DEFAUS20 Idea Pitch – Onboard Personnel Multimedia Device
Reading Time: < 1 minute Benjamin has an idea The Royal Australian Navy’s recent rollout of the […]
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Intrapreneurship: The Art of Innovation and Influence
Reading Time: 5 minutes This is the third article in the Propel Her – Defence Women’s Leadership […]
#DEFAUS19 Program, YouTube Streaming and Twitter
Reading Time: < 1 minute #DEFAUS19 is just around the corner! Download the two day program here. Can’t make it to Canberra? Follow the livestream via YouTube and on Twitter via #DEFAUS19
Pitch Perfect 2: #DEFAUS Rehearsals and Feedback Loop
Reading Time: 4 minutes This article follows from Pitch Perfect, and gives an overview to the […]
#DEFAUS16 to #DEFAUS19: Bringing Things Full Circle
Reading Time: 2 minutes This year marks the fourth iteration of the Australian incarnation of the […]
#DEFAUS19 Idea Pitch – Artificial Intelligence Report Assistance
Reading Time: < 1 minute Kenneth has an idea The use of machine learning to supplement the […]
#DEFAUS19 Idea Pitch – ADF Literacy and Numeracy Support System
Reading Time: < 1 minute Karen has an idea English literacy and numeracy fluency is an ongoing […]
#DEFAUS19 Idea Pitch – EOD Machine Learning Autonomous Systems
Reading Time: < 1 minute David has an idea Countering Improvised Explosive Devices and Explosive Ordnance in […]
#DEFAUS19 Idea Pitch – Artificial Intelligence Data Management Assistant
Reading Time: < 1 minute James Bell has an idea The size of data has risen exponentially. […]
#DEFAUS19 Idea Pitch – Project Army Asset Utilisation Platform
Reading Time: < 1 minute Nicholas has an idea Logistic transformation is being driven by technological innovations, […]
Case Study – Defence Entrepreneurs Forum (DEFAUS)
Reading Time: 2 minutes Interested in pitching or participating at the Defence Entrepreneur’s Forum Australia 2019 (#DEFAus19)? This article provides the basics.
Pitch Perfect: Readying for #DEFAUS19
Reading Time: 2 minutes #DEFAUS is made for junior leaders, because the future Australian Defence Force will be lead by us.
#DEFAUS19 – Winner Reflections
Reading Time: < 1 minute Still thinking about submitting a pitch to the #DEFAus19 team? Meet the winner of #DEFAus18 Jacob Choi, and listen to how rewarding it was for him. Have an idea that will improve the way we do things then this is your chance!
#DEFAUS19 – Information Video
Reading Time: < 1 minute Video on #DEFAUS19. Forum is being held in Canberra from 30 Sep – 01 Oct 19. DEFAUS aims to inspire, connect and empower.
Unpopular Ideas From Across the Ditch, Part 2: Cheat Codes for Innovation (and why they don’t work)
Reading Time: 5 minutes This series is based on lessons learned from leading innovation in the […]
Unpopular Ideas From Across the Ditch
Reading Time: 5 minutes With all this attention on innovation how do we stop innovation becoming another cheap buzz word? Or has it already succumbed to its tragic fate?
