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📢 Attention #Researchers & #Industry! #CRC #Grants Round 27 is officially OPEN. 🇦🇺
Looking to solve industry-wide challenges through medium to long-term collaborative research? This is your chance to scale.
Apply here: 🔗 https://bit.ly/4ruiZ5s
#CRCGrants @IndustryGovAu
If you do large-scale malware analysis to keep your organisation safe & keep abreast of threats then you need Azul
@ASDGovAu's new open source malware analysis tool helps you explore, analyse & correlate malware at scale
Find out more - https://bit.ly/4b5n2QF
🥁 Huge congrats @Swinburne & the #CMCI CRC partners!
This $238M+ initiative is set to lead the global energy transition with 0-carbon refining tech.
📄 Gov Release https://qrco.de/bgg5Am
📰 Swinburne https://bit.ly/40pRRd1
#CriticalMinerals #Sovereign #FutureMadeInAustralia
#ICYMI: How should we actually use Generative AI in Military OR?
Join the next #ADORCP Meetup featuring Prof. Terry Caelli Bash 🧸 & @DefenceScience for a deep dive into the future of defence operations.
🗓️ 24 March | 1 PM AEDT
💻 Teams ID: 242 912 271 815
🔑 Pass: JF2j4Vn3
🚩Want to see Aussie #DeepTech startups solve global challenges?
10 powerhouse research teams will take the stage at @CSIRO ON Accelerate 2026 in Melbourne to pitch to investors, gov, and industry leaders. 🎤
🔗RSVP wp.csiro.au/ontransl...
🔎Read more https://bit.ly/3N7WMMC
DARPA wants to use precision ground-truth data to go beyond microscopic models of #turbulence closures directly to macroscale principles to inform aeronautical design
Find out about the upcoming AutoDIDACT program 1 April
Register here by 18 March https://bit.ly/4rxruNf
Australia's Explosive Ordnance Safety Symposium - PARARI 2026 - will be in Canberra, 24 - 26 Nov
This year's theme of 'Proportional Safety – From Competition to Conflict' is seeking abstracts for technical papers & workshops by 5 Aug
https://www.parari.org/
The Australia-Korea Foundation is offering grants of $50k–$150k to strengthen bilateral links.
Seeking projects in:
✅ Tech&AI
✅ Energy&Supply Chains
✅ Arts, Culture&Education
Apply by 13May2026.
Details: https://bit.ly/3NbDWE6
#Grants #Australia #Korea #Tech
🚀 Huge news for the Deep Tech community
@CSIRO has announced the #ONAccelerate 10 cohort.
10 dynamic research teams are turning lab #breakthroughs into real-world ventures. From AI healthcare to mine-void energy storage, the future is being built here
⏰Is your team ready to meet the demands of Australia's #sovereign defence priorities? The Defence Industry Development Grants (#DIDG) Program – Skilling Stream is closing on 31 March AEDT.
🔗 Apply here https://bit.ly/4upuOwE
#DefenceIndustry #Capability #STEMSkills #Grants
ASCA wants innovations to support resilient command & control for pitching at #ADSTAR
- operate in DDIL environs
- predict & ensure resilient C2 capabilities
- recover degraded C2 networks
Briefing 17 Mar - https://bit.ly/4saYn3C
RFIs due 14 April - https://bit.ly/4sDpB2w
🎓 Apply now for the CSIRO Industry PhD Scholarship! 🇦🇺
Get ~$48k/yr for living expenses + $13k for project costs over 4 years. Work with CSIRO and industry partners on real-world innovation.
📍 Open to AU citizens/PR & NZ citizens.
Apply by 2 April: https://bit.ly/46HBUSS
Operations research your thing?
Have you heard about the new Australian Defence Operations research Community of Practice?
24 March will see Terry Caelli talk on 'How Should We Use Generative AI in Military Operations Research?'
https://bit.ly/4syfv2H
'@DefenceAust is seeking partners for the $1B Advanced Capability Investment Fund to scale Aussie SMEs. 🇦🇺
Join the online info session on 12 March to learn more!
Register: https://bit.ly/4s0oB8S
Submit EOI by30 April: https://bit.ly/4lf0fp5
#Defence #Investment #SME
Calling all sports science #researchers!
