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1. From Merrett David Sent Thursday 17 July 2014 10 51 a m To 47F Cc Hennessy Brendan Bessell Travis Shaw Andrew Subject ASA Building use SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED The DSTO team here are planning on using the ASA site building we inspected as an office for the during of our visit which might include things like Accessing power laptop wifi supply If not avail bringing tables chairs we can probably borrow some deck chairs stuff from bungalows or worst case just use old surplus boxes crates etc Potentially bring a kettle bungalows so tea soup is avail STW more fun with a brew in hand Cleaning an appropriate floor area will borrow broom from somewhere Putting up small wireless point to point link to system gaffer cable tie externally with CAT 5 cable to a switch router inside we shall also bring Support items maybe like fresh water bucket soap cups towel Once the radar is spinning expect we ll mostly be sitting inside staring at laptop screens popping out occasionally for a stroll on the beach or checking on your goat auditing Hopefully this is all easily do able but please let me know if you foresee any issues or need help with liaison process David Merrett Radar Systems Engineer DSTO 08 73895622 IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crime2. 28 FO 0039 19 16 Dowling Emily From Merrett David Seri E erial 13 Sent Wednesday 9 April 2014 11 41 a m Serial 13 To 47F Subject RE CKI site SEC UNCLASSIFIED Attachments IMAG0900 jpg Categories UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED a have double checked precise locations against your image My smart ph vid photos indicate that those labelled have been removed were definitely present at the time of our visit Hieght wise south to north Med low high can collate and sent more pics details if needed Dave 29 30 FO 003 15 16 Serial 15 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Friday 15 August 2014 10 52 a m To KHS Subject RE Cocos Island power extension SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED is tt too late to run a CAT 5 cable IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 33 FOI 0039 15 16 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Serial 16 Sent Monday 26 May 2014 10 07 a m To 47F Subject RE Cocos site SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED aa Agree on all points Ive looked at the map and pictures and don t see any other major issues Given the healthier state of the existing pads and good distance from the other antenna i
3. Dave M 36 37 FO 003 15 16 Serial 18 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Tuesday 3 June 2014 4 28 p m To 47F Subject RE KH radar SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED im assuming its just the up mast bits youre thinking of Currently they are in 2 separate boxes antenna and transceiver and it would be easiest to assume they will leave here as shipped by KH When we moved the transceiver PAY we simply mounted it onto an open pallet This or mounting temporarily onto sled is an alternative to the KH shipping sealed wooden box with top entry lll get the dimensions of the KH boxes and let you know asap Dave IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email a A 38 39 Serial 19 FOI 003 15 16 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Tuesday 3 June 2014 5 02 p m To 47F Subject RE KH radar SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED Antenna box is 398cm x 73cm x 45cm measured by Matt and me Other heavy box has written on it 106cm x 63cm x 92cm It measures slightly less but unless you need better than 1cm accuracy that is good enough Im not sure about gross weights but you can probably add at least 10 of the contents weight ref KH ma
4. National Security and Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Division NSID DSTO Edinburgh PO Box 1500 Edinburgh SA 5111 Ph 61 8 7389 4207 Fax 61 8 7389 5254 Mob does not operate within DSTO buildings IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Australian Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 97 FOI 003 15 16 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Serial 48 Sent Monday 9 December 2013 2 20 p m To 47F Subject RE Cocos Island Question SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED S got nothing against using Terma per se Going down that path would require much more information from Terma about their offering in technical detail and what options and requirements they re willing to include consider In the end DSTOs preference will probably be guided by our effort required balanced against the research returns both of which are currently unknown with a Terma solution see below for more Dave M 22 Here s a brain dump of my thinking To me its more about the effort lt gt risk balance in other words for example how much more effort is required to produce the same risk as the KH alternative The 2 least effort DSTO paths are A if it follows the KH equiv path 1 TERMA supply i
5. b Project plans by phase for the radar trial on CKI Design specifications for a radar system suitable for deployment to CKI on containerised platform Regular progress briefs at an interval to be agreed with the ACBPS project lead An Interim report to COMBPC on completion of the initial deployment to CKI and A Final report to COMBPC that includes an assessment of the contribution that a land based marine surveillance radar can make to the management of Unauthorised Maritime Arrivals UMA within the approaches to CKI a recommendation on the viability of commissioning such system at CK and recommended specifications of such a system should it prove to be viable 12 Conduct of OPSTSR It is proposed that the OPSTSR should be conducted in three phases a b C Phase 1 To complete testing and integration of the system onto a suitable platform at DSTO Edinburgh by 15 April 2014 Phase 2 To complete system deployment and test by 1 July 2014 Phase 3 To complete evaluation reporting by 1 September 2014 13 This Plan addresses all Phases FOUO 124 FO 0039 15 16 FOUO Page 5 of 9 14 Key Dates The following table is a high level summary of the OPSTSR by phase if appropriate schedule r Ser Due Date Time Person Activity Deliverable 7 Required Responsible 1 16 04 14 7 weeks Merrett __ Integrated system tes
6. 4 55 IO ne er depends on wind level 2kW peak UPS Battery poo ka Bp pwrisestimateonly PA BBO KVM 90 ROUTER 1 200 a po Power Dist BODO Re use 8 outlet Raritan from Xmas Is Other shelving p bo b ____ Documentation tools draw ther Future options 2 oo 56 o INST Weather Plugpacks Envir or S 149 980 A HAE pm KH DTX A1 ADDA LPA A3 Ant ha 177 Upmast unit power from DCU I ll look at mpp file later today Regards David Merrett FOI 003 15 16 Serial 5 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Wednesday 20 August 2014 4 03 p m To KHS Subject new site DLM For Official Use Only Categories No Security Classification Required For Official Use Only a We ve just turned on a new version of user interface for testing Its currently running in parallel with existing pages using essentially the same live data AIS is still to be added Biggest changes are behind the scenes where We parameterised most of the HMI presentation to make future adaptations easier separated the radar tracker from the transfer process and HMI improved flexibility to add new sites or site sensors Take a look and if you see anything major you don t like let us know Keeping in mind its still in the tweaking stage 33 David Merrett Radar Systems Engineer DSTO 08 73895622 IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the juri
7. S nal DSTO report A do days seit ET DSTO y F z Figure 1 Initial project planning WBS SC L FOUO FOI 0039 15 16 FOUO Page 7 of 9 15 OPSTSR Schedule Risks Schedule risks include a Supplier delays availability of DSTO personnel and b Integration delays induced from deviations from design bascline 16 The schedule assumes the availability of the ADF resources as described in this plan Customer Point of Contact 17 The customer requestor for this OPSTSR is RADM D L JOHNSTON Commander Border Protection Command who can be contacted on 02 6275 6191 18 The customer POC for this OPSTSR is 19 DSTO OPSTSR Manager The DSTO manager of this OPSTSR is Dr Brett Haywood of National Security and ISR Division who can be contacted on 08 7389 6053 20 Conclusion The OPSTSR Request can be supported with some effect on the existing DSTO S amp T program 47F Dr Brett Haywood Manager OPSTSR 143 NSID 08 7389 6053 20 Jan 2014 Approved for Release CNSID Dr Tony Lindsay Dated a Jan 2014 Endorsed RLCOPS Mr Phil James Dated 2 3 Jan 2014 FOUO 127 FO 003 15 16 FOUO Page 8 of 9 ANNEX B DSTO OPSTSR PROJECT PLAN OPSTSR 143 COST SCHEDULE 1 Cost The non salary cost including a contingency of approximately 10 of the OPSTSR is estimated to be Timing of FY mmm T mmm mmm mm
