SPOTLIGHT: AUKUS Pillar II – how technology sharing is strengthening our national security, with FAS Stephen Moore and Dr Nigel McGinty

Joint-capabilities

18 December 2024

By: Robyn Tongol

In this episode of the Defence Connect ADSTAR series, Stephen Moore, First Assistant Secretary AUKUS Advanced Capabilities, and Dr Nigel McGinty, Defence Science and Technology Group Chief Technology Officer – Science Strategy, Communications and International Engagement, join Liam Garman to unpack how technology sharing arrangements improve our collective AUKUS security.

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Moore and Garman begin the podcast discussing the strategic rationale for AUKUS Pillar II, and how sharing insights into AI, electronic warfare, undersea warfare, hypersonics, quantum and cyber make the AUKUS alliance stronger than the sum of its parts.

They then discuss how the three governments are enabling technology transfer, including International Traffic in Arms Regulations reform and improved governance frameworks, before analysing efforts on how the three nations can energise their combined industrial base.

Dr McGinty wraps up the podcast detailing how AUKUS Pillar II provides unique asymmetric advantages for the Australian Defence Force, and in particular, the role of cyber and information on the modern battlefield.