Growing communities to support Defence innovation
Our Mission
To harness the skills and resources in Victoria and Tasmania to facilitate the creation of new defence and national security capabilities.
Building the STEM Pipeline
Through undergraduate and postgraduate internships, postgraduate scholarship top-ups, prototype development and more, we support science and technology R&D at various stages, ensuring a robust STEM pipeline.
Acting as an Informed Entry Point
With strong connections to universities, industry and government, DSI provides a broad overview of defence-relevant capabilities, facilities and priorities across Victoria and Tasmania.
Supporting Collaborations
DSI’s grants and supporting activities facilitate collaborative research and commercial projects. We help open the unmarked door to new partnerships and opportunities.
Bringing People and Solutions Together
We match people from different sectors looking for specific capability, commercial solutions or funding opportunities and bring together technically and culturally compatible partners.
Current Opportunities
Keep up-to-date with the latest opportunities within The Defence Sector
DARPA - HERMES - HR001124S0025
DARPA is seeking innovative proposals to develop systemic drug delivery platforms for medical countermeasures.
Hermes will address the following drug delivery challenges:
(1) developing novel platforms and formulations capable of encapsulating large, complex cargos with limited immunogenicity; and
(2) effective biodistribution to, and expression in, multiple cell and tissue types concurrently.
The Hermes program ...
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UK Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) - Protecting Physical Assets for UAS Attack
DASA is seeking proposals that enhance physical defensive countermeasures which can be used to mitigate a Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS) kinetic attack.
The C-UAS technology market currently focuses on targeting the UAS in flight; an outer line of defence. This competition complements this work by concentrating on how best to protect an asset from an ...
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DARPA - Structures Uniquely Resolved to Guarantee Endurance (SURGE) - HR001124S0018
DARPA is soliciting innovative proposals to rethink and accelerate distributed additive manufacturing of critical structural parts, by demonstrating an alternative path to the current machine-focused paradigm of part qualification in additive manufacturing.
SURGE will develop methods to predict part life directly from data collected during additive manufacturing (AM) in a way ...
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