Login
iscover
The engineering solutions company has unveiled plans to develop an Australian “Centre of Excellence”.
To continue reading the rest of this article, please log in.
Create free account to get unlimited news articles and more!
Nova Systems has committed to an initial investment of $2 million for the establishment of a local Test and Evaluation Centre of Excellence (T&E CoE), billed as a central hub designed to support sovereign defence capability, as well as research, digital technologies, training and ideas.
The plan — unveiled by Nova Systems CEO Jim McDowell at the 2022 SETE Conference in Canberra — aims to facilitate collaboration between Defence, industry and academia to develop an integrated joint force test and evaluation (T&E) and capability assurance.
More broadly, the Nova Systems T&E CoE is tipped to:
- Support the acceleration of emerging technologies (e.g. digital twins and synthetics).
- Enable collaboration across industry and academia to develop sovereign and enduring T&E capability.
- Ensure the long-term sustainability of the Australian T&E workforce.
- Deliver innovation and research and development activities.
- Deliver T&E practitioner training and professional short courses.
- Deliver subject-matter experts in the field of T&E to distribute in-depth knowledge through training, conferences, seminars, concepts and papers.
The plan also includes the potential for a “technology incubator”, aimed at fostering a national and international focus on the development of new digital tools and methodologies for capability assurance (assurance technology or Assuretech).
“Nova Systems is proud to be unveiling our plans to open an Australian-first Test and Evaluation Centre of Excellence bringing together the brightest minds, cutting-edge research, training and collaboration to create and sustain a sovereign T&E capability that is operationally critical to our nation’s defence mission,” McDowell said.
“In the face of increasing global uncertainty, new threats, reduced warning time and insecure global supply chains, it’s a significant time in our history to secure our sovereign capabilities.”
McDowell notes the broad application of Nova System’s T&E offering across all warfighting domains.
“Defence is becoming increasingly complex and integrated with a focus on joint-force capability, we need to continually evolve our methods to keep the best capability in the hands of our defence forces,” he added.
“We envision the Nova Systems T&E CoE will lead and develop new and exciting ways of doing things for the benefit of our nation.
“The Nova Systems T&E Centre of Excellence will support our common goal of keeping Australia safe and secure now and for our future generations.”
[Related: Nova Systems secures funding for weapons testing concept]
