Adelaide-based Daronmont Technologies Pty Ltd has confirmed that an undisclosed United States Government customer has bought its ‘Stealth’ Passive Radar system. This represents the company’s first export sale of its passive radar technology. The value of the contract has not…
The Canberra-based Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has calculated that Defence spending will actually fall slightly up to 2025-26, despite the urgency expressed in last month’s Defence Strategic Review. However, spending on defence innovation will rise slightly within this constrained…
Australia’s 2023-24 Defence Budget was handed down on 9 May 2023, less than a month after the release of the unclassified Defence Strategic Review (DSR). It follows much the same trajectory as the budgets handed down last year: the budget…
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles and the Minister for Defence Industry Pat Conroy MP with Chief Defence Scientist Professor Tanya Monro announcing the establishment of the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator. Image: Defence Defence will invest $3.4 billion…
The Defence Innovation Hub, in collaboration with the Australian Army, is seeking innovative Submissions from industry for a Special Notice relating to ‘Counter Robotic and Autonomous Systems for the Land Force’. Successful submissions will be exhibited at Army Innovation Day…
Adelaide-based SME Inovor technologies is preparing for a busy 2023 says CEO Dr Matt Tetlow. The company is teamed with Lockheed Martin Australia on Defence’s Military Satellite Communications program, Joint Project 9102, which should be decided this month or next,…
Australian firm Quasar Satellite Technologies Pty Limited has been awarded a $5.3M Defence Innovation Hub contract to develop a multibeam phased array space communications ground station as well as enhanced space domain awareness. The company has also been shortlisted for the Avalon…
DroneShield Ltd has delivered all Contractual elements of the Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision System (ACVS) program to the Australian Department of Defence under a Phase 2 Defence Innovation Hub program originally announced in November 2021. The contract value is approximately…
Brisbane company EPE has successfully demonstrated a stand-off chemical and explosive detection capability developed under two successive Defence Innovation Hub (DIH) contracts. With Defence focused on human-machine teaming to remove soldiers and operators from immediate threats, EPE was awarded a…
The Defence Innovation Hub has awarded contracts worth $27 million to ten Australian businesses, including a Tasmanian research organisation. “Investing in Australian innovation is critical to building our national defence capability,” said Minister for Defence Industry Pat Conroy. “The contracts being…