"The Site Acceptance Test verifies Vigilare, as installed at the NROC site, is able to interface with all the relevant external systems and is ready for operational testing," Arthur Mamalis, Boeing Defence Australia program director for Project Vigilare, said.
The system successfully demonstrated its ability to manage multiple datalinks concurrently from the site by using assets deployed over a vast geographic area, both in the Northern Territory and on the east coast of Australia.
These datalinks connected test assets as well as operational assets such as RAAF F/A-18 Hornet aircraft.
"With data feeds from more than 45 different sensors and agencies using an enhanced Department of Defence communications network, the Vigilare Site Acceptance Test demonstrated an integrated, high-fidelity command and control system capability," Tim Malone, Defence Materiel Organisation project director for Project Air 5333 Vigilare, said.
"This is the culmination of many years of hard work by operational specialists, engineers and logisticians to build a system that arguably will be the benchmark for Network Centric Warfare systems in the Australian Defence Force for some time."
Operational testing with the RAAF is scheduled to begin in June, before the Commonwealth accepts Vigilare at NROC.