Defence
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- Comprehensive defence technical knowledge
- Australia’s largest concentration of aerospace education and training facilities
- Defence projects at home and abroad
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Comprehensive defence technical knowledge
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Our strong design and technological capabilities have been built upon a long tradition of advanced manufacturing in Melbourne. These capabilities include:
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- military vehicle design, manufacture and support
- naval shipbuilding and warship design
- electronic systems design and support, including expertise in complex systems integration
- munitions and missile systems
- aerospace design, electronics, manufacture, support and overhaul
- personal equipment design, including uniforms and body armour
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There is also a strong cluster of manufacturing, IT, biotechnology, design and logistics firms in Victoria offering mutually supporting technology applications for the defence sector.
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Australia’s largest concentration of aerospace education and training facilities
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We have a number of leading defence research and development facilities available for collaborative use, including:
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- The Defence Science and Technology Organisation, which investigates future technologies for defence applications.
- The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), which has a manufacturing and infrastructure technology focus including microtechnology for radar applications.
- The University of Melbourne, which has capabilities in network centric warfare and data fusion.
- RMIT University, which has expertise in photonics research for electronic warfare applications.
- A Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Advanced Composite Structures, which conducts research into the design and research of advanced composite structures.
- A Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Microtechnology, which conducts research into micro-manufacturing technologies.
- Australian Aerospace and Defence Innovations (AADI), which facilitates technology uptake in the defence sector to support Australia’s defence capabilities.
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Defence projects at home and abroad
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Victorian companies are participating in innovative defence projects across the globe, including:
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Joint Strike Fighter program – eleven Melbourne companies are participating in the largest defence procurement project in the world.
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Thales Australia is supplying world class military vehicles to the Australian, Dutch and US armed forces.
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Tenix Defence is completing the Project Protector program, this involves the delivery of new military vessels for the Royal New Zealand Navy.
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