#DEFAUS19 Idea Pitch – Artificial Intelligence Report Assistance
Reading Time: < 1 minute Kenneth has an idea The use of machine learning to supplement the decision making and feedback process in promotion boards would maximise […]
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#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 issue in Australian society. The provision of a whole-of-ADF literacy […]
#DEFAUS19 Idea Pitch – EOD Machine Learning Autonomous Systems
Reading Time: < 1 minute David has an idea Countering Improvised Explosive Devices and Explosive Ordnance in support of manoeuvre is a labour intensive and risky task. […]
#DEFAUS19 Idea Pitch – Artificial Intelligence Data Management Assistant
Reading Time: < 1 minute James Bell has an idea The size of data has risen exponentially. It is becoming impossible for the human brain to correlate […]
#DEFAUS19 Idea Pitch – Project Army Asset Utilisation Platform
Reading Time: < 1 minute Nicholas has an idea Logistic transformation is being driven by technological innovations, changes in the conduct of warfare, lessons learned, and the […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – Mobile Armoured Container Command Posts
Reading Time: < 1 minute Luke Judd has an idea Units currently rely on tents for the operation of headquarters, command and control function in the field […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – Yoga#IdeaPitch
Reading Time: < 1 minute Peter Byrnes has an idea My idea is to raise an organic Yoga and Meditation instructor capability within the Australian Defence Force. […]
#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 Poseidon have been equipped to carry large and expensive SAR […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – Machine Learning and Maintenance
Reading Time: < 1 minute John Donald and David Baxter have an idea While Air Force progresses towards a fifth generation force, our software development is being […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – Hardened Logistics
Reading Time: < 1 minute Karl Jurat has an idea Since the commencement of the First Gulf War, many NATO countries have worked to harden the soft […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – Rethinking Maps
Reading Time: < 1 minute Tingting Luo has an idea My idea is based on the use of maps as the basic tool to navigation. The evolution […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – Vehicle Camouflage Kits
Reading Time: < 1 minute Jason Veitch has an idea Defence vehicle camouflage equipment is made ad-hoc; there is currently no standard of manufacture or method […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – Gilded Dislocation – A Mentoring Practice
Reading Time: < 1 minute Cassandra Walters has an idea I believe that the mentoring system in Army is not broken but has cracks. We focus on […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – LOGBOTs: Unmanned Logistic Vehicle Swarms
Reading Time: < 1 minute Jacob Choi has an idea Why should combat service support remain aggregated and secured in manned logistic nodes? Swarms of Unmanned Logistic Vehicles […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – Language Capability Within Combat Brigades
Reading Time: < 1 minute Leigh Brown has an idea Whether interacting with partners, civilians or adversaries the ability to communicate in someone else’s language and empathise […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – GoKymando
Reading Time: < 1 minute Kym Whittaker has an idea GoKymando underwear was developed to support good personal hygiene practices for soldiers in the field and on […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – VBS LHD Amphibious Simulation Trainer
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ben Montgomery has an idea There is currently no collective or continuation means of training without the deployment of the LHD with […]
#DEFAus18 Idea Pitch – 3D Rapid Prototyping
Reading Time: < 1 minute Steven Simpson has an idea The ability to 3D print almost anything is enabling diverse entities to produce items with huge time […]
#DEFAUS17 IDEA PITCH – THE MILITARY MINDFULNESS APP
Reading Time: 2 minutes You are a physically strong, focussed and resilient individual. You know how to maintain and grow your physical health but how do […]
#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 get there. “It is not the strongest species that survive, […]
#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 to innovate just to stay in the same place, let […]
#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 with a mid-sized economy–has depended on a small, highly professional […]
#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 the next step is clear. Future resource scarcity and increasing […]
#DEFAUS17 IDEA PITCH – PLUGGING THE GAP
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction Voice communications is essential to effective Command and Control (C2) in the Australian Defence Force (ADF). In the deployed environment, Secret […]
#DEFAUS17 IDEA PITCH – Electrifying the Force
Reading Time: 4 minutes Exercise TALISMAN SABRE 2017 (TS17) brought the most advanced technology of Australia and its global partners to Shoalwater Bay in a spectacle […]
