ABSTRACT
Along with technology, the nature of warfighting is changing, and the emerging 5th generation warfare paradigm builds upon the domain fusion seen in the 4th generation. This featured the emergence of non-traditional actors with hybrid and asymmetric conflicts that blurred boundaries between combatants and made use of civilian IT advancement to conduct information and cyber warfare against military and government vulnerabilities. In this 5th generation, network-centric has evolved into network intrinsic, where rapidly deployable, edge clouds and DevSecOps-enabled software and configuration logistics systems can support dense fusion of IoT and edge sensors with agile “code to combat” capabilities and continuous improvement rigour built-in. This tactic, combined with big data provides situational awareness, complex decision support and the mechanisms for an increasingly autonomous theatre that can address rapid changes in warfighting support and enablement. This can deliver a safer and more efficient outcome with traditional quality and engineering that embeds CATO, assurance and accreditation processes within the ability to respond and go faster, better. Confucius informs us, “Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember; involve me and I will understand”, and in this presentation our team will tell and show how we have been involving Defence teams in enabling the ADO to move forward and confidently step into the 5th generation arena.

BIOGRAPHY
Markham is an IT veteran of many seasons, who has designed and developed global equity trading and margin lending systems as the technical lead, implemented distributed, global services applications, and driven digital innovation in government operations and healthcare through industry-wide integration and digital and business transformation initiatives. Moving back from Europe to Australia to support family changes he traded investment banking IT for becoming deeply involved in public sector enterprise and industry transformation programmes. Through lead roles as an enterprise architect on both the client and provider teams he worked through several major agencies, as a consultant, business transformation leader to managing the overall customer engagements as the account general manager for an outsourced cluster in the Australian national security context. With a background in finance, government, defence and healthcare he has been actively involved in driving outcomes supported by mission-critical applications, complex systems engineering, industry-wide interoperability and integration, information security, enterprise architecture, IT strategy, governance and operational change and enablement. He has co-authored global architecture methods, presented at industry conferences on service-oriented architecture and cloud security. As an early adopter of many emergent technologies, the ability to abstract software and hardware to scale and harden systems, he seen a long association with VMware in driving innovative change before joining our Strategy & Advisory practice. His interest areas are pursuing IT operational excellence, solving problems, and developing good plans for making human information systems more effective, efficient, sustainable, and net benefit positive. Markham has a degree in the earth sciences, post graduate qualifications in business informatics and is currently studying for a master’s in architecture, majoring in the fusion of sustainable building, societal and technology systems.