#LOGBOTs – Making Army logistics “hard to find, hard to hit and hard to kill”
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Infantry wants to “fight light” – what’s holding them back? Manned […]
#DEFAus18 Live Stream
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#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – Mobile Armoured Container Command Posts
Reading Time: < 1 minute Luke Judd has an idea Units currently rely on tents for the […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – Yoga#IdeaPitch
Reading Time: < 1 minute Peter Byrnes has an idea My idea is to raise an organic […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – Multi-Purpose Air-Deployable Rescue Kit
Reading Time: < 1 minute Dave Coles has an idea Both the Lockheed AP-3C and Boeing P-8A […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – Machine Learning and Maintenance
Reading Time: < 1 minute John Donald and David Baxter have an idea While Air Force progresses […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – Hardened Logistics
Reading Time: < 1 minute Karl Jurat has an idea Since the commencement of the First Gulf […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – Rethinking Maps
Reading Time: < 1 minute Tingting Luo has an idea My idea is based on the use […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – Vehicle Camouflage Kits
Reading Time: < 1 minute Jason Veitch has an idea Defence vehicle camouflage equipment is made […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – Gilded Dislocation – A Mentoring Practice
Reading Time: < 1 minute Cassandra Walters has an idea I believe that the mentoring system in […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – LOGBOTs: Unmanned Logistic Vehicle Swarms
Reading Time: < 1 minute Jacob Choi has an idea Why should combat service support remain aggregated […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – Language Capability Within Combat Brigades
Reading Time: < 1 minute Leigh Brown has an idea Whether interacting with partners, civilians or adversaries […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – GoKymando
Reading Time: < 1 minute Kym Whittaker has an idea GoKymando underwear was developed to support good […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – VBS LHD Amphibious Simulation Trainer
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ben Montgomery has an idea There is currently no collective or continuation […]
Why be a Pirate when you can be a Privateer?
Reading Time: 2 minutes A proposal to reintroduce the Letter of Marque Luke Morton, Rob Morris, […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – 3D Rapid Prototyping
Reading Time: < 1 minute Steven Simpson has an idea The ability to 3D print almost anything […]
#DEFAus18 Booklet and Registration Details
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here is your #DEFAus18 Booklet – a one-stop shop for #DEFAus18 with information on: General […]
Part III: Leading a Culture of Innovation
Reading Time: 4 minutes Often when the topic of creating a culture of innovation arises, the […]
Part II: Leading Innovation
Reading Time: 4 minutes There is a profound difference between being an ‘innovative leader’ and being […]
Part I: Innovative Leadership
Reading Time: 4 minutes Innovation is the key to success in modern military operations, thus it […]
150 Years On – What’s Left to Learn from the ‘Letterman Plan’?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The story of MAJ Jonathan Letterman and the ‘Letterman Plan’ should exist […]
A Month On From #DEFAus17: An Officer Cadet Breakin’ It Down
Reading Time: 4 minutes This post was first published on Central Blue. Reposted here with thanks to […]
Driving Innovation Forward: Why Tempo Is Everything
Reading Time: 4 minutes A commander must accustom his staff to a high tempo from the […]
#DEFAUS17 Videos – Session 5 – Innovation and Strategy – ‘Learn and Adapt but Still Lose’ – Professor Daniel Marston
Reading Time: < 1 minute Innovation and Strategy – ‘Learn and adapt but still lose’ – Professor […]
#DEFAUS17 Videos – Sessions 3 & 4 – Practical Innovation
Reading Time: < 1 minute Group Captain Jerome Reid Jerome Reid is a self proclaimed disrupter and […]
#DEFAUS17 Videos – Session 2 – Innovation and War – Why We Innovate, How We Fight and Ethics
