Stephen Cook PhD is the Professor of Systems Engineering at the University of South Australia and the Technical Director – Systems Engineering at the Defence Systems Innovation Centre. He has had a varied career that commenced with over ten years’ engineering experience in the telecommunications and aerospace industry after which he joined the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) rising to Research Leader Military Information Networks in 1994. Since 1997 he has been with the University of South Australia where he has led a variety of research concentrations in systems engineering and has pursued a wide span of research interests including systems modelling, systems engineering of C2 systems, systems approaches for defence capability development, acquisition modernisation, and theoretical frameworks to support the coherent teaching of systems engineering. Prof Cook is an INCOSE Fellow and Past President of the Systems Engineering Society of Australia.