Gavin Cook is a Training Systems Solution Architect with over 32 years' military and commercial experience developing, delivering and assuring complex Defence capability and training solutions across the UK Ministry of Defence, NATO and international defence programmes.
A former Royal Artillery senior soldier and DSAT specialist, Gavin has worked on training and capability development activities across Uncrewed Air Systems (UAS), ISTAR, Air Defence, Command and Control, CIS and simulation environments. His experience includes major Defence programmes such as Watchkeeper, Sky Sabre, Desert Hawk, Dreadnought and various above water craft, together with the design and integration of multinational training and operational systems supporting NATO and allied forces.

Throughout his career, Gavin has specialised in Defence Systems Approach to Training (DSAT), capability development, training transformation and the integration of technology-enabled learning solutions. In his current role at Babcock, he develops innovative training architectures and capability solutions supporting future Defence requirements, with particular interest in synthetic environments, human-machine teaming, autonomous systems and distributed training.

Gavin's work focuses on ensuring personnel, training systems and operational capability evolve together to meet the challenges of future Defence operations.