BIOGRAPHY
In June 2019 Major General Toohey was appointed Head Force Integration, within the Vice Chief of Defence Force Executive. Major General Kathryn Toohey joined the Australian Army in 1987, graduating from the Royal Military College – Duntroon in 1990. Major General Toohey was assigned to the Royal Australian Signals Corps and commenced her military career as a troop commander with the 2nd Signals Regiment. Major General Toohey went on to serve in the 7th Signals Regiment (Electronic Warfare), the 1st Brigade Headquarters and in the Strategic Operations Division of Headquarters Northern Command. Her other appointments have included a posting as an instructor at the Royal Military College – Army and as the Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General of Australia. In addition, Major General Toohey deployed for a 13 month period as a troop commander in the Force Communications Unit as part of the United Nations Transitional Authority – Cambodia. Major General Toohey has served in a range of staff appointments in the Capability Development Group (CDG) and Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG) and Force Development Group. In 2009, she served as the European Liaison Officer for CDG, representing the ADF at various multinational, NATO and European Union fora. In 2012, Major General Toohey was assigned directorship of the Capability and Technology Management College (CTMC), an advanced education college providing mid-ranking officers and public servants Masters-level education and training and preparing them for capability lifecycle leadership within CDG and CASG. This role was expanded to include administrative command of Australia’s Federation Guard; command of the Defence Force Chaplains’ College and responsibility for the Defence sponsored post-graduate students at UNSW Canberra. In 2013, Major General Toohey was appointed Director-General Integrated Capability Development (CDG), responsible for several and varied joint ADF projects, later serving as the Acting Head of Capability Systems within the group. In 2016, Major General Toohey took leave from the Army to assume the statutory appointment of Deputy Electoral Commissioner in the Australian Electoral Commission. Upon her return to the Army in 2017, Major General Toohey was appointed the Head of Army’s Land Capability Division. Major General Toohey holds an Executive Masters in Business Management, a Masters of Management in Defence Studies; a Graduate Diploma in Information Technology and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Hons). She is also a graduate of the Australian Joint Command and Staff College. In 2017, she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for her service to the Australian Defence Force in the fields of capability development and education.

BIOGRAPHY
Dr Gareth Parker is the Research Leader for Cyber and Signals Intelligence within the Defence Science and Technology Group. Gareth has had this role, under one title or another, since 2012, punctuated by a variety of other temporary roles, including having acted as chief of DSTG’s Cyber and Electronic Warfare Division on a number of occasions, and a three month acting appointment as chief of Land Division during 2016. During 2019 Gareth was temporarily appointed to the role of Program Leader Science Strategy and Policy, and in that role led the development and production of the 2020 More, Together Defence S&T strategy. Until recently, Gareth led the Next Generation Technologies Fund (NGTF) Cyber theme since its inception in 2016. A key NGTF Cyber partner has been CSIRO’s Data61 and Gareth spent three months seconded to Data61 in late 2016 to build that relationship. Gareth led the DSTG involvement in the 5-Eyes military research community’s ‘The Technical Cooperation Program’ (TTCP) C4I Group from 2018 to 2021 and prior to that, led Australia’s involvement in the TTCP ‘Cyber Strategic Challenge’, which proved to be a great success. Gareth graduated with an honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Adelaide in 1990 and was awarded a PhD from the University of South Australia in 2001 for his thesis entitled ‘Frequency Domain Restoration of Communications Signals’. He completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2017. Gareth has published and presented in communications signal processing and cyber. He is committed to strengthening Defence’s S&T capabilities through collaboration and is particularly passionate about growing a strong and enduring Cyber capability in Australia.