The Australian Government has awarded a further 40 grants to support Australian defence businesses.
“We are backing Australian businesses and backing Australian workers to deliver the capabilities our Defence Force needs – now and into the future," Minister for Defence Industry, Pat Conroy, said. “From the west coast to the east coast, the Albanese Government is building a stronger and more resilient defence industry by investing in Australian innovation, skills and manufacturing."
These latest grants, which total over $17.3 million, will deliver priority defence capabilities, support local manufacturing and hopefully strengthen Australia’s sovereign defence industry.
“I look forward to visiting many of these businesses in the years to come and seeing their work up close and in action," Conroy stated.
Awarded under the $170 million Defence Industry Development Grants program, these grants will fund projects that enhance Australia’s defence manufacturing capabilities, export competitiveness and technical skills development.
These additional grants build on the 58 grants announced in May 2025. The newly funded projects will help businesses scale up and modernise manufacturing in areas critical to Australia’s sovereign defence capability.
The projects include six that are funded by the Australian Submarine Agency at a total value of $3.6 million to uplift Australia’s industrial base and support the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine program.
The competitive DIDG program provides matching grants of up to 50 per cent, and it is continuously open to receive applications from eligible defence suppliers until 2028.
The latest grant recipients include:
- Sovereign Industrial Priorities Stream
- ANCA Engineering Solutions
- Griffin Marine Services
- HIFraser
- KBE
- Ronson Gears
- Veem
- Fleet Space Technologies
- Alfatron
- Bale Defence Engineering Systems
- Aerobond Defence
- Nupress Tools
- Hargrave Industries
- Carbonicboats
- Baker & Provan
- Aurora Labs
- Berkeley Engineering Group
- Rosebank Engineering
- Halliday Engineering
- Bauer Engineering-Manufacturing
- Australian Aerospace Engineering
- Thornton Tomasetti
- Marcel Pacific
- Engine Protection Equipment
- Exports stream
- Currawong Engineering Pty Ltd
- Hargo Engineering Pty Ltd
- Tectonica Pty Ltd
- Mack Valves Pty Ltd
- Rojone Pty Ltd
- Skilling Stream
- Halliday Engineering
- The International Centre for Complex Project Management
- A.W. Bell
- Rubicon Associates
- Security stream
- Silentium Defence Trading Pty Ltd
- Sayfa Pty Ltd
- Indigenous Defence and Infrastructure Consortium Pty Ltd
- Phasor Innovation Pty Ltd
- J3Seven Pty Ltd
- SOIO Pty Ltd
- Supacat Pty Ltd