Completed Project

This project will develop a broad-acting radiation protectant and mitigant that limits damage to multiple organs, reducing lethality and lessening both acute and delayed effects of radiation exposure from contaminated environments or events.

This project bridges the gap between different decision-making approaches to create a novel hybrid approach that enables multi-agent systems to make effective decisions in complex and dynamic scenarios.

3D-printed metals that can reliably withstand extreme environments are an ongoing need for Defence and industry. Printing-induced internal defects and stresses in the metals deteriorate their strength, resulting in weakened structural integrity. This project will enable the development of advanced manufacturing processes.

Traditional methods for informing situational awareness of space objects struggle to account for complex factors like perturbations from external forces, non-spherical Earth effects, and uncertainties in initial state estimates. This new approach incorporates these factors into its estimation process, resulting in a more realistic and adaptable representation of uncertainty.

This project is focused on creating specialised cybersecurity software to analyse and monitor Operational Technology Networks (OTN) more effectively and aims to create models and intelligent computer programs (AI algorithms and novel visualisation techniques) that can speed up the process of visualising, understanding, and monitoring unfamiliar technology networks.

This project builds upon a networked model of decision-making agents in a complex conflict environment. The team proposes to advance these modelling efforts to combine the command and control (C2) function with additional logistic and resource transfer components.

This project will deliver an interim capability for obtaining in-situ, real-time ocean data from rapidly deployable autonomous systems using data fusion techniques to DSTG; and an opportunity to explore a new product offering that complements current products and services provided to defence by Acacia Systems.

This research activity will introduce a new technique for satellite-based connectivity for people in a hazardous environment when ground-based communications network infrastructure is unavailable through denial or degradation, whether from natural causes or bad actors.

Defence systems acquisition is fraught with all sorts of financial, technical, and political risks. Arguably the most resource-demanding stages in any acquisition program are the various stages of test and evaluation.

This project is founded upon The University of Adelaide’s (UoA) unique synergy between side-channel attacks and terahertz technology. It presents opportunities in dual use of security and non-contact circuit evaluation, highly attractive to our defence partner, DSTG, and UoA’s commercial partner, Keysight.

This project aims to develop a hydrophone array for identification of underwater acoustic vibrations, benefiting the Australian Defence Force.

SOCRETIS has the potential to enable Defence Information Warfare capability by bolstering national resilience to malign influence in the grey-zone. The primary aim is to assist people with navigating the information environment at hand (initially focussing on social media posts), enabling more evidence-based opinions and decisions.

This project will develop a new Virtual Reality (VR) tool for the rapid design assessment of environments with digital human mannequins (DHMs).

It is critical to understand better how wargames can be beneficial and in which situations they can result in inaccurate analysis and negative learning. This project proposes a design framework that draws inspiration from capability maturity models that have successfully been applied to domains such as software development, cyber security, and people management.

This project aims to develop a neurobiological marker that predicts individual cognitive capacity, an augmented reality (AR) wearable solution and an AR-integrated biofeedback system.

This project will contribute to expanding intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities by developing bespoke optical components for deployable space telescopes.

This project aims to improve human-machine interfaces on Australian naval vessels by developing a console solution to limit the negative impact on operators from light pollution.

Bringing together expertise from across South Australia in experimental quantum optics (DSTG), quantum information theory (UofA), novel quantum sources (UniSA) and classical time transfer techniques (CryoClock), this project will transfer timing information through a free-space optical link at the pico-second level, around 1000 times better than what is available currently through the global positioning system.

Maritime border control is a high-priority concern for the Australian Defence Force. Lux Aerobot will develop a solution consisting of a constellation system of self-organising, low-cost, high altitude balloons to provide near real-time ship detection.

This project will advance the development of a forensic intelligence tool that targets dust particles on personal items and goods, establishing a new counter-intelligence capability that will support Australian defence and national security.

Space is becoming crowded and hostile, demanding satellite systems that can respond to adverse events. Most satellites cannot autonomously avoid space junk or hostile objects due to a lack of onboard propulsion. Nanofluidic thrusters offer a solution, based on nanoscale actuation of ionic liquids in chip-based (non-invasive) thrusters.

Voxon Photonics' true volumetric 3D display has a graphics engine fast enough to deliver voxels (points of light), to allow the observers to see an object or a scene in volumetric 3D space without having to wear headsets or special glasses.