Glenn Frankish

Leading AI adoption and development at Leidos Australia. Passionate about the AI adoption and use to make us safe an secure.

Leading Leidos Australia's research programs and strategy for new and emerging technical capabilities.

As the Integrated Systems at Leidos my role is to develop and execute a portfolio of technology projects focusing on Autonomy using Machine Learning, AI and Advanced Systems Engineering techniques. In addition to the engineering and technology roles I am responsible establishing collaborations and research projects with Australia's research community and institutions.

As the Principal Technologist of Lockheed Martin Science, Technology, Engineering Leadership and Research Laboratory (STELaRLaB) my role is to develop and execute a portfolio of information based projects utilising Machine Learning, AI techniques, Geospatial Intelligence, C4ISR algorithm development system and autonomy research. In addition to the to "information based" projects STELaRLab also undertakes research in various fields relevant to the Defence and National Security domains. STELaRLab is Lockheed Martin's first Multi disciplinary and cross business area research and development facility outside the United States.

My tasks at Lockheed Martin include 1) Project Lead for the “Unlocking the LANDSAT Archive” Program sponsored by the Australian Space Research program. This program deals with the processing of Australia's archive of LANDSAT data using HPC resources and making it available to the public as a calibrated dataset. This program is a joint program between Geoscience Australia, VPAC, CRC for Spatial information and ANU National Compute Infrastructure. This project is a Big Data project and we have developed a comprehensive approach to create a system for the future needs of Australia's earth observation community. 2) The design and development Geospatial and data indexing solutions for Defence. 3) Managing the Swift Lab (C4ISR) in Melbourne including dealing with diverse technology sets, ITAR issues and audits as well as customer demonstrations of integrated systems. 4) Managing R&D to support future work and development of staff 5) Supporting Business Development with technical proposal development

Country Technology Manager, Australian Lockheed Martin As part of the International Engineering and Technology group of Lockheed Martin corporation I manage Lockheed Martin relationships with Academia, Government Science and technology organsiations, industry groups and consortia. In this role I also engage all business areas in Lockheed Martin Australia providing them with strategic technical support and help develop cross business unit research and development initiatives and business opportunities.

As a board member of SIBA National I am making a contribution back to an industry that I consider has great strategic value to our economy and national security.

As the Server Applications Manager: 1) Responsible for 4 teams and 22 individual staff members. Including work scheduling, and resource allocation for projects, individual staff issues, software licensing, and development of software development processes.. 2) Maintained a technical developer role for geospatial programs including the development of the raster storage mechanism with CRC for Spatial information. 3) Developed CAD software for automated design rule implementation in C++.

As the software development team leader I was responsible for 1) Analysis of large scale computational code for parallelisation. Providing recommendations for application redevelopment and program structure. 2) Porting a applications to HPC environments 3) Addressed Scalability issues with the National Data Grid Program for the CRC-SI. This application developed used C++/Java and Google Web Toolkit, Postgres SQL and PostGIS as well as the GDAL Geospatial toolkit 4) Leading a team of 8 developers on various other projects.

At the Centre for computational Prototyping I developed 1) weld pattern visualization tools 2) post processing tools for CAE analysis from NASTRAN and LS-Dyna. These applications were developed with Java/C++ utilising the Visualization Toolkit ( VTK ).

At Moldflow I developed a variety of software including 1) 3D mesh generation software for CAE simulations for polymer injection molding.  2) User interface applications for the pre-processing, job submission, visualization and post post processing of CAE data. 3) Data cleansing and translation for CAD models.  4) Moldflow Design Link interface for CAD models to the Moldflow CAE analysis suite.

Mechanical Engineering Degree