SPOTLIGHT: Testing for tomorrow – how Nova Systems is building Australia’s sovereign T&E backbone

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By: Noemie Veñegas

In this episode of the Defence Connect Spotlight podcast, host Steve Kuper sits down with Tim Grabert, Michael Mulquiney and Chris White to discuss the increasing importance of Australia’s test and evaluation capabilities.

In this episode of the Defence Connect Spotlight podcast, host Steve Kuper sits down with Tim Grabert, Michael Mulquiney and Chris White to discuss the increasing importance of Australia’s test and evaluation capabilities.

The group discuss the importance of contemporary test and evaluation (T&E) capabilities as outlined in the government’s 2023 Defence Industry Development Strategy and the role it will play in shaping the future of Australia’s defence capabilities.

They also discuss:

  • The opportunities AUKUS Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 will present for Australia’s T&E community.
  • The critical role of workforce development, standardisation and professionalisation to keep pace with the modernisation of the Australian Defence Force.
  • The range of challenges emerging as a result of the suite of next-generation technologies already transforming the “joint force”.

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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