The review is a technical assessment that ensures the design is operationally effective and underpins the work that will now be undertaken.

Hunter class frigate program passes Preliminary Design Review milestone

BAE Systems’ Hunter Class Frigate Program has successfully completed its Preliminary Design Review (PDR). The review, which started in July, is a technical assessment that ensures the design is operationally effective and underpins the more detailed work that will now be undertaken.
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Axiom Precision Manufacturing entered a contract with Kongsberg Defence Australia for the manufacture of ground support equipment.

Axiom to provide support equipment for naval strike missile

Axiom Precision Manufacturing has announced that it has entered a new contract with Kongsberg Defence Australia (KDAu) for the manufacture and delivery of ground support equipment for the naval strike missile (NSM), under SEA 1300 Phase 1 – Navy Guided Weapons.
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Students will train at places in STEM to help grow the skilled workforce to deliver the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pathway.

Additional university places to grow AUKUS workforce

Thousands more students will train at 16 Australian universities through the allocation of an additional 4,001 Commonwealth supported places in STEM courses to help grow the skilled workforce required to deliver the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pathway.
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Space Machines Company (SMC) has used a suite of products from Siemens to design and build the Optimus Orbital Servicing Vehicle.

Developing the largest orbital servicing vehicle built in Australia

Australian space on-orbit services and logistics startup Space Machines Company (SMC) has used a suite of products from Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industry software to design and build the Optimus Orbital servicing Vehicle (OSV), one of the largest commercial spacecrafts being designed, manufactured, and assembled in Australia.
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Dr Ruirui Qiao from the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology is working to refine new polymerisation techniques.

Cleaning Queensland’s oceans

Dr Ruirui Qiao from the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) is working with her team of researchers to refine new polymerisation techniques – the team’s goal is to provide a sustainable alternative to conventional plastics; she spoke with Manufacturers’ Monthly to explain.
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$2.5m renewable hydrogen refuelling station launched in Clayton

Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, and Swinburne University of Technology’s Victorian Hydrogen Hub (VH2) have today launched a state-of-the-art clean hydrogen refuelling station, purpose-built for enabling hydrogen research.
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