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DTB Insights: Maximising Defence Trailblazer R&D Tax Incentives

Exclusive for Defence Trialblazer Partners

Are you fully leveraging your Defence Trailblazer expenditure in your R&D Tax Incentive claim to drive innovation and business growth?

Join Noah Connect for an exclusive webinar designed specifically for Defence Trailblazer partners, as part of our DTB Insights Series. Our expert guest speaker, Maggie Ng, understands how Trailblazers work and will share tailored insights to help you maximise your claim, reduce costs, and fuel your business growth.

Date: Thursday 10 April 2025
Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm AEST (11:00am – 12:00pm ACST)
Delivery: Online

WHY ATTEND?
  • Tailored insights – Get expert advice specific to Defence Trailblazer partners
  • Maximise your claim – Ensure you’re accessing the full benefits of the incentive
  • R&D Tax Incentive interaction – Understand how grant funding and in-kind contributions impact your claim
  • Success stories – Learn how other Trailblazer partners have successfully leveraged the program.

DEADLINE: AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge

The Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator’s (ASCA) mission is to accelerate the development and transition of asymmetric capabilities to the Australian Defence Force through innovation, in order to meet Defence priority needs.

Challenge : Undersea Communications and Autonomy

AUKUS partners are seeking to research and develop innovations to enable the synchronisation and teaming of multiple undersea systems. We invite innovations that enable some or all of the following Desired Capability Effects:

1. Provide near real time communications between Undersea Vehicles (UVs)

2. Provide near real time communications from UVs to Command and Control (C2) Systems /Battle Management System (BMS)

3. Provide near real time communications between seabed systems to UVs and C2 System and BMS

4. Provide a system that can optimally allocate the right asset to the right task in a dynamic and complex environment

5. Provide optimal bandwidth utilisation and effective range, and perform in a contested/congested environment

For full details and requirements, please refer to the AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge 2025: Undersea Communications and Autonomy documentation suite.

AIDN | Meet the new WA Chapter Council

📢 WA Chapter Council 2025 – Kickoff Event! 🚀

Join us for an exclusive opportunity to meet the WA Chapter Council for 2025 and connect with the leaders driving Defence Industry engagement in Western Australia.

With WA playing a critical role in Australia’s Defence landscape—spanning shipbuilding & sustainment, land combat systems, aerospace support, and emerging technologies—this is your chance to discuss key priorities, upcoming projects, and advocacy efforts that will shape the future of the industry.

📅 Date: Wednesday 9th April 2025
📍 Location: Raffles Hotel, 70-72 Canning Beach Rd, Applecross WA 6153
⏰ Time: 17:30 – 19:30

This is your chance to engage with the WA Chapter Council, share your ideas, and help shape 2025 events and advocacy efforts for Defence Industry in WA.

DEADLINE: Defence Graduate Program: Research and Innovation (R&I)

DSTG is recruiting Australia’s brightest STEM graduates!

The Defence Graduate Program: Research and Innovation (R&I) pathway is the key pathway to kickstart your career as a recent graduate working with Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG).

DSTG is the Australian Government’s lead agency dedicated to providing science and technology support to deliver scientific advice and solutions for Defence and national security challenges.

The 12-month program provides the opportunity to apply the knowledge you’ve learnt through your University studies to real-life, cutting-edge Defence research programs. You will have the chance to see how we work, learn on the job skills (across 2 rotations), and upon program completion you’ll transition into an ongoing role with DSTG.

DEADLINE: Navigate 2025 Program

The NAVIGATE program is a dedicated science and technology pathway designed to enable high performing STEM specialists to transition into the complex area of Defence science and technology or continue to build on their career in Defence.

Participants in the program will have the opportunity to apply their expertise and experience to Defence’s priority S&T challenges such as Information Warfare and Resilient Multi-Mission Space.

The program includes:

  • 12 months of learning the ins and outs of Defence and Government, including two six-month rotations.
  • A dedicated professional development program where you will build on your skills.
  • One-on-one mentoring.
  • Full time salary within each S&T Level:
    • S&T 5 – $115,8995 – $ $130,733 pa, with an additional 15.4% superannuation
    • S&T 6 – $ $134,567 – $ $161,521 pa, with an additional 15.4% superannuation
    • S&T 7 – $ $161,522 – $ $192,221 pa, with an additional 15.4% superannuation

Subsea Controls Down Under Conference

The Perth branch of the Society for Underwater Technology host their 7th Subsea Controls technical conference and Exhibition

This international conference in the field of “Subsea Controls & Data Acquisition” is aimed at the diverse disciplines engaged in subsea controls technology. The goal is to share experiences by networking, discussing global and regional challenges, showcasing ways of bringing new ideas and technology to the market, sharing learnings and providing an understanding from an operator’s viewpoint on how the industry can benefit from operational and project experiences.

