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 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 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....
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...
The first trilateral AUKUS innovation challenge has launched in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom to find military technologies that solve electronic warfare problems across the alliance....
Defence will launch a trilateral AUKUS innovation challenge on electronic warfare within months and move towards a foreign sales arrangement where government act as an intermediary, as the Albanese...
The first major test of the acquisition powers of the Defence department’s new Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) will pass a major milestone next month with a competitive “fly-off”...
Posted on | by Dr Nigel McGinty and Professor Tanya Monro
The Manhattan Project has been in the spotlight through the movie Oppenheimer. It was a mission-driven race that sought strategic competitive advantage. This was a project on a massive...
Posted on | by Professor Emily Hilder and Professor Tanya Monro
Australia is in an ever evolving and challenging strategic environment made increasingly uncertain by rapid technological development. This has been clearly spelt-out in the Defence Strategic Review published earlier...
Australia’s chief scientist Dr Cathy Foley will deliver a lunchtime keynote address to The Capability Papers launch forum at Old Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday, an event that...