8. required Please let me know if haw you want DSTO involved expect to be involved in removal and packaging securing of the external radar units and we have a forklift and small truck on site Perhaps this can be a topic of discussion during your visit next month One idea I ll leave with you with is re how to mount radar on mast DSTO or CBO welding up a simple attachable inverted y frame with side bracing that could bolt clamp onto last few feet of mast in horizontal position A small block and tackle chain onto the bottom of the y ie top could then easily lift both the radar and antenna This would eliminate manual handling or vehicles being involved and it could be used at both CKI and DSTO sites and potentially even stay with the whole kit for life Regards David Merrett Radar Systems Engineer DSTO 08 73895622 IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 70 FOI 003 15 16 Serial 36 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Thursday 7 August 2014 10 42 a m To 47F Ce 47F Hennessy Brendan Subject Future Access Use DLM For Official Use Only Categories No Security Classification Required For Official Use Only l agree in the long term DSTO should not be required to acces
9. 50 FOI 003 15 16 Serial 24 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Wednesday 30 July 2014 11 48 a m To 47F Subject CKI Target of opportunity SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED hi it occurred to me that without any kind of vessel beyond 1 2 nm of our site optimising the system will be difficult If you haven t already perhaps you could contact ACBPS on island to either use or identify a small vessel for this task or at least provide POCs for our own arrangement Ideally getting a RHIB sized vessel to linger around 5 15 nm N thru W at least a few hours every day starting from the day it starts spinning If too difficult We could also potentially make up and bring a couple of the spar buoy reflectors that could be dropped to drift past the field of interest reducing the vessel time on task This doesn t need to turn into a calibration trial its more about being able to leave confident that there is at least a reasonable surveillance capability present Let me know what you think Cheers David Merrett Radar Systems Engineer DSTO 08 73895622 IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 51 Serial 25 FO 003 15 16 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Monday 18 August 201
10. Emil From Shaw Andrew Sent Tuesday 25 June 2013 10 43 a m To 47F Subject RE OPSTSR SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED 133 expired just about a year ago Essentially we are working without any priority cover and without any formal client request for support Dr Andrew Shaw Research Leader Microwave Radar Electronic Warfare and Radar Division DSTO Edinburgh PO Box 1500 Edinburgh SA 5111 Ph 61 8 7389 4207 Fax 61 8 7389 5254 Mob does not operate within DSTO buildings IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Australian Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 119 120 Serial 52 FO 003 15 16 FOUO Page 1 of 9 Minute eee Australian Government l l l xe Department of Defence me aD Defence Science and DSTO Technology Organisation Edinburah SA 5111 2013 Number l COMBPC PROPOSED DSTO RESPONSE TO OPSTSR REQUEST B O OCOS KEELING ISLANDS RADAR TRIAL Reference A 395622 Letter HQBPC ACBPS MD to COMBPC OPSTSR DSTO Support to 22 ocos Keeling Islands Radar Trial Activities dated 4 September 2013 1 Purpose Client endorsement of the proposed DSTO response to reference A is sought This minute details the deliverables costs risks and impact on other DSTO clients of the
11. FO 003 15 16 Joint Install 22 Would that be ok with you Thanks for any feedback Regards DaveM IMPORTANT This email remains the property ofthe Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 ofthe Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 86 Serial 43 FO 003 15 16 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Tuesday 14 October 2014 3 27 p m To 47F Subject RE CKI capability statement SEC UNCLASSIFIED Attachments CK still_detns_disp_zm png CKI_still_detns_disp png Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED ill get onto this today incidentally we have temporarily turned on stationary tracks display from which Ive attached screen shots It shows how any slowly drifting vessel may not get displayed by the conventional radar moving tracks only screen and where the channel markers are guess there s some food for thought as to the kinds of operator pictures might be relevant in different contexts and the drivers of reuqirements that might end up specifying any software changes to implement them You can probably imagine that theres a variety of possible HMI adjustments improvements that could be made EG Just one of many improvments would be to hard code instead of track channel markers onto map so they help operators know where vessel detection will be degraded and to aid any possible SAR a
12. gates opened compared with driving out 4th Avenue and going into the RAAF Southern entrance HI let you know more as it comes along Dave IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email From Merrett David Sent Tuesday 3 June 2014 1 41 p m To Subject RE Name of DSTO RAAF site SEC UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED im checking things now and believe can give you a site address lat long directions to a suitable piece of DSTO controlled paddock HERE is the Sensor Trials Facility paddock The bdlg to the SW is the actual STF Im also checking whether there is an esier way between the STF site and the tarmac air movements versus default travelling back through main sec gate 83 FOI 003 15 16 Serial 42 FOI 003 15 16 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Tuesday 14 January 2014 11 46 a m To 47F Subject Plan SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED Hi end To clarify what we ve previously discussed re DSTOs OPSTSR143 Project plan response Is the following roughly in line with what you re thinking To be clear this is not set in stone but figure we may as well make our first response written closer to the currently planned intent OPSTSR 143 is a joint effort between ACB
13. land based marine surveillance radar for CKI 6 DSTO s responsibilities under the OPSTSR are to provide a DSTO personnel to support ACBPS s production of a radar suitable relocatable platform tower shelter b Design construction integration and test of a trial radar system onto a platform for deployment to CKI and c Provision of interim and final reports and any associated briefs to COMBPC FOUO 123 FOI 003 15 16 FOUO Page 4 of 9 7 Assumptions The following assumptions have been made a b d This OPSTSR is to support OP RESOLUTE DSTO will plan for a baseline system design similar to the existing y design The client will engage with DSTO in a joint project manner to arrange delivery of agreed hardware and provision of agreed support platforms personnel and services in support of the OPSTSR and The Area of Operations is primarily OP RESOLUTE 8 Security The following security issues will arise from the conduct of the OPSTSR a b Collection and transport of materiel is UNCLASSIFIED and Results of investigations final report and briefings are classified up to PROTECTED with Sensitive caveats where appropriate 9 ADF Support Requirements None are required directly by DSTO ADF support if needed will be facilitated and managed by the client 10 Constraints No constraints are imposed 11 Client Deliverables The following client deliverables will be generated a
14. requested to contact the sender and delete the email 22 From Merrett David mailto David Merrett dsto defence cov au Sent Wednesday 7 May 2014 4 35 PM To MU Subject KH Sharpeye arrival SEC UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED 92 FOI 003 15 16 Opened the KH boxes this afternoon expect for antenna My biggest surprise was the item Service and Maintenance Display which after looking in under the bonnet included a COTS digitiser acquisition system from Cambridge pixel which seems strikingly similar to the one weve already ordered for the CKI server system although the Cambridge pixel one is probably more capable as it uses newer components This Sharpeye model seems much sleeker and adaptable to our needs than the original eliminating the need for DSTO mods although rack mounting may be trickier if we want to maintain access to internals Only 2 of the boxes had packing lists havent found hardcopy of manuals yet hopefully in the antenna box Cheers Dave 22 From Merrett David mailto David Merrett dsto defence gov au Sent Wednesday 12 February 2014 3 30 PM To 47F Subject RE KH Sharpeye purchase SEC UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED Hi Just glancing at the PO and trying to figure out where the added comes from INSTALLATION AND WORK SCHEDULING SHS Its more than the Customer Witnessed Factory Acceptance Test FAT first week Quote Sec 3 3 Line 3 PO appears to be
