Media Articles

Rethink Market Intelligence: Reporting 2.0 Launched

Rethink Market Intelligence: Reporting 2.0 Launched

By Louise Flynn / August 19, 2025 / Comments Off on 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 More
MADE Portal Luanch on BenchOn

Register NOW: Mirragin Australian Drone Ecosystem Portal Launches to Elevate Australia’s Drone Industry.

By Louise Flynn / August 14, 2025 / Comments Off on Register 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 More
Advanced Manufacturing is Australia’s Next Growth Engine: BenchOn Launches New Capabilities.

Advanced Manufacturing is Australia’s Next Growth Engine: BenchOn Launches New Capabilities.

By Louise Flynn / August 1, 2025 / Comments Off on Advanced 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 More
Tim Walmsley

Tim Walmsley Named Executive of the Year at the 2025 Australia Defence Industry Awards

By Louise Flynn / July 30, 2025 /

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 More
New AusDIP Capabilities

Product Update: AusDIP expands to new capabilities in emerging technologies.

By Louise Flynn / May 26, 2025 / Comments Off on Product Update: AusDIP expands to new capabilities in emerging technologies.

AusDIP has new capabilities which opens the door to more projects managing and suppliers.

Read More
Tim Walmsley announced finalist in Australian Defence Industry Awards

Tim Walmsley announced finalist in Australian Defence Industry Awards

By Louise Flynn / May 20, 2025 /

Tim Walmsley, CEO BenchOn, has been announced as a finalist in the Executive of the Year category at the 2025 Australian Defence Industry Awards, recognising his longstanding commitment to innovation, industry collaboration, and defence capability development in Australia.

Read More

Streamlining Australian Defence Procurement: BenchOn and Hellios Information JOSCAR

By BenchOn_admin / March 10, 2025 /

The Defence industry has many requirements that businesses must meet before they can supply goods or services. This makes it hard for Defence Primes to find the right suppliers quickly. It also makes it difficult for small and medium businesses (SMEs) to break into the industry. To continue to improve procurement processes, Hellios Information, JOSCAR…

Read More
Defence Industry Connection Evolved

The Australian Digital Defence Industry Matrix has landed on BenchOn!

By BenchOn_admin / April 16, 2024 / Comments Off on The Australian Digital Defence Industry Matrix has landed on BenchOn!

After 8 years of R&D and working collaboratively with our thousands of clients, BenchOn has launched the next evolution in Defence Industry