• Capital equipment (purchase, install, lease, commission, etc.)

• Facility upgrades

• Software, infrastructure and cyber security

• Design, engineering and commissioning

• Training, development and accreditations

The Sovereign Industrial Capability Priorities include:

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• Collins Class submarine maintenance and technology upgrade

• Continuous shipbuilding program (including rolling submarine acquisition)

• Land combat vehicle and technology upgrade

• Enhanced active and passive phased array radar capability

• Combat clothing survivability and signature reduction technologies

• Advanced signal processing capability in electronic warfare, cyber and information security, and signature management technologies and operations

• Surveillance and intelligence data collection, analysis, dissemination and complex systems integration

• Test, evaluation, certification and systems assurance

• Munitions and small arms research, design, development and manufacture

• Aerospace platform deep maintenance

• Robotics, Autonomous Systems, and Artificial Intelligence

• Precision Guided Munitions, Hypersonic weapons, and Integrated Air and Missile Defence Systems

• Space

• Information Warfare and Cyber Capabilities

With $81.4 million available until 2025, grant applications will be competitive, and assessed and awarded based on three key merit criteria (outlined below). The grant amount awarded will be up to 50% of eligible project costs, with a minimum of $50,000 over a maximum grant period of 30 months.

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Merit Criteria

 

To be competitive, applicants must score highly against all three of the merit criteria:

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• Merit criterion 1 – The extent to which your project will help you contribute to Defence’s Sovereign Industrial Capability Priorities (view the fact sheet here)
   

• Merit criterion 2 – Your capacity, capability and resources to deliver the project
   

• Merit criterion 3 – The impact of grant funding.

 
 

Eligibility Criteria

 

To apply for a grant, your business must:

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• Have less than 200 employees
   

• Have an Australian Business Number (ABN), and be:

  • A company, incorporated in Australia, or

  • An incorporated trustee on behalf of a trust,
     

• Provide evidence from your board (or CEO/equivalent) that the project is supported, that you can complete the project, and meet the costs of the project not covered by grant funding.
   

• Provide an external Accountant Declaration that confirms you can fund your share of the project costs.

 

Get in touch with us to learn more about the SICP Grant Program or for help in pulling together a stand out application. Alternatively, read our SICP Client Success Story.