Air and Space Warfare Centre

In addition, it provides Tactical Leadership and Combined Qualified Weapons Instructor training, and it co-ordinates the activities of the Command and Battlespace Management (Air) Working Group.

The purpose of the IMS Cell is to support the AWC activity by enabling collaborative working, assuring output, and gathering feedback from the war-fighter to refine the future process through a continuous improvement ethos.

The Integrated Mission Support process combines subject matter expertise across the ASWC to deliver timely, impartial and authoritative advice to meet the needs of the Customer.

The purpose of the IMS Cell is to support the AWC activity by enabling collaborative working, assuring output, and gathering feedback from the war-fighter to refine the future process through a continuous improvement ethos.

The Integrated Mission Support process combines subject matter expertise across the ASWC to deliver timely, impartial and authoritative advice to meet the needs of the Customer.

The work includes the support of test and evaluation of aircraft, weapons (air-to-air, air-to-surface and surface-to-air), countermeasures and associated systems involving the design, management, analysis and reporting of flight and ground trials.

To achieve this, it conducts flight and ground tests to assess, develop, evaluate, and clear aircraft for the front line, together with airborne weapons and sensors.

Much of its activity at Boscombe Down is conducted in partnership with the defence science and technology company, QinetiQ, as part of the Aircraft Test & Evaluation Collaboration (ATEC).

This division are also the prime interface between the AWC, QinetiQ and the Ministry of Defence T&E Simulation and Training Project Team, providing a focus for MOD programmes at Boscombe Down supported under the Long Term Partnering Agreement.

The JADTEU mission is "To enable the delivery by air of manpower, machines and materiel through development, trials and training, in order to enhance Defence Capability."

The Thomson Building at RAF Waddington, headquarters of the Air Warfare Centre.
The Thomson Building at RAF Waddington , headquarters of the Air Warfare Centre.