3.6b - Certa Cito: Plan CADUCEUS - Royal Australian Corps of Signals - Workforce Remediation and Reform Program
Tracks
Track 2
| Thursday, November 12, 2020 |
| 2:00 PM - 2:55 PM |
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Sponsored By:
Department Of Defence
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Speaker
COL Ed Wunsch
Commandant
Defence Command Support Training Centre
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Abstract
Plan CADUCEUS is the face of Royal Australian Corps of Signals (RA Sigs) workforce remediation and modernisation effort – the effort required to ensure Army’s CISEW and Cyber capability is Ready Now and Future Ready.
Army is investing in RA Sigs reform to address the information age ‘people challenge’ in a setting characterised by rapidly changing technology, dynamic and diverse threats operating in the information domain, and a pressured labour market where the fight for STEM talent is fierce. Hear Colonel Ed Wunsch, Army’s sponsor for RA Sigs people capability reflect on the challenges and lessons learnt in the first year of Plan CADUCEUS: recruiting and retention, training modernisation, workforce and organisation reform.
Army is investing in RA Sigs reform to address the information age ‘people challenge’ in a setting characterised by rapidly changing technology, dynamic and diverse threats operating in the information domain, and a pressured labour market where the fight for STEM talent is fierce. Hear Colonel Ed Wunsch, Army’s sponsor for RA Sigs people capability reflect on the challenges and lessons learnt in the first year of Plan CADUCEUS: recruiting and retention, training modernisation, workforce and organisation reform.
Biography
Colonel Wunsch was appointed Commandant Defence Command Support Training Centre in 2019. Part of his role as Commandant is Employment Category Sponsor for the Royal Australian Corps of Signals, and Joint Training Authority for Communications and Information Systems and Signals Intelligence. Since commissioning to the Royal Australian Corps of Signals in 1997 he has had multiple postings to the 1st and 3rd Brigade’s in various staff and command roles culminating in Command of the 3rd Combat Signal Regiment from 2016-2017. His career has included postings within Communications and Information Systems, Signals Intelligence and Electronic Warfare, Cyberspace Operations and Force Design. Colonel Wunsch has had multiple postings to Army Headquarters and was the inaugural Deputy Director Cyber Land within Vice Chief of Defence Force Group in 2013-2015.
Colonel Wunsch is a graduate of the Australian Defence Force Academy, Royal Military College Duntroon and Australian Command & Staff College. He has been awarded Bachelor and Masters degrees in Science in Information Systems and Information Technology respectively, and he holds a Masters in Arts in Strategy and Management. An avid reader and watcher of science fiction, Colonel Wunsch is focused on preparing Defence for future threats and evolving operating environments.
