Steven Cannon

During a 21 year career with the RAAF(1980-2001), Steve experienced a great variety of roles in engineering managementand technical maintenance prior to migrating to the logistics community.  In 2001, Steve departed the RAAF to take up alogistics role with Raytheon Australiasupporting the Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm providing logistic support tooperators, maintainers and third party contractors.  In 2011, Steve was offered a position with theInventory Reform team within the Defence Materiel Organisation; now CapabilityAcquisition and Sustainment Group.

From 2013, Steve has been focusing on solvingdata management issues impacting on the logistics community to improve access todata, simplify data integration and improve accuracy of forecasting leading to greaterconfidence in the decision making process. Steve has proposed a future data managementmodel, Faceplate, to meet the growing business need to integrate multiple data sourcesin a simple, timely and elegant fashion. His vision is to provide all decision makerswithin Defence; uniformed, civilian and contractors with access to all the datathey need, whenever and wherever they need it, on the device they need it, withoutimpacting the host systems.