Innovation Drives Future Defence Capability - Defence Future Capability Technology Centre
Collaboration
- Date:
- 20 December, 2007
In accordance with the 2007 Defence and Industry Policy Statement, Defence will establish a cooperative centre to examine a specific future defence capability.
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- (l to r) Roger Lough, Warren Snowdon, Kim Carr, Theo Theophanous, Peter Preston, Kerry Clark, and David St John at the announcement of the successful Defence Future Capability Technology Centre.
The centre will utilise many of the characteristics of the broader Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Programme administered by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR).
The centre, a partnership between Defence, including DSTO, the Defence Materiel Organisation and the Capability Development Group, and DIISR, will facilitate collaboration between publicly funded research organisations, leading Australian universities and defence industry. The amount of Australian Government funding available for the DFCTC Program is approximately $30 million over seven years. The centre is expected to be operational by mid-2008.
A key element of this collaboration is to pool the expertise and resources of industry, universities and publicly funded research agencies to develop defence technology that will enhance the capability of the Australian Defence Force.
First DFCTC announced - the Defence Materials Technology Centre
The Minister for Defence Science and Personnel Mr Warren Snowdon and the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Senator Kim Carr announced on 20 December 2007 that the Defence Materials Technology Centre (DMTC) has been selected as the first to be established under the Defence Future Capability Technology Centre Program. For more information about the DMTC, click here
DFCTC Committee Members
The Defence Future Capability Technology Centre Committee is comprised of representatives from Defence, the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research and the Cooperative Research Centres Committee:
· Dr Roger Lough, Chief Defence Scientist, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (Chair)
· VADM Matt Tripovich, Chief Capability Development
· Mr Grahame Cook, Deputy Secretary, Department of Education, Science and Training
· Mr Kerry Clarke, Head Industry Division, Defence Materiel Organisation
· Dr Peter Jonson, Chair, Cooperative Research Centres Committee
· Dr Warren King, Member, Cooperative Research Centres Committee