The latest round of grants from the SA Defence Innovation Partnership’s Collaborative Research Fund involves three new projects for Flinders University experts.

Susan Close, State Minister for Defence and Space Industries, announced four new collaborative projects to support the development of next generation technologies.

The Defence Innovation Partnership is a collaboration between Defence SA, the Department of Defence’s Next Generation Technologies fund, as well as South Australian universities.

The latest round includes semiconductor research, space technologies and environmental monitoring:

• $150,000 for dual-use satellite messaging beacon system for Defence and emergency services, led by Safety from Space and supported by Flinders University, University of South Australia, SmartSat CRC and Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG).
• $150,000 for sensing semiconductor devices with terahertz waves, overseen by the University of Adelaide and supported by Flinders University, Keysight Technologies Australia and DSTG.
• $148,658 for rapid environmental monitoring using autonomous systems, managed by the University of Adelaide and supported by Flinders University, Acacia Systems and DSTG.
• $149,404 for validation of a test and evaluation model for planning and architecture optimisation, overseen by UniSA and supported by the University of Adelaide, Nova Systems and DSTG.

“Over the last five years, the CRF has unlocked more than $12 million of collaborative defence and space R&D activity across 29 projects in South Australia,” says Deputy Premier Ms Close.

The program brings researchers together with industry and defence groups to collaborate on projects that provide “real life technological solutions not only for Defence, but also across broader industries including space”.

Find more about Flinders University’s new Centre for Defence Engineering Research and Training here.