15. this is an issue or what the actual reason for this spec is 3 User guide Recommends internal disconnection prior to flight Fair enough we could also easily remove it from UPS and store in flight suitable container David Merrett Radar Systems Engineer DSTO 08 73895622 IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 48 49 FO 003 15 16 Serial 23 Dowling Emily From Merrett David Sent Wednesday 22 October 2014 9 33 a m To 47 Ce 47F Subject CKI ISP status SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED Higa notice a tracroute to our IP ends up on CKI but timesout bouncing between 2 routers Other CC sites are up so Im starting to think the pacific storms are over and some other consequence is now preventing access to our site Perhaps you could contact to investigate Im happy to but not sure if you want DSTO leading this kind of work on CKI Cheers Dave M David Merrett Radar Systems Engineer DSTO 08 73895622 IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email
16. your group within GA and are there any other GA owned installations within the area What the radio operating frequencies of the equipment support comms is that might need to be considered in any EMC analysis Any other limitations consideration that might become relevant should this area be used for mounting a small mast holding a maritime navigation radar any such mast would be at least 100M from the secure hut pictured Please note at this stage these are only preliminary invsetigations and we are conducting discussions with ASA DORA before any formal planning or site use that may take place Thanks for any help you can provide in this matter Regards David Merrett Radar Systems Engineer DSTO Dept Defence 087389 5622 77 FO 003 15 16 Dowling Emil From Sent To Subject Categories UNCLASSIFIED FYI Merrett David Thursday 19 September 2013 2 07 p m KHS FW DSTO visiting Cocos Is SEC UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED Serial 39 Serial 40 FOI 003 15 16 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Friday 1 August 2014 12 44 p m To 47F Subject FYI FW S Band Radar Licesnse request SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender
17. 4 10 50 a m To 47F Subject RE Power supply for Cocos Island radar SEC lt UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED Br Keeping in mind this is not essential In order of preference 1 Use CAT 6 instead which will work But If not avail 2 Install an empty conduit containing pull rope would bring a roll of CAT6 which will work probably to 1Gbps certainiy 100M either way it gives future flexibility 3 OM3 fibre with SC connector should easily go to 1Gbps a bit more cost assume but future proof Ref Discussion below David Merrett Radar Systems Engineer DSTO 08 73895622 Notes As we are already planning on bringing a 5GHz wirelless LAN link I think it can do 100mbps copper fibre is not currently essential mentioned adding Ethernet cable anticipating that upon arrival presence of a copper link would remove the work we would otherwise have to do in setting up the wireless link potentially we d then have it free to use as link to Bungalows be useful for on going future needs of connectivity So If its fibre that s ok but we still have work do to acquiring and installing the fibre lt gt Ethernet interface adaptors Serial 26 FO 003 15 16 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Tuesday 7 October 2014 2 07 p m To 47F Subject RE Transition activity of CKI radar to 2CA SEC UNCLASSIFIED Attachments Development_concept docx Categori
18. 5 16 Serial 27 EAL003 415 16 A a a u Software flow diagram for system Existing Proposed baseline is current for CKI system detection files Y E ee E ee eT a Tn e This SW N replicated at N each site Weather RX Tracker V1 ww Tracker Vib i not on Ci island SW Mainland SW Data backup Data Combiner and publish amp AlS receive tal HH LT e FOI 003 15 16 Serial 28 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Tuesday 15 October 2013 3 54 p m To 47 Subject RE CKI report SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED Hi a cant think of anything important to add to this The only minor thing can think of mentioning is that Im not sure who the potential audience is or how the doc might be used but did notice the absence of explaining the scope aim of this evaluation DSTO mentioned being part of the initial site eval That this evaluation does not consider detail of expected radar perfomrance or conversely that performance of any proposed installation was ouside the scope of this initial site evaluation Cheers Dave 61 62 Serial 29 FOI 003 15 16 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Monday 7 July 2014 11 24 a m To KHS Subject Sept Trip planning SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED i BE Im currently planning WBS for boffin trip to CKI for radar set to work
19. 6 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Monday 11 August 2014 9 17 a m To 47F Subject FW S Band Radar Licesnse request SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED All good to TX on CKI and at DSTO Dave IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 22 72 75 FO 003 15 16 Serial 38 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Friday 20 September 2013 11 16 a m To 47F Subject FW Cocos Infrasound station SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED FYL Useful stuff Dave 22 From Merrett David mailto David Merrett dsto defence gov au Sent Thursday 19 September 2013 4 34 PM To Nancarrow Shane Cc Purss Matthew Subject Cocos Infrasound station SEC UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED 76 FOI 003 15 18 Greetings Shane recently visited Cocos Is with ACBPS personnel to investigate potential areas to site a smallish microwave maritime navigation radar and we stumbled upon a recently installed station at 12 8 46 32 S 96 49 9 90 E that is apparently according to BoM operated and managed by Geoscience Australia See attached pics was hoping you could get in touch and let me know If the installations in question see pics belong to
20. Categories UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED Happy to help where we can To expand on David s email suspect that this system will be harder to deploy than what we can do from here but it may be easier politically especially as they keep offering their system Also we only have available systems which are at the more basic end of radar capability The attached documentation is in regard to the antenna unit only and does nat include information about the included transmitter receiver and processing e Is this a magnetron based radar or a solid state radar with pulse compression e What is the peak power average power only has handling limits for the antenna in the document s How many frequencies and over what span is the frequency diversity o Is delay line or similar processing is included to align the frequency diverse signals e What processing is incorporated in the system o Is there automatic detection What exploitation of frequency diversity is employed in the detection processing o What scan to scan processing if any is included in the detection system o Does the system include automatic tracking and track reporting The easiest to deploy remote system would be to attach the DSTO processing back end onto the Terma system but to do this we would need to have details of the video data interface and turning data provision also how frequency diversity squint is compensated Dr Andrew Shaw Research Leader Microwave Radar
21. D UNCLASSIFIED Hi Suspect rain sensor is still broken just producing amplified output Alarm triggers assume youre talking about the GIF display would be set by the wndows software Im a bit confused about mention of OS being possibly windows 7 Assuming we re still talking about CKI design my original understanding is that there is no functional requirement for anything other than a single Linux based PC Adding a low end 1RU windows 7 PC wouldnt be a huge issue but it might be worth looking at the functional needs first to ensure they cant be covered in cleverer ways 20 FOI 003 15 16 L Is this from a sole need to internally access switch firewall If so perhaps there is equiv linux SW avail Dave 22 22 FO 003 15 16 Serial 10 Dowling Emily From Merrett David Sent Thursday 7 August 2014 2 49 p m To 47F Subject RE CKI radar SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED KHS At first glance have no objections to this Its certainly possible to do for an added 12k 3 months A few points We have next day call out warranty for 3 years on all these PCs We actually used this yesterday after the cooling system on your spare PC here at DSTO had problems The layout of the Rack may get tight more so from a cabling perspective purposely left space above display so it could potentially be used open used without needed to completely extend display drawe
22. FOI 003 15 16 Dowling Emily From Bessell Travis Sent Wednesday 5 November 2014 12 02 p m To 47F Cc Merrett David Subject RE Channel Markers and mask in general SEC UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED The mask is still a work in progress spoke to Andrew last week and he was working on it For the time being have removed the stationary tracks from the display I ll keep you informed when the mask has been implemented Cheers Travis IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 22 Serial 2 FOI 003 15 16 EIN Dowling Emily From Bessell Travis Sent Thursday 16 October 2014 5 26 p m To 47F Ce 47F Hennessy Brendan Merrett David Subject RE CKI capability statement SEC lt UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED a The traffic lights are split into two categories link state and radar state The link state is determined from a heartbeat that is sent from each sensor site every 5 minutes and indicates the current state of the connection between the sensor site and kennel Due to not being able to use ping this is an alternative that seems to work well The heartbeat is a very small file and the contents of the file is the speed that the data was sent on the previous sensor update Therefore if the he
