Collaboration: Why Defence and startups must work together

The war in Ukraine has firmly cemented what Defence has known for the last decade: the pace of innovation and adoption for new defence technologies has gone from 10-year cycles to sub-year cycles. Defence needs to be faster, more agile and more efficient. Sub-year cycles.

To rise to this challenge, Australian tech startups and the Australian Defence Force (ADF) need to work together for Australia to achieve both these national security and broader economic goals. This isn’t a natural fit for either side, and the efficacy of this partnership is lost when using innovation intermediaries such as the primes. This paper will explore why.

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