The Conference will be held at the Parmelia Hilton in Perth on the 29th & 30th October 2024, with a networking/welcome Ice Breaker Function to be held on the 28th October 2024 at Frasers Restaurant.

Masterclass Series AUKUS: Pillar II ADVANCED CAPABILITIES

The UWA Defence and Security Institute is pleased to announce the second in its Masterclass Series. With the support of the Department of Defence, Department of Foreign and Affairs and Trade, and Defence West (State Government of Western Australia), the UWA DSI Masterclass: AUKUS: Pillar II will be held on Wednesday 9 October 2024.

This essential course has been designed for those seeking a deeper understanding of AUKUS Pillar II (Advanced Capabilities) and its strategic impacts on Western Australia and the broader region. This course will explore the vision, technologies and innovations that form the foundation of Pillar II, and how all stakeholders can lean into WA’s ability to deliver these advanced capabilities by connecting the dots inside and outside the ecosystem to make WA an integral part of this nationwide endeavour.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This 1-day Masterclass has been designed for those who need to understand and enable the possibilities and the practicalities of Pillar II, including defence industry from innovators and manufacturers to consultants, exporters and peak bodies; academics; government; Defence ; commerce bodies and investors.

WHY WILL THIS COURSE BENEFIT YOU?
The presenters will be leading Australian and international policymakers, experts and practitioners, from Defence, government, industry and universities.

Webinar: Geopolitical Risk and the Energy Transition

How do geopolitical tensions impact the global energy supply? What are the security risks associated with the energy transition? How will the energy transition affect global power dynamics?

For the seventh webinar in the Perspectives on Transition series, we are delighted to host ANZ’s Head of Geopolitical Risk, Cameron Mitchell. Cameron will provide a geopolitical update and discuss how global tensions, conflicts and developments have the power to shape our progress towards a successful energy transition. He will explore the interplay between trade, technologies, policy, defence and ideologies, and share his insights into the challenges and opportunities that transition presents in a complex global landscape.

UWA Defence & Security Public Event Invitation

WA’s Growing Strategic Importance : A Deep Dive into AUKUS and the Surface Fleet Review

The UWA Defence and Security Institute warmly invite you to attend a public event and panel discussion on WA’s Growing Strategic Importance: A Deep Dive into AUKUS and the Surface Fleet Review.

For an Australian state that has gained much of its regional prominence in the export of minerals and hydrocarbons from its Indian Ocean ports, Western Australia has also grown in strategic and military importance over the past few years. The AUKUS announcement and a more consequential U.S. Force Posture Initiative commitment coupled with a bigger WA shipbuilding focus, as evidenced in the wake of Australia’s recent Combatant Surface Fleet Review, has put HMAS Stirling and the Australian Marine Complex in Henderson in both the national and regional spotlight.

We are delighted to invite to Perth for this special event and program, Dr Zack Cooper, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C., Professor Alessio Patalano, Professor of War & Strategy in East Asia, Director, King’s Japan Programme, King’s College in London, Jennifer Parker, Expert Associate, National Security College, ANU, Professor Peter Dean, Director, Foreign Policy and Defence at the United States Studies Centre, The University of Sydney. Linda Dawson, Deputy Director General, Industry, Science and Innovation at the Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation will moderate this panel discussion and the Honourable David Johnston will be our Master of Ceremonies.

We hope you are available to join us as our expert speakers take a deep dive into how Western Australia fits into AUKUS and broader U.S., U.K. and Australian strategic thinking about the region.

This public event will take place in the theatre-auditorium located at The University Club of Western Australia. Please register as places are limited

Date: Tuesday 25 June 2024

Time: Registration: 5:45 pm – 6:15 pm (Doors open @ 6 pm)

Event: 6:15 pm – 8:00 pm

Networking Reception: 8:00 pm – 8:45 pm

Location: The University Club of Western Australia – Hackett Entrance #1, Hackett Drive, Crawley.

This is a free event so registration is essential by Friday 21 June for catering purposes.