23. IFIED UNCLASSIFIED uH have a few more hardware items to buy mostly ADSB rx KVM and connectors so given we are also planning on funding A Shaws travel TBC says 4356 Im hitting a budget shortfall of around 2K Im going to ask our OPSTSR folk here for the funds but in case they are hard to convince would it be difficult for ACBPS to provide the additional funding It doesn t really matter whether its travel or hardware DSTO would invoice ACBPS for expended amount got the impression youd rather spend on hardware than more travel An alternative possibility is CBO could purchase the KVM equip 3k if we are to allow for BIOS level screen access otherwise 2k as long as it was done promptly and delivered directly here Anyway let me know what you think Regards Dave M IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 lf you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 2 19 FOI 003 15 16 Dowling Emily From Merrett David Sent Monday 24 March 2014 1 11 p m To Subject RE Mand CKI SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED Sorry yeah Old Crow Arrived with the AIS RX From Merrett David mailto David Merrett dsto defence gov au Sent Monday 24 March 2014 11 42 AM To Subject RE and CKI SEC UNCLASSIFIE
24. PS and DSTO to meet the intent provided within BPC s Oct 13 support request PRODUCTION 1 DSTO to purchase integrate and test all internal and external electronic equipment with exception of external VSAT hardware and any extemal electricity supply Costs of major equipment items would be recovered by invoice s to ACBPS Minor costs absorbed by DSTO Carried out at DSTO Edinburgh DSTO Produce networking setup and software to replicate user display feed into BPC akin to existing user products Question As a radar head is still undecided terma Kelvin Hughes was previously purchased directly by ACBPS Sharpeye via Hugh Barkley is likely gt 100k hence requires defence complex procurement rules Can ACBPS arrange direct purchase of the radar head for CKI 2 ACBPS manage with relevant design etc support from DSTO provision of a hardware platform on which the equipment is to be mounted DEPLOYMENT 1 DSTO Send set to work team to CKI to install test tune optimise evaluate trial CK system with travel costs invoiced to ACBPS 2 ACBPS to arrange shipping of platform from mainland to CKI supported by DSTO as required indicative Timeline Jan Feb 14 purchase electroinc hardware support design aquistion of HW Platform Mar Apr 14 Bare Platform delivered to DSTO Edinbrugh Late feb would be nice DSTO Integrate test etc Apr May 14 Shiping to CK 85
25. Routinely Ive noticed the link to the island is fine but radar site access is not perhaps after an island wide outage lve wondered about calling the ionosphere guys to see if the link to their sys is working Although Im not sure if its due to an intermediate link failure therefore beyond our control but there are a couple of settings within the small cisco router software that might be relevant see below I don t know what the current settings are When its back up l Il log in to check David Merrett Radar Systems Engineer DSTO 08 73895622 From Pg5 http downloads linksys com downloads userguide WRT120N V10 UG NC WEB 0 pdf Connect on Demand Max Idle Time You can configure the Router to cut the Internet connection after it has been inactive for a specified period of time Max Idle Time If your Internet connection has been terminated due to inactivity Connect on Demand enables the Router to automatically re establish your connection as soon as you attempt to access the Internet again To use this option select Connect on Demand In the Max Idle Time field enter the number of minutes you want to have elapsed before your Internet connection terminates The default Max Idle Time is 5 minutes Keep Alive Redial Period If you select this option the Router will periodically check your Internet connection If you are disconnected then the Router will automatically re establish your connection To use this option se
26. already covered under Installation Support and supervision program management below Am missing something Dave 2 PRICES Description Radar Price Qty price System SBS 800 51 amp SCOPE OF SUPPLY SBS 800 51 Pari Number SBS 800 51 SharpEye S Band 200W 1 Up mast Solid State Transceiver and tuning mechanism EDPC and Doppler Comprises DTX A1 ADDA LPA A3 Assy of SBS 800 51 S Band 1 Transceiver 12ft 32dB SWG Low Profile antenna with turning mechanism SBS A1 2 RDU Radar Distribution Unit 1 93 FOI 0039 15 16 RDU Ser al control interface RS232 422 with antenna drive control unit KH 1601 SBS 800 Series Radar Sub 1 System Manuals Hardcopy one set SBS A3 3 Service and Maintenance 1 Display with radar viewer and radar control GUI SW in a 19 Rack Mount Service PC with 22 LCD Screen Hardware subtotal 1 Part Number Installation Materials Kit SBS 800 Series SBS A801 50 Copper Installation Kt ZEZE 1 50m includes Man aloft switch and cables to antenna subsystems SBS A801 X Additional Meters of 0 Copper Cable kit pr 10m SBS A123 5 Cable Kit Extractor 1 5m Part Number Tustallation Support and supervision program management KH XXXX Adelaide 1 week 1 nominal Installation and setting to work excluding travel accommodation and subsistence KH XXXX Estimated travel AIG 1 accommodation and subsistence Adelaide KH XXXX Program 1 Management and project related
27. and capabilities such as simultaneous presentation and interaction with any number of similar remote systems from a single web site Below are la Draft table of software items at CKI lb Draft table of software items at its webserver 2 Draft Block diagram of CK1 hardware subsystems AIS may be distributed to web server directly from the receiver however this requires more networking setup firewall config and prevents immediate access to the AIS data at CK Table 1 Draft CKI Software LINUX Work station Software Item Products Raw Video files Raw Detection Files Tracker Track matrix every N minutes Track video cubes Record assemble weather data Record assemble AIVDM tentative Assemble payload of above data and transfer to web server s NA AIS Receiver AIVDM packets direct to web server tentative Table 2 Draft Server Sotware Mainland Watchdog Server Software Item Apache2 web server Receiver Archive Production Production2 tentative 27 FOI 003 15 16 Interface unit AIS E ethernet Receiver an na rn eee Weather Station J isk EE 3 E ethgrnet LINUX Workstation Digitiser card V SAT l Firewall Switch lt receiver N Perez I l R ethernet l Outlets EEE eth rnet Generator O Figure 1 Draft CKI Hardware block diagram KVM ethernet KVM Over NW KYM ethernet
28. and delete the email 22 80 82 Serial 41 FOI 003 15 16 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Tuesday 3 June 2014 2 21 p m To 47F Subject Name of DSTO RAAF site SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED just heard back from one of the facility guys When telephone RAAF people regarding using the FPS 16 say that am at the DSTO RADAR building adding located South East of the runway if they don t seem to understand that For paperwork the 0939 T0015 building ID would probably be required but when describing where to go over the telephone you may have more luck with DSTO RADAR building Previously email to Defence support group DSG were headed like this The Sensor and Trials Facility STF is a DSTO facility located at RAAF Edinburgh Technical Area Building 15 It is located south of the southern exit to the Edinburgh RAAF Base Reference number 0939 T0015 identifies this facility For access don t think there is another route to the RAAF base As well as a drainage ditch there is another fence North and West of the bore sight tower so you can t continue through the paddock The bollards are supposedly arranged such that a fire truck can get through them but if you were carrying a container on a fork lift it would be too wide though you may be able to lift it over the bollards they are 1 metre cubes suspect it wouldn t be worth the time to arrange to have the
29. artbeat is received and the file speed is above 1kB s the light will be green indicating a suitable connection The light will change to amber if the speed drops below 1kB s indicating a limited connection The light will change to red if a heartbeat has not been received in the last 10 minutes indicating an issue with the link internet The radar state will only display a light if the link state is present If the link state has failed red there is no way to tell if the radar is still operating so no lights will be displayed for the radar state If a link is present and the radar updates are being received on the watchdog server the light will be green If a link is present and there have been no radar updates for 15 minutes the light will change to red indicating an issue with the radar that may need to be investigated So in short Link state Green link established gt 1kB s Amber link established lt 1kB s Red No link established possible internet failure Radar state Green radar updating correctly Red radar not updating possible radar failure No lights No link established Please let me know if anything is not clear Cheers Travis IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email From Merrett David Sent T
