Our Partners

AICRAFT is a South Australian company that designs and manufactures smart sensors, tailored systems and electronic boards powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

The company specialises in purpose-built electronics and advanced semiconductor technology to craft ultra-compact, high-speed, low-power, embedded AI solutions for high-performance edge computing in space and on earth.

Babcock is an international defence company operating in the UK, Australasia, Canada, France and South Africa. Babcock supports and enhances defence capabilities and critical assets, and meets customer requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility. Backed by decades of experience in Defence across the globe, Babcock are the premier warship sustainment company in Australasia, and a proven and trusted leader in submarine sustainment, nuclear safety and stewardship.

CAE equips people in critical roles with the expertise and solutions to create a safer world. As a technology company, CAE digitalise the physical world, deploying software-based simulation training and critical operations support solutions.

Above all else, CAE empower pilots, cabin crew, airlines, defence and security forces, and healthcare practitioners to perform at their best every day and when the stakes are the highest.

Around the globe, CAE has more than 13,000 employees in approximately 250 sites and training locations in over 40 countries.

CAE represents more than 75 years of industry firsts—the highest-fidelity flight, mission and medical simulators and training programs powered by digital technologies. CAE embed sustainability in everything they do. Today and tomorrow, CAE make sure our customers are ready for the moments that matter.

Chironix develops software and applied robotics solutions, and implements them in the field. The company specialises in integrating automated robotics solutions to add value to operations within the resource, energy and defence sectors.

Cingulan Space is a space communications company, focussed on advanced and space-based communications technologies.

Cingulan Space owns and operates satellite tracking stations across Australia and has strong experience in supporting development, test and operational missions.

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide technology leader that securely connects everything to make anything possible. The company’s purpose is to power an inclusive future for all by helping their customers reimagine their applications, power hybrid work, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals.

Diraq aims to redefine scalable quantum computing and bring practical commercial applications to the world via billions of qubits on a single chip. Diraq will be an end-to-end quantum computing provider – providing quantum hardware and software as a full stack.

Diraq has established the core IP in quantum computing hardware, with over $100 million in funding across ten patent families and over two decades of research. Diraq’s proprietary technology enables the company to scale effectively, by leveraging the well-established silicon complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) manufacturing process employed by existing foundries. This approach paves the way for a faster and more cost-efficient route to market.

World leaders in building quantum processors using electron spins in CMOS quantum dots, the Diraq team pioneered this revolutionary technology in Sydney, Australia, commencing a series of patent filings in 2014. In collaboration with esteemed global technical and commercial partners, the Diraq team is committed to constructing the quantum ecosystem of the future.

The vast potential of quantum computing resides in the applications, which will demand many millions, and ultimately billions, of qubits. Diraq’s silicon-based technology is arguably the most promising pathway to the billions of qubits needed to unlock the true transformative power of quantum computing.

DTEX Systems is a holistic, automated cybersecurity and IT operations company.

DTEX Systems delivers human behavioural intelligence to enrich SOC workflows and response, augment NGAV with Zero Trust DLP and forensics, proactively mitigate insider threats and identify operational inefficiencies.

Eilbeck Heavy Machining is a manufacturing one stop shop with specialisation in the following areas:

• CNC Machining (Milling, Turning & Gear Cutting)
• Fabrication
• Assembly
• Paint
• Heat Treatment

Elysium EPL is an Australian professional services firm which works with government and industry organisations to improve their business performance and realise major transformation projects.

Elysium EPL provide comprehensive solutions with enduring value across a range of areas including contract and organisational design, project management, security and analysis, strategic communications and training.

Flawless Photonics manufactures optical fibers in microgravity with 20 times better performance than terrestrial fibers, and and works in collaboration with the European Space Agency and NASA.

FrontierSI is a social enterprise focused on bringing the best people together to anticipate and solve large problems using our space and spatial expertise.

Through government, research, and industry partners, FrontierSI help bring innovative ideas through to real world products and services with a focus on creating both commercial and public good impact.

The company represents a partnership of over 30 organisations across Australia and New Zealand including research agencies, government departments and private sector companies who are global leaders in space and spatial solutions.

The company’s collaborative group has space and spatial expertise including positioning and geodesy, data and infrastructures, spatial analytics, and space advisory. This expertise can assist any sector, from space to health and resources, to improve location-based information and increase data accessibility for improved decision support and service delivery.

Geodrones is an Australian company focused on building a world-leading sovereign supply chain dedicated to the design and development of uncrewed capability right here in Australia.

The company focusses on emerging robotics and automation, and is backed by a team with a wealth of industry experience, diverse backgrounds, skillsets and problem-solving approaches.

