Growing communities to support Defence innovation
Our Mission
To harness the skills and resources in Victoria and Tasmania to facilitate the creation of new defence and national security capabilities.

Building the STEM Pipeline
Through undergraduate and postgraduate internships, postgraduate scholarship top-ups, prototype development and more, we support science and technology R&D at various stages, ensuring a robust STEM pipeline.

Acting as an Informed Entry Point
With strong connections to universities, industry and government, DSI provides a broad overview of defence-relevant capabilities, facilities and priorities across Victoria and Tasmania.

Supporting Collaborations
DSI’s grants and supporting activities facilitate collaborative research and commercial projects. We help open the unmarked door to new partnerships and opportunities.

Bringing People and Solutions Together
We match people from different sectors looking for specific capability, commercial solutions or funding opportunities and bring together technically and culturally compatible partners.
Current Opportunities
Keep up-to-date with the latest opportunities within The Defence Sector


UK Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) - Open Call for Innovation: Advanced Materials for Defence (IFA038)
DASA is seeking innovative solutions across two challenges in Advanced Materials:
Challenge 1 - Intelligent Materials and Structures - focused on materials and structures that can either sense changes in their environment, actuate a change under extreme environmental conditions, or a combination of both. This challenge is also concerned with assessing ...
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UK Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) - Open Call for Innovation: AI for Defence (IFA039)
DASA is seeking proposals that harness all types of AI to deliver significant benefits to Defence.
Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
autonomous logistics and logistics chain efficiency improvement
exploiting operational data
human-machine teaming for military effect
machine-speed decision making
increasing efficiency
DASA are also interested in proposals ...
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UK Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) - Themed Competition: Analysing and Understanding Audiences (Phase 1)
DASA is seeking proposals that can help UK Defence develop capability in Analysing and Understanding Audiences. It is focused on identifying innovative tools, techniques and methods that have potential to aid selection, analysis and understanding of audiences.
Submissions for proposals of up to £100,000 at TRL 1 - 4 are due ...
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