30. asure 1 100 Jof the average radar signal level for this tracked object over a period of 2 minutes It is purely relative and visually similar to the brightness of the spot typically present in the middle of the mini movie display Tracks are hidden from the operator unless they meet certain criteria 89 Let me know if you need any clarification or other details Regards David Merrett Radar Systems Engineer DSTO 08 73895622 IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 ofthe Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 22 91 rial 4 FO 003 15 16 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Wednesday 15 October 2014 8 55 a m To KHS Subject RE KH Sharpeye arrival SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED No but ill check through the documentation and see if its included somewhere in the delivery notes Technically there will be 4 serial nos Antenna Up mast unit RDU Main visible box which an asset sticker would go Service PC not normally used KH would probably be happy to provide s n via drawcom if you asked Dave M IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are
31. ctivity Regards David Merrett Radar Systems Engineer DSTO 08 73895622 IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 22 CT 90 6 88 FOI 003 15 16 Serial 44 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Wednesday 15 October 2014 9 36 a m To 47 Subject RE CKI capability statement SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED Here s the DSTO response Parts of it might be a bit geek speak but Im sure you can translate Def A radar detection is a single hit from a single turn of the antenna Each antenna turn generates around 1000 detections The tracker software makes sense of these over many minutes hours and presents sequences of detections that appear to be moving like a vessel as a radar track The Confidence is a measure of the tracker s certainty that there is some radar reflective thing present Things that are radar reflective might include things like o Birds o Helicopters o Boats co Rain heavy clouds o Sea waves swell It is calculated from the number of detections associated to the track over time ie confidence will increase as the track receives associated detections and will drop when the detections disappear The Signal level is a me
32. d amp delivered esp if from TERMA radar 3 If trialling a TERMA solution how does the anticipated theoretical performance of a permanent solution compare with the desired performance eg X band possibly including sea state 4 and or heavy rain As a semi manned trial the additional installation engineering otherwise associated with making it a permanent solution would not eventuate Ive guessed at a few factors for consideration below EMI EMC X Band pulse interference on nearby defence commerical systems Wind loading movement allowance calcs on a trial system and resulting guy cable requirements or heavy lifting erection machinery for un guyed portable mast Power 15KVA is mentioned this is pretty high and from a trial perspective logistically quite different to a much more portable 2KVA gen but since a semi permanent soluition is unlikely to rely on a generator for primary power it seems logical any trialled locations would still be within economic reach of an existing supply The radar tech specs side of things is another matter and for performance predication comparison guess it will largely boil down to Considering the overall system objectives how important is optimising performance in high rain X vs S band and or high seas which drives detector tracker algorithms optimisation dont currently have enough information on the TERMA system to judge but given the height limitations gu
33. dundant large box of mostly air which multiplexes multiple KH radars to a single KH processor and is was not required for KH s commissioning QA The Radar processor and display MDD A30 20 MDP A1 while not required for our medium term operational solution may be required mandated only by KH to ensure warranty installation compliance assuming that KH are employed to conduct set to work activities if KH are to do this The idea being that they set up the system as per a normal ship or VTS installation and test proving that the system works This was potential useful when finding the power supply fault in Cl upmast tranceiver and we restored to the KH baseline to prove to the technician that it wasnt our attached sub system that was causing the issue However an advantage of NOT including this KH baseline path is Not having to schedule and pay for the KH technician from UK or Malaysia to come to CKI we connect commision ourselves to our own baseline from start Not having to maintain a dual baseline hardware capability which includes cabling and storage of display processor hardware Cheaper to buy since no display or processor purchased easier to install since dont have to find space shelter to temporarily install and connect display processor If KH are happy to sell us just the 3 HW items LPA A3 DTX A1 GTX plus cables and optionally install to our baseline without test whil
34. es Cocos UNCLASSIFIED ATF Just a heads up Our lessons from meant that it would have been engineering foolishness to replicate the software architecture used in transferring and formatting data may have alluded to this in emails about some testing we did earlier this year Attached is a diagram that explains the difference between the current system and the system we are proposing Hopefully its obvious that the CKI HMI software proposed on 2CA is A single setup of a software module with multiple functions C2 Amore rational approach to transferring data Based on this lt may make more sense to include in any contracted SW transition work to include testing of the data feed into the new software element l as currently for Breeding to DSTO This would also allow removing the Windows PC as the HW element for AIS less reliable COTS sw Allow AIS tracks Doing the above would require Daronomont to update the baseline of the Software essentially copy of DSTO s current staging area software We will engage with Daronomon to this effect unless you arrange otherwise Regards David Merrett Radar Systems Engineer DSTO 08 73895622 IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 22 FO 003 1
35. ess it would perform about as good as any similar system a good portion of the time IE those times when the sea rain states are benign enough to produce little difference Thats my 2 cents Andrew may have a different take on the whole thing Regards David Merrett Radar Systems engineer Natioanl Security and ISR division 08 7389 5622 IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the junsdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 114 Serial 50 FOI 003 15 16 Dowling Emil From Shaw Andrew Sent Friday 2 May 2014 8 36 a m To 47F Subject RE CKI radar SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED What format are these documents can t seem to open them DSTO Andrew Shaw Research Leader Microwave Radar National Security amp Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Division Defence Science and Technology Organisation PO Box 1500 Edinburgh South Australia 5111 P 08 7389 4207 M E andrew shaw dsto defence gov au IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 22 115 118 Serial 51 FO 003 15 16 Dowling
36. hursday 16 October 2014 9 13 a m To Bessell Travis Hennessy Brendan Cc Subject RE CKI capability statement SEC UNCLASSIFIED 1 FOI 003 15 16 UNCLASSIFIED Brendan Travis Can you please answer question Wd shr network security means a simple ping test is not allowed so the link health is established by other means ll let Brendan Travis elaborate in both tech and lay terms Dave M IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 2 FOI 003 15 16 Dowling Emily From Bessell Travis Sent Tuesday 28 October 2014 3 27 p m To KHS Ce Shaw Andrew Hennessy Brendan Merrett David Subject RE CKI radar SEC UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED After looking at the system over the last couple of weeks I think it would be more beneficial to mask out the channel markers as well as the land understand that a blank screen to an operator may cause them to think that the system isn t working properly but over time the operators should build confidence in the system and this should not be an issue But if you think it will be then can suggest we leave north keeling unmasked believe the channel markers are having a negative impact on the tracker when trying to track legitimate targets within the lagoon Qui
