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Curated: Go8 Defence Capability 2019 Contents Introduction 4 The University of Adelaide 6 The Australian National University (ANU) 12 The University of Melbourne 18 Monash University 24 UNSW Sydney 32 The University of Queensland 38 The University of Sydney 44 The University of Western Australia 52 CURATED: GO8 DEFENCE CAPABILITY 2019 – 3 Introduction As Group of Eight (Go8) The Go8, because of its consistent Chief Executive I take global results and reputation has built strong working relationships with great pride in presenting to all sectors within the large area that you the curated Defence is known by that amorphous word Capability of the eight “Defence”. Go8 members, released But we want to do so much more, and we want to ensure we work to have in conjunction with the Defence better understand, have more “Go8 Defence Summit” visibility of, what we can provide. hosted by Go8 member Communication is key and while it is the University of Adelaide excellent, we recognise it can be far on 9 April 2019. better than currently exists; hence the Defence Summit which comprises representatives of our Defence The Go8 is comprised of Australia’s partners, industry, our researcher leading research-intensive and our commercialisation teams. universities. Seven of our eight members are ranked in the world’s From working with Defence to top 100 universities – no mean feat educate and train its graduate entry, in a nation of just 25 million people. we are also involved with workforce Only the US and the UK can best planning. We understand the Defence this result. emphasis on having access to the right graduates for its needs, now Over 99 per cent of the Go8’s research and into the future. is ranked as world class or above. While research is at our heart, we We also well understand the Defence are far more. With an ethos of quality emphasis on being able to work with and a commitment to excellence, our research teams; and that has we deliver Australia some 100,000 always begun with knowing what quality graduates each year; the research capability and support leaders of tomorrow. was available. 4 – CURATED: GO8 DEFENCE CAPABILITY 2019 We are not afraid to say we are home to the best – and proud to be so. Being the best, striving never to be anything less, has enabled the Go8 to build solid Defence research partnerships, and problem solving and advisory relationships, around the world with Governments and industry. We are a trusted partner, and we have been at the forefront of globally-defining Defence and Security technology and systems advances for many decades. This curated capability statement sets out who within the Go8 can Being the best, striving never to help and what we do. be anything less, has enabled the Go8 to build solid Defence research partnerships, and problem solving and advisory relationships, around the world Vicki Thomson with Governments and industry. Go8 Chief Executive CURATED: GO8 DEFENCE CAPABILITY 2019 – 5 The University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide Skills and capability contact point: The university has a proud history Professor Michael Webb of defence sector collaboration. It Director Defence and Security has worked extensively with both the T: +61 409 770 925 Department of Defence and defence industry to assist with workforce E: m.webb@adelaide.edu.au needs, to provide specialised capabilities, and high-quality, collaborative, research programs combined with extensive experience in transitioning research into practice. Defence stakeholders include: y DST y Vice Chief of the Defence Force Group y Defence Chief Information Officer Group (CIOG), Deputy Secretary Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG), Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation (AGO), Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) y US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) y Direction générale de l’armement, France y BAE Systems Australia y Lockheed Martin Australia 6 – CURATED: GO8 DEFENCE CAPABILITY 2019 y Boeing Defence Australia robot control (Professor Anton van den Hengel) y Dassault-Systèmes y Australian Submarine Corporation y Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (Professor y Naval Group (France) Anton van den Hengel) The university is also a key member Cyber Security of the South Australia’s Defence Innovation Partnership. y Side-channel attacks and computer hardware limitations Research strengths (Dr Yuval Yarom) y Provable Network Security Photonics & Advanced Sensing (Dr Hung Nguyen) y Precision Clocks underpinning y Human Aspects of Cyber Security significant advances in radar (Dr Malcolm Pattinson) capability (Professor Andre Luiten) y Cybercrime and Digital Forensics y Optical Material and Optical Fibre (Dr Matthew Sorell) Sensing for sensing