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Centre for Advanced Defence Research and Enterprise launched

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(L-R) Dr Axel Bender, OCE STaR Shot Leader, Professor Jia-Yee Lee, Director CADRE-OCE, University of Melbourne, Professor Duncan Maskell, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne and Professor Emily Hilder, Acting Chief Defence Scientist. Image supplied by The University of Melbourne
(L-R) Dr Axel Bender, OCE STaR Shot Leader, Professor Jia-Yee Lee, Director CADRE-OCE, University of Melbourne, Professor Duncan Maskell, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne and Professor Emily Hilder, Acting Chief Defence Scientist. Image supplied by The University of Melbourne

Defence's ability to operate safely in hazardous environments is being enhanced with a new national research and innovation centre dedicated to enhancing the ADF's ability to operate in Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Environments (OCE).

The establishment of the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator

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The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, the Hon Richard Marles MP and the Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Pat Conroy MP have announced the establishment of the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator, delivering on the Government's election commitment to drive innovation that creates new capability for the Australian Defence Force.

The story behind JORN: ‘We young guns were going to make this as good as we could’

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Of all Australia's significant defence assets, the Jindalee Operational Radar Network is probably the least visible to Australians, and the least appreciated for delivering safety and security to the nation.

Revolutionary stress imaging device takes out National Innovation Award

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A new robust, lightweight device that is suitable for fitment to aircraft and able to deliver vital stress data in real time has taken out the National and SME Innovation Awards at the Australian International Airshow.

The Barra Sonobuoy: the Australian invention that makes it harder for subs to hide

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The Barra sonobuoy is one of Australia's most successful Defence joint development projects, and highlights Australia's history as a global leader in the development and manufacture of advanced technologies.

Gaming in Defence

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Defence scientists, Mr Alex Rohl (right) and Dr Susannah Whitney (second from the left), featured on a panel at PAX Aus 2022

Defence uses game techniques, technologies, and innovation to help deliver training and capability across the Defence ecosystem.

Small business has big future thanks to Defence innovation funding

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Founders of cyber security business InfoSect, Silvio Cesare and Kylie McDevitt.

Funding through Defence's Next Generation Technologies Fund has helped a small cyber security start-up grow its business from being largely a training provider, to one where almost half its income now comes from research and development.

Teams prepare for robotics showdown in Sydney

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The James Cook University team work on their autonomous vehicle for the RobotX competition in November. (Image supplied)

Aspiring robotics specialists from around the world will converge on Sydney later this year to take part in the 2022 RobotX competition.

From synthetic data to the world’s fastest helicopter, inventors pitch innovations to market

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Inventors and entrepreneurs will pitch their innovations at the D.Start Ignite Innovation Showcase

In a bid to win the attention of investors and Defence capability managers, budding innovators and entrepreneurs will pitch their innovations to potential customers as part of an online Defence innovation showcase.

A high performance computing capability for Defence

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HPC team member Chris Howlett inspects one of the HPC pilot racks.
HPC team member Chris Howlett inspects one of the HPC pilot racks.

Game-changing is a phrase bandied about too often these days. But DST's John Taylor says it's an apt descriptor for the high performance computing (HPC) service that DST is building for Defence.

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