GK - "Access to far more hard data than you know exists"
That's a pretty meaningless formulation. And can you perhaps explain to all of us where the Oz civil servants are getting classified-level briefs on the EA modes of Captor-E or the future growth path of Spectra?
And if you have never run into "experienced Defense personnel" in any country who are not locked immovably into their prior positions, you have not spent long in this industry and have not read much history.