China has had the world’s fastest growing economy since the 1980s. A key driver of this extraordinary growth has been the country’s pragmatic system of innovation, which balances government steering and market-oriented entrepreneurs. Right now, this system is undergoing changes which may have profound implications for the global economic and political order.
BlueScope Steel, University of Wollongong and the Future Fuels Cooperative Research Centre have announced a 13-month, $1.8 million project to explore methods to reduce carbon emissions from steelmaking at the Port Kembla Steel Works.
Queensland government-owned CS Energy and natural gas producer Senex Energy have announced a joint venture to develop the Kogan Renewable Hydrogen Demonstration Plant near Chinchilla, which will fuel the latest planned stop on the tri-state Hydrogen Superhighway.
Today @AuManufacturing’s editorial series Excellence in maritime manufacturing looks at Anduril Industries’ Extra Large Autonomous Undersea Vehicle which is destined for local manufacture, and how manufacturing is helping the company to disrupt the defence sector. Getting defence capabilities from the concept to final product stage can be a very time-consuming – manufacturing can follow years…
Anduril Australia, the Royal Australian Navy and Defence Science and the Technology Group will design, develop and manufacture three prototype Extra Large Autonomous Undersea Vehicles (XLAUVs) over the next three years. According to an announcement by defence minister Peter Dutton on Thursday, Defence and Anduril Australia would co-fund the program, working to an “ambitious build…
Perth’s Curtin University and NASA JPL spin-off Chascii will work to deliver the first-ever optical communications from a 1U CubeSat based on the technology behind WA’s Binar-1 spacecraft. The spacecraft optical communications system will be developed in a new partnership between Curtin’s Space Science and Technology Centre and laser communications leader Chascii. Speaking at the…
US prime defence contractor Northrop Grumman has brought together a powerful group including Australian SMEs to bid to construct a military satellite communications system. The team includes Inmarsat, L3Harris, AECOM, Blacktree Technologies, EM Solutions and Vocus, and will be able to draw on decades of collective experience to invest in and grow an ‘Australian sovereign…
A report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute has injected a little reality into claims that Australia is paying too much for military equipment, and specifically the Hunter class frigate programme. In Understanding the price of military equipment ASPI senior analyst Marcus Hellyer argues that that the cost of modern military equipment can be eye-wateringly…
Today @AuManufacturing’s editorial series Excellence in maritime manufacturing turns to the involvement of Australian owned SMEs in defence contracts. Here Peter Roberts interviews Brent Clark, CEO of our largest SME defence body, the Australian Industry & Defence Network. @AuManufacturing: The appointment of a defence industry minister in 2016 began a more public effort by the…
