The Information Warfare Directorate (IWD, formerly Information Warfare Wing) of the

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Air Warfare Centre The Air and Space Warfare Centre (ASWC) is a Royal Air Force research and testing organisation based at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire. It has a training branch nearby as a lodger unit of RAF Cranwell and other branches elsewhere, including a ...

(AWC) is the

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's central institution dealing with tactical

information warfare Information warfare (IW) (as different from cyber warfare that attacks computers, software, and command control systems) is a concept involving the battlespace use and management of information and communication technology (ICT) in pursuit of a ...

. Although under the command of the Air Force, the IWD draws personnel from both the Australian

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and

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. In turn the IWD develops and manages information warfare capabilities for land and maritime theatres in addition to aerospace. Within the Department of Defence there is also an

Information Warfare Division The Information Warfare Division (IWD) is a division of the Department of Defence tasked with defending Australia's national interests in the information environment. Units The Information Warfare Division contains the following branches: * Jo ...

(IWD), formed in 2017. The Information Warfare Directorate is home to the Royal Australian Air Force's Intelligence, Cyber and Electronic Warfare support functions. It comprises four units (Information Warfare Capability, C4 and Battle Management Capability, Capability Support Directorate and the Joint Cyber Unit), each with specialists. The Information Warfare Directorate aims to provide asymmetric advantages to the

over potential adversaries. IWD personnel are posted to all major RAAF bases the Defence Complex in Canberra. IWD also has personnel deployed on exercises and operations, including the Middle East, on an almost continual basis.

Units

As of February 2021, the Information Warfare Directorate contained the following units: * Air Intelligence Training Unit * No. 83 Squadron operates the Distributed Ground Station, which integrates multiple sources of intelligence * No. 87 Squadron produces target intelligence for other units in the Air Force. * No. 460 Squadron assists the Australian

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in the production of geospatial intelligence and precision target intelligence. * No. 464 Squadron is a

public relations Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing and disseminating information from an individual or an organization (such as a business, government agency, or a nonprofit organization) to the public in order to influence their perception. P ...

unit

References

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