Upcoming events

    • 25 Feb 2025
    • 12:15 PM - 2:30 PM
    • Boathouse by the Lake, ACT
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    • 01 May 2025
    • 12:15 PM - 2:30 PM
    • Boathouse by the Lake, ACT
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    • 22 May 2025
    • 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
    • Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia, ACT
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    The Imperative for Cost Effectiveness in Multi-domain Operations

    The May seminar will explore the value and cost-effectiveness of air power and its ability to promote security and prosperity as two sides of the same coin. The costs include, but are not limited to:

    • Time
    • Workforce, and
    • Budgets
    However, the value it provides in terms of its speed, reach, and utility means Australian-based capability can provide the Government with decision-making time and space, international influence, and threat-relevant, survivable, lethal, sustainable options, delivered with the lowest political risk.

    The seminar will aim to identify:

    • Cost drivers, assumptions, and constraints relating to time, workforce, and budgets.
    • Cost-per-effect measurement, including the cost of doing nothing.
    • Cost of preparedness.
    • Air Power Core business and its value to the nation.
    • Defence, agency and Industry partnerships.

    The draft program will be available shortly.

      • 12 Aug 2025
      • 12:15 PM - 2:30 PM
      • Boathouse by the Lake, ACT
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      Speaker details will be available shortly.

      • 18 Sep 2025
      • 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
      • Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia, ACT
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         The topic and program will be available shortly.

        • 18 Sep 2025
        • 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
        • Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia, ACT
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        The conference topic and program will be available shortly.

          • 18 Nov 2025
          • 12:15 PM - 2:30 PM
          • Boathouse by the Lake, ACT
          Register

          Speaker details will be available shortly.

