Private capital to improve Defence industry outcomes: AIDN


David Allen
Reporter

The government’s move to attract more private capital into Defence spending has the potential drive a major scale-up of Australian military technology, the Australian Industry and Defence Network says, but local businesses will need to step lively if the economic rewards are to be kept onshore.

AIDN chief executive officer Mike Johnson says venture capital investment in Australian SMEs could breed competition, cut costs and catalyse the military’s infamously slow …

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