Tag: DARPA

Govt eyes future ASCA expansion

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The Albanese government has opened the door to expanding the remit of Defence’s Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator to other national security agencies less than a year after it was...

Critical infrastructure and the resilience tightrope

Posted on   |  by Jason Stevens
The Australian innovation ecosystem demands a more precise definition of resilience for critical infrastructure that moves beyond cataloguing vulnerabilities, and leaders must encourage bold strides to build it. The...

Sovereign capability in AI is a national security issue

Posted on   |  by Professor Anton van den Hengel
The AI revolution arrived later than I expected but has had a more immediate impact than I had imagined too. I remember the moment I realised just how transformative...

Bridging the funding gap between industry and Defence

Posted on   |  by David Waterhouse
The Valley of Death is real. As any Deep Tech or advanced manufacturing entrepreneur knows, there is a chasm between innovation and commercialisation that must be fully funded or...

UTS, USyd join US quantum ‘yardstick’ project

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Quantum researchers from two Sydney universities will team with the US defence research agency and tech giants to develop better ways of measuring the race towards fault-tolerant quantum computers....

Making sense of industry research collaboration

Posted on   |  by Alan Dormer
The Australian government is spending an increasing proportion of its ‘research’ funding on collaborative programs including Cooperative Research Centres, Industry Transformation Research and Teaching Hubs, and Linkage grants. The...