SPOTLIGHT: Driving efficiency and security in Australia’s defence industry, with Dassault Systèmes’ Francois Mathieu and Shaun Edsall

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By: Robyn Tongol

In this episode of the Defence Connect Spotlight podcast, host Stephen Kuper is joined by Dassault Systèmes’ Francois Mathieu and Shaun Edsall to unpack how the company is delivering efficiency and security in Australia’s defence sector.

In this episode of the Defence Connect Spotlight podcast, host Stephen Kuper is joined by Dassault Systèmes’ Francois Mathieu and Shaun Edsall to unpack how the company is delivering efficiency and security in Australia’s defence sector.

  • The trio begin the podcast unpacking the history of Dassault Systèmes and how the company has grown to 24,000 employees over 40 years, providing innovative solutions to allied militaries across the globe.
  • They then examine the company’s model-based system engineering program to de-risk critical projects, accelerate time frames, and create reusable frameworks for future deliverables.
  • The podcast continues by analysing how navies across the globe are grasping onto the concept of modularisation, before examining how the company is collaborating with primes, the supply chain, and academia to drive efficiency and security.

Enjoy the podcast,
The Defence Connect team

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Listen to previous episodes of the Defence Connect podcast:

Episode 11: CONTESTED GROUND: Weak, vulnerable, backwater – Australia’s choice between strategic camps and managed decline
Episode 10: PODCAST: Undersea dominance – Australia charts the maritime future through autonomous systems and AUKUS innovation
Episode 9: PODCAST: Australian Army Cadets pathways, submarine industry growth and Australia’s fuel security
Episode 8: CONTESTED GROUND: The blind faith factor – why Australians trust an ADF they don’t understand
Episode 7: PODCAST: Defence preparedness, artificial intelligence productivity, and Australian industrial resilience
Episode 6: CONTESTED GROUND: Shots fired! Chinese missile test shatters Australia’s ‘fog of peace’, with Mike Pezzullo
Episode 5: SPOTLIGHT: Counter-drone innovation, directed energy and delivering operational outcomes, with EOS Defence Systems’ Lee Kormany
Episode 4: PODCAST: Strengthening security ties, Fiji defence pact and Australia’s counter-drone push
Episode 3: CONTESTED GROUND: Lessons from the UK in political polarisation, generational dislocation and intergenerational warfare, with Ben Dullroy, Bravo Delta Advisory
Episode 2: PODCAST: Defence Industry Development Strategy, Defence reform and Australians fighting in Ukraine

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