Writing / Systems Analysis

Defence systems and energy infrastructure

Kalan Ferguson / Systems-level analysis, ongoing

Long-form analysis written from an engineer's view of the physical constraints that actually govern complex systems. Structure, power, thermal budgets, and the design trade-offs underneath the strategy. Whether the system is a defence platform or the energy infrastructure powering the AI buildout, the physics decides what is actually possible.

MQ-28A Ghost Bat at Woomera
Defence Strategy

MQ-28A Ghost Bat: engineering modularity for autonomous airpower

Why the Ghost Bat's real significance is its modular nose, the SWaP and structural constraints it imposes, and what that means for Australian sovereign capability under AUKUS.

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Defence Industry

Anduril and the software-defined defence prime

How mass-manufactured hardware, the Lattice autonomy stack, and a procurement model built to move at software speed are letting Anduril challenge the traditional prime playbook.

In progress
Researching
Energy Systems

AI's physical ceiling: power, heat, and the grid

Compute scaling is bounded by thermodynamics and energy supply, not chip design. An engineering read on what that means for the datacentre buildout.

Researching