Geodrones has a ‘capability first’ mentality. That means solving real world problems customers have right now, with an eye to the needs of tomorrow: technology, integration and upgrade pathways.

Geodrones defence industry experience means their products are tested and validated in the harshest environments by a user-set with very high-performance expectations. Not only that, Geodrones solutions must work as part of a broader capability set, and address emerging threats not seen in the general commercial sphere.

Geodrones is proud to support our warfighters and the partnerships they are building to achieve that. But mostly, the company is proud of the commitment it makes every day to foster the skills and experience of Australians who want to contribute to our national and global security.

Greenroom Robotics are building the next generation of robotic software. This means cloud-native robotics. Think 3D, any device, works everywhere robotic software. We bring the latest and greatest in AI, VR and autonomous car technology to the world of maritime robotics allowing us to move seamlessly between simulation and the real world.

HB11 Energy is creating the future of clean energy; safe, reliable, and unlimited electricity, generated by fusion reactors that use abundant fuels with little or no harmful waste. It does this by using laser technology to fuse hydrogen and boron-11. Last year it became the first of private company in the world to observe fusion reactions in an experiment. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, while Boron-11 comprises some 80% of all Boron found in nature, is readily available and is a stable, non-radioactive isotope.

Infinity Avionics is an Australian company incorporated in 2020, to provide reliable and rugged sensor and processor solutions for the space industry and other high-reliability applications.

The company’s mission is to See the Unseen through reliable, robust and qualified technology solutions complemented by know-how, specialised facilities, experience and expertise.

The team at Infinity Avionics is experienced in electronics design for space applications, project management, systems engineering, defence, and manufacturing, having contributed to the success of several Australian space missions.

Today Infinity Avionics provides space flight-proven and radiation-tested sensor and processor subsystems for space missions worldwide. Additionally, Infinity Avionics provides consulting services to design and deliver custom sensor payloads to meet customers’ mission requirements in a timely manner.

Leidos Australia is a regional leader in government, science, and technology solutions. With over 25 years of local experience, Leidos is working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in government, intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection and health markets. With more than 2000 local experts, backed by global experience and a network of partners, Leidos Australia delivers solutions that help secure Australia.

Leo Labs is propelling the dynamic space era with superior information. Through LeoLabs Vertex™’s vertically integrated space operations stack, the company is transforming the way satellite operators, commercial enterprises, and federal agencies launch and track missions in low Earth orbit. With unmatched coverage, real-time tracking, and powerful insights, companies and governments around the world rely on us to safely execute operations in space.

Lockheed Martin Australia is a wholly-owned subsidiary of U.S.-based Lockheed Martin, a global security and aerospace company that is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.

Lockheed Martin Australia employs over 750 staff deployed in national security, civil IT and critical infrastructure operations across all mainland states. Principal centres of activity are in Adelaide and Melbourne, and Canberra, the company’s headquarters.

Lockheed Martin products and services have been supporting Australia’s critical national security requirements for over 60 years. Current collaboration with Australian industry spans the Aeronautics, Maritime, Surveillance, Land Systems and Space domains.

Nominal Systems help organizations deliver complex systems with confidence faster. The company’s Digital Engineering platform, Nominal, helps organizations rapidly explore, understand and optimize their products and processes in a safe-to-fail environment. The company offers platforms for R&D, testing or critical operations.

Northrop Grumman is a leading global aerospace and defense technology company. Our pioneering solutions equip our customers with capabilities they need to connect and protect the world, and push the boundaries of human exploration across the universe. Driven by a shared purpose to solve our customers’ toughest problems, our 95,000 employees define possible every day.

QuantX Labs’ mission is to be a globally leading provider of precision technologies that enhance communication, navigation, computing and defence systems. The production and test facility, based in Adelaide, is providing a unique industrial capability to support Australian Defence and Space programs.

QuantX Labs’ current focus is on three precision technologies:

• Sapphire Oscillators – Our flagship product – CRYOCLOCK – is the world’s most precise commercial clock – and is transitioning to deployment in the ADF’s JORN Defence Radar.
• Quantum Atomic Optical Clocks –these ground-breaking next-generation atomic clocks will be deployed on land and in space to deliver sovereign access to secure timing. Secure timing underpins all distributed systems and represents a vulnerability for operation in contested environments.
• Quantum magnetometers – developed to sense extremely small changes in the Earth’s magnetic field. Effectively our sensors make the ocean and land transparent through the uniquely high sensitivity of quantum sensing.

Raytheon Australia is the nation‘s leading provider of whole-of-life capabilities for the Australian Defence Force (ADF). With an in-country history spanning two decades, Raytheon Australia have become a trusted capability partner for Australia ‘s defence.