#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 inherently risky activities which the military manages by conducting rigorous […]
#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 tool traditionally utilised by civilian organisations to identify the strengths […]
#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 are beginning to surface in the wild. The benefits of […]
#DEFAUS17 IDEA PITCH – Military Ethics Education Playing Cards
Reading Time: 4 minutes Ethics Ethics or moral philosophy is concerned with questions of how people ought to act, and the search for a definition of […]
#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 for future conflict. These thinkers are professional soldiers who solve […]
#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 in a way that is objective, tangible or measurable. The […]
#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 stress disorder? A tangible aspect that can be understood and […]
#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 Cove, with effort being made to draw attention to 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 the platform that will discover it.” BIll Barnett, Stanford University […]
#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 patients with severe non-compressible junctional, pelvic, and abdominal trauma, can […]
#DEFAUS17 Idea Pitch – The Digital Vuee Tuee
Reading Time: 4 minutes We live in a connected world, with access to endless amounts of information at our fingertips. We connect with friends, family, local […]
#DEFAUS17 Idea Pitch – Joint Capability Education Proposal
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Royal Australian Navy, Australian Army and Royal Australian Air Force are worldwide competitors in strategy, technology and serious contributors to global […]
#DEFAUS17 Idea Pitch – What about a Defence University?
Reading Time: 4 minutes “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” – Nelson Mandela The ADF is committed to […]
#DEFAus17 – Pragmatic Innovation for Military Strength
Reading Time: 2 minutes BLUF: Access #DEFAus17 Booklet here. Introduction – Who we are There is a culture of innovation and professional curiosity running through the veins of […]
#DEFAUS17 Idea Pitch – Gamefying Individual Readiness
Reading Time: 7 minutes Some kinds of inevitable change are hard to notice, in the same way that while walking through a forest the type […]
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… machine oddly enough may be medicine’s best friend’ Dr. Atul […]
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 of his DEFx Idea Pitch. In the first blog, Harry […]
Idea Pitch – Posting Teams NOT People
Reading Time: 5 minutes Introduction Advances in the field of psychology are allowing experts to discern, more accurately than ever, the characteristics of an individual’s personality. […]
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 the full intellectual potential of the personnel in our force. […]
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 theatre of conflict since, the battlefield helicopter has proven its […]
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 in contributing to organisational objectives. HP is a complex, multi-dimensional […]
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 instructor at RMC-D. During this period I watched hundreds of […]
Idea Pitch – Local Mentoring Nodes – Developing Human Capital
Reading Time: 6 minutes Introduction BLUF: A pilot Barracks Mentoring Group provides a model for joint professional military education, to engender cultural change and facilitate mentoring […]
Idea Pitch – A Joint Professional Military Education Association
Reading Time: 2 minutes As a passionate advocate of Professional Military Education (PME), I commend the efforts of the Australian Army personnel who have established 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 in the Australian Army and the Australian Defence Force (ADF). […]
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 attained from education administrators, and the Manager Languages – Army. […]
Idea Pitch – Cultural Training in the Army
Reading Time: 7 minutes The Chasm: Physical and Human Terrain, Training and Reality We believe that Cultural Intelligence (CQ) is not a desirable capability – it is […]
Idea Pitch – Battlefield Mobility and the Flyboard Air
Reading Time: 3 minutes Introduction On 30 April 2016 French jet ski champion Franky Zapata broke the world record for the longest hoverboard flight on his […]
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 across the spectrum of conflict and military operations. This is […]
Idea Pitch – A Cultural and Regional Training Continuum
Reading Time: 4 minutes Bottom Line Up Front – An Australian Regional, Culture and Language Familiarisation Program (RCLF) The Australian Army’s ability to operate in complex […]
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 Pokémon GO was recently released in Australia, and became an […]
Idea Pitch – Online Short Courses for Professional Military Education
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Problem – the ‘Fire Hose’ Approach to Education As the recent Ryan Review noted, the Australian Army’s current system of Professional […]