Fivecast Named Finalist in Multiple Categories at the 2025 Australian Defence Industry Awards
Presented by Defence Connect, the Australian Defence Industry Awards celebrate excellence, innovation, and impact across the nation’s defence sector. Each year’s finalists showcase organisations and individuals making real advancements in national security and defence through technology, vision, and collaboration.
This year, Fivecast celebrates finalist honours in four categories at the 2025 Australian Defence Industry Awards.
Fivecast – Defence Innovator of the Year
Duane Rivett – Innovator of the Year
Dave Blockow – Engineer of the Year
Monica Brink – Marketing/Communications Professional of the Year
These acknowledgments showcase Fivecast’s role at the forefront of technology for national security. By harnessing AI-powered analytics and automating intelligence gathering across the surface, deep, and dark web, Fivecast enables defence agencies to uncover threats, map hidden networks, and gain the decision advantage in a rapidly evolving threat landscape.
“Fivecast’s recognition as a finalist in several award categories is a powerful testament to the impact we’re making alongside Australia’s defence and national security community,” said Brenton Cooper, Co-Founder & CEO at Fivecast. “We believe innovation in defence starts with understanding today’s challenges and building technology that’s both robust and adaptive. We’re incredibly proud of our team and the global partners who share in this mission with us.”
Winners of the 2025 Australian Defence Industry Awards will be revealed at the National Convention Centre, Canberra, on Thursday, 10 July 2025.
About Fivecast
The mission of Fivecast is to enable a safer world. As a world-leading provider of open-source intelligence solutions, Fivecast helps the world’s most important public and private organizations explore masses of data, uncovering actionable insights that are critical to protecting global communities.
Purpose-built to address the highest priority use cases in the national security, law enforcement, defense, corporate security, and financial intelligence markets, Fivecast deploys advanced data collection and AI-enabled analytics to solve the most complex intelligence challenges.
