INTRODUCTION

Beadwindow Pty Ltd is an independent Australian company with a professional background in naval operations, Defence capability development, learning and development, and naval sustainment.

There is no-one better placed to advocate the seagoing warfighter when it comes to setting the conditions for new or upgraded combat systems.

Beadwindow recognises naval imagination is constrained by budget-funded legacy thinking, and obstructed by politics and process.

This often leads to ‘more of the same’ when soliciting industry for new or upgraded naval combat systems. The Red Team always lose. Pursuing high-risk options are a fantasy, despite the potential pay-off. Everything is a trade-off.

Very rarely is the sea-going warfighting sailor or officer consulted.

We seek to create a vicious harmony for war at sea. We bring a healthy dose of realism, pragmatism and Pareto to what the warfighter needs.

We call-out the obstructions to progress, which can be uncomfortable and confronting for some; then resolve issues to get what is needed.

Beadwindow Core Service Areas

We concentrate on three core services when advocating the seagoing warfighter’s needs

1

Ensuring all parts of a business development, engineering or project team understand the context of a naval combat system project

2

Ensuring appropriate support is established ashore to back the warfighter using a new combat system at sea

3

Ensuring an appropriate learning and development strategy is implemented to maximise operator and maintainer use of a new combat system.

Points of Difference

We recruit commercially-astute ex-Defence personnel having particular skills and experience in the deployment, use and sustainment of warship combat systems. Operational experience is drawn from service across Asia, the Asia-Pacific, the Indian Ocean and Middle East. Sea combat and peacetime activities across the full spectrum of naval operations are familiar to us.

Our team have many and varied vocational and university qualifications, including:

• Naval information technologies
• Weapons and ordnance engineering
• Systems engineering
• Hydrography and oceanography
• Training and development
• Commercial management
• Project management, and
• Law

Collectively we have been collected many forms of professional and industry recognition, including:

• Royal Australian Navy’s Sword of Excellence and Sydney-Emden Prize
• Australian Defence Force operational commendations
• Anthill Australia’s Top 50 Cool Company, and Smart 100
• Fellowships of the Australian Institute of Management, and Institute of Learning Professionals
• Chartered Engineer

Combined with our myriad experience afloat and ashore, this gives an edge in helping you understand and succeed in:

• C4I systems operations across the Detect-to-Engage sequence
• Naval and joint operations planning and conduct
• Defence maritime capability development documentation
• Defence maritime system sustainment practice and project engineering
• The systems-based approach to Defence learning and training system, and
• Defence procurement, tendering and deal negotiation behaviours