Mission
Origins
Founding story
Australians have a long history of expeditionary engagements — military and humanitarian. It was disaster relief that changed the way I see the world. Not through idealism, but through proximity to what happens when systems meet conditions they were never designed to survive.
I spent years watching organisations with overlapping mandates duplicate effort, undermine each other for funding, and perform for stakeholders instead of delivering for the people they claimed to serve. That wasn't cynicism ... it was observation. And I couldn't watch any longer.
308 builds and proliferates technologies that protect us all — in or out of uniform, in our homes in Australia or in land abroad. We developed an alternative framework that lets smaller organisations, firms, and institutions build together, retain their IP, and share equitably in what they create.
Ben Andronicus, 308 Founder
Guiding Voices
The thinking behind the work
The voices below aren't endorsements. They're reference points — ideas that have shaped how we think about sovereignty, obligation, resilience, and the responsibility that comes with building for people who don't get to choose whether the systems around them work.
They span heads of state, conflict reporters, strategists, and scholars. They don't agree with each other on everything. That's the point.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
"The greatest lesson of a nation's history is that its fate lies in the sacrifice, held in the heart of its average men and women."
Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said
1940–2020
"I and my people who have, ourselves, fought through many bitter years of struggle to maintain our freedom are deeply conscious of this, for we know from our own experience that peace must go hand in hand with freedom."
John F. Kennedy
1917–1963
"I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, it's because we all came from the sea."
Richard N. Haass
Former President, Council on Foreign Relations
"A democracy that concerns itself only with protecting and advancing individual rights will find itself in jeopardy, as rights will come into conflict with one another."
David Kilcullen
Lieutenant Colonel, Australian Army
"Rather than focusing on stability we should be focusing on resiliency — helping actors in the system develop tolerance for shocks from political, social, economic or security setbacks."
Don McCullin
War Photographer
"I don't believe you can see what's beyond the edge unless you put your head over it. I've been doing that all my life — going over a boat or an inch away."
Jim Mattis
26th Secretary of Defense
"Doctrine is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
Contact
Selective engagement
308 works with organisations where failure carries real consequence - whether the impact falls on institutions, infrastructure, or the people depending on both. When the work demands accountability, technical depth, and teams who stay with the problem, we engage.