Since the company’s establishment in 1999, Raytheon Australia have formed an enduring and vital part of Australia ‘s defence fabric and have invested in developing a truly sovereign workforce and comprehensive capability for Australia.

The company’s commitment to developing Australian Industry Capability is engrained across all of our programs, as is our investment in local SMEsto grow our existing supplier portfolio of 1,500 companies across Australia.

Headquartered in Adelaide and with offices around Australia, Saab Australia has more than 800 employees delivering sovereign capabilities in the Maritime, Submarine, Civil Security, Land and Aerospace, Deployable Health and Infrastructure, Autonomous Systems, and Space domains.

SAAB’s core capabilities are providing customers with highly technical and advanced system solutions through our expertise in complex engineering, systems integration, through-life support, technology innovation and project management, through partnership and collaboration.

Silentium Defence is a global leader in the design and deployment of passive surveillance systems. The company’s Situational Awareness solutions enable detection without compromise and action with confidence.

Skykraft is an Australian space services company that specialises in the conceptualisation, design, manufacture, and operations of SmallSat constellations for the delivery of global services.

Skykraft’s foundation constellation, which is under rapid development, is for space-based Air Traffic Management services with operations commencing in 2023.

Space Machines Company (SMC) is an Australian start-up developing in-space logistics and transportation capabilities to cost-effectively insert small satellites into desired low earth orbits (LEO), geostationary earth orbits (GEO) and lunar orbits. SMC vehicles will grow in future to maintain, refuel, repair and decommission satellites and other spacecraft.

Technical areas of interest include in-space servicing and related technologies.

The Syracuse Research Corporation (now SRC) was started on an academic, industrial and defence partnership. The original non-profit company was founded on providing advice to government and Defence on complex technical topics – in particular Electronic Warfare (EW) support.

The future of EW is focused on handling the growing problem of a complex, contested and congested electromagnetic spectrum. Applied machine learning (M/L) is central to solving the EW problems of today and into the future. As a result, partnering w/ leading academic researchers on M/L is pivotal for the future of SRC Aus and our capability deliveries to the ADF.

Here in Australia, SRC Aus will work to enhance our product deliveries and projects for Defence and Allied warfighting forces by incorporating technology developed under the Trailblazer rapid prototyping program.

Supashock is a world-class designer and manufacturer of advanced mobility, motion and autonomous systems that control, monitor and improve the efficiency and capability of defence, commercial, automotive, motorsport and other transport vehicles. The rapid growth, awards, patented technology and impacts on local economy have seen Supashock become a highly recognised success story at home and abroad.

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 77,000 employees on five continents. The Group is investing in digital and “deep tech” innovations – Big Data, artificial intelligence, connectivity, cybersecurity and quantum technology – to build a future we can all trust. Trust is essential for societies to flourish, with humans playing a central role in every critical decision. Thales’s high-tech solutions, services and products help companies, organisations and governments to achieve their goals and ambitions. And in each of our five vertical markets — digital identity and security, defence and security, aerospace, space, and transport — our customers play a vital role in society.

Founded in 2021, Viden Labs is a cutting-edge cybersecurity company that has been at the forefront of cyberworthiness. Our purpose is to deliver high end cyber-physical assurance evaluations of critical capabilities and infrastructure at a hardware, software or supply chain level. Our detailed assurance services help provide our clients peace of mind in the confidentiality, integrity, availability, and authenticity of their most critical assets or capabilities.

Operating from Viden’s own Zone 4 cyber-physical security laboratory in Braddon, the company’s fully sovereign and security cleared staff are able to conduct a range of detailed technical evaluations at a hardware, software and supply level, to identify and remediate critical vulnerabilities during the design, acquisition or sustainment of critical systems or other operational technologies.

Through Viden’s advanced test methodologies, in addition to membership of the Australian Information Security Evaluation Program (AISEP) through the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), the company offers our clients a rigorous and independent means of assurance. Leveraging these repeatable, verifiable and contemporary test techniques, Viden is able to provide independent assurance of a range of technologies, from basic software applications through to emerging technologies or complex system of systems capabilities.

Viden Labs believe that knowledge is power. The name, “Viden,” derived from the Danish word for “knowledge,” reflects the company’s core philosophy of harnessing the power of information to drive insights and progress for their clients. Through a deep understanding of emerging technologies and expertise across multiple domains, Viden empowers their clients to embrace the future securely. It’s this commitment to excellence that has made Viden a trusted partner for businesses and organisations seeking to navigate the ever-evolving cyber security landscape.