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DMTC has confirmed the appointment of retired Air Marshal John Harvey AM to its board of directors at the 2019 annual general meeting.
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Harvey will join the board while maintaining his other current roles including as an advocate for the defence industry in NSW (appointed by the NSW government in June 2016).
Harvey's Australian Defence Force career spanned more than 30 years, highlighted by senior roles managing Australia’s F-35 acquisition and later serving as Chief Capability Development Group.
In the Australia Day Honours of 2008 he was appointed Member of the Order of Australia (Military Division). Since retiring from the RAAF in 2012, Harvey has completed a PhD in Computer Science at UNSW (Canberra).
DMTC works collaboratively with many innovative Australian industry, research and government partners. Our focus is on delivering enhanced defence and national security capabilities, and strengthening Australian industrial capacity.
Harvey was welcomed to the board by DMTC chair Tony Quick, who said, "John’s experience and expertise in the sector stand him in good stead, and without hesitation I can say I am confident that he will make a valuable contribution to the DMTC b oard."
The retired Air Marshal has undertaken Reserve work supporting Australian industry and review tasks for the Chief of the Defence Force, and led a number of Team Defence Australia industry delegations.
The DMTC approach delivers outstanding achievements in research excellence and technology adoption, backed by a best-practice quality system.
Quick added, "DMTC has an important place in the defence innovation system. Collaboration is the essence of the way DMTC goes about its business, and the support of our partners in Defence, industry and the research domains is critical to our approach, and a continuing validation of it.
"DMTC has been fortunate to have a relatively stable board membership over the years. Valuing each other’s diverse background and experience, we have demonstrated a collegiate, consensus-driven and outcome-focused ethos."
DMTC creates and enhances Australian industrial capability by leading, facilitating and managing collaborative research and development and innovation activities in the defence and related sectors in manufacturing, engineering and applied science. Defence and national security customers, industry and the research sector are key stakeholders.
