MESSAGE FROM DEFENCE INNOVATION WEBSITE NGTF PROGRAM LEAD The Department of Defence welcomes your innovative ideas, no matter how big or Dr Janis Cocking THE MINISTER FOR small. If you work for a university, research agency, multinational, have your own Chief Science Strategy and Program DEFENCE INDUSTRY business, belong to a think-tank, or anything in between, Defence wants to hear from Defence Science & Technology you. The website is home to Defence innovation priorities and helpful documents like [email protected] THE HON our new intellectual property strategy and contracting framework. It’s also where you CHRISTOPHER PYNE, MP can submit your innovation proposals to our two signature innovation programs – The Next Generation Technologies Fund and the Defence Innovation Hub.

The Next Generation Technologies Fund is a cornerstone of the ’s 13 28 46 | www.business.gov.au/cdic $1.6 billion investment in defence industry innovation to build a technologically-advanced of the future. The Next Generation Technologies Fund and the Defence Innovation Hub form the core of a new integrated defence innovation system. The new Centre for Next Generation Technologies Defence Industry Capability is the front door and primary access point to the defence innovation system. Together these initiatives will contribute to ’s for Australia’s defence and economic prosperity and jobs growth. At $730 million over ten years, the Next national security Generation Technologies Fund is the largest ever investment dedicated exclusively to the development of future, game-changing Defence capabilities. This calls for the combined intellectual talent and scientific ingenuity in our nation’s universities, research agencies and industry to deliver innovative solutions that will defeat emerging and future threats, many of which have not yet been envisaged. The opportunities offered under the Next Generation Technologies Fund are varied and challenging. They demand smart thinking, intensive research and sustained collaboration to succeed. Government looks forward to these opportunities being transformed into effective capabilities for the Australian Defence Force.

Christopher Pyne Minister for Defence Industry The Next Generation Technologies Fund focuses on fundamental research and the development of future game-changing concepts that can be further matured and realised into military capability through the Defence Innovation Hub. This forward-looking program with an investment of $730 million over the decade to 2026, is managed by Defence Science and Technology (DST) with the support of industry and academia. QUANTUM COMPUTING SMALL SATELLITE PROGRAM HYPERSONICS F o r c e d e D s ef e i g n n c en t C e a

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