Defence Industry Minister, Australian Government
Stories naming Melissa Price. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Nine companies received Defence Innovation Hub contracts totalling $19 million to develop technologies for the Australian Defence Force, with RFTEQ winning the largest single award of $5.31 million.
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Australia's Defence Innovation Hub has granted ten companies defence contracts totalling $23 million, the largest being $5.88 million to A.W. Bell Machinery, in an announcement made by minister Melissa Price.
The federal government announced a $41 million defence contract for NSW engineering group Varley, part of a wider deployable infrastructure investment; the piece also notes $784 million in recent manufacturing grants.
Thirteen industry-research collaborations share $32 million in Round 12 CRC-P government grants, spanning hydrogen storage, hypersonic drones and mRNA manufacturing; partner contributions total $56 million. No individual recipients are named.
Canberra is putting $20 million into an Adelaide space manufacturing project, matching the state government's earlier $20 million, with four local spacetech firms among the collaborators.
Five Australian defence SMEs received federal grants totalling $1.1 million to buy equipment for export-focused manufacturing, with the defence industry minister also launching a defence export app.
Canberra announces ten Defence Innovation Hub contracts worth $10 million for companies building artificial intelligence for defence, including Lumination, Droneshield and Real Response, each receiving an individual grant for a specific technology project.
Two Victorian companies win Defence Innovation Hub grants: QinetiQ receives $5.4 million for a deployable battlefield micro-grid with the University of Melbourne, while DMTC Limited gets $3 million for protective suit technology.
Ten Australian small businesses received defence technology grants of up to $300,000 each under the government's ICERA program, part of Next Generation Technologies, covering themes from cyber to autonomous systems.
Satellite IoT firm Myriota won a $5.48 million Australian government Defence contract via the Defence Innovation Hub, weeks after a Spire Global partnership and an insurance-sector investment from IAG's venture arm.
Canberra awards Defence Global Competitiveness grants totalling over $1.2 million across six Australian small manufacturers, funding equipment and capability upgrades to lift their defence export production.
The federal government awarded over $8 million through the latest Sovereign Industrial Capability Priority grant round to 11 Australian defence businesses, funding equipment, facilities and capability upgrades.
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Australia's Defence Innovation Hub announced ten new innovation contracts worth nearly $20 million, including a $2.7 million award to Western Australia's Mission Systems Australia, as forward defence spending passes $300 billion.
Six Australian small manufacturers have received Defence Global Competitiveness Grants totalling $837,000 to build export capability, including work supporting the F-35 fighter program.
Promoted profile of electronics manufacturer Elexon Electronics, recounting its government-supported manufacturing upgrade and offering SMEs advice on entering defence supply chains through grants, networking and agency services.
Twelve small businesses have received grants totalling $3.6 million under the first round of Defence's ICERA initiative, backing projects in cyber security, sensors, human performance and other priority technology areas.
Three Australian manufacturers receive Sovereign Industrial Capability Priority grants totalling just over $2 million to build welding, robotics and precision capabilities that reduce Defence's reliance on foreign suppliers.
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Eight Australian defence small businesses received grants totalling 3.4 million dollars under a government capability program, with individual awards listed for companies including Penten, Gilmour Space and Amiga Engineering.
Queensland aerospace manufacturer HeliMods has been awarded a $150,000 Defence Global Competitiveness Grant, its second in under a year, to buy equipment for making helicopter upgrade components, per minister Melissa Price.
Silentium Defence wins a $3.2m Defence contract for its passive space radar, plus a $1.46m Space Agency award for an observatory; Prism Systems receives a $925,000 grant for Navy-related work.
Australia's Defence Innovation Hub has awarded 28 million dollars in grants across nine new contracts, including over seven million to BlueZone Group for maritime vehicle technology and 4.8 million to QinetiQ for submarine air-quality systems.
A Tasmanian maker of drone powertrain systems has received a defence export grant to buy equipment that will expand its electronics production for unmanned aerial vehicle components.
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Several Australian security and technology firms, including Penten and Quintessence Labs, received Defence Innovation Hub contracts totalling over $21 million, with individual grants detailed.
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Eleven Australian small manufacturers have received defence capability grants totalling almost five million dollars under a government programme, with individual awards listed for each recipient.
Melbourne drone company AVT Technologies received a $5.2 million Defence Innovation Hub grant to improve drone image quality, following an earlier $2 million grant for a lightweight stabilised imaging gimbal.
Two drone technology companies received Australian defence grants totalling 8.6 million dollars, announced by the industry minister at a Canberra conference, with one recipient previously funded for earlier work.
Two defence-sector companies received Defence Innovation Hub contracts announced by the minister: one for bridge monitoring technology, the other for space traffic management data solutions.
Canberra revealed naval defence work, including a submarine design subcontract linking Lockheed Martin and Safran, plus a $3.5 million government grant helping Sypaq Systems build a drone for naval surveillance use.
Australia's defence industry minister has announced grant recipients under a program backing small defence manufacturers, with 13 firms sharing funding and some joining a trade delegation at a London expo.
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Four South Australian defence SMEs, including Inovor, Solinnov and Consunet, plus QinetiQ's Adelaide office, have won Defence Innovation Hub contracts for satellite, radio and electromagnetic technologies.
Fifteen companies received defence innovation grants totalling $28 million through the Defence Innovation Hub, including Carbon Revolution for Chinook helicopter wheels; the Geelong firm also completed a convertible note raising in June.
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Applications open for a further round of a defence grants program; earlier recipients include three named manufacturers, with $12.4 million granted so far in amounts from $50,000 to $1 million.