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Senate keeps the heat on $15 billion NRF

The government has been ordered to hand over documents about how its $15 billion industry fund is tracking the impact of its investments after concerns about a lack of...

NASA confirms moon ride for Aussie lunar Roo-ver

The US space agency NASA has confirmed that the Australian designed and build lunar rover known as ‘Roo-ver’ will hitch a ride to the moon through its Commercial Lunar...

Q-CTRL secures $38m in DARPA funding

Australian quantum startup Q-CTRL has secured two contracts with the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop next-generation quantum sensors for military navigation systems. The Sydney-based company said...

Leidos to lead Defence’s $1.3bn counter-drone project

American military contractor Leidos has secured the key role of systems integration partner on Defence’s counter-drone project, beating local defence tech darling DroneShield and others to the deal. Defence...

OpenAI to open first Australian outpost

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI will open its first Australian office in Sydney before the year is out, in a move the artificial intelligence giant says reflects the country’s rapidly growing user...

Blast off: SERD proposes radical mission style innovation

A root and branch review of Australia’s R&D system has proposed channelling it into a handful of “focus areas” with multi-decade horizons like energy and health, while backing it...

AWS’s Canberra mega-deal surges past $400m

A controversial AWS whole of government agreement has surged to more than $400 million in just four months, putting it on pace to eclipse both previous iterations by the...

Australia’s space ‘MacGyver’ sees uptick in demand

Australian startup Space Machines Company only debuted its first rapid-response spacecraft designed to protect satellites eight months ago, but it already has its sights set on the next 100....

NSW unveils trade mission agenda to diversify exports

The NSW Government has for the first time published a forward agenda for its annual trade missions as part of a broader push to diversify the state’s export markets...

‘Troubling’ investment settings blocking breakthroughs

The university sector’s peak body will on Wednesday push for new tax breaks for companies that partner with universities on research and development, even if it means reducing the...