Tag: Department of Defence

Defence drops $100m on local and overseas drones

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A new fleet of reconnaissance drones will be acquired by the Australian Defence Force under a $100 million-plus deal with Germany’s Quantum-Systems and Australia’s own SYPAQ Systems. The federal...

Defence to wear new APS contractor cuts

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Defence department will need to find more than $270 million in savings over the next four years as part of the Albanese government’s extended purge of contractors and...

Defence reveals cost of fledgling Secret cloud

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Canberra-based Vault Cloud will be paid $15 million to deliver the beginnings of Defence’s Secret cloud environment as the search for a hyperscaler capable of delivering redundancy for business-critical...

Defence Secret cloud race narrows as Accenture deal hits $50m

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Accenture has landed another a $14.7 million contract for work on Defence’s enterprise cloud services capability, while the department continues talks with shortlisted hyperscalers Google and Oracle on a...

Walls come down for dual-use tech trade through AUKUS

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Organisations developing dual-use technologies like quantum computing, lasers, sensors, aerospace and propulsion systems will gain easier imports from the US after Australia received a licencing exemption from American regulations....

‘A new frontier’: Marles on Defence’s buying philosophy

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Defence minister Richard Marles says the concept of minimum viable capability will play an increasingly important role in bringing cutting-edge technologies and asymmetric advantage to the military. Mr Marles...

Govt becomes broker for defence industry

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Australian government is set to broker the sale of sovereign defence capabilities to other nations on behalf of local firms under a new program designed to boost export...

APS heavyweights sit out Microsoft Copilot trial

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Two of Canberra’s biggest federal government agencies are sitting out a six-month trial of Microsoft Copilot while another 7,400-plus public servants put the generative artificial intelligence assistant through its...