37. in September and seeking your clarification on following 1 My proposal is approx 2 weeks dayi day7 with 2 DSTO people prob myself and Brendan and day7 14 radar test track with 4 DSTO people Andrew Shaw Travis B Me and Brendan 2 ACBPS will fund this travel which comes to 30k TBC est Let me know if you have any comments on this and will continue to plan accordingly Regards David Merrett Radar Systems Engineer DSTO 08 73895622 IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 63 Serial 30 FOI 003 15 16 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Wednesday 13 August 2014 2 47 p m To 47 Subject testing IP SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED Mi Any update on the SatComm IP for CKI and or Adelaide testing have an opportunity to include it in our network baseline document but happy to leave as xxx xxx xxx xxx if not certain David Merrett Radar Systems Engineer DSTO 08 73895622 IMPORTANT This email remains the property ofthe Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 64 Serial 31 FOI 003 15 16 Dowling Emil
38. lable within their detection amp tracking SW parameters that define performance Tunability performance risks delays 111 FO 003 15 16 Are they hoping to supply a turn key solution DSTO involvement might then be more akin to watchover review roll In that case theyd have to spend a reasonable amount of time tweaking parameters to optimise the performance false alarm rate compromise The radar to user HMI software is another area that would probably need design development This is another risk effort for them id also be keen to understand if they would propose a wave guide to rack architecture and if so what experience have they had with these lengths eg 33M inlcuding possible issues associated with being on relocatable masts 113 Serial 49 FO 003 15 16 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Monday 12 August 2013 11 22 a m To 47F Ce Shaw Andrew Subject RE Follow up and possible Terma Radar Evaluation SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED beleive the general idea of a drop in container ised solution is best and think there are 3 primary questions to answer which drive the rest of process 1 For a first trial how rigourous demonstrative should it be eg a couple of weeks with a portable generator vs running a few months unmanned 2 If AMIFC use of trial system data products is considered part of a first trial how will this be developed resource
39. lect Keep Alive in the Redial Period field you specify how often you want the Router to check the Internet connection The default Redial Period is 30 seconds 67 FOI 003 15 16 IMPORTANT This email remains the property ofthe Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 68 Serial 34 FOI 003 15 16 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Wednesday 15 October 2014 1 47 p m To 47F Subject Daronmont meeting SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED Hi ae The meeting with Daronmont went well We spent some time summarising the new SW HW systems on CKI and the new web pages currently being trialled on DSTO server We went through the agenda topics as suggested by Brendan Y with the following outcomes DSTO says Moving current CKI baseline to 2CA is best done after at least 3 weeks of DSTO tidy ups of the code This is mostly relating to differences between PB and CKI systems and minor code improvements Use of the new code for both and CKI would imply unless other minor 2CA server SW mods are included Changes to the watchdog technical pages o DSTO will discuss the intended final baseline functions presentation of the web pages with Customs so that the version updated by Daronmont to 2CA closely match ACBPS s preferences Diffe
40. like can be achieved The SLR 200N uses TCP IP to connect only 1 to 1 to a client Currently CKI 2 DSTO written software on the local Linux PC is receiver of the data The software is called ais_rptr and it is really just a one to many repeater of the AIVDM packets We can specify multiple clients to connect to receive from it as we choose Dave M IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 22 17 FO 003 15 16 Dowling Emily From Merrett David Sent Monday 21 July 2014 4 02 p m To 47F Cc Haywood Brett Subject RE Budget SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED Hi Simon lve got some better cost estimates for the additional hardware purchase required Could you please review and accept or otherwise the proposal that DSTO purchase these hardware items and invoice ACBPS for the funds up to amount given below QTY 1 Rack mounted LCD display Keyboard 51451 QTY 1 BIOS level access interface PC interface modules for above 1499 QTY 1 Shipping 50 Total 3000 ex gst Thanks David Merrett Radar Systems Engineer DSTO 08 73895622 18 From Merrett David lt mailto David Merrett dsto defence gov au gt Sent 18 07 2014 12 27 To 47F Subject Budget SEC UNCLASS
41. ll HMI stuff realise this is opposite to a stove piped threat based design which would have completely seperate hardware and software for each sensor site so please let me know if my anti stove pipe philosophy is going in the wrong direction for some reason lve asked Brendan to examine the Google map license conditions believe that since any CKI page will be part of the same Domain URL the same licesne will cover any pages served from the server Dave FOI 003 15 16 IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 26 CKI System ARSS On Document David Merrett 25 3 14 The CKI radar system primarily comprises 2 conceptually separate functions remote sensing collect radar track and amp environment data User presentation present above data to user Lessons learnt from the Ay point to a CKI solution with a similar set of functions to implement the various sub system requirements with the biggest differences being mostly which sub system implements which function As an example it makes more sense that the tracker function output track data rather than the final user picture and it s distribution service KERN More logical positioning of the functions across the system software potentially allows other efficiencies
42. m mmm Total T Total Recovered Commit t 13 14 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 FY to Jun from 14 15 14 Client Nature of Commitmen _ TA IA Local Travel 50 Overseas Travel J Contractors 0 gt E zd Overtime j 0 E Capital 6k _ 1 100 _Comms amp IT 25k 100 Freight ent BAKE len Se a I ft 7 0 Consumables L 4k L L 1 0 Total 77k 51k Unrecovered 26k ain d 2 Risk and Payoff Matrix Not required because this OPSTSR will make extensive use the radar surveillance capability developed for K OPSTSRs 125 amp 133 FOUO and the lessons learnt from 128 FO 003 15 16 FOUO Page 9 of 9 DSTO OPSTSR PROJECT PLAN OPSTSR 143 S amp T PROGRAM IMPACT SCHEDULE ANNEX C 1 The following table shows the estimated staff time expected to be expended on the OPSTSR Staff Time Name Division or Period Required of Time for Contractor Contractor Dates Period Required or Staff dr FTE Brett Haywood NSID 13 01 14 10 08 14 2 Andrew Shaw NSID 01 05 14 10 08 14 5 UN David Merrett NSID 15 01 14 10 08 14 40 Brendan NSID 01 03 14 15 07 14 30 Hennessy Travis Bessel NSID 01 03 14 01 6 14 20 Version 2 11 14 May 2009 FOUO 129
43. nfrastructure it seems the best and lowest risk position Does the NDB still operate did some checking and confirmed our TX shouldn t be a concern for this if it does Regards David Merrett Radar Systems Engineer DSTO 08 73895622 IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 22 34 35 Serial 17 FO 003 15 16 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Thursday 17 April 2014 11 14 a m To 47F Subject RE Enclosure height SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED think so checked Lead time for Raritan products is about 3 weeks Happy Easter Dave From Merrett David mailto David Merrett dsto defence gov au Sent Thursday 17 April 2014 10 58 AM To Subject Enclosure height SEC UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED G a to buy a Raritan side mount PDU which is 1044mm high Looking at the CBO tender response this might be getting close to the upper limit of the enclosure height design details of which are still TBD Do you think a 1 4m high enclosure is easily acheivable there are less attractive alternative models if not Possible factors Does Sat dish need to mount on top Stowed mast height of lowest horizontal section Thanks for any comments
44. nstall a radar head with an analog video interface or agreed digital and SW radar control interface definition 2 DSTO connect to clone of KH Computer digitiser system tweaking detector tracker as required This requires DSTO to get agreement and cooperation with TERMA on initial technical exchange B TERMA Turn key path 1 TERMA supply and commision full kit 2 TERMA conduct system performance tuning optimisation for cocos context 3 TERMA Other contractor develop adjust Human interface SW for equivalent HMI requirements automous operation low bandwidth self recovery automated alerting etc Doing something in between these 2 EG where DSTO tracker interfaces with Terma Detector or DSTO SW is provided to Terma is likely to be riskier but shouldnt be discounted without more information The 2 big unknown areas for effort are Tracking performance amp user interface Radar digitising interfacing Some simple initial tech questions to Terma may go along way to understanding the effort required so more informed decisions could be made Examples What Radar gt Computer interfacing do they offer have they ever used Osiris digisiter cards what is their digitiser fidelity Pe ee oe eee Are they willing to allow DSTO access to realtime digital or analog video information through some defined interface DSTO effort and or engagement possible required What flexibility is avai
