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The Indo-Pacific is shrinking in all the wrong ways. Warning times compress. Grey-zone activity grows. And most nations ...
10/12/2025

The Indo-Pacific is shrinking in all the wrong ways.
Warning times compress.
Grey-zone activity grows.
And most nations are still flying blind between episodic patrols.

In Part 2 of the episode, Todd Crowley continues the conversation with Colin Gunn to straight at the missing layer:
▪️ Coast Guard–led, long-endurance Group 3 aircraft feeding a sovereign, federated cloud.
▪️ Presence without escalation.
▪️ Insights without surrendering control.

This is the shift leaders keep talking about but haven’t yet connected end-to-end.

Take-away: See a concrete model for closing the maritime awareness gap across the Indo-Pacific.

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Most leaders are still planning for a war that looks like the last one.They focus on massive platforms and decades-long ...
03/12/2025

Most leaders are still planning for a war that looks like the last one.

They focus on massive platforms and decades-long timelines.
Meanwhile, our sea lines are vulnerable today.

In today's episode, Todd Crowley sits down with Colin Gunn, Regional President at Delta Black Aerospace Australia. They break down:
- Why White Hull operations are the new strategic edge.
- How to get 28+ hours of surveillance endurance for a fraction of the cost.
- The logistics-first design that keeps these assets flying in contested zones.

This is about actionable resilience.
It’s about using para-public agencies to do what Defence can’t do quickly enough.

Don’t let your strategic outlook get stuck in 2020.
Catch up. Stay ahead.

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02/12/2025

The Indo-Pacific is too big for episodic patrols.
Compressed warning times. Shortfalls in kit. Defence budgets tightening at an awkward moment.

In tomorrow's episode, host Todd Crowley sits down with Colin Gunn, Regional President at Delta Black Aerospace Australia (Indo-Pacific), to explore how Quad nations can practically lift maritime security.​

The conversation centres on pairing long-endurance uncrewed aircraft like the RAIDER 330 (28+ hour endurance, 1,600+ nautical miles) with a sovereign federated cloud, so partners share what matters without surrendering control.​​ It also tracks a clear policy signal: On January 7th, 2025, at the National War College, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth detailed the transformation of defense procurement to get capability into warfighters' hands faster.

In Part 1, Colin Gunn unpacks why Coast Guard should lead: it's non-provocative, leverages existing infrastructure, and builds trust through guardianship rather than military projection. He explains the platform's inside-out design mission bay first, fuselage second and why Group 3 systems at Group 2 prices unlock persistent maritime domain awareness across the Indo-Pacific at scale.​​

Episode drops tomorrow - add us to your queue.

What if the carbon behind your batteries and filters quietly shaped your defence plan?In Part 2 of this episode, Todd Cr...
26/11/2025

What if the carbon behind your batteries and filters quietly shaped your defence plan?

In Part 2 of this episode, Todd Crowley continues the conversation with Mark Livings of Sweet Atoms. They unpack super activated carbon for energy storage, hard carbon anodes that lift capacity, and flexible glassy carbon coatings that handle extreme heat, corrosion and noxious gases.

From batteries and grid storage through to rebreathers, marine coatings, stealth effects and hospital filtration, they trace where these carbons already sit in energy, defence and health – and what happens as demand keeps surging with the renewables transition and electrification.

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Honourable mentions: Mark Gustowski, Sweet Atoms, Pete McCrystal,
CSIRO, Mandalay Venture Partners , TenNine VC., QUT Creative Enterprise Australia, Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG), NVIDIA

25/11/2025

Super activated carbon sounds niche until you realise it drives how much energy a battery can actually hold.

In Part 2 of this episode, Todd Crowley continues the conversation with Mark Livings of Sweet Atoms, unpacking the carbon materials that shape Australia’s energy and defence future, starting with super activated carbon carrying roughly two-thirds of a footy field of surface area in a single gram, then moving into hard carbon and glassy coatings later in the episode.

They draw a straight line between material sovereignty and capability: when high-performance carbon is offshore or unreliable, filtration systems, batteries and platform protection all become harder, including for AUKUS partners.

Take-away: if you don’t have a plan for sovereign carbon, you don’t have a plan for sovereign energy.

Episode drops tomorrow - add Intelligence; Optimised Podcast to your queue.

Honourable mentions: Mark Gustowski, Sweet Atoms Pete McCrystal,
CSIRO, Mandalay Venture Partners , TenNine VC., QUT Creative Enterprise Australia, Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG), NVIDIA

Australia is entering a carbon crunch. Most leaders aren’t ready for what happens when battery-grade carbon tightens acr...
19/11/2025

Australia is entering a carbon crunch.
Most leaders aren’t ready for what happens when battery-grade carbon tightens across the Indo-Pacific.

Agri waste could change the whole equation - from grid stability to AUKUS supply chains.
But only if we think differently about where our materials come from, and who controls the processing.

Today's episode, host Todd Crowley and Sweet Atoms co-founder Mark Livings breaks down the hidden dependencies, the risks we’ve normalised, and the opportunities sitting in plain sight for regional Australia. He explains how waste streams - sugarcane, coffee grounds, general biomass - can become high-purity carbons that anchor everything from sensors to next-gen energy storage.

Take-away: If you plan energy, defence or infrastructure, tomorrow’s episode gives you a head-start others will miss.

