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First Australian Defence Cooperative Research Centre formed for development of Trusted Autonomous Systems

First Australian Defence Cooperative Research Centre formed for development of Trusted Autonomous Systems

The Australian Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon
Christopher Pyne MP, today announced
the formation
of the first Defence Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for
Trusted Autonomous Systems. The formation of this CRC had been initially announced
in July 2017.

The inaugural participating members are BAE Systems
Australia, RMIT University, DefendTex and the Department of Defence,
represented by Defence Science and Technology Group.

Initially, there will be three Defence CRC research projects
led by BAE Systems, Thales Australia and Lockheed Martin in the land, maritime
and aerospace domains respectively (details on the participants are available here).

Additional companies and universities will join as participating
members and research partners as the Defence CRC grows and takes on more
projects. There are ongoing discussions with Boeing Australia and CSIRO’s
(Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Data61 for their
future involvement in the Defence CRC for Trusted Autonomous Systems. 

Minister Pyne also announced that as the outcome of a
competitive process the headquarters of the Defence CRC for Trusted Autonomous
Systems will be located in Queensland.

“This announcement is great for the state of Queensland, and
clearly proves that our biggest build-up of defence capability in our country’s
history is truly a national endeavour”, Minister Pyne said.

The Defence CRC is being set up
under the Next Generation Technologies Fund (NGTF), with AU$50 million invested over seven
years to deliver trustworthy smart-machine technologies for new defence
capabilities based on advanced human-machine teaming concepts.

(The NGTF together with the Defence Innovation Hub,
forms the core of a new integrated defence innovation system for Australia, as
outlined in the Government’s
 Defence
Industry Policy Statement
. NGTF has been allocated an investment of around
AU$730 million till June 2026, while the Defence Innovation Hub will receive
around AU$640 million over the decade to FY 2025–26.
  

These two signature innovation research and development
programs, together with the Centre for Defence Industry Capability (
CDIC),
deliver on the Government‘s AU$1.6 billion commitment to grow Australia's
defence industry and innovation sector. Both NGTF and the Defence Innovation
Hub are under the Department of Defence, while CDIC is under the Department of
Industry, Innovation and Science.
)

The Defence CRC establishment is based on a formation plan
developed by Chairman of the Defence Cooperative Research Centre, Jim McDowell,
in collaboration with a panel of independent experienced experts from industry,
academia, Defence and the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. The
expert panel included former Australian Chief Scientist Ian Chubb, Professor
Hugh Durrant-Whyte, the UK Defence Ministry’s Chief Science Adviser, Air Vice
Marshall Neil Hart (Retd), and Mr. Paul Merrow, former CEO of GD Defence
Australia.

“I thank the panel for their expert advice in shaping the
Defence CRC which will play a vital role in giving Defence a game-changing
capability,” Minister Pyne said.

Chairman of the Defence CRC, Jim McDowell, commented, “This
has been a good start to rapidly form a Defence CRC with a totally novel
formation process and to do it on schedule. Our focus as we move forward will
be Industry led projects with real translation opportunities to move technology
rapidly from universities into industry and ultimately into leading edge
capability for the Australian Defence Force.”

Featured image: U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Aaron Burden

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