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The Briefing Room by Beaten Zone Venture Partner: hosted by Peta Ellis with Sean Singleton (U.S.Venture Partner).Conversations with founders, veterans, and investors shaping Australia’s Defence and nationalsecurity innovation ecosystem.Season One features voices from Beaten…
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She Wrote the Contracting Playbook the Pentagon Uses Today. Here's What She Thinks Australia Is Getting Wrong. Lauren Dailey - Senior Manager, Deloitte GPS | Former Acquisition Lead, DIU (opens the original)
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Lauren Dailey started her career inside Army acquisition headquarters at the Pentagon, moved to Silicon Valley in 2015 as the acquisition lead at the Defense Innovation Unit - where she invented the Commercial Solutions Opening, the contracting mechanism that put Shield AI, Anduril, and others on contract at the speed of a startup - then stepped into the COO seat at Second Front Systems before moving to Deloitte GPS where she now helps defence clients redesign how they work with commercial techn
Charlie McGillis in The Briefing Room, Episode 26 | Space is Contested: What the Threat Picture Actually Looks Like (opens the original)
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Charlie McGillis is a retired USAF Colonel with a 26-year career, finishing as Director of Intelligence for the 14th Air Force (Space), where she led intelligence efforts supporting Air Force space forces and national objectives. She brings more than 30 years in defence and space leadership, including driving advances in space simulation and operator training across military and commercial sectors. Charlie now serves as a Non-Executive Director on the Zendir board, sits on the BZV Investment Com
Dr Craig Cummings in The Briefing Room, Episode 25 | Moonshots Capital, Austin and the Series A Ecosystem (opens the original)
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Dr Craig Cummings, Co-Founder and General Partner at Moonshots Capital, joins Peta Ellis and Sean Singleton for a conversation spanning 30 years of defence, academia, entrepreneurship and venture capital. Craig served 17 years as a U.S. Army Intelligence Officer, deployed to Afghanistan with JSOC and earned the Bronze Star, and co-founded two companies, including RideScout, which was acquired by Mercedes. He then built Moonshots Capital into one of the most active dual-use VC firms in the United
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