Innovation and R&D have always been the essential foundations of a strong, sustainable defence industry. Australia’s 2016 Defence White Paper, Defence Industry Policy Statement (DIPS) and Defence Integrated Investment Program (DIIP) acknowledge the importance of successful Defence R&D and innovation to the nation’s defence industry and thus to Australian defence policy. The 2020 Defence Force Structure Plan reinforced these foundations.
EX2 was set up by Dr Gregor Ferguson, a defence industry and innovation analyst and consultant, to make a useful contribution in Australia’s new and welcoming defence business environment.
EX2 helps innovators in Defence, the research sector and industry, and especially SMEs, by providing news and insight about innovation in Defence and adjacent sectors such as space, aerospace and resources.
Gregor Ferguson writes, teaches, advises and runs a national program designed to encourage and reward innovators in the defence, aerospace and maritime domains in both industry and the research and academic communities.
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Dr Gregor Ferguson, Ph.D, BA (Hons), MRAeS
Lockheed Martin will build the first megawatt-scale, long-duration energy storage system for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). GridStar® Flow will be installed at Fort Carson, Colorado for the U.S. Army under the management of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development…
Canberra-based Lockheed Martin Australia (LMA) will team with Australian space company Inovor Technologies to support the ‘Hosted Missions Program,’ a key feature of LMA’s Enhanced Australian Industry Capability (AIC) plan for JP9102, the ADF’s sovereign SATCOM program. If adopted, LMA’s…
Australia’s Air Traffic Management provider Airservices Australia has chosen Thales Australia as its primary system integrator for an Integrated Drone Surveillance System (IDSS) trial at Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport. Thales is already prime contractor on the joint civil/defence OneSKY upgrade of…
Northrop Grumman Australia has implemented a mentoring program for the winners of its inaugural Australian Tech and Innovation Showcase - Vai Photonics, Fortifyedge and Nominal Systems. The showcase, presented by Northrop Grumman in collaboration with Bondi Partners, provides small and…
A new research centre which has just opened in Port Melbourne has showcased its first fruits with a two-year partnership between RMIT University and Elbit Systems of Australia to tackle natural disasters. Gregor Ferguson Elbit Systems of Australia, or ELSA,…
Canberra-based technology company Electro Optic Systems (EOS) has appointed Shane Geisler as its inaugural Chief Information Officer (CIO). The new role will see Shane take responsibility for aligning the company’s global ICT systems as well as for cyber security in…
Melbourne-based DMTC Limited is seeking Expressions of Interest for collaborative project proposals focused on Medical Countermeasures (MCM). The call for EoIs is being issued by Health Security Systems Australia (HSSA), a division of DMTC Limited which aims to build sovereign…
Elbit Systems of Australia’s (ELSA) Centre of Excellence in Human-Machine Teaming and Artificial Intelligence is teaming up with RMIT University to develop drone technology to protect lives amid the chaos of unfolding disasters. The two-year partnership, announced at the ELSA…
The joint Boeing – NATO PROJECT X innovation challenge which finished earlier this year has generated new ideas for autonomous systems to reach inaccessible locations and improve situation awareness, says the company. This three-month-long intense rapid-prototyping competition allowed innovators from…
Melbourne-based Swinburne University of Technology and Ernst & Young Australia have launched a new Space Tech Hub supported by $3 million of funding from EY. The new hub is designed to tackle major environmental and economic issues using cutting-edge space…
