Plans for the military's maritime drones are set out in documents published by the MoD's defence, science and technology laboratory.
North Korea cites what it perceives as a US military threat as a key reason behind its need to build nuclear weapons, and has poured a huge chunk of its small national budget into defence, science and technology.
Motorola and Alcatel One Touch are manufacturing waterproof phones with the help of P2i – a business established to commercialise technologies developed by the UK government's defence science & technology laboratory.
Among them is the embattled MP Stuart Robert, who was then the opposition's defence, science, technology and personnel spokesman, and is now under intense political pressure over a controversial trip to China in 2014.
The Australian newspaper reported that a state government itinerary of the official opening showed the event was also attended by Robert – then the federal opposition's spokesman on defence science, technology and personnel – and the Queensland Liberal National party's then president, Bruce McIver.
SAM is supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship and a supplementary scholarship from Defence Science and Technology (DST Groupp.
The project, which started in June 2015 with a feasibility study, is being funded with £1.5 million from the UK Ministry of Defence, via DSTL, the Defence Science and Technology Lab.
The committee's report also recommended the MoD should spend more on defence science and technology, and research and development.
The Health INTelligence System (HINTS) is a prototype that was developed during a collaborative Research and Development project between Computer Sciences Corporation CSCC) Australia and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO).
The rapid repair of battle damage to composite aircraft structure has been investigated by Defence Science and Technology Organisation and Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures, Australia.
The government's Defence Science and Technology Organisation in Melbourne has been evaluating its own occupational standards, and is watching the U.S. research with interest.
