A Senate inquiry into the Department of Defence’s support for local industry has wrapped up without offering any recommendations to boost sovereign capability or address procurement deficiencies. The Senate...
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Australia’s fledgling submarine agency has turned to McKinsey to finish off its industry plan, handing the controversial consultancy more than $43,000 a day as the government runs up against...
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Australia will conduct a series of hypersonic vehicle tests with its AUKUS partners under a new agreement designed to accelerate the development of the dual-use technology. The agreement, announced...
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The Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator has awarded more than $60 million in long-term R&D contracts to local quantum and defence tech companies, universities and the CSIRO. Analog Quantum Circuits,...
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Bureaucratic and technical jargon obscured critical risks to Defence’s troubled clearance system from top brass and ministers, while contractors were able to influence the direction of outsourced work. That’s...
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AI and machine learning is this focus of the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator’s second round of long-term research and development partnerships, which opened to applications on Monday. The Advanced...
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Defence spent $90 million before cancelling a tender process, which had already selected Lockheed Martin, to own and operate three to five geostationary satellites, officials have revealed. The satellite...
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Defence minister Richard Marles has defended the work of the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator after reports emerged that the design phase on its first mission had been mismanaged. But...
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A multi-billion dollar contract with Lockheed Martin for Australia’s first “sovereign-controlled” military satellite communication constellation has been cancelled by the federal government. Defence announced the decision on Monday, ending...
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Defence has postponed the cutover to its multi-billion dollar new enterprise resources planning system, further dragging out the mammoth SAP build amid the department’s latest push to eradicate legacy...
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AIM Defence has delivered two more of its high-powered counter-drone laser systems to Defence, bringing its work with the department to more than $10 million over the past year....
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Local technology companies Penten, Inovor Technologies and Advanced Design Technology have been named the Australian winners of the first-ever trilateral AUKUS innovation challenge. All three firms, based in the...
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An AI-infused intrusion detection system capable of searching out hostile drone threats will be deployed at an airbase in the top end as part of an $30 million trial...
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Defence’s mammoth backend technology upgrade has slipped by half a decade and could now cost $3.5 billion — around three times initial estimates – with a consulting giant handed...