After completing a nationwide briefing tour and developing its initial signals to industry, the head of Defence’s new $3.4 billion accelerator is ready to get to work with local...
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Adelaide-based firm QuantX Labs has landed a $750,000 contract with the Department of Defence to improve the security of its quantum position, navigation, and timing capability. The project aims...
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The Advanced Strategic Capability Accelerator’s (ASCA) first two areas of focus for long term research and development funding are quantum and technologies for “detecting and countering” disinformation produced by...
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The cost of Defence’s mammoth upgrade of backend systems is nudging $600 million, after lead systems integrator IBM landed another lucrative contract for platform services last month. Big Blue...
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The Manhattan Project has been in the spotlight through the movie Oppenheimer. It was a mission-driven race that sought strategic competitive advantage. This was a project on a massive...
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The Australian government will reduce barriers to technology transfer and costs of trade with AUKUS allies but will criminalise the sharing of certain sensitive technology with non-US or UK...
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Australia is in an ever evolving and challenging strategic environment made increasingly uncertain by rapid technological development. This has been clearly spelt-out in the Defence Strategic Review published earlier...
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The lack of a national Defence strategy is delaying the technology and advanced capability component of the AUKUS arrangement and a potential new pillar covering supply chains, according to...
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Australia has joined a global push for the responsible use of artificial intelligence in military operations, signing a declaration with 30 other countries that commits it to applying AI...
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The Department of Defence is nearing completion of a new Space Capability Program strategy, with local industry expected to be briefed “before December”. Head of Space Command Air Vice-Marshall...
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The Senate’s inquiry into the Department of Defence’s support for the local industry will hone in on procurement, ‘sovereign capability’, and innovation after finding Australian suppliers are being “poorly...
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The Australian Strategic Capabilities Accelerator will commit an estimated $680 million over the next ten years to the research and development of emerging and disruptive technologies, according to its...
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Closer collaboration with the local space industry is a key Defence priority according to chief of joint capabilities Lieutenant General John Frewen, with commercial capabilities becoming increasingly important in...
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Multinational prime contractors are being invited to apply for the next iteration of the Defence department’s Global Supply Chain Program, which intends to help Australian small to medium sized...