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Analytics
Our analytics team helps you make faster and more informed decisions through application of advanced modelling, analysis and decision support, providing data-driven insights across complex defence and government problems.
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Experience
The analytics team at SPA Australia has a diverse range of skills and experience that enable innovative, impartial and thoughtful problem solving.
We deliver a mix of military, systems, technological and modelling expertise to translate the most difficult problems into simple, compelling and actionable analytical insights.
We have worked across all defence groups and services to deliver timely and trusted analysis, that has been recognised by senior officials and stakeholders of being at the highest standard.
Over the past seven years the team has grown a sovereign capability to support:
- Defence headquarters projects supporting force design and capability integration
- Networks and cyber effects
- Missile defence and battle management
- Autonomous capabilities and systems – from undersea through to surface, land and air
- Strategic space capability analysis and space operations
- Surface combatant capability projects and reviews
- Land combat and littoral capabilities
- Submarines and undersea warfare
Skills & expertise
Our team’s skills include a range of professional military experience, business and defence analytics, management sciences and systems engineering.
The skills and experience of the team include:
Domain & Operational Capability
- Space systems and technology
- Sensing and electronic warfare
- Marine engineering
- Logistics
- Industrial analysis
Strategy, Leadership & Workforce
- Senior defence management and decision support
- Program management and analysis
- Workforce analysis
- Commissioned officer training (Army, Navy and Air Force)
Operational Analysis & Decision Support
- Military operations analysis and mathematical sciences
- Campaign analysis
- Wargaming and experiment design
- Advanced modelling, simulation and analysis
- Risk analysis
- Cost analysis
Integrated Systems & Engineering
- Systems engineering
- Networks, command and control, and systems integration analysis
- Software and game development
Government Team of the Year
Government Lawyer of the Year
Rising Star of the Year
Wellness Advocate of the Year
Government Team of the Year
Law Firm Leaders of the Year
People
Anthony Ween
Principal Advisor
National Lead – Defence & Analytics
Sean King
Principal Advisor
Strategy and Markets Lead
David Brown CSM
Expert Advisor
Director – Maritime
Portia Wolf
Expert Advisor
Director – Space and Cyber
Scott Bradford
Expert Advisor
Director – Joint
Wayne Coulston
Expert Advisor
Director – Federal Government
Craig Johnstone
Military Operations Analyst
Marcelo Lagos
Military Operations Analyst
Tye Young
Operations Analyst
Joe Erskine
Military Operations Research Analyst
Norm McMurray
Program Analyst
Banjo Ward
Software Engineer
Benjamin Wharton
Software Engineer
Ella Pernice
Operations Research Analyst