The Defence Innovation Hub has awarded contracts worth $27 million to ten Australian businesses, including a Tasmanian research organisation. Defence industry minister Pat Conroy said: “Investing in Australian innovation is critical to building our national defence capability. “The contracts being announced reflect the ingenuity of Australia’s defence industry, and the Albanese Government’s commitment to building…
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By Peter Roberts The latest report from the same mob whose policies brought you today’s fragile and narrowly based economy – the Productivity Commission – gives us more of the same faith in markets as suitable drivers of an economy that has so patently hobbled productivity growth. The PC, and its ally the Treasury have…
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Syringe-free vaccination technology company Vaxxas is to receive an $8.2 million grant to support the scale up of manufacturing at its Australian manufacturing facility. The Cambridge Massachusetts and Australian company was awarded the second round grant as part of the federal government’s Modern Manufacturing Initiative (MMI) to support manufacture of its skin patch which delivers…
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Additive manufacturing business Conflux Technology and US defence contractor General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI) have extended their long-running partnership through a new contract on the design and manufacture of a fuel oil heat exchanger (FOHE) for the MQ-9B drone. The two companies have worked on four additive manufacturing projects since 2018. The latest aims…
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Medical device technology company Seer Medical has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for use of its ambulatory epilepsy monitoring system ‘Seer Home’ in the US. The company’s at-home monitoring system and wearable medical devices have already been used by 11,000 Australians, with a larger US market now opening up – around 3.4…
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Austal launches 115-metre high speed ferry Austal Philippines has successfully launched the 115-metre, high speed vehicle-passenger ferry Express 5 for MOLSLINJEN A/S of Denmark (pictured) The launch utilised a new vessel transportation system designed by Austal. The ‘Auto Express 115’ high-speed catamaran ferry is the largest ferry (by volume) constructed by an Austal shipyard and…
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Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer finalised the acquisition of Brisbane digital health startup ResApp Health for $179 million on Monday. ResApp uses technology licensed from University of Queensland commercialisation company UniQuest in 2014, and developed by a team led by Associate Professor Udantha Abeyratne. It interprets a patient’s cough through a smartphone app to diagnose respiratory diseases…
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Changes to electric vehicle policies foreshadowed by the federal government have encouraged electric truck manufacturer SEA Electric to double the size of its local assembly facility for zero-emission trucks in Dandenong, Melbourne. The company, which team its EV drive trains to OEM supplied truck chassis here and in the United States, will expand its present…
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Dr Siqi Huo, who will begin as a researcher at University of Southern Queensland next year, has been awarded a $421,000 grant from the Australian Research Council for work on improved one-component epoxy resins. Huo was recently awarded a grant through the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme for research on what is…
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The US Department of Homeland Security has extended its contract with carbon fibre nanotube X-Ray machine manufacturer Micro-X to continue the development of a Miniaturised CT Baggage Scanner. DHS also exercised an option to continue the Passenger Self-Screening Checkpoint design (pictured), with the two contracts are now valued at US$4.5 million to the Adelaide company.…
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