Fewer than a dozen companies secured most of the benefit under Defence’s Global Supply Chain Program in its first 15 years, according to an independent review kept under wraps...
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Budding Australian drone manufacturers AMSL Aero, Boresight and Grabba Technologies have shared $6.6 million in Defence production contracts following the success of their prototypes under the Advanced Strategic Capabilities...
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Australia and United States are poised to unlock billions of dollars in licence-free defence trade on within weeks after the US agreed to sign off on legislation enabling AUKUS...
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Australia’s Defence department will adopt an increasingly data-driven approach to its engineering processes, taking inspiration from the US Department of Defense. The new approach, outlined in Defence’s first Digital...
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The federal government will pump another $20 million into Defence’s Ghost Shark program to fast-track the production of sovereign-built unmanned military submarines. The new funding comes just months after...
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Defence’s digital arm will add hundreds of new in-house staff to its ranks within the next year as the department looks to end its reliance on contractors, chief information...
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Defence’s long-running data centre support deal with Leidos has surpassed $2.5 billion after the American defence and IT service giant picked up a $156 million top-up for its main...
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Defence has almost doubled the number of multinational prime contractors it is paying to engage with local businesses through its long-running Global Supply Chain Program. Defence Industry minister Pat...
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Adelaide-based Silentium, a deep tech startup spun out of Defence, has delivered its first passive radar systems to Australia’s $620 million Joint Air Battle Management System project ahead of...
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A research network that provides universities and industry with a direct link to Defence has become national with the addition of the Northern Territory’s Charles Darwin University. Charles Darwin...
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A new fleet of reconnaissance drones will be acquired by the Australian Defence Force under a $100 million-plus deal with Germany’s Quantum-Systems and Australia’s own SYPAQ Systems. The federal...
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Defence bypassed procurement rules for its trouble-plagued $199 million security clearance system, granting only Accenture the opportunity to develop a ‘solution to a budget’, an audit has found. The...
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The Defence department is seeking interest from private investors in partnering with the government to fund local dual-use companies, after startups warned of a fatal funding gap in Australia....
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Innovative firms will have just three minutes to woo senior Defence officials during a new pitch day set up by the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator, but it could be...