Tag: Tanya Monro

The role of entrepreneurial urgency in Defence tech

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Professor Tanya Monro is six and half years into her role as chief defence scientist and says the growing sense of urgency in the work within the Defence Science...

Introducing the 2025 InnovationAus Awards Patrons

Posted on   |  by James Riley
What a pleasure it is to announce that Australian business legend Catherine Livingstone and Chief Defence Scientist Professor Tanya Monro have kindly agreed to act as Patrons for the...

Defence’s powerful new supercomputer comes online

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A new Defence supercomputer almost a decade in the making is now up and running in Adelaide, delivering machine learning and AI capabilities to defence scientists. Defence declared the...

$3m in Defence grants catalyse SA research

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
South Australian space and AI firms, local universities and Defence’s research arm will partner to demonstrate an ambitious new sensor network after securing a $1.6 million collaboration grant. The...

AUKUS hypersonics pact to boost ‘collective ability’

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia will conduct a series of hypersonic vehicle tests with its AUKUS partners under a new agreement designed to accelerate the development of the dual-use technology. The agreement, announced...

Australia’s search for asymmetric advantage

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
Asymmetric capability is now a defining term in our increasingly geopolitically volatile and technologically driven 21st century. It refers to a situation in military and strategic contexts where one...

Defence Innovation Strategy on the way

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Defence will publish its first innovation strategy since 2020 later this year to capture seismic changes to policy, procurement and budgets, while putting a new premium on experimentation and...

Defence opens up on its innovation imperative

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Defence has put local dual-use technologies like quantum, sensors and rocket propulsion on its radar to develop an asymmetric advantage amid a geostrategic environment that is demanding capability sooner....

Dual-Use Forum: Where Defence meets industry

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Following the recommendations of last year’s Defence Strategic Review, the Defence Innovation, Science and Technology (IS&T) ecosystem has restructured the way that it engages with industry and how it...