Reading Time: 2 minutes Why We Innovate – Lieutenant Colonel Clare O’Neill Clare O’Neill is a […]
#DEFAUS17 Videos – Session 1 – Innovation and the Future Fight – Cyber, Artificial Intelligence and Gamification
Reading Time: 2 minutes Innovation and the Future Fight – Cyber, Artificial Intelligence and Gamification Cyber […]
#DEFAUS17 Videos – Welcome Address – Junior Leaders and Innovation – MAJGEN Rick Burr, DSC, AM, MVO
Reading Time: < 1 minute Welcome Address – Junior Leaders and Innovation by MAJGEN Rick Burr, DSC, […]
#DEFAUS17 IDEA PITCH – THE MILITARY MINDFULNESS APP
Reading Time: 2 minutes You are a physically strong, focussed and resilient individual. You know how […]
#DEFAUS17 IDEA PITCH – INNOVATING A WINNING EDGE – PART 3: OUR VISION FOR CHANGE
Reading Time: 6 minutes What the future of ADF innovation looks like and our journey to […]
#DEFAUS17 IDEA PITCH – INNOVATING A WINNING EDGE – PART 2: A CASE STUDY OF CHANGE
Reading Time: 5 minutes Introduction In Part 1, we outlined the case for why we need […]
#DEFAUS17 IDEA PITCH – INNOVATING A WINNING EDGE – PART 1: THE NEED FOR CHANGE
Reading Time: 3 minutes Why does innovation matter? For the last several decades, Australia–a small country […]
#DEFAUS17 IDEA PITCH – THE MODULARISED LAND FORCE: BEYOND THE FORCE GENERATION CYCLE
Reading Time: 3 minutes The land force’s Force Generation Cycle may no longer be optimal, but […]
#DEFAUS17 IDEA PITCH – PLUGGING THE GAP
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction Voice communications is essential to effective Command and Control (C2) in […]
#DEFAUS17 IDEA PITCH – Electrifying the Force
Reading Time: 4 minutes Exercise TALISMAN SABRE 2017 (TS17) brought the most advanced technology of Australia […]
#DEFAUS17 IDEA PITCH – BRINGING RANGE SAFETY INTO THE 21st CENTURY
Reading Time: 4 minutes “Dropping bombs, shooting guns and missiles, and employing laser range finders are […]
#DEFAUS17 IDEA PITCH – Rapid 3D Imaging of Remote and Hostile Regions
Reading Time: 4 minutes Importance of 3D imaging During war, it is highly critical to have […]
#DEFAUS17 IDEA PITCH – 360 Degree Reporting for Field Forces
Reading Time: 4 minutes What is 360 Degree Reporting? 360 degree reporting is a professional reporting […]
#DEFAus17 Booklet and Registration
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here is your #DEFAus17 Booklet – a one-stop shop for #DEFAus17 with updated information on: […]
#DEFAUS17 IDEA PITCH – Creating a multi-user virtual reality training system
Reading Time: 6 minutes Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality training solutions built specifically for military training […]
#DEFAUS17 IDEA PITCH – Military Ethics Education Playing Cards
Reading Time: 4 minutes Ethics Ethics or moral philosophy is concerned with questions of how people […]
#DEFAUS17 Idea Pitch – Land Force Insights Team: Collaborating to Success
Reading Time: 3 minutes The land force needs forward-thinkers and innovators to develop the intellectual edge […]
#DEFAUS17 IDEA PITCH – A new approach to character development
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Australian Army (and ADF more broadly) is not developing individual character […]
#DEFAUS17 IDEA PITCH – Understanding a link between munitions terminal effects and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Reading Time: 3 minutes What would you say if there was a physical symptom of post-traumatic […]
#DEFAUS17 IDEA PITCH – PEOPLE CAPABILITY: REINVIGORATING ADVENTUROUS TRAINING IN THE ADF
Reading Time: 5 minutes Adventurous Training (AT) has been a recent and recurring topic on The […]
#DEFAUS17 IDEA PITCH – ADF BLOCKCHAIN COMMUNITY (ABC)
Reading Time: 3 minutes “The leader’s job is not to know the future, but to design […]
#DEFAUS17 IDEA PITCH – REBOA IN THE ADF: IMPLEMENTATION AND TRAINING
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Role of REBOA in the ADF Complex trauma management, especially in […]
#DEFAUS17 Idea Pitch – The Digital Vuee Tuee
Reading Time: 4 minutes We live in a connected world, with access to endless amounts of […]
#DEFAUS17 Idea Pitch – Joint Capability Education Proposal
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Royal Australian Navy, Australian Army and Royal Australian Air Force are […]
#DEFAUS17 Idea Pitch – What about a Defence University?
