Brett Biddington

Brett Biddington is the Founder and Principal of a Canberra-based consultancy specialising in space and cyber security matters from policy and national capacity development perspectives. Brett is the Interim CEO of a Cooperative Research Centre bid called AI for LIFE which aims to investigate the impact of artificial intelligence technologies on the Australian education system, especially the impact on student learning outcomes. He sits on several advisory boards and committees concerned with the governance of Australia’s space and astronomy activities, including the international LifeSprings return sample mission to Mars. In mid-2023, he completed a term as a member of National Committee for Space and Radio Science of the Australian Academy of Science.

He has been a director of numerous organisations involved with the Australian space ecosystem including several CRCs. He chairs the Advisory Board of the Victorian Space Science Education Centre (VSSEC) in Melbourne. In 2021 Brett assisted with the Defence Space Domain Review that informed the establishment of the Defence Space Command. Brett was responsible, on behalf of the Space Industry Association of Australia (SIAA), for organising the 68th International Astronautical Congress, which was held in Adelaide in September 2017. Between 2002 and 2009 he was a member of Cisco Systems’ global space team and prior to that served in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Following senior intelligence and security roles, he moved into capability development where he sponsored a $2bn portfolio of projects in the C4ISREW and space domains. In 2019, Brett was awarded a PhD from the University of New South Wales. The title of his thesis is Space Security in the 21st Century: Roles, Responsibilities and Opportunities for Australia. In June 2012 he was admitted as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to the Australian space sector.