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Australian Defence Industry Portal: Connecting Businesses to Defence Industry Opportunities
The Australian Defence Industry Portal (AusDIP) is helping businesses connect with defence industry opportunities by improving visibility across the national defence ecosystem. As projects grow in complexity, organisations need clearer insight into where capabilities exist and how they can collaborate across the supply chain. This article explores how AusDIP helps businesses supply and source people, products and materials, gain industry insights, and engage more effectively with opportunities across Australia’s defence industry.
Read MoreIndustry Matching System: Unlocking the Full Power of Industry Through Connected Capability
An industry matching system helps shift industry from siloed effort to connected capability, where strengths are visible, linkable, and ready to activate as opportunity emerges. When capability is structured and searchable, value stops moving in a straight line and starts flowing across a living network, reducing friction, lifting utilisation, and helping the system rebalance when conditions change.
Read MoreWhy Making Suppliers Register for Every Project Is Slowing Industry Down
Across Australia, governments and major projects are working hard to improve supplier engagement, strengthen local industry capability, and streamline procurement. Yet despite these ambitions, an outdated sourcing practice persists in the industry, a manual supplier registration process that requires suppliers to re-register for every single project.
Read MoreDefence Industry Business Threats: Why Companies Are Leaving Public Catalogues and Open Databases
Public directories now expose key data,
raising defence industry business threats.
Suppliers are shifting to secure networks
across the Australian defence industry.
Rethink Market Intelligence: Reporting 2.0 Launched
AusDIP Reporting 2.0 is now live in AusDIP – providing real-time, anonymised insights into what’s happening across the Australian defence industry.
Read MoreRegister NOW: Mirragin Australian Drone Ecosystem Portal Launches to Elevate Australia’s Drone Industry.
Australia’s drone industry has officially entered a new era of professionalism, collaboration, and opportunity with the launch of the Mirragin Australian Drone Ecosystem (MADE).
Read MoreAdvanced Manufacturing is Australia’s Next Growth Engine: BenchOn Launches New Capabilities.
Australia is making again. But this time it’s not about competing on cheap inputs or scale alone — it’s about advanced manufacturing: the smart integration of digital tools, automation, and specialised skills that deliver higher-value products and services. BenchOn launched new capability categories focused on Advanced Manufacturing, making it easier for contractors, defence primes and…
Read MoreTim Walmsley Named Executive of the Year at the 2025 Australia Defence Industry Awards
BenchOn is thrilled to announce that our CEO and Co-Founder, Tim Walmsley, has been awarded “Executive of the Year” at the 2025 Defence Industry Awards.
Read MoreAustralian Defence Industry Events in 2025 (Updated)
Discover the must-attend defence industry events in 2025, including the ADM Space Summit, ADM Congress, and AUKUS Pillar II Conference. Learn how to connect with decision-makers, showcase your capabilities, and secure your place in the defence supply chain.
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