Government and national security

Readiness you can prove.

A crisis plan on a shelf doesn’t tell you if agencies can work together. We turn your arrangements into live, whole-of-government crises, then test the people and handovers behind them.

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01Outcomes 02Scenarios we run 03Track record 04How it works 05Built for 06Secure by design

Outcomes

Find the gaps between agencies.

Whole-of-government approach: Government crises don’t fit neatly inside departmental boundaries. Exercise your crisis arrangements across departments, agencies, ministers’ offices, jurisdictions and partners. All hazards. Compounding and complex. See how the system actually coordinates when responsibility, information and decisions cross the lines.
Own the public narrative: Operational success alone doesn’t guarantee public confidence. Test how leaders and communications teams respond as a story develops, misinformation spreads, and political scrutiny builds. The brief and the press conference, in the same hour.
Turn plans into capability: Crisis plans, continuity arrangements, escalation pathways, delegations and communications protocols, in the hands of the people expected to use them. Build muscle memory and public-sector resilience.
Build institutional memory: Give emerging leaders exposure to crises they might otherwise wait years to meet. Most agencies identify lessons. Fewer track them to closure. Every insight becomes an action with an owner and a date, so knowledge compounds instead of walking out the door.
Prove public-sector readiness: Move from assurance by assertion to assurance by evidence. Measure how individuals, teams and agencies decide, communicate and act, against your plans and capability frameworks. Benchmark the improvement. Defensible evidence for assurance, investment and capability decisions. When the inquiry, the audit or the FOI request arrives, show what you tested, what you found and what you fixed.

Scenarios we run

Built around the crises you plan for.

Every scenario is built around your arrangements and your people. Reuse it without disrupting daily operations.

Operations
Interagency crisis management
Central agencies, lead departments and statutory bodies in one scenario. Escalation, information crossing portfolio lines, and single points of dependency.
Operations
State and federal handovers
Commonwealth, state and local government in a compounding crisis. Declarations and resource requests included.
People
Terrorist attack
A coordinated attack in a capital city. Police, intelligence, health and ministers in the first hour.
Geopolitical
Foreign interference
Evidence of a covert influence operation in the lead-up to an election.
Technology
National infrastructure failure
Power, telecommunications or payments go down across the country.
Operations
Interagency crisis management
Central agencies, lead departments and statutory bodies in one scenario. Escalation, information crossing portfolio lines, and single points of dependency.
Operations
State and federal handovers
Commonwealth, state and local government in a compounding crisis. Declarations and resource requests included.
People
Terrorist attack
A coordinated attack in a capital city. Police, intelligence, health and ministers in the first hour.
Geopolitical
Foreign interference
Evidence of a covert influence operation in the lead-up to an election.
Technology
National infrastructure failure
Power, telecommunications or payments go down across the country.

Reputation
Ministerial advice and public communications
The brief and the press conference in the same hour. Media and community react to what officials actually say.
Geopolitical
Intelligence fusion and prioritisation
Watch cells and incident controllers sort the unverified from the corroborated. Then decide where scarce resources go.
Operations
Pandemic
A novel virus. Border, health and economic decisions on incomplete data.
Operations
Catastrophic disaster
A flood or bushfire overwhelms state capacity. Commonwealth assistance is requested.
Cyber
Mass data breach
Citizens’ records stolen from a government system.
Reputation
Ministerial advice and public communications
The brief and the press conference in the same hour. Media and community react to what officials actually say.
Geopolitical
Intelligence fusion and prioritisation
Watch cells and incident controllers sort the unverified from the corroborated. Then decide where scarce resources go.
Operations
Pandemic
A novel virus. Border, health and economic decisions on incomplete data.
Operations
Catastrophic disaster
A flood or bushfire overwhelms state capacity. Commonwealth assistance is requested.
Cyber
Mass data breach
Citizens’ records stolen from a government system.

Geopolitical
Policy development
Test a policy option against the crisis it’s meant to answer. Then watch other agencies, governments and the public respond.
Reputation
Interdiction and public disclosure
When to act on intelligence, and what to say first. Methods and ongoing operations protected.
Cyber
Cyberattack on government
Ransomware takes down services citizens rely on. Who speaks first?
People
Consular crisis
Australians detained or kidnapped abroad. Families, media and a foreign government all want answers.
Geopolitical
Regional instability
A neighbouring government falls. Evacuations, aid and diplomacy at once.
Geopolitical
Policy development
Test a policy option against the crisis it’s meant to answer. Then watch other agencies, governments and the public respond.
Reputation
Interdiction and public disclosure
When to act on intelligence, and what to say first. Methods and ongoing operations protected.
Cyber
Cyberattack on government
Ransomware takes down services citizens rely on. Who speaks first?
People
Consular crisis
Australians detained or kidnapped abroad. Families, media and a foreign government all want answers.
Geopolitical
Regional instability
A neighbouring government falls. Evacuations, aid and diplomacy at once.