        Past events

        21 Nov 2024 Williams Foundation Errol McCormack Lunch with Senator the Hon David Fawcett, Senator for South Australia
        30 Oct 2024 2024 Annual General Meeting
        26 Sep 2024 Williams Foundation Conference: Enhancing and Accelerating the Integrated Force: An Operational Perspective
        29 Aug 2024 Williams Foundation Errol McCormack Lunch with VADM Justin Jones AO, CSC, RAN
        31 Jul 2024 Williams Foundation Errol McCormack Lunch with Ed Zoiss, President Space and Airborne Systems, L3Harris Technologies
        23 May 2024 Williams Foundation Errol McCormack Lunch with GPCAPT Brett Williams
        10 May 2024 Williams Foundation Errol McCormack Lunch with Air Chief Marshal The Lord Peach KG GBE KCB DL
        11 Apr 2024 Conference: The Multi-domain Requirements of an Australian Maritime Strategy
        22 Feb 2024 Williams Foundation Errol McCormack Lunch with AIRMSHL Leon Phillips OAM
        30 Nov 2023 Errol McCormack Lunch with The Hon Kim Beazley AC
        25 Oct 2023 2023 Annual General Meeting
        27 Sep 2023 Conference: The Enterprise Requirements of an Australian Multi-Domain Strike Capability
        31 Aug 2023 Errol McCormack Lunch with Chris Deeble AO, CSC
        13 Jun 2023 Errol McCormack Lunch - Tom Hamilton, DEPSEC Defence Strategic Review Implementation
        30 Mar 2023 Conference: Sharpening the Edge of Australia’s National Deterrence Capability
        23 Feb 2023 Errol McCormack Lunch: MAJGEN Mick Ryan, AM (Ret'd)
        14 Feb 2023 Errol McCormack Lunch: Thomas Jones, Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems
        28 Nov 2022 Errol McCormack Lunch: National Security at Faster than 5x the Speed of Sound - Steve Walker, Lockheed Martin
        09 Nov 2022 Williams Lunch: Timely Perspectives on Indo-Pacific Security, ADM Phil Davidson, USN (ret.)
        26 Oct 2022 2022 Annual General Meeting
        28 Sep 2022 Conference: Enhancing the Lethality and Survivability of the Integrated Force
        31 Aug 2022 Errol McCormack Lunch Series: Dr Miles Apperley, ANSTO
        01 Jun 2022 Errol McCormack Members Lunch: The Contribution of F-35A to Australian Air Combat Power
        24 Mar 2022 Conference: Accelerating the Transition to a Networked, Integrated Force
        02 Mar 2022 Errol McCormack Lunch Series: CDRE Andrew Quinn RAN
        01 Dec 2021 Conference: The Requirements of a Sovereign Defence Space Capability
        23 Nov 2021 Errol McCormack Lunch Series: The ADF’s Strategy - Where is the force going? Where are the gaps? What are the priorities? AVM Steven ‘Zed’ Roberton, DSC, AM
        18 Nov 2021 Errol McCormack Lunch Series: The ADF’s Strategy - Where is the force going? Where are the gaps? What are the priorities? AVM Steven ‘Zed’ Roberton, DSC, AM
        05 Oct 2021 Annual General Meeting
        19 May 2021 Errol McCormack Lunch Series: Lessons for Australia’s FADT policy from COVID with Senator the Hon. David Fawcett
        08 Apr 2021 Conference: Next Generation Autonomous Systems
        25 Feb 2021 Errol McCormack Lunch Series: The Australian Defence Force’s Current Operational Commitments - LTGEN Greg Bilton AO, CSC
        01 Dec 2020 Errol McCormack Members' Lunch with AIRCDRE Chris Westwood (Ret'd): Characterising the 5th Gen Air Battle Space
        28 Oct 2020 Annual General Meeting
        20 May 2020 Errol McCormack Lunch Series
        26 Feb 2020 Errol McCormack Lunch Series: Air Marshal Warren McDonald, AM, CSC
        12 Nov 2019 Williams Foundation Lunch: Advanced Attack Helicopters in the Amphibious Role with LtGen George J. Trautman
        24 Oct 2019 Seminar: The Requirements of Fifth Generation Manoeuvre
        22 Oct 2019 2019 Annual General Meeting
        07 Aug 2019 Williams Foundation Lunch: Coalition Warfighting and Pacific AOR Interoperability with LTG Michael Oates (Ret'd)
        16 Jul 2019 Williams Foundation Lunch: Royal Australian Navy: Future vision and Headmark 2022 with VADM Michael Noonan AO RAN, Chief of Navy
        07 May 2019 Williams Foundation Members Lunch: Modernising the ADF in a time of Accelerated Warfare - Major General Kathryn Toohey, AM, CSC
        11 Apr 2019 Seminar: Hi-Intensity Operations and Sustaining Self Reliance
        12 Feb 2019 Williams Foundation Lunch: 5th Generation Workforce with AIRCDRE Geoffrey Harland AM, CSC, DSM
        13 Nov 2018 Williams Foundation Lunch: Experiences of an Australian CAOC Director during Operation Okra with Air Vice-Marshal Stephen Meredith, AM, DSM
        30 Oct 2018 2018 Annual General Meeting
        23 Aug 2018 Seminar: The Imperative for an Independent Deterrent: A Joint Strike Seminar
        07 Aug 2018 Williams Foundation Lunch: Australian Defence Industry Small, Medium Enterprises; Plan Jericho Innovation and Opportunity
        08 May 2018 Williams Foundation Lunch with Air Commodore Joe ‘Vinny’ Iervasi, AM: Air Warfare Centre — Jericho in Action
        22 Mar 2018 Seminar: The Requirements of High Intensity Warfare
        13 Feb 2018 Williams Foundation Lunch: Air C2: Lessons from OKRA - Air Commodore Robert Chipman, CSC
        31 Oct 2017 2017 Annual General Meeting
        23 Aug 2017 Seminar: A New Approach, and Attitude, to Electronic Warfare In Australia
        02 Aug 2017 Williams Foundation Lunch: Joint Integration: A Practioner's Perspective - VADM David Johnston AM, RAN
        19 Jul 2017 Williams Foundation Lunch: Invictus Games Sydney 2018 Lunch with Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin, AC Chief of the Defence Force
        20 Jun 2017 Williams Foundation Lunch: A Learning Curve for the Swiss Air Force
        11 Apr 2017 Williams Foundation Seminar: Air / Sea / Land: Integrated Force 2030
        15 Feb 2017 Williams Foundation Lunch: Air Vice-Marshal Mel Hupfeld AO, DSC
        25 Oct 2016 2016 Annual General Meeting
        04 Oct 2016 Williams Foundation Lunch: Connecting the ADF: Challenge or Opportunity? Three decades of insights and lessons learned
        13 Sep 2016 Williams Foundation Members Lunch: 'Jericho - an Update'
        23 Aug 2016 Williams Foundation Members Lunch: 'Where to with CASG' with Kim Gillis
        10 Aug 2016 Williams Foundation Seminar: New Thinking on Air-Sea
        17 Mar 2016 Williams Foundation Seminar: New Thinking on Air-Land
        23 Feb 2016 Williams Foundation Dinner with Lt Gen Christopher Bogdan, United States Air Force
        16 Feb 2016 Williams Foundation Members Luncheon: Air Vice-Marshal Warren McDonald, AM, CSC - RAAF Air Mobility
        08 Sep 2015 Williams Foundation Members Luncheon: RADM Tony Dalton Romeo Introduction into Service
        06 Aug 2015 RAAF Plan Jericho Half Day Public Seminar
        10 Jun 2015 Williams Foundation Dinner with Chief of Air Force
        03 Jun 2015 LVC Seminar
        17 Apr 2015 Symposium: Integrating Innovative Airpower
        15 Apr 2015 Williams Foundation Members Luncheon: AIRCDRE Steve "Zed" Roberton AM
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