The Australian Department of Defence has launched a $150 million Defence Industry Development Grant (DIDG) program. The Grant, announced in the Defence Industry Development Strategy, will soon be open for applications, says the department The new grant program will provide…
Australia is adopting a UK program designed to help Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) work under one supply chain system to cut compliance and administration costs in doing business with the Australian Department of Defence and major primes in the…
The Department of Defence and Lockheed Martin Australia have signed the contract to deliver the first phase of Project AIR6500, the Joint Air Battle Management System (JABMS). The company was named winner of the contest to head this project in…
So, Defence has published two long-awaited (and long overdue) documents – the Defence Industry Development Strategy (DIDS) and its response to the Hilarides review of the RAN’s surface combatant fleet, Enhanced Lethality Surface Combatant Fleet. You should read them together.…
The Australian Department of Defence has awarded ten grants worth some $3.4 million in total to support the delivery of cutting-edge defence capabilities while creating highly skilled jobs and boosting local manufacturing. The latest round of the Defence Global Competitiveness…
The Australian Department of Defence and Mitsubishi Electric Australia (MEA) have signed an agreement to develop and transition a cutting-edge laser capability for the Australian Defence Force to enhance surveillance and survivability of defence platforms. The new capability, being developed…
The Australian Department of Defence is reorganising its three regular brigades and adding a fourth in a series of wide-ranging changes designed to transfer most of Army’s combat weight to northern Australia. In doing so it is implementing key recommendations…
Sydney-based DroneShield Ltd has been awarded a follow-on 2-year R&D contract worth $9.9 million by a Five Eyes Department of Defence (DoD). The award follows DroneShield materially completing the $3.8 million contract announced 4 June 2021 with the same DoD. The company has not named the customer. “Follow-on contracts are…
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…