AI Training for
Defence & Government
Your people are already using AI — the question is whether they're using it inside the rules. Practical, current training for APS staff, DISP-member contractors and agency teams, built around the Australian policy stack as it actually stands.
Educational only — not legal or security advice. No classified material, ever.
Shadow AI Is Already In Your Building
Unguided use is the default
Staff who haven't been trained don't stop using AI — they use it quietly, on personal accounts, with work material. The NSW Reconstruction Authority case showed exactly how that ends. Training is the control that actually works.
The policy stack moves fast
PSPF Advisory 001-2025, the March 2026 Defence policy settings, ISM guidance, approved providers — the rules are real, current, and specific. Training that predates them teaches your team yesterday's boundaries.
Sovereignty isn't optional
Where data goes, which providers are approved, and what OFFICIAL actually permits — these are the questions your team needs confident answers to before they open a chat window, not after.
What's Covered
Built on my published AI for Defence course — 8 modules and 22 lessons, reviewed June 2026 — and tailored to your agency on a discovery call.
AI foundations, minus the mystique
How the models actually work, what they can't do, and prompt engineering that holds up under pressure.
The Australian policy stack
PSPF Advisory 001-2025, the March 2026 Defence policy settings, and what they mean in daily practice.
The classification boundary
Working at OFFICIAL: what's in bounds, what never is, and how to make that judgement quickly.
Approved providers & sovereignty
Which tools, hosted where, under whose jurisdiction — and how to evaluate a vendor's claims.
Shadow AI, honestly handled
The NSW Reconstruction Authority case study, why bans fail, and what works instead.
Prompt hygiene & adversarial risk
Data leakage, prompt injection, and the habits that keep OFFICIAL material where it belongs.
The DISP & industry context
Obligations and practicalities for Defence-connected contractors and their supply chains.
A daily checklist that sticks
Every participant leaves with a one-page routine they'll actually follow — plus ongoing access to the full course portal.
Want to inspect the depth first? The self-paced course is free and open: AI for Defence · the full handbook.
Delivered Your Way
On your premises
In-person delivery at your site, anywhere in Australia. Sydney at no travel cost; elsewhere billed at cost.
Fully offline, if required
The programme can run entirely without live AI tools or external connectivity — all materials self-contained, demonstrations pre-prepared. Built for environments where the internet isn't invited.
Virtual, run properly
Interactive online delivery for distributed teams — hands-on and paced for engagement, not a webinar.
A Straight Account of My Experience
I'm an Australian-based AI educator who was working commercially in AI nine months before ChatGPT existed. I wrote and maintain a published AI for Defence course — 8 modules, 22 lessons, built around the current Australian policy stack and reviewed June 2026 — and I've delivered corporate AI training for organisations including Downer, Thomson Reuters and the Australian Institute of Management.
What I don't do matters as much: I don't handle classified material, the training operates at the OFFICIAL level, and nothing in it is legal or security advice — it's education, built to sit alongside your agency's own policies, not replace them.
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Start With a Conversation
Workshops from $3,500 (3 hours) or $6,500 (full day), executive briefings from $750 — all + GST, with multi-session and multi-agency pricing available. Twenty minutes on the phone will tell us both whether this is the right fit.
Book a Discovery CallOr email ru@rupertchesman.com