What is the RPDE Program?

The RPDE Program (or Rapid) is a group of focussed problem-solvers helping Defence resolve difficult and challenging bite-sized problems. The program’s mission is to:

“Enhance the ADF warfighting capacity through accelerated capability change in the Network Centric Warfare environment.”

Rapid is a cooperative think tank comprising Defence, industry and academia.

All efforts are focussed on developing solutions to issues that hold back the ADF’s capability to more effectively and safely undertake operations.

Participants in Rapid work in a paid collaborative environment where commercial interests are put aside to find the best workable solution to Defence capability issues.

In most cases the solution is innovative and incremental, and has synergistic effects on operational effectiveness.

Defence is increasingly engaging Rapid as it provides the opportunity for the best and brightest people in industry to really understand Defence operational needs and freely contribute to enhancing the ADF’s capability.