and technology advancement recommendations. Based on the tactics developed and tested in accordance with Warfighting Plan (WP) priorities, the outcome of WEPTACs and TATs is the formulation of Integrated Tactical Procedures (ITP). The Operational product delivered further informs the Joint integrated (Whole of Government) and Combined (Five Eyes) wargaming and inclusion into future High-end exercises.
Opposition Forces and Exercise Control
Adversary Simulation in the Live and Synthetic Environments Bonboo can provide Opposition Forces (OPFOR) within the Exercise Control (EXCON) function that realistically portray an enemy force or capability for use by military, law enforcement and security professionals. Our OPFOR will be linked to the overarching scenario via EXCON and managed through a structured Master Event List (MEL) to ensure the OPFOR design meets the customers’ requirements. Enemy Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) Our OPFOR can replicate Friendly, Neutral or Enemy (REDFOR/Red Force) and can be designed and integrated into military or civilian scenarios using military systems, equipment, and vehicles. The OPFOR capability can be designed to perform various duties including adversary air, land and sea forces, governmental liaison officers, flanking units, voice over communication, foreigners, merchants, rioters, protesters, labourers, third country nationals, severely- injured personnel, displaced persons, refugees, and dignitaries.
Bonboo provides tactical through to strategic modern military consulting services to the gaming, film, television, and technology industries. Having worked in both Conventional and Special Forces, supporting 5th Generation Air, Land, Naval, Marine and Cyber Operations, Bonboo is uniquely placed to provide Specialist Consultative services to wider industry requirements, including the video game and entertainment industries. Our Operations Specialists have spent years developing complex simulations of realistic military operations. As Bonboo is owned by military veterans with both tactical combat expertise and broad entertainment experience, we possess the ability to close the divide between the military and entertainment industry. We will ensure your project is realistic, complex and complimentary of military tactical procedures. Working together with the client, Bonboo will ensure the experience is correct from the modern warfighter's perspective.
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It is in sense-making that data transforms into information, and information is converted into knowledge. Effective sense-making requires the ability to fuse, analyse, and render validated data and information from all domains and the electromagnetic spectrum. This function must execute within a secure information environment while remaining readily accessible to all authorised personnel. At Bonboo, Operations Specialists make sense of complex data by analysing digital network information to better understand and predict the operational environment and the actions and intentions of an adversary, as well as the actions of our own and friendly forces.

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