SYNERGY ARC Conference Leverages Multilateral Partner Cooperation

U.S. Air Force Col. Matthew Belote, Pacific Integrated Air and Missile Defense Center director, poses with members of the international planning team from the SYNERGY ARC Concept Development Conference poses for a photo at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, Apr. 1-3, 2025. The most important feature of the event is a “defense design workshop” exercise, where teams create the first phase of a Joint Theater Air and Missile Defense plan with a fictitious, national threat scenario. Shown are representatives from the USAF, U.S. Army, Netherlands, Japan, and Australia. (U.S. Air Force photo by John Reeves)

SYNERGY ARC Conference Leverages Multilateral Partner Cooperation

Published April 5, 2025
By John Reeves
Pacific Air Forces Public Affairs

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii --

The Pacific Integrated Air and Missile Defense Center (PIC) hosted and facilitated the 2025 SYNERGY ARC Concept Development Conference at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, Apr. 1-3, 2025.

SYNERGY ARC is the third event hosted by the PIC that brings together like-minded Indo-Pacific partners to play out a simulated missile threat scenario. The event leverages the previously learned experiences from the annual Multilateral Subject Matter Expert Exchange (MSMEE) and Defense Design Workshop (DDW) held in El Paso, Texas.

Attendees included representatives from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, Royal Netherlands Army, Japan Air Self-Defense Force, and the Australian Army.

This multinational, eight-person team developed plans to demonstrate opportunities for regional cross-domain coordination and integration within Air Domain Awareness (ADA) and missile defense operations.

The SYNERGY ARC event is one of several efforts to capitalize on the interoperability of allied and partner forces throughout the Indo-Pacific, with the aim of continuously improving our collective strengths to defend against aggression, and to maintain regional stability.