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SPOTLIGHT: Building a sovereign defence business, with Sarah Pavillard, CEO of ADROITA

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By: Robyn Tongol
SPOTLIGHT: Building a sovereign defence business, with Sarah Pavillard, CEO of ADROITA

In this episode of the Defence Connect Podcast, Sarah Pavillard, CEO of ADROITA, joins host Phillip Tarrant to discuss the firm’s delivery of engineering, professional services and business strategy consultancy to the defence industry.

In this episode of the Defence Connect Podcast, Sarah Pavillard, CEO of ADROITA, joins host Phillip Tarrant to discuss the firm’s delivery of engineering, professional services and business strategy consultancy to the defence industry.

  



Topics discussed in this podcast include:

  • ADROITA’s origin story and Pavillard’s transition from the Royal Australian Navy to a career as a business owner in the defence industry.
  • The company’s core services offering and how it helps defence firms build sovereign capability.
  • Managing emerging challenges and business risks.
  • Key changes to business models in the hybrid workplace environment.
  • ADROITA’s plans for the future, including its push to build a global footprint.

Enjoy the podcast,
The Defence Connect Team

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Episode 11: PODCAST: From hardware to algorithms – how Defence is embedding AI into warfare without surrendering human accountability
Episode 10: CONTESTED GROUND: Weak, vulnerable, backwater – Australia’s choice between strategic camps and managed decline
Episode 9: PODCAST: Undersea dominance – Australia charts the maritime future through autonomous systems and AUKUS innovation
Episode 8: PODCAST: Australian Army Cadets pathways, submarine industry growth and Australia’s fuel security
Episode 7: CONTESTED GROUND: The blind faith factor – why Australians trust an ADF they don’t understand
Episode 6: PODCAST: Defence preparedness, artificial intelligence productivity, and Australian industrial resilience
Episode 5: CONTESTED GROUND: Shots fired! Chinese missile test shatters Australia’s ‘fog of peace’, with Mike Pezzullo
Episode 4: SPOTLIGHT: Counter-drone innovation, directed energy and delivering operational outcomes, with EOS Defence Systems’ Lee Kormany
Episode 3: PODCAST: Strengthening security ties, Fiji defence pact and Australia’s counter-drone push
Episode 2: CONTESTED GROUND: Lessons from the UK in political polarisation, generational dislocation and intergenerational warfare, with Ben Dullroy, Bravo Delta Advisory