News

• FIED to enhance mobility for soldiers in the field

  Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), in collaboration with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), have taken strides toward the development of a power generating device to assist soldiers in the field.

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  CeBIT 2010: Google renews Net Neutrality call

  The issue of Network Neutrality on the National Broadband Network (NBN) has raised its head again with Google Australia arguing that regulation or legislation was required to foster innovation on the NBN.

• Defence to roll out computer cluster

  Defence continues its IT overhaul with the announcement that it will deploy a new multi-node computer cluster and outsource its help desk service for the Defence Science & Technology Organisation (DSTO).

• US and Australia dominate MAGIC robot competition short list

  Robots from the US and Australia dominate the shortlist of entries for the first round of the Multi-Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge (MAGIC), sponsored by the US Department of Defense and Australia's Defence Science & Technology Organisation (DSTO).

• Growing role for technology and science in Australian defence: Combet

  Defence minister, Greg Combet, has flagged a growing role for the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) in the future defence of the country.

• Defence launches robot soldier competition

  The Federal Government has launched a $US1.6 million competition to build a new fleet of military robots.

• Defence trials sneaky cameras

  The Defence Science Technology Organisation (DSTO) is running facial recognition trials which will underpin biometric initiatives across the Department of Defence, Immigration and new smartcard driver's licences.