Entrepreneurial Foundations for Defence 2024 Participants
Advanced Alloy Holdings
Materials alloy innovation
TRL 6
Advanced Alloy Holdings aims to make Bright Brass as revolutionary for brass as stainless steel is for steel. Bright Brass can be applied across various sectors: in Defence for next-generation ammunition casings, and in other industries for lead-free plumbing and corrosion-resistant maritime applications. This lightweight, cost-effective, and high-performance material ensures that finished products are high quality, reliable, and competitively priced.
Advanced Composite Design Corporation
Non-Lithium battery technology
TRL 3
Advanced Composite Design Corporation (ACDC) is developing Nanobat solid-state batteries to replace lithium batteries in warfighter equipment, aiming to increase operational effectiveness. This is achieved by reducing the burden of heavy equipment and enhancing safety with higher energy density, lighter form factors, safer chemistry, and no risk of thermal runaway.
Apogee Shield
EMS threat detection and response
TRL 3
Apogee Shield is developing an electronic jamming cancellation device to help drone operators maintain communications and navigation in an EMS degraded environment with a chip-sized device that uses photonics to detect and filter threat signals.
Aurora Materials
Fluorescent technology for asset tracking
TRL 4
Aurora Materials provides scalable, tunable fluorescent materials for defense and high-end provenance stakeholders, enhancing identification, authentication, and tracking of valuable assets. The ultra low-profile materials offer unmatched modularity and robustness, emitting unique signatures in UV, visible, and near-infrared domains to meet mission-specific requirements.
CleanSubSea
Hull cleaning tech
TRL 6
CleanSubSea is developing a remote-operable (i.e.,
diver-less) in-water hull cleaning robot with complete
capture and filtration of marine growth/bio-fouling from
vessel hulls, with potential Navy and Army applications.
The solution has the benefits of maintaining operational readiness at full capacity, whilst eliminating risk to divers and costly/time-consuming dry-docking, and also meeting Australian bio-fouling legislation, with added cost and time saving benefits.
Crest Robotics
Confined space robots
TRL 3
Crest Robotics is de-risking naval asset maintenance, to help labourers and managers deliver asset care programs with enhanced safety and productivity, increasing longevity, cost-effectiveness, and preparedness of the fleet with dynamic tool-wielding robots.
Dragonfly Thinking
Geopolitical threat assessment/analysis (Al)
TRL 5
Dragonfly Thinking is developing techniques and Al-powered tools to help decision makers and analysts make better decisions in complex situations with the help of a structured analytics framework.
EcoJet Engineering
Portable energy turbine
TRL 5
Researcher led innovation with strong ADF engagement and great cross sector opportunities. Exceptional technical team is looking to commercialise their innovation.
EpiCentre.dev
Geopolitical threat assessment/analysis (Al)
TRL 5
EpiCentre.dev is developing decision support for cyber attack management to help decision makers in organisations and government understand the situation and identify and respond to possible cyber-attacks through transforming network data into a probabilistic map of status and intent.
EXTAG
Custom asset management software
TRL 7
EXTAG has developed a software platform that helps asset intensive organisations ensure their assets are compliant, safe and ready to use.
Proven in the Mining and Oil & Gas sectors for the last 6 years, EXTAG’s proprietary flexible platform enables rapid deployment and delivers customised value and outcomes for tactical, operational and strategic levels
Ghost Fire Systems
Rifle training technology
TRL 4
Ghost Fire Systems is developing electronic battlefield simulators to help the war fighter conduct tactical training anywhere & anytime, by substituting explosive blank firing cartridges, with an electronic weapon firing simulator.
GLIA Diagnostics
Quick brain injury assessment
TRL 4
GLIA Diagnostics is developing a point of care (POC) device, to help defence medical staff/operators define traumatic brain injury (TBI), within 20 minutes using a novel detection technology, incorporating proprietary blood based biomarkers.
Halcyon Technologies
Drone landing control for unstable surfaces
TRL 4
Halcyon Technologies is developing a maritime drone system with launch and recovery technology for the Navy, Army (amphibious forces), and the Australian Border Force. Our team, with extensive experience in large-scale autonomous systems, offers a low-cost, semi-attritable aerial surveillance solution integrated with other platforms via remote links, providing a significant capability edge and Warfighting advantage.
IIK materials
Materials for subs and UUAVs
TRL 4
IIK Materials is developing nanocomposite anechoic tiles for defense ships and submarines to reduce enemy detection at depths over 300m. Unlike rubber, these tiles withstand high pressure and are cheaper to manufacture, proving effective in laboratory tests.
KillerBees Industries
Drone swarm control
TRL 4
KillerBees Industries is developing autonomous swarming drones to help Defence deploy explosive devices, sensors, and communication nodes. These drones can deliver payloads up to 1kg over 40km and integrate with existing defense SA tools for mission management, including threat detection and elimination.
KINEM Robotics
Autonomous mobile platform
TRL 3
KINEM Robotics is developing a low-cost Optionally Crewed Remote Placement Platform (OCRPP) to help ADF and allies operate in hostile environments. Integrating weapons handlers, machine vision, communications, and Al, this deployable platform performs defense, surveillance, and support tasks, enhancing tactical and operational capabilities in semi-autonomous warfare.
Multiforge
Aviation emergency response training aids
TRL 6
Multiforge has developed physical training aids to help aviation emergency responders improve their limited tactical positioning training resources by producing specific, modular, training aids (built to scale) that are intuitive to use and increase training engagement, efficiency and effectiveness.
Nanocube
Materials tech for armour protection
TRL 3
NanoCube is developing novel body armour to help improve soldiers’ survivability with a nano-composite based full body armour including thermal signature characteristics.
Nautic Technologies
Diver protection tech
TRL 4
NAUTIC Technologies pioneers underwater buoyancy autonomisation to enhance stealth and safety for Maritime Tactical Operations and ADF divers, especially for the Navy and Army. The technology uses a submersible microprocessor with sensors to monitor pressure, time, and vital signs, ensuring safe ascent rates and decompression, intervening only during emergencies or when limits are exceeded.
SABRN Tech
Containerised casualty treatment ‘lifepods’
TRL 5
SABRN Tech is developing surgical and medical facilities to help Defence by providing the best possible healthcare in a timely manner to their personnel, using decentralised, modularised hospital capabilities closer to the frontline and at the point of injury – plug and play – rapid deployment, rapid integration.
Seitec
Seismic sensing technology
TRL 6
Seitec is developing a system called Nightingale, a deployable seismic security system, to provide military, intelligence, critical infrastructure and prisons with persistent and concealable incursion detection. Nightingale’s “see-through-walls” capability uses advanced seismic sensors with edge-Al providing situational awareness where radar and visual systems would not feasibly function.
UndaTech
Protective performance undergarments
TRL 5
UndaTech is developing protective and performance undergarments to support Defence Force personnel and the frontline workforce, particularly women, operate safely and comfortably in high risk environments with a complete protective ensemble designed specifically for operational duties.
VetChip
Canine biometric health sensor
TRL 5
VetChip is developing a Bluetooth capable, implantable biometric sensor to help Army and Air Force communicate with their Military Working Dogs. Using a combination of patented, novel technology and applications, the VetChip can remotely broadcast vital animal health information to any authorised smart device including the receipt of customisable alerts for critical parameters such as high temperature and abnormal heart rate at time of occurance.