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The Next Generation Technologies Fund has announced it is seeking an Australian academic partner to co-host a symposium on Directed Energy for Defence and National Security.
The symposium will focus on directed energy technologies that employ high-energy laser and high-powered radio frequency sources, which are able to direct electromagnetic energy onto a target at the speed of light.
The event will be held across one or two days on a "mutually agreed date between mid-September and mid-October 2019", and aims to "bring together internationally recognised academic, industry and Defence leaders in a multidisciplinary workshop environment to explore and shape the long-term vision of directed energy technologies".
The EDTAS academic partner must be a signatory of the Defence Science Partnership Program and must have renowned research programs in a technology relevant to directed energy.
The academic partner will co-host the event, co-ordinate academic participation with internationally recognised leading researchers from institutions across Australia, and organise and sponsor a student innovation session aimed at potential concepts and ideas.
The EDTAS series helps future-proof Australian Defence as part of the Next Generation Technologies Fund. It considers an expansive science and technology topic that will likely have a major impact – transformational or disruptive – in the defence or national security domains in a 10+ year time frame.
