Tag: Dual-Use

Voting now open for InnovationAus People’s Choice Award

Posted on   |  by David McClure
With the InnovationAus Awards for Excellence finalists now locked-in for 2024, the voting has now opened to the public to find a worthy winner of the prestigious People’s Choice...

Growing calls for Defence to seed a dual-use tech fund

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australian and US Defence departments must forge closer innovation ties to counter China’s technology growth, including jointly backing dual-use breakthroughs with a new venture capital fund, according to a...

Defence accelerator clocks one year at top speed

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Defence’s Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator is firing on all cylinders, according to its head Professor Emily Hilder, who says she is “surprised” by how much work her small team...

Defence opens up on its innovation imperative

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
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....

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....

AIM to deliver Defence’s first drone-killing laser

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Melbourne-based AIM Defence has landed a $5.4 million contract for the sale of counter-drone lasers, representing the Australian Defence Force’s first acquisition of a prototype directed energy weapon for...

US spruiks opportunity from defence trade alignment

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
A licence-free export arrangement for technologies with dual civilian and military uses represents a commercial opportunity for Australia, according to the United States’ under secretary for arms control and...

Interim ASCA head Emily Hilder made permanent

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Professor Emily Hilder has been appointed the permanent head of the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator, the Defence accelerator charged with supercharging defence innovation in Australia. Professor Hilder, who has...