From its inception, the AUKUS pact has been wrapped in expectations. Fundamentally, it is a technology and capability agreement—an accelerator. That may sound mundane but it is incredibly challenging. To realise its promise, three sovereign …
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Semiconductors are at the centre of the new cold war. US President Joe Biden’s signing of the CHIPS and Science Act in August 2022, followed by the Department of Commerce’s announcement in October of complementary export controls, made clear …
In a recent report for ASPI, Robert Clark and I asserted that Australia had all the right ingredients to build, from the ground up, its own national semiconductor fabrication ‘moonshot’. Like the original American moonshot …
Originally published 31 March 2022. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the poorer than expected performance of the Russian army have prompted fierce debate among military commentators on why Russia’s much-vaunted military reforms of the …
Machine-learning algorithms that process data might not immediately come to mind when we think about Covid-19, but they supercharged our ability to respond to a disruptive threat. Countries emerged from rolling lockdowns due, in part, …