Lockheed Martin Australia has completed a Field Capability Demonstration (FCD) of its ‘Agile Shield’ battle management system at the Puckapunyal Military Area in Victoria. ‘Agile Shield’ was developed by Lockheed Martin Australia’s Science, Technology, Engineering, Leadership and Research Laboratory (STELaRLab) in a Next…
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…
Lockheed Martin Australia has delivered a significant milestone in Defence’s Counter Improvised Threats Grand Challenge (CIT-GC) funded by the Next Generation Technologies Fund (NGTF), successfully demonstrating its ‘Agile Shield’ solution at its Endeavour Centre in Canberra. Developed by Lockheed Martin’s…
Defence has signed contracts worth $1.746 million with the University of South Australia and Deakin University for two research projects which will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to process noisy and dynamic data into information that will give military decision makers…
The Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) Quantum Research Network (QRN), under the Next Generation Technologies Fund (NGTF), is seeking submissions in the area of Quantum-Enhanced Communications (QEC). Building upon the success of previous rounds of QRN investment, and identifying new…
A team of quantum computer physicists at UNSW Sydney have engineered a quantum processor at the atomic scale to simulate the behaviour of a small organic molecule, solving a challenge set some 60 years ago by theoretical physicist Richard Feynman.…
Melbourne-based DMTC Limited is seeking Expressions of Interest for collaborative project proposals focused on Medical Countermeasures (MCM). The call for EoIs is being issued by Health Security Systems Australia (HSSA), a division of DMTC Limited which aims to build sovereign…
Defence will spend $50 million to leverage a further $200 million investment by a consortium of two universities, the CSIRO and more than 50 industry partners in the commercialisation of Australian-developed defence technology. The Defence Trailblazer: Concept to Sovereign Capability…
DMTC Limited and its partners have begun a series of projects in the Advanced Piezoelectric Materials and Applications (APMA) Program to accelerate the development of next-generation piezoelectric materials for defence applications. The APMA Program delivered by DMTC represents a coordinated,…