UNSW Defence Research Institute

• UNSW is the only Australian national academic institution with an integrated defence focus. Its strengths are defence, national security, and engineering research.
• UNSW boasts a proud 59-year history of educating Australian and allied military personnel. UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) has been the academic partner of the ADF since 1967, with an international reputation for providing exceptional defence education and leading research.
• UNSW partners with defence, industry, government, and other universities to develop sovereign research capabilities. Capabilities that enable Australia and its partners to meet the demands of a constantly changing Indo Pacific geopolitical environment.
• UNSW leverages its extensive capabilities across the spectrum of humanities, arts, built environment, business, design, law, social sciences, engineering, medicine and science to generate new knowledge and accelerate the defence concept to deployed capability cycle.
• UNSW defence and national security capabilities, including those aligned with AUKUS Pillars

One and Two:

– Hypersonic and counter-hypersonic measures

– Nuclear engineering

– Undersea capabilities

– Quantum materials, technologies and computing

– Information warfare and advanced cyber security

– Artificial Intelligence

– Robotics, autonomous systems, machine learning

– Electronic warfare

– Space

– Human performance, protection and behaviours

– Biotechnology

– Engineering, materials and manufacturing

– Sensors, communications and micro electronics

– Power generation and control

– Critical supply chain

• UNSW Key Facts

– 7 Faculties, 2 Colleges, 45 Schools and over 8,300 researchers across four main campuses in Sydney and Canberra

– Research and Development (R&D) focused university – 57 Centres and Institutes

– Over 82,000 students from more than 130 countries

– One of the world’s top 20 universities

– Annual operating income: over AUD$3 billion / USD$1.9 billion

– Annual research revenue: approximately AUD$600 million in externally-commissioned R&D

– UNSW Engineering is ranked 1st in Australia

– 1st in Australia for research quality and impact

• Key Defence Industry Programs

– Defence Trailblazer Program – Concept to Sovereign Capability

– Security & Defence PLuS Initiative

– Defence 10x Accelerator

• UNSW Key Institutes & Enablers

– UNSW Defence Research Institute

– UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy

– UNSW Industry & Innovation

– UNSW AI Institute

– UNSW Institute for Cyber Security

– UNSW Canberra Space

– UNSW Canberra Launch

– UNSW Capability Systems Centre

– UNSW RNA Institute

– UNSW Founders

– Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T)

UNSW is focused on establishing strategic research and educational partnerships with government, industry and defence agencies across partner nations in the spirit of aggregating and amplifying world-leading capabilities through key programs. Some of our key defence

focused enablers and programs include:

• UNSW Defence Research Institute

– The UNSW Defence Research Institute facilitates partnerships across academia, governments, and the defence and national security sectors to promote societal resilience, security and cohesion. Our approach focuses on leveraging UNSW’s world class research capabilities, building strategic partnerships with Defence, government, and industry, and supporting UNSW clients and students in offering lifelong learning opportunities that ensures Australia’s defence and national security workforces remain competitive and resilient. More information via: https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/dri

• Security & Defence PLuS Initiative

– UNSW is part of the Security & Defence PLuS Initiative – a key academic, research and educational collaboration aimed at advancing AUKUS. The initiative combines the strengths of three leading defence research intensive universities on three continents

– Arizona State University, United States, King’s College London, United Kingdom and

UNSW, Australia to accelerate concepts to deployed capabilities. More information via:

https://securityanddefenceplus.plusalliance.org/

• Royal Australian Air Force
• Australian Army
• Royal Australian Navy
• Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) (Australia)
• Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) (Australia)
• Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) (Australia)
• Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)
• UK Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA)
• United States Department of War
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
• United States Office of Naval Research Global
• Lockheed Martin
• BAE Systems Australia
• Babcock Australasia
• Huntington Ingalls Industries
• Airbus Defence and Space
• Northrop Grumman
• Raytheon
• Thales
• Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC)
• Diraq

UNSW is a member of the following defence industry and academic partnerships:

– Defence Science and Technology Group (Australia)

– Group of Eight (Go8)

– PLuS Alliance

– Global Alliance of Technological Universities

– Association of Pacific Rim Universities

– NUW Alliance

– Sydney Quantum Academy

– Universitas 21

– NSW Defence Innovation Network (Australia)

– NSW Space Research Network (Australia)

– NSW Smart Sensing Network (Australia)

– CSIRO: Data61 (Australia)

– Security & Defence PLuS Initiative

– Defence Trailblazer Program