innovation for major defence capabilities defence innovation forum 2014
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Innovation for Major Defence CapabilitiesDefence Innovation Forum 2014
Vice Admiral Peter Jones, AO, DSC, RAN
Chief Capability Development Group
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Topics Covered
• Criticality of Innovation to Defence Capabilities
• Innovation success factors
• Innovation: A Key Variable
• Role of innovation in capability development
• Challenges for innovation
• What we have learnt
• Current innovation programs
• Spectrum of Defence innovation
Capability Development Group
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Criticality of Innovation to Defence Capabilities
• Superior decision-making based on better intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance
• Better training or professional mastery
• More capable and networked systems
• Greater use of Innovation
Capability Development Group
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Innovation Success Factors
• Awareness of context;
• quality of innovating concept;
• continuous collaboration
• delivering innovation project outcomes
• confidence in innovation-to-capability realisation
• long-term commitment
• manage risk rather than avoid it
Capability Development Group
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Innovation: A Key Variable
• Sources of innovation
– Overseas
• Alliances
– Domestic
• Industry
• Academia
• DSTO etc
Capability Development Group
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Ikara
Role of Innovation in Capability Development
Capability Development Group
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Jindalee OHR
Role of Innovation in Capability Development
Capability Development Group
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Nulka
Role of Innovation in Capability Development
Capability Development Group
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Bushmaster
Role of Innovation in Capability Development
Capability Development Group
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ANZAC ASMD
Role of Innovation in Capability Development
Capability Development Group
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Challenges for Innovation
• Coordination and integration across programs- Alignment of disparate program stakeholders with specific interests- Follow development of ideas from ‘concepts’ to ‘systems’
• Flexibility in Defence capability funding
• Inherent tension between innovation and risk- Risk management
• Linking end-users to innovation base
• Inclusion of Australian and International academia
• Generation of innovative new ideas- Defence Innovation Forum (DIF)
Capability Development Group
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What we have learnt
Defence innovation needs:
1. Sustainable innovation market- reliable business opportunities (genuine, enduring user needs)
- long-term industry planning and investments
2. Solid innovation base- industry, academia, cooperative research organisations
- R&D capabilities and capacity
- innovation culture
3. Organisational structure and processes to link innovation base to users- early engagement
- understanding of capability needs
- ongoing collaboration
Capability Development Group
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• Capability Technology Demonstrator (CTD) - DSTO
• Unsolicited Innovative Proposals (UIP) Scheme - DSTO
• Rapid Prototyping, Dev’t and Evaluation (RPDE) - CDG
• Defence Materials Technology Centre (DMTC)- Dept. of Industry, DMO
• Diggerworks – DMO
• Defence Innovation Realisation Fund (DIRF)
• PIC Development Fund (PICDF)
• Senior Innovation Steering Committee - Project Initiation and Review Board (PIRB)
Current Innovation Programs
Capability Development Group
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Spectrum Of Defence Innovation
Technology maturityLow High
Sys
tem
mat
urity
Low
Hig
h
DMTC
Digger-works
R&D
RPDEPIC DF
CTD
DIF
PIRB (Oversight)DIRF (Fund)
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