Safran to receive Australian Research Council grant

SEDA is expected to begin a $1.8 million research project alongside the University of Adelaide (UoA), with $643,565 of ARC funding.

The joint program seeks to improve the Navy’s situational awareness through artificial intelligence, and will be achieved by building sensing equipment that will detect the presence of nearby vessels.

The joint SEDA and UoA program is titled Collaborative Sensing and Learning for Maritime Situational Awareness.

CEO of Safran Pacific, Alexis de Pelleport, welcomed the opportunity to expand Australia’s naval capacity.

“Safran considers collaboration in early stage research a key pillar of our business and it brings us a competitive advantage. Through this project, we will advance Australian sovereign capability by developing maritime intelligence gathering technology for the Royal Australian Navy,” de Pelleport said.

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