45. nual dwgs Dave IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 22 41 FOI 003 15 16 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Serial 20 Sent Tuesday 21 January 2014 1 22 p m To Subject RE KH sharpeye SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED H7P wQ also comments in table below 1 Cables Tower Cable lengths depend on tower height run to cabinet shelter tot 35M 37M and length should all be the same for the 3 cables single phase 3 ph and composite signal Suggest you confirm CKT A6 30 is the kit for 2 power cables noted a discrepancy in cable part numbers between the table listed below and PKH Doc KH 5146 page 7 which has 14 core composite cable as 45 762 01 16 001 and 2 core mains cable as 45 762 0173 001 So confirming all part numbers would be wise 2 Pants list assume you ll be going through Drawcom again and suspect that rather than specifying unique part numbers to them are required it may be better to re outline the essential items antenna transceiver and DCU and they can offer a commisionable build based on that architecture 3 Optional commisioning items Some observations lessons from Kb uiic The Interswitch unit is IMO not required Its a re
46. proposed response 2 Request The OPSTSR proposal E395622 requested DSTO to 7 lt b to provide technical support to the trial and possible commissioning of a land based marine surveillance radar installation on Cocos Keeling Islands CKI It specifically proposed for support including b DSTO personnel to participate in the feasibility study into the deployment of a land based radar system in CKI Design construction and deployment of a containerised trial radar system on CKI and o d Provision of interim and final reports and any associated briefs to COMBPC 3 Deliverables DSTO has analysed OPSTSR 143 and proposes to address this request utilising the plan at Annex A to deliver a Deliverable A Detailed project plans by phase for the radar trial on CKI b Deliverable B Design specifications for a radar system intended for installation onto a containerised platform suitable for deployment to CKI Defendina Australia and its National interesis FOUO 121 FOI 003 15 16 FOUO Page 2 of 9 c Deliverable C Regular progress reports at an interval to be agreed with the ACBPS project lead d Deliverable D An Interim report to COMBPC on completion of the initial deployment to CKI and e Deliverable E A Final report to COMBPC that includes an assessment of the contribution that a land based marine surveillance radar can make to the management of Unauthorised Maritime Arrivals UMA within the app
47. r This is sacrificable of course but would limit the ability to access the rear sides of other rack units A built in spare basically buys you back the typ 48 hours it would otherwise take to fly in the spare guess the risk analysis would include something like c Overall likelihood of undesirable event Chance of PC failure x chance of use needed within 48 hours x chance of alt sensor not being avail c Other options like have spare sitting on island with a clear instruction booklet on swap out My gut feel on this idea is that to save on immediate work and reduce risk we build CKI sys as fit for but not with and retro fit spare later pending any system design adjustment planning that adding a spare might require Another consideration Although we have here at DSTO 1 spare ofthe PC capture digitiser card in question with this being an old design o a smarter HW option is currently available which of course is smaller and better o Purchasing of this HW baseline is likely to become impossible in the near future EG the 90s PCI digitiser interface standard has all but disappeared in modern PCs Hope that helps David Merrett Radar Systems Engineer DSTO 08 73895622 IMPORTANT This email remains the property ofthe Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete
48. receipt of your endorsement Dr Todd Mansell CJOAD will initiate the appropriate DSTO program modification on behalf of CDS MES Leader Current Operations Joint amp Operations Analysis Division 08 7389 4213 2 3 Jan 2014 FOUO 122 FO 003 15 16 FOUO Page 3 of 9 ANNEX A DSTO OPSTSR PROJECT PLAN OPSTSR 143 AND COCOS KEELING ISLANDS RADAR TRIAL Background 33 22 2 A second approach corridor for UMA is from the direction of Sri Cocos Keeling Islands CKI 3 Client Engagement Model Since the original request Oct 13 subsequent planning by ACBPS has shifted and reduced the scope of the OPSTSR slightly This combined with the good working relationship ACBPS has developed with DSTO OPSTSRs means that the best way forward is now a joint project approach where funds skills and resources are divided in a way more relevant to long term outlook of the developed capability Customer Requirements 4 The primary requirement addressed under this OPSTSR is to trial a land based maritime surveillance system on CKI DSTO assistance is required to design and deploy the radar and to evaluate what contribution the system makes to the approach corridors to CKI 22 5 The new OPSTSR will bring a benefit to BPC of a fully operational CKI radar installation and provide a clear understanding of its performance and maximum reliable detection range This will inform any ACBPS decisions to acquire a permanent
49. rences between the CKI and systems were exaplained including AIS ADSB Generator states and data flows DSTO to produce a small info docment showing IPs account and passwords of the CKI sub systems DSTO has only looked briefly into alternatives to Google maps and suggested Open Layers as a possible candidate replacement HMI environment David Merrett Radar Systems Engineer DSTO 08 73895622 IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 69 FOI 003 15 16 Serial 35 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Wednesday 23 July 2014 9 18 a m To KHS Subiect DSTO Pack up planning SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED ATF U it occurred to me that there s going to be a bit of logistical planning and mechanical activity needed regarding the breakdown and movement of the complete platform to the raaf base At this stage it d be nice to have some kind of picture as to how it might all happen Are we Commonwealth entirely responsible for this 1 Do CBO essentially stand back and wait Can you clarify the intended breakdown of goods into the 2 C 130s and order of depature Are you intending on organising planning the activity sequence and resources trucks forklifts tiedowns people etc
50. roaches to CKI a recommendation on the viability of commissioning such system at CKI and recommended specifications of such a system should it prove to be viable 4 Costs DSTO proposes to cover the cost of staff for this work DSTO will assume responsibility for the second order costs associated with this program but seeks client endorsement of the operational nature of the work to support DSTO use of its operations funding for the associated net additional costs The net additional costs for the full program are 26k which is itemised at Annex B Non salary expenses incurred by DSTO in respect of this OPSTSR will be charged against OP RESOLUTE 5 Risks Due to the extensive work successfully completed under OPSTSRs 125 amp 133 PAY the risk of completion of this radar system development for CKI is rated as LOW 6 Impact on other DSTO clients To affect this plan DSTO would need to delay work as outlined in Annex C The impact on these lower priority activities is judged to be manageable and DSTO will work with these clients to mitigate the impacts where possible Client Endorsement 7 The DSTO manager of this OPSTSR is Dr Brett Haywood of National Security and ISR Division who can be contacted on 08 7389 6053 He is available to clarify any aspect of the proposed plan 8 DSTO seeks your endorsement that the proposed DSTO response to the OPSTSR request meets your intent and that the associated net additional costs can be resourced On
51. s Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 65 FOI 0039 15 16 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Wednesday 19 February 2014 3 28 p m Serial 33 To Subject CKI comments SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED Hi Just FYI DSTO did its annual opstsrs briefing to DCJOPS today Re ours opstsr143 He queried how we were getting it to island we said it was ACBPS responsibility and that a range of options are being considered which said including flying He asked if C17 had been looked at said yes David R s Sharpeye timeline looks a bit sad In your opinion does this alter anything implementation planning wise that DSTO needs to consider Dave M IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 66 Serial 33 FOI 003 15 16 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Thursday 30 October 2014 10 29 a m To 47F Ce Bessell Travis Hennessy Brendan brad waugh ciia cx Subject ASA Site ISP router SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED Hi It appears the cisco ISP Router maybe the link recovery settings at one or both ends at CKI is potentially not correctly recovering after an outage
