Tag: Melissa Price

Composites manufacturing CRC stumped up with $70 million

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A sovereign manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre focusing on automation for composites will be established with just under $70 million in funding as part of a Coalition election campaign pitch....

Science and Industry leadership roles emptied by Coalition

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
While the pre-election period saw a flurry of controversial appointments to plum jobs in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, numerous government-appointed leadership roles in Australia’s innovation and technology system have...

Defence innovation review gathers dust as money flows

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The federal government on Thursday announced nine new Defence Innovation Hub contracts together worth $19 million for companies developing technologies ranging from advanced radar and cameras to cheap “swarming”...

National Space Mission a huge budget win for the sector

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The funding horizon on the freshly minted National Space Mission might stretch into the future, but Australian Space Agency chief Enrico Palermo is declaring a massive budget win for...

Gilmour secures federal funding for $157m space facilities

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
A consortium known as the Australian Space Manufacturing Network and led by Gilmour Space Technologies has secured $52 million in federal funding to manufacture launch vehicles and satellites and...

Govt scraps controversial space launch permit fees

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Controversial space launch permit fees will be scrapped by the federal government after being deferred for two years in a major win for the growing local sector. Science minister...