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Honourable mentions: Mark Gustowski, Sweet Atoms, Pete McCrystal,
CSIRO, Mandalay Venture Partners , TenNine VC., QUT Creative Enterprise Australia, Abacus Fisheries

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17/11/2025

Carbon sits in everything - our bodies, our phones, our water systems, our vehicles, our batteries.
We rely on it constantly and rarely think about it.

Yet Australia and the wider Indo-Pacific are running short of the high-quality carbons that make energy storage, mobility and defence systems work.
Solar growth, renewables, portable devices and military platforms are all accelerating demand faster than supply chains can keep pace.

In tomorrow's episode of Intelligence Optimised Podcast, Todd Crowley speaks with Mark Livings, Co-Founder & Managing Director of Sweet Atoms - a team turning agricultural waste into high-performance carbon for batteries, coatings, filtration and extreme-environment applications. Part 1 looks directly at that dependence and explores what real sovereignty could look like for Australia and the region.

For defence and energy planners, the message is sharp: without sovereign carbon, there’s no sovereign energy. And without sovereign energy, there’s no sovereign compute, mobility or industry.

Episode drops tomorrow - add us to your queue.

Across the country, too many young blokes are drifting - isolated, undertrained, and disconnected from purpose. The impa...
11/11/2025

Across the country, too many young blokes are drifting - isolated, undertrained, and disconnected from purpose. The impact reaches far beyond personal wellbeing: it shapes workforce readiness, leadership depth, and national security.

In this episode of Intelligence Optimised, host Todd Crowley speaks with Lachlan Stuart, founder of The Man That Can Project and former pro rugby player, on how purpose, accountability and mateship rebuild capability - from the individual level to the national one.

They unpack a practical “resilience loop”:

👉 Define your North Star
👉 Make the hard choice that moves you towards it
👉 Stack small wins until confidence catches up

For leaders, the takeaway is clear: create training grounds, not waiting rooms. Pair young men with mentors. Build small, repeatable challenges that grow competence and pride.

🎧 Listen now to see how personal resilience translates into stronger crews, safer teams and a more capable Australia.

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Honourable mentions: Steve Biddulph, Brother's Rugby Club

10/11/2025

Too many young men in Australia are growing up without clear role models, structure, or a real sense of what becoming an adult means.

A welfare safety net has quietly turned into a web - catching potential before it ever tests itself.

What we’ve lost is training, not talent. The skills that used to be taught through work, mentors, and small failures are now delayed - or never learned.

In tomorrow’s episode, Lachlan Stuart- founder of The Man That Can Project sat down with Todd Crowley to link personal resilience to national resilience - how agency, community and honest audits turn “undertrained” men into contributors.

If you lead policy, workforce or social programs and you’re not hearing this story, you’re planning with gaps.

Episode drops tomorrow - add us to your queue.

03/11/2025

If Australia doesn’t build its own AI backbone, others will.
And they’ll decide what happens to our data.

Tomorrow’s episode looks at what happens if we don’t.
Who gets first rights over our data?
Who controls the infrastructure we rely on every day?

Joining with Todd Crowley in this episode is Pete McCrystal - an expert in technology infrastructure. He's been inside the systems that keep our digital world online. In Vaxa Bureau's Intelligence Optimised Podcast, they will unpack the Firmus Technologies - CDC - NVIDIA alliance, energy demand, and why sovereign compute now sits at the heart of national capability.

Practical takeaways for planners, CIOs, and policy leads shaping Australia’s digital future.

Episode drops tomorrow - add us to your queue.

Honourable mentions: Firmus Technologies, CDC, NVIDIA, Cloud Carrier, DeepSeek AI, AUKUS Forum, TAFEcyber

What does a sovereign Australia actually look like when every supply chain runs through someone else’s system?Now in par...
28/10/2025

What does a sovereign Australia actually look like when every supply chain runs through someone else’s system?

Now in part 2, the focus turns from capability mapping to ex*****on and strategy. Todd Crowley and Swaroop Tulsidas cut into the hard trade-offs:

• Rebuilding manufacturing where it counts - steel, defence tech, and critical minerals.
• Working with trusted partners across Southeast Asia instead of trying to “be everything to everyone”.
• Focusing capital and talent on areas where Australia can lead - robotics, AI + targeted manufacturing.
• Bridging that gap between today’s fragility and a future of real resilience.

If you shape policy, investment or industry strategy - this one matters.

Take-away: Resilience starts when we choose what to be great at, not what to copy.

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Honourable mentions: CSIRO, Aquila, Billy Jeremijenko, DroneShield, Ares Armaments, Hastings Deering, Sprint Venture Capital, RZ Resources, David Fraser, John Deere

27/10/2025

“Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst.”

Bridging the gap between the world we have and the one we need.

Australia’s resilience depends on how quickly we can move from intent to action - from plans to real capability.

As Swaroop Tulsidas puts it, everyone has a role: public or private, policy or delivery. The challenge is to unclog the machine so we can move faster and build the supply chains that will hold under pressure.

In part 2, the focus turns from capability mapping to ex*****on and strategy.

Swaroop Tulsidas and Todd Crowley examine what building true sovereign capability looks like when global supply chains tighten and political cycles shorten. They trace the long game - China’s 50-year rare-earths strategy and contrast it with how democracies like Australia must build strategic consistency through public-private partnerships, adaptive procurement and trusted friend-shoring.

Part 2 of the conversation drops tomorrow. Add Intelligence; Optimised Podcast to your queue.

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