Tag: Defence

Lessons from Ukraine’s defence industry ecosystem

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A necessary by-product of the ugly war in Europe is that in three years Ukraine has built perhaps the most productive and vibrant defence industry startup ecosystem in the...

Boeing sets sights on Ghost Bat weapons tests

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s Ghost Bat military drone could conduct live firing tests as early as this year, as US aerospace manufacturer Boeing moves forward with the program after a series of...

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

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
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...

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

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
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...

Defence buys quantum processor from SQC

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Silicon Quantum Computing has entered a multimillion-dollar contract with Defence that will see it provide an Australian-made quantum machine learning processor to make sense of large datasets. The Sydney-based...

$50.4m in CRC-P grants backs 21 new industry collaborations

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
The federal government has awarded more than $50 million in new Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) grants, funding 21 industry-led collaborations across sectors including energy, biotech, defence, aerospace, manufacturing...

CDC Data Centres heads west for AUKUS boom

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
CDC Data Centres is set to build its next data centre campus in Western Australia, as it eyes growing demand for high-density compute and artificial intelligence capabilities through the...

Defence industry warns Pillar II plan is half-baked

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Meagre funding and a lack of clarity over the direction of the advanced technologies component of AUKUS is threatening the success of the all-important ‘Pillar II’ initiative, according to...