Tag: DARPA

PsiQuantum signs US$125m DARPA deal

Posted on   |  by Stephen Nellis
PsiQuantum has signed a US$125 million agreement with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the quantum computing startup’s largest US government award to date. The deal falls under...

NASA veteran Pamela Melroy joins Gilmour Space board

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Gilmour Space Technologies has added former NASA second-in-command and space shuttle pilot Colonel Pamela Melroy to its board as it pushes ahead with plans of global commercial expansion. The...

Q-CTRL secures $38m in DARPA funding

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
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...

Diraq, SQC tapped for DARPA quantum drive

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Two local quantum computing startups have secured contracts with US defence research agency DARPA for a coveted benchmarking program designed to find the companies capable of achieving utility-scale within...

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...