Tag: Emily Hilder

ASCA buys 300 sovereign drones under $6.6m challenge

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Budding Australian drone manufacturers AMSL Aero, Boresight and Grabba Technologies have shared $6.6 million in Defence production contracts following the success of their prototypes under the Advanced Strategic Capabilities...

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....

Dual-Use Forum: Where Defence meets industry

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Following the recommendations of last year’s Defence Strategic Review, the Defence Innovation, Science and Technology (IS&T) ecosystem has restructured the way that it engages with industry and how it...

Gig Guide: Defence accelerator brings in outside help

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Defence’s ambitious industry and research accelerator has brought in outside expert advisors, while ANU’s inaugural security chief returns to research and the founder of AUCloud heads home. The Advanced...

First AUKUS innovation challenge launches

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The first trilateral AUKUS innovation challenge has launched in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom to find military technologies that solve electronic warfare problems across the alliance....

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...