Operations
Interagency crisis management
Central agencies, lead departments and statutory bodies in one scenario. Escalation, information crossing portfolio lines, and single points of dependency.
Geopolitical
Policy development
Test a policy option against the crisis it’s meant to answer. Then watch other agencies, governments and the public respond.
Geopolitical
Intelligence fusion and prioritisation
Watch cells and incident controllers sort the unverified from the corroborated. Then decide where scarce resources go.
People
Terrorist attack
A coordinated attack in a capital city. Police, intelligence, health and ministers in the first hour.
Cyber
Cyberattack on government
Ransomware takes down services citizens rely on. Who speaks first?
Operations
Catastrophic disaster
A flood or bushfire overwhelms state capacity. Commonwealth assistance is requested.
Technology
National infrastructure failure
Power, telecommunications or payments go down across the country.
Geopolitical
Regional instability
A neighbouring government falls. Evacuations, aid and diplomacy at once.
Operations
Interagency crisis management
Central agencies, lead departments and statutory bodies in one scenario. Escalation, information crossing portfolio lines, and single points of dependency.
Geopolitical
Policy development
Test a policy option against the crisis it’s meant to answer. Then watch other agencies, governments and the public respond.
Geopolitical
Intelligence fusion and prioritisation
Watch cells and incident controllers sort the unverified from the corroborated. Then decide where scarce resources go.
People
Terrorist attack
A coordinated attack in a capital city. Police, intelligence, health and ministers in the first hour.
Cyber
Cyberattack on government
Ransomware takes down services citizens rely on. Who speaks first?
Operations
Catastrophic disaster
A flood or bushfire overwhelms state capacity. Commonwealth assistance is requested.
Technology
National infrastructure failure
Power, telecommunications or payments go down across the country.
Geopolitical
Regional instability
A neighbouring government falls. Evacuations, aid and diplomacy at once.

Reputation
Ministerial advice and public communications
The brief and the press conference in the same hour. Media and community react to what officials actually say.
Operations
State and federal handovers
Commonwealth, state and local government in a compounding crisis. Declarations and resource requests included.
Reputation
Interdiction and public disclosure
When to act on intelligence, and what to say first. Methods and ongoing operations protected.
Operations
Pandemic
A novel virus. Border, health and economic decisions on incomplete data.
Geopolitical
Foreign interference
Evidence of a covert influence operation in the lead-up to an election.
People
Consular crisis
Australians detained or kidnapped abroad. Families, media and a foreign government all want answers.
Cyber
Mass data breach
Citizens’ records stolen from a government system.
Reputation
Ministerial advice and public communications
The brief and the press conference in the same hour. Media and community react to what officials actually say.
Operations
State and federal handovers
Commonwealth, state and local government in a compounding crisis. Declarations and resource requests included.
Reputation
Interdiction and public disclosure
When to act on intelligence, and what to say first. Methods and ongoing operations protected.
Operations
Pandemic
A novel virus. Border, health and economic decisions on incomplete data.
Geopolitical
Foreign interference
Evidence of a covert influence operation in the lead-up to an election.
People
Consular crisis
Australians detained or kidnapped abroad. Families, media and a foreign government all want answers.
Cyber
Mass data breach
Citizens’ records stolen from a government system.

Track record

Exercises we’ve run.

Officers coordinating the national response: 60
Day: 1
Capabilities tested, from public communications to alliance management: 4

Exercise Datum: a submarine misses a check-in, for a national security agency.

How it works

Foresight: the flight simulator for crisis government.

Pilots don’t prepare for emergencies by talking about them. They get in the simulator. Officials need the same: the brief, the phone call and the press conference, all at once.

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Design
Build your exercise around your arrangements, your legislation, your plans and your people. Ready in hours, not weeks.
02 / 04
Deploy
Your agencies go live on Foresight. Each participant sees only what their role would see. Agentic AI actors play the journalists, community voices, foreign governments and partners pushing back. Every decision changes what happens next.
03 / 04
Debrief
You decide what matters. Hindsight measures it. How information moved between agencies. Time to escalate. Time to the first public statement. Who owned what. Start from a ready-made package or build your own.
04 / 04
Develop
Every gap becomes a corrective action, with an owner and a date. Run it again. Watch the numbers move.