Dr Carlo Kopp was born in
Perth [More ...],
Western Australia. He attended the University
of Western Australia [More...] , and
graduated in Electrical Engineering with First Class Honours, in
1984. In 1996 he
completed a research
Masters degree in Computer Science at Monash
University [More ...] in
Melbourne, dealing with interprocess communications and I/O abstraction
in secure password-capability operating systems [More ...].
In September, 2000, he
completed his PhD thesis, which dealt with the properties of high
capacity ad hoc networks and
long range microwave datalinks,
using X-band
and Ku-band radar apertures [More...]. Both theses
were
done under the supervision of the late Prof
Chris Wallace [More
...].
His professional and
career interests have been
broad, spanning defence analysis, strategy, systems engineering and
computer science. He currently holds a part time position at the Monash
University Clayton School of IT, involving research, postgraduate
supervision, and both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching duties.
He consults and writes in his remaining time.
He also held a wide
range of
positions in the computer and communications industries, primarily as a
design engineer, computer programmer, systems integrator and
consultant. His best known project in the computer industry was
the design
and development of the first
Australian manufactured SPARC computer, in 1993 [More ...]. He has also designed
or developed high
speed optical fibre and free space infra-red datalink communications
equipment, medium speed multiplexer
equipment, graphics adaptors, and miscellaneous other items of computer
and communications equipment and embedded software, and performed
reliability
modelling of equipment [More ...].
Dr Kopp has consulted
to private industry and government organisations,
in areas ranging from computer and network performance, to strategy and
operational analysis.
He has been most visible
publicly as a defence analyst, since 1980. He has written for Amberley
based Defence Today, Canberra based Australian
Aviation, Sydney based Asia Pacific Defence
Reporter and Defence Review Asia, The Age and Australian Financial Review, the US based Journal
of Electronic Defence, and
the UK based Jane's
Missiles and Rockets, and Air International.
He has also provided numerous television and radio interviews in recent
years.
His current research interests
in the military sciences domain encompass air warfare strategy and
doctrine, proliferation of Russian weapons technology, aircraft combat
survivability, network
centric and information warfare. His work in these areas has been
published by the United States
Air
Force and the Royal
Australian
Air Force. He produced extensive contributions to the 2000 Defence White Paper debate,
testified to the federal parliamentary Joint Committee of
Public Accounts and Audit and the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign
Affairs, Defence and Trade on RAAF force structure planning and
national military strategy issues, and has delivered invited papers to
a number
of conferences on defence related topics [More ...].
In
September, 2003, he was appointed a Visiting Research Fellow at the Australian Defence Studies Centre
(UNSW@ADFA) for twelve months, specialising in air power and
military strategy, and in February, 2005, he was appointed a
Research Fellow at the Monash Asia
Institute,
specialising in regional military strategy. He has contributed papers
to the International
Assessment and Strategy Center,
in Washington DC and the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in Canberra.
His current research
interests in the science and engineering domains include the
information theory underpinning information warfare (the four canonical
strategies of information warfare), the evolutionary impact of
information warfare [More ...],
mobile ad hoc and survivable networking, network
integration of satellite navigation systems [More ...],
and systems survivability
especially in relation to electromagnetic weapons. He has authored or
co-authored to date six book chapters, nine refereed academic journal
papers
and twenty eight conference papers, one of which was awarded a
best paper award. He is currently supervising two PhD students and one
Masters student. In 2006, Dr Kopp developed and taught the
first ever university level topic on Information
Warfare [More
...] in Australia.
Dr Kopp is a senior member of the American
Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics , a
member of the Institution of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and of the Association
of Old Crows.
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