and fibre laser applications (Professor Heike Distributed Software Systems Ebendorff-Heidepriem) y Complex Systems y Novel radiation detection (Dr Claudia Szabo) capabilities (A/Professor y Mission Critical Systems Nigel Spooner) (Professor Ali Babar) y Standoff materials identification Defence Communications for explosives sensing & Networking (A/Professor Nigel Spooner) y Defence Communications Modelling Machine Learning & and Simulation (Dr Matthew Britton) Artificial Intelligence y Combat System Modelling y AI for Autonomous Systems (Dr Matthew Britton) to analyse sensor data and CURATED: GO8 DEFENCE CAPABILITY 2019 – 7 The University of Adelaide Distributed Multi-Agent Control Chemical, biological, radiological incident response y Swarm Intelligence (Professor Cheng-Chew Lim) y Risk and evidence-based decision-making on HAZMAT y Autonomous Multi-Robot decontamination (Professor Systems for UAVs Dino Pisaniello) (A/Professor Steven Grainger) Applied Electromagnetics Acoustics, Vibration & Control y Including Antenna engineering and y Submarine signature management microwave passive components (Professor Carl Howard) (Professor Christophe Fumeaux) Graphene Research Physics Inspired Tracking y Enabled industry transformation, y Probability density function of including electromagnetic a target position and velocity and acoustic shielding (Professor Anthony Thomas) (Professor Dusan Losic) Pain blood test to assess psychology stress to an individual’s state of resilience Radar & Ionospheric Physics Sonar Sensor Array y Detection, radar imaging, GPS Signal Processing systems, passive radar systems, y Signal processing for sonar etc. (Dr Brian Ng) and operational systems y Ionospheric Physics relating (Professor Lang White) to space situational awareness Structural Health Monitoring (Dr Andrew MacKinnon) y Including state-of-art ultrasonic Directed Energy guided wave excitation and y Cryogenic solid-state laser measurement systems approach (Professor Peter Veitch) (A/Professor Andrei Kotousov) 8 – CURATED: GO8 DEFENCE CAPABILITY 2019 Nanoscale BioPhotonics Traumatic Stress Studies y Pain blood test to assess y Military health surveillance research, psychology stress to an including bio-stress markers individual’s state of resilience (Professor Sandy McFarlane) (Professor Mark Hutchinson) Social Media Analytics y Light-based neuronal control y Information dynamics on for human machine interfaces networks and topic modelling (Professor Mark Hutchinson) (Dr Lewis Mitchell) Visual Physiology & Neurobotics Research infrastructure y Bio-inspired autonomy In partnership with Government and (Dr Steven Wiederman) industry the University has established a number of world-class research Human Factors institutes and centres to tackle state y Brain and cognition and national research priorities. factors in Defence contexts Research infrastructure includes: (A/Professor Anna Ma-Wyatt) y The Institute for Photonics Military Law & Ethics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) with capabilities in the design, y Legal and policy issues relevant fabrication and implementation to military and security matters of disruptive measurement (Professor Dale Stephen CSM) technologies y International Space Law, y OptofabNode, an Australian “The Woomera Manual” National Fabrication Facility – (Professor Dale Stephen CSM) the leading speciality glass and optical fibre fabrication facility y Operational Commercial Law in Australia for sensing and fibre (Dr Colette Langos) laser applications CURATED: GO8 DEFENCE CAPABILITY 2019 – 9 The University of Adelaide y The Prescott Environmental y Centre for Nanoscale Biophotonics Luminescence Laboratory with laboratories world-leading radiation detection y Graphene Industry Transformation and measurement capabilities for Hub population radiation exposure, and forensic analysis of clandestine Collaborations radiological sites y The Visual Physiology and The University of Adelaide collaborates Neurobotics Laboratory investigates with defence organisations and visual processing from behavioural, defence industries: computational and physiological Sapphire Clock levels, with a multidisciplinary team covering neuroethology, High Frequency and Phased Array neurobiology, psychology, Radars have been identified by computer vision and engineering Defence as a priority industry capability. 20 years of leading- y The Australian Institute for edge fundamental research and Machine Learning infrastructure, cutting-edge engineering, have e.g. Visual Simultaneous delivered a disruptive technology Localisation and Mapping to revolutionise the Jindalee Over- y High-Performance Computing The-Horizon Radar Network (JORN). with a ‘Phoenix’ supercomputer This key defence surveillance asset with storage capacity of 700 could be significantly enhanced by terabytes and processing