Defence Industry Minister, Defence Innovation Hub
| Role | Organisation | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Defence Industry Minister | Defence Innovation Hub | @AuManufacturing |
| Defence Industry Minister | Defence | @AuManufacturing |
| Science Minister | Cooperative Research Centre Projects | @AuManufacturing |
| Defence Industry Minister | Australian Government | @AuManufacturing (5 Apr 2022), @AuManufacturing (4 Apr 2022), Startup Daily, @AuManufacturing (18 Nov 2021) |
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.
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.