ESSA is offering in-kind research support (Letters of Support & survey access) for projects aligning with #industry priorities.
Next deadline: 2 April 2026
📍 At least one investigator must be an ESSA member.
👉
The US Dept of War has updated its 6 Critical Tech Areas for 2026!
✅ Applied AI
✅ Biomanufacturing
✅ Contested Logistics
✅ Quantum&Battlefield Info
✅ Scaled Hypersonics
✅ Scaled Directed Energy
Essential reading for defense&tech sectors.
Full list: https://bit.ly/40N5cfq
DAIRNet's next seminar will feature Alan Turing Institute's Rupert Barrett-Taylor talking about "Between Promise and Practice: The Challenges of AI in Military Command"
Register now for 12 March - https://bit.ly/3NbkrM4
🚀 Connect with MBDA via the Supplier #Industry Day in Melbourne on 18 Mar.
Pitch your innovation to MBDA experts—no prior defence experience required. All are welcome!
📩 RSVP: Email Company, ABN & 2 names to ftn.innovation.gateway@mbda-systems.com
👉https://bit.ly/4ld7yxH
DYK our @AustralianArmy celebrates 125 years of service this year?
Select bases around the country will be open 14 March, showcasing capabilities with interactive displays, demonstrations & family-friendly activities
https://bit.ly/4kRjIw3 for times and locations near you
A a flexible, scalable, easily-portable energy storage and power conversion & distribution system would make a huge difference in the field
Defense Innovation Unit wants to make this happen
https://bit.ly/4r7zcxe with your ideas by 16 March
.@UKDInnovation wants new models & treatments to study wound aetiology, test therapeutics & lower morbidity in complex conflict wounds
Funding for up to 28 months to move from TRL1 to 6 (models) or 4 to 8 (treatments)
apps by 24 Mar
https://bit.ly/3Z8Bd0O
Defense Innovation Unit is looking for innovative autonomous low profile vessel solutions for critical re-supply in congested waterways, at sea, in port (pier-to-pier, ship-to-ship, ship-to-shore)
https://bit.ly/4u4pxdC by 16 March
Better be quick.
There's only a couple of days left to get your EoI in to go to #LandForces2026 as part of the #Victoria Govt Pavilion
Show the world what you've got to offer as a pod or roving exhibitor
EoI closes 5 March - https://bit.ly/45ZF7gd
With a theme of 'Coalition Convergence: interoperability and innovation in Indo-Pacific EW', EW ANZ 2026 is the place to be if you are into electromagnetic warfare, spectrum operations, CEMA or information operations
Canberra, 11-13 March
https://ewanz.org
✅ located in #Tasmania?
✅ advanced manufacturing or technology enterprise?
✅ tendering for Defence work?
Dept State Growth has matching funds up to $30K for you to get help writing that winning tender
See if you're eligible - https://bit.ly/45evtH2
Only a couple more sleeps until ICSL's Malware & Reverse Engineering Conference 26-27/2/26 in beautiful #Ballarat
Bringing together industry, academia & govt for all things #cybersecurity
& then it B-Sides Ballarat!
If you haven't got your ticket - https://bit.ly/3ZhyUbI
Export to the USA?
Hear from Deputy Head of Mission to US, Jason Robertson, @Austrade's Jay Meek & Day's Elizabeth Ward on the latest tariff changes
9:00am Thursday 26 Feb
Register here - https://bit.ly/4qYxhuW
DYK our @AustralianArmy celebrates 125 years of service this year?
Select bases around the country will be open 14 March, showcasing capabilities with interactive displays, demonstrations & family-friendly activities
https://bit.ly/4kRjIw3 for times and locations near you
.@DIU_x is looking for innovative deployable solutions to monitor & assess hemodynamic status in forward combat environs
Portable, network-capable systems for triage & predictive warning, usable by medics & non-medics
Info session 26 Feb
Subs due 2 Mar
https://bit.ly/47779qx
Time to start getting ready
@ASCA_Aus' 1st Pitch Day for 2026 will be held at #ADSTAR in Adelaide, looking for resilient command & control innovations
RFI for those wanting to present will be released in March on AusTender
https://bit.ly/3OFKZ8t