innovation for major defence capabilities defence innovation forum 2014
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Innovation for Major Defence Capabilities Defence Innovation Forum 2014. Vice Admiral Peter Jones, AO, DSC, RAN Chief Capability Development Group. Topics Covered. Criticality of Innovation to Defence Capabilities Innovation success factors Innovation: A Key Variable - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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
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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
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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
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Nulka
Role of Innovation in Capability Development
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Bushmaster
Role of Innovation in Capability Development
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ANZAC ASMD
Role of Innovation in Capability Development
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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)
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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
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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
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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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Questions?