Kick your feet up and stay a while.
And so when Andrew and I founded Luminact, we knew we would be taking our company to Land Forces. With such a huge investment in holding even the simplest stall at the conference, we knew we really needed to capture attention and make our capabilities as a services provider known.
In September 2020, the Honourable Melissa Price MP (Minister for Defence Industry) announced the ASDEFCON and Defence Procurement Review. The goal of the review is to advance and strengthen how Defence does business with industry as part of the broader Defence Transformation Strategy. ASDEFCON is the government’s Australian Standard for Defence Contracting, used for a range or procurement activities from …
The latest update, Lead the Way: Defence Transformation Strategy, takes all of the rumblings about an agile, responsive Defence Force and begins to seriously crystallise them into tangible and measurable actions. We should be expecting these updates by now. From the viewpoint of a professional services SME facing into Defence, there are some potential opportunities we believe important to keep …
The Australian Generic Soldier Architecture (AS GSA) is a framework that, when defined and implemented well, will future-proof the capabilities of the Australian soldier borne systems. A “generic architecture” takes a look at the multitudes of different systems a soldier uses. Including sensors, communications, displays, networking, and weaponry. Each of these component parts have their own compatibilities, power needs, and information inputs and outputs. The soldier, meanwhile, is constrained by how much they can carry and effectively utilise. …
Eliza is Luminact’s Agile Transformation Coach. She delivers and manages digital and agile transformation for large organisations and complex projects. With 15+ years experience, Eliza has developed a deep understanding and expertise for facilitating change for Luminact’s clients. We sat down with Eliza recently to deep dive into what “Agile” really means. It might not mean what you think it does. How much of Agile is methodology, how …
Luminact was on hand for the 2020 Singapore Airshow at the Changi Exhibition Centre last week. Despite a subdued turnout, and some notable exhibitors absent, the show went ahead with enhanced health precautions to ensure the threat of the Corona virus was managed. The largest airshow in Asia, Singapore is a hub for local and international aviation and defence businesses …
This blog post provides a brief review of contemporary additive manufacturing processes that can be used to augment defence supply chains and improve the product development lifecycle. Additive Manufacturing (AM) or ‘3D printing’ has been around for a while now, and advances in technology have brought the technology into the mainstream with many hobbyists having desktop 3D printers capable of …
About 10 years ago my husband and I decided to start a dragon boat racing crew. We’d been part of some of the most competitive crews, both locally and internationally and we’d enjoyed every minute of a team environment. When we arrived back in Australia, we decided to set up a club and build a crew from the ground up. …
Luminact and 2iC are partnering to help shape the future of technology integration across Defence and industry. Luminact is excited to announce a partnership with UK-based 2iC Limited (2iC), to provide a united capability that combines Luminact’s system engineering expertise with 2iC’s extensive suite of integration software and tools. 2iC is an agile company that develops software to securely and …
Celebrating their second birthday, Luminact attended the 2018 Land Forces conference entering the SME arena with a bang. The team had the opportunity to introduce Sergei, the newest member of the Luminact team. Sergei was built from the ground up by our highly experienced team, with most of the hands-on work completed by the Luminact Directors, David Abel and Andrew …
