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Defence Science and Technology and the Next Generation Technologies Fund (NGTF) have announced the launch of the 'A Joint Effort' Stage 2 competition later this year to focus on joining technologies enabling the use of advanced materials and/or designs on key military platforms.
It is anticipated that Stage 2 of the ‘A Joint Effort’ competition will launch later this year. This NGTF and Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition is looking for innovative joining technologies that enable the use of advanced materials and/or designs on military platforms in land, sea and air environments.
DST is keen to encourage potential participants to collaborate in the next stage to strengthen bids. In order to help facilitate this, it has set up a closed LinkedIn group to allow current participants and those interested in applying to Stage 2 (either independently or as a consortia with successful Stage 1 participants) to interact, get to know each other and form mutually beneficial collaborations.
Stage 1 of ‘A Joint Effort’ launched in November 2018 as a parallel call between Australia (DST Group, NGTF and Small Business Innovation Research for Defence) and the UK (Materials for Strategic Advantage program within the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory) and was managed by both DST/SBIRD and DASA.
Many different materials are within scope, including joining combinations of composites, metals, ceramics and polymers. Potential joining solutions should provide enhanced capability through one of the following:
- improved performance through use of new material combinations or structural designs;
- improved durability of structures through better joints; and
- improved ability to maintain joints through the life of the military platform.
If you are interested in applying to join the group, the Joint Effort Collaboration Form is available here.
Stephen Kuper
Steve has an extensive career across government, defence industry and advocacy, having previously worked for cabinet ministers at both Federal and State levels.
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