Tag: Department of Defence

AUKUS tech trade reforms set for sign-off

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia and United States are poised to unlock billions of dollars in licence-free defence trade on within weeks after the US agreed to sign off on legislation enabling AUKUS...

Defence data centre support deal hits $2.6b

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Defence’s long-running data centre support deal with Leidos has surpassed $2.5 billion after the American defence and IT service giant picked up a $156 million top-up for its main...

Defence innovation network goes national

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A research network that provides universities and industry with a direct link to Defence has become national with the addition of the Northern Territory’s Charles Darwin University. Charles Darwin...

Defence drops $100m on local and overseas drones

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A new fleet of reconnaissance drones will be acquired by the Australian Defence Force under a $100 million-plus deal with Germany’s Quantum-Systems and Australia’s own SYPAQ Systems. The federal...

Defence to wear new APS contractor cuts

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Defence department will need to find more than $270 million in savings over the next four years as part of the Albanese government’s extended purge of contractors and...

Defence reveals cost of fledgling Secret cloud

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Canberra-based Vault Cloud will be paid $15 million to deliver the beginnings of Defence’s Secret cloud environment as the search for a hyperscaler capable of delivering redundancy for business-critical...

Defence Secret cloud race narrows as Accenture deal hits $50m

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Accenture has landed another a $14.7 million contract for work on Defence’s enterprise cloud services capability, while the department continues talks with shortlisted hyperscalers Google and Oracle on a...

Walls come down for dual-use tech trade through AUKUS

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Organisations developing dual-use technologies like quantum computing, lasers, sensors, aerospace and propulsion systems will gain easier imports from the US after Australia received a licencing exemption from American regulations....