The Australian Government is delivering its commitment to grow Australia’s thriving defence industry, through a new $150 million industry grant program.
The Defence Industry Development Grant (DIDG) program, announced
in the Defence Industry Development Strategy, will soon be open for
applications.
The new grant program will provide over $150 million over four
years dedicated to supporting Australian small to medium-sized business in
areas of sovereign industrial priorities, exports, skilling and security. Each
of the four program streams will begin to receive applications later this
month.
This is in addition to over $30m that has been allocated under
the previous grant programs this financial year.
The DIDG program replaces and expands previous defence industry
grant programs. Nine businesses have been selected as the final recipients
under the previous Sovereign Industrial Capability Priority and Defence Global
Competitiveness Grant programs, receiving a total of $2.9 million in funding.
Grant opportunity guidelines and the sample application form
which describe the application requirements for the DIDG program, have been
published here and
on GrantConnect.
More information on industry grant programs can be found here.
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