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Grenfell teen Alex Johnston with the high-altitude balloon payload she located on her family's farm: Photo: Robert Brand
Technology Air Force

Scientific-minded teen finds high-flying Jasper

Seventeen-year-old Alex Johnston was thrilled to recover a balloon which came down to Earth at her family farm in NSW.
Captain James Jenkins, Private Mackenzie Togo and Lieutenant Thomas Gash on the race circuit at the Australian Drone Racing Nationals 2019, Phillip Oval, Woden. Photo: Private Mackenzie Togo
People Army

Army drone racers fly high at championships

The fastest drone racers in the Australian Army were centrestage in a tight contest.
Combat systems operators Able Seaman Michael Curry and Leading Seaman Michael Cameron in the operations room on board HMAS Toowoomba. Photo: Leading Seaman Tara Byrne
Technology Defence

Speeding up Defence computers

Defence is aiming to make one of the fastest supercomputers in the world.
Chief Defence Scientist Professor Tanya Monro launches STEM)Workforce Strategic Vision 2019-2030 at Russell Offices, Canberra. Photo: Lauren Larking
National Defence

Focus on high-tech future

Defence will expand its science, technology, engineering and math cadetship program as part of its STEM vision.
Dr Joe Fabrizio, a senior electrical engineer with the Defence Science and Technology Group, with the experimental phased array radar being developed at RAAF Base Edinburgh. Photo: Corporal Brenton Kwaterski
Technology Defence

Capability on his radar

Bouncing radio waves thousands of kilometres across the sky is a normal day for Giuseppe (Joe) Fabrizio, a Defence scientist based in Adelaide.
Australian Air Force Cadets from No. 8 Wing in the Northern Territory, Logan Gunn (right) and Yuki Blunt on board a No. 37 Squadron C-130J Hercules aircraft during a flight over Darwin. Photo: Sergeant Ben Dempster
International Air Force

One giant leap into remote NT community

NASA engineers and scientists have flown to a remote corner of the Northern Territory with the help of the Air Force.
Chief Defence Scientist Professor Tanya Monro. Photo: Jayson Tufrey
People Defence

Top award for Chief Defence Scientist

The Chief Defence Scientist, Professor Tanya Monro, has been awarded the 2019 South Australian Award for Excellence in Women’s Leadership.
Australian Army Warrant Officer Class Two Adam Krongold fires during a training scenario in the Live Fire Range in a Box at Russell offices, Canberra. Photo: Sergeant Max Bree
Capability Defence

Simply turn up and shoot

It was an usual sight in Canberra as a live-fire range arrived on the back of a semi-trailer at Russell Offices.
Lead researcher Professor Adrian Mouritz worked on the development of a material composite system that could see ships, armoured vehicles or aircraft able to self-repair damage.
Technology Navy

New-age tech brings the healing touch

A ‘breakthrough’ technology developed by RMIT and CSIRO for Defence sounds like something from a science fiction story.

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