Defence Industry Minister, Defence Industry Development Grants program
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The federal government is paying Electro Optic Systems $5.7 million under a Mission Syracuse contract to mature its R400 Slinger counter-drone weapon system, adding to earlier backing of AIM Defence and SYPAQ.
Sixty Australian defence firms share over $22m in the newest round of a federal grants program; seven recipients are named, with awards for manufacturing, infrastructure and capability projects.
Canberra has awarded initial contracts worth $21.3 million and $10.4 million to two counter-drone companies under a defence accelerator program, with billions more set aside for drone technology across the coming decade.
Pat Conroy announced a fresh tranche of Australian defence grants totalling over $17.3 million, with recipients including Fleet Space Technologies, Veem, HIFraser and Aurora Labs.
Perth marine manufacturer Veem won two $1 million defence grants for new 3D printing and machining equipment, lifting capacity to build components for navy and nuclear submarine programs.
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Australia's defence industry minister has begun handing out grants from a $169.1m program, with 58 local suppliers sharing $16.5m, days after a critical national audit of Defence's domestic industry performance.
ADT and Penten have received federal contracts totalling above $8m through a national defence accelerator, funding year-long electronic warfare prototype projects which, the minister says, secure over 150 jobs.
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Roundup of the week's five most-read manufacturing stories: a defence radio contract for Codan, university facility funding, a WEF white paper, ASCA missile-defence awards, and a port chair's farewell.
ASCA has contracted two unnamed defence firms, one from Adelaide and one from Brisbane, to mature technology that degrades enemy air-defence systems, under a $61.5 million initial government investment.
Defence grants totalling over $60 million went to 21 Australian organisations, with quantum software firm Q-CTRL among the recipients of contracts under a federal emerging technologies program.
Canberra is funding 21 quantum and counter-disinformation defence projects, awarding $60 million in grants through ASCA's Emerging and Disruptive Technologies programme to universities and companies nationwide.
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Australia's federal government announced plans to buy two military drone systems — Germany's Quantum-Systems Vector and Melbourne maker SYPAQ's CorvoX — for the Army and Air Force, with deliveries expected in 2025.
Eight Australian defence businesses will share $3.47 million in federal grants to buy manufacturing equipment and build facilities; QPE Advanced Manufacturing and Hexion Australia receive $1 million each.
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Ten Australian defence manufacturers, including DroneShield and Advanced Navigation, have received federal matching grants totalling $3.4 million under two Defence capability programs, as announced by Minister Pat Conroy.
More than eleven Australian defence firms have contracted to build drone prototypes under ASCA's Sovereign UAS Challenge, with contracts worth a combined $1.21 million and demonstrations planned for April.
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Eleven companies will develop prototype drones for Defence's Sovereign UAS Challenge, run by ASCA, under contracts worth a combined $1.21 million, with demonstrations due in April.
Seven Australian manufacturers, including Advanced Navigation and Quantx Labs, have received federal grants under two Defence capability programs, with individual awards from $150,000 to $830,665 supporting projects across four states.
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The Commonwealth has agreed to acquire radar maker CEA Technologies, eventually making it a government business enterprise. The piece also recalls Motorola's purchase of Barrett Communications and flags other vulnerable defence firms.
Australia's federal government awarded roughly $3.2 million in matched grants across two defence programs to six SMEs for manufacturing equipment, with amounts from about $62,000 to $1 million each.
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