52. s the system for any engineering related issues Here are a few points that should be considered if when access is to be reduced removed They boil down to DEBUG ISSUES Over the past months Daronmont have requested us for information investigation into system related issues problems This requires us to access the systems ENGINEERING There has never been any well engineered design of the bits of the entire system outside of the sub system DSTO has typically been doing this in an ad hoc way incremental evolve improve since nobody else is available to do this o This involves everything between the output of the tracker to the AMIFC screens o For the CKI subsystem deployment 2 we are proposing to make a significant change improvement in this software subsystem that sits between the output of the tracker amp the AMIFC screens Unless Daronmont are tasked to conduct the integration test of this into the BPC located server DSTO will need access for this SENSOR IMPROVEMENT Transfer of experimental RF data eg for improving system performance is best done through the Mainland server David Merrett Radar Systems Engineer DSTO 08 73895622 IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 71 Serial 37 FOI 003 15 1
53. sdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email FOI 003 15 16 Dowling Emily From Merrett David Sent Monday 30 June 2014 2 27 p m To KHS Subject RE 2378 Air Conditioning Layout SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED ATF Im talking NW settings over with Brendan and Trav this week but expect it will be similar tog Is getting that info by COB this week ok ld assumed it was simple SW config so could wait a few weeks At one stage you requested hold off on purchasing router and that there was a possibility youd be able to supply one Is that still the case Ive always assumed you are providing firewall but wasn t sure about router maybe its part of the Satcomm unit HW Regards Dave m IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 22 10 FO 003 15 16 Dowling Emily From Merrett David Sent Monday 18 August 2014 1 18 p m To HS Subject RE AIS SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED Its SLR 200N Similar to SLR 200NG on CI See http www comarsystems com slr_200n and _200ng htmi The following will help understand how connectivity youd
54. st maintaining warranty agreement that might be most desirable from my perspective Dave M 22 42 45 FOI 0039 15 16 Dowling Emil From Merrett David n Sent Friday 8 November 2013 9 57 a m Serial 21 To Z Subject RE Tower and Trailer info SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED Higa 2 unrelated things 22 2 Re possible Cocos implementation HW ref below after our last converstion starting wondering if you were thinking of a small rack solution with radar HW co mounted with mast or gen hardware then realised this would require a cooling system to be added which although really attractive as a turn key portable solution also increases complexity security redundancy reliability maintenance Just thought d comment in case further discussions are warranted in this direction Regards Dave M 46 FO 003 15 16 Serial 22 FO 003 15 16 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Wednesday 6 August 2014 10 33 a m To KHS Ce Peter Linnett Subject UPS Battery SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED ATF I thought id mention the UPS specs here incase its relevant for transport planning These are from User Manual 1 Type SLA 72 Vde 6 12V 9 Ah 2 Unit Transit Altitude Up to 10 000 meters 32 808 ft above sea level If related to the SLAs then I take this as lowest allowable pressure Im not sure if
55. standard documentation Package Total 22 95 FO 003 15 16 Serial 46 Dowling Emil From Merrett David Sent Wednesday 15 January 2014 10 02 a m To 47 Subject RE Plan SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED Thanks for reponse 47 Another issue id like to ping you about is security grading Previous Si the hardware and design was UNCLASS operational networking aspects was restricted gt protected System performance was restricted gt protected Planning Timeline Administrative aspects was Unclass Do you believe a similar approach is suitable for CKI Thanks Dave M From Merrett David mailto David Merrett dsto defence gov au Sent Tuesday 14 January 2014 11 46 AM Tow Subject Plan SEC UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED Hi 4 To clarify what we ve previously discussed re DSTOs OPSTSR143 Project plan response Is the following roughly in line with what you re thinking lt snip gt IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 96 Serial 47 FOI 003 15 16 Dowling Emil From Shaw Andrew Sent Monday 12 August 2013 11 24 a m To A Merrett David Subject RE Follow up and possible Terma Radar Evaluation SEC UNCLASSIFIED
56. te often we have witnessed tracks being seduced by the bright overpowering detections from the markers especially the ferry as it seems to travel very close to them during its trip back and forth The added bonus of masking out the channel markers is that the amount of data we transfer will be greatly reduced Cheers Travis IMPORTANT This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 If you have received this email in error you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email 22 FOI 0039 15 16 No The mask hasn t changed did say a week or so ago that we were going to turn off the reporting of stationary tracks after turning it ON in early Oct for diag purposes however we left them on because it didn t seem to be affecting the link bandwidth or anything Jus theard you spoke to Trav so will let you sort it out with him David Merrett Radar Systems Engineer DSTO 08 73895622 Dave 22 Serial 4 FOI 003 15 16 Serial 4 Dowling Emily From Merrett David Sent Monday 2 December 2013 10 39 a m To 47F Cc Shaw Andrew Subject Cocos radar HW SEC UNCLASSIFIED Categories Cocos UNCLASSIFIED C i ia A together based on essential elements of existing Cl Kelvin Hughes System For accurate system weights remember radar mast cables are 4 4 kg m eg 132kg for 30 M KH Drv Ctrl Unit DCU
57. ted at DSTO E 2 09 05 14 1 4 weeks Merrett Draft System Documentation __ 3 12 05 14 _ 2 weeks Merrett Installed and tested at CKI 4 02 06 14 3 weeks Merrett Evaluation plan 5 11 08 14 5 weeks Shaw Merrett Distribute draft Client Report E Refer to figure 1 for initial planning snapshot FOUO 125 FOUO Page 6 of 9 e bng raa ai S A Sl RC IS ak i _132 days 10 09 19 5 00 AM____ 112 12 09 14 5 00 Pm _ i oO z 05 daysj10 09 13 6 00 AM 3102114 5 00 PM a ve _SDdeysi2fO114 7 00AM zfoana s 00 PM A 2 4 Pianot dependencies such as electric generators trek 16 deys 10 09 13 6 00 AM l 10 35 20 PH j i PN 5 R Procwement of Radar equpmert mid malai gna aaas S a 6 Procurement of Rader R associated equipment ACBPS 36 daysjorjia B 8 00 am Zolena Si 00 PM i i a a 35 daysizsfn2j14 10 00 AM i i de ahaoe gt s 3yasto 4 7 F i N i eile Y pro feds i i oon pro j i i ElRadar evaluation trial 20 daysjt2 05 14 1 10 00 AM i te Equipment prep andserd T E 15 days 12 05 14 10 00 AM en ah 10 00 AM 19 Conduct trial Ag e days 2J06 14 10 00AM ROSA 10 00 AM am ne ae 280 days 3 09 14 8 8 00 ee 21 03 15 5 00 PM EEE i aana 10 00 AM atah 10 00AM l E S Bere DSTO 20 daysi1 303 14 8 00 AM 9 04 14 5 00 PM i SET Dstono 7 10 daysi2jos 14 10 00am es 10 00am l E f f ITS Bones i 5 days 9 06 14 2 Dh psroneja
58. the email 22 FOI 003 15 16 24 FOI 003 15 16 Dowling Emily From Merrett David Sent Tuesday 25 March 2014 1 16 p m To 47F Subject RE CKI radar intentions SEC UNCLASSIFIED Attachments blockDiag1 doc Categories UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED a that any effort in developing locally accessible EG on site by customs SAR user information feeds is less important than the primary goal of getting the system feed to Canberra then the simplest solution is to stream AIVDM direct to user server in Canberra My current preference however is to feed it from the receiver to local CK linux system a then on to where ever because it simplifies networking and the flexibility of distnbution options eg can do send to both local and remote AIVDM software process My plan design is to replicate the HMI software functions with some adjustments in the final delivered implement on Ec Attached document describes tnis more The default design EG as would be tested at DSTO is likely to be the Bibaseline with testing here to include development and hopefully deployment of a smarter architecture Part of this development will be dictated by the intent or absence of an AMIFC con ops One conceivable evolution of the whole thing multiple sites from a user perspective is a single operator able to interact with a single web site that presents user info from any sensor CK xxxx etc as if it grows This is a
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