Reading Time: 4 minutes “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change […]
#DEFAus17 – Pragmatic Innovation for Military Strength
Reading Time: 2 minutes BLUF: Access #DEFAus17 Booklet here. Introduction – Who we are There is a culture […]
Partners In Innovation: Observations From ‘Across The Ditch’
Reading Time: 3 minutes This year I was fortunate enough to attend the New Zealand Defence […]
#DEFAus17 – Idea Pitchers Webinar, Mon 18 Sep 1900hrs AEST
Reading Time: 2 minutes Are you a creative or innovative ADF member? Have you been tracking […]
#DEFAUS17 Idea Pitch – Gamefying Individual Readiness
Reading Time: 7 minutes Some kinds of inevitable change are hard to notice, in the […]
Letters from Talisman Sabre: The Four Currencies of War
Reading Time: 8 minutes Introduction: Ex TALISMAN SABRE and the Beast The Australian military is about […]
DEF AUS 16 – The ‘where are they now’ special
Reading Time: 5 minutes Like all good TV sitcoms after the last episode has aired […]
Silos of Intellectual Excellence – A Response
Reading Time: 3 minutes Republished with permission from The Central Blue A response to Silos of […]
The Perils of Centralising Defence Innovation (and how to overcome them)
Reading Time: 4 minutes As innovation gains momentum throughout defense forces, a common theme seems to […]
Silos of Intellectual Excellence
Reading Time: 4 minutes Republished with permission from The Central Blue In this post, Emily Chapman makes the case […]
Enhancing Junior Leader Education Through Distributed Short Courses
Reading Time: 4 minutes BLUF. The Australian Army’s education of junior leaders is heavily focused on […]
47 Pieces of a Puzzle: Reflections on DEF Aus 2016 and the Written Word
Reading Time: 7 minutes The written word was the key weapon of the DEF Aus Forum […]
DEFx 2016 Next Steps: ADF Mentoring Groups
Reading Time: 8 minutes DEFx Australia 2016 was a forum on 8-9 Dec 16 where ranks up to Major […]
Reflections on the inaugural DEF Down under
Reading Time: 3 minutes From 08-09 December 2016, the inaugural Defence Entrepreneurs Forum (DEF) for the […]
Idea Pitch – Deployable Health and the Internet-of-Things: Ground Up Recommendations for the ADF’s Deployable e-Health Management Systems
Reading Time: 8 minutes Introduction ‘…compassion and technology aren’t necessarily incompatible, they can be mutually beneficial… […]
Idea Pitch – Humans Are More Important Than Hardware: Human Performance Optimisation in Army (Part 2)
Reading Time: 6 minutes This is the second of two blogs by Harry Moffitt in support […]
Idea Pitch – Posting Teams NOT People
Reading Time: 5 minutes Introduction Advances in the field of psychology are allowing experts to discern, […]
Idea Pitch – Fighting Power, Intellectual Mastery and the Challenge of Teaching (Part 2)
Reading Time: 6 minutes Introduction My first blog explored the reasons why I think Army is not realising […]
Idea Pitch – Future Vertical Lift: Shaping the Australian Defence Force’s Rotary Future
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction From the beginning of the Korean War, and in every major […]
Idea Pitch – Humans Are More Important Than Hardware: Human Performance Optimisation in Army (Part 1)
Reading Time: 6 minutes Introduction Human Performance (HP) describes efforts to maximise the potential of people […]
Idea Pitch – Fighting Power, Intellectual Mastery and the Challenge of Teaching (Part 1)
Reading Time: 5 minutes Introduction Throughout 2013 and 2014 I had the privilege to be an […]
Idea Pitch – Local Mentoring Nodes – Developing Human Capital
Reading Time: 6 minutes Introduction BLUF: A pilot Barracks Mentoring Group provides a model for joint […]
Idea Pitch – A Joint Professional Military Education Association
Reading Time: 2 minutes As a passionate advocate of Professional Military Education (PME), I commend the […]
Idea Pitch – An ADF Leadership Development Institute: Developing the Next Gen Leaders for the ADF and Australia
Reading Time: 6 minutes Introduction For years I have pondered about the way we train leadership […]
Idea Pitch – All Eyes (Ears and Tongues) on the Not-So-Far-East
Reading Time: 7 minutes Disclaimers: The figures used here are drawn from the most recent figures […]
Idea Pitch – Cultural Training in the Army
Reading Time: 7 minutes The Chasm: Physical and Human Terrain, Training and Reality We believe that Cultural […]
Idea Pitch – Battlefield Mobility and the Flyboard Air
Reading Time: 3 minutes Introduction On 30 April 2016 French jet ski champion Franky Zapata broke […]
Idea Pitch – Improving the Less Than Lethal Shotgun capability
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has fulfilled a wide range of tasks […]
Idea Pitch – A Cultural and Regional Training Continuum
Reading Time: 4 minutes Bottom Line Up Front – An Australian Regional, Culture and Language Familiarisation […]
The Postern Association – Framework (Part 4 of 4)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Thanks for the feedback so far on the Postern Association – it’s […]
The Postern Association – What’s In A Name? (Part 3 of 4)
Reading Time: 2 minutes There are many practicalities in choosing a name for a new association. […]
The Postern Association – The Vehicles for Intellectual Mastery (Part 2 of 4)
Reading Time: 5 minutes “To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they […]
The Postern Association (Part 1 of 4)
Reading Time: 2 minutes This year a small and dedicated team of Australian Army personnel has […]
Idea Pitch – Head Up, Eyes on Target, Hands on Weapon
Reading Time: 5 minutes Augmented Reality and the Future Australian Soldier The augmented reality (AR) game […]
Future Thinking – Recruiting the Uniformed Cyberwarrior
Reading Time: 3 minutes The recently released 2016 Defence White Paper prescribed a re-balancing of 1200 […]
Idea Pitch – Online Short Courses for Professional Military Education
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Problem – the ‘Fire Hose’ Approach to Education As the recent […]
Innovation Toolbox – Innovation: Why do we need it in the military? (Part 1 of 3)
Reading Time: 4 minutes The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable […]
Information – DEF Aus: What You Need to Know
Reading Time: 7 minutes Short of time and can’t read the whole post? BLUF: Here is […]
Information – Register for DEF[X] Aus
Reading Time: < 1 minute We have been talking about DEF Australia for a while now but […]
Professional Military Education and Innovation – An Historical Perspective
Reading Time: 3 minutes After recently embarking on a new phase of professional study I have […]
Letters from HAMEL Part 3: The Operational Level of War. What is it Good For?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Op HAMEL intervention is ending. With the Kamarian Armed Forces in retreat and the International […]
Letters from HAMEL Part 2: Just War and Tactical Ethics in a Brutal World
Reading Time: 4 minutes Many of you who read this will be tacticians. Congratulations, and good luck. […]
Letters from Hamel Part 1: The Duel, the Enemy and Psychological Mastery
Reading Time: 5 minutes I’ve just watched a Rehearsal of Concept (ROC) Drill on Ex HAMEL, and […]
How do you see the #FutureFight?
Reading Time: < 1 minute The next conflicts will be won by intelligent people with the courage to challenge […]
Junior Leadership in the Australian Army
Reading Time: 4 minutes Do we know why it works or are we doing what we’ve […]
Introducing DEF Australia
Reading Time: < 1 minute About Tom Tom McDermott is the Director of Activities for DEF Australia. […]
Fiction vs History: Enduring Features of the Future Fight
Reading Time: 3 minutes A properly schooled officer never arrives on a battlefield for the first time, even […]
Training to Innovate – Innovating to Win
Reading Time: 2 minutes How will you fight in the future? As a junior military commander […]
But I’m in the Military … How can I be an Entrepreneur?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Google ‘entrepreneur’ and what do you get? Besides the offers to study […]