DMTC stakeholders are reminded that the second application round of the PIC Innovation Program will be closing at 2pm AEDT on Friday 7 December 2012. Any company wishing to apply for funding in this round will need to ensure applications have been submitted by this time. Defence has been quite specific that late applications will not be accepted by the Program. Details can be found here
Posted by DMTC on November 27th, 2012DMTC’s hypersonic and high temperature materials project leader, Dr. Michael Smart was awarded the prestigious von Karman award for international aerospace cooperation in aeronautics at the recent International Council of Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) conference in Brisbane. Dr. Smart was a co-recipient of the reward with Dr Allan Paull (DSTO), Mr Doug Dolvin (US Air Force Research Laboratory) and Dr Kevin Bowcutt (Boeing Research and Technology, USA).
DMTC congratulates all recipients of this award. Further details can be found here
Posted by DMTC on November 21st, 2012DMTC is delighted to announce that the research program in offline programming of automated welding has won Thales Australia’s “The Darryl Page award for Manufacturing Excellence” at Thales’ Annual Awards function on 13 November.
The research has led to increased implementation of offline welding technology in Thales’ production environment since the program commenced. Thales has noted that, although initially scoped for implementation on the Bushmaster Utility Vehicle, the flexibility of the code has led to its adoption for the Bushmaster troop variant and implemented to achieve an continuous improvement from 30% to 80% since program commencement.
DMTC notes in particular the superb work of University of Wollongong researchers, Stephen Pan and Nathan Larkin in leading the development of this technology that has substantially improved productivity for a key industry partner of the Centre.
Posted by DMTC on November 18th, 2012The Minister for Defence Materiel, The Hon. Jason Clare MP this morning presented a vision for submarine design and construction to delegates of the Submarine Institute of Australia’s 6th biennial conference, in which he likened the project to the Snowy Mountains Scheme project of the mid-20th century, and called for Australian capability to get behind the project and work together to achieve this challenging goal.
The text of Minister Clare’s speech can be found here
DMTC welcomes Minister Clare’s views as outlined in his speech, and notes that success in this activity will of course require significant cooperation, collaboration and innovation from across the relevant Australian industry and technology sectors. DMTC is actively pursuing opportunities to take a key role in this important project via the range of materials and manufacturing technologies which have demonstrated impact on industry capability. We welcome any interested parties enquiries and views in this regard.
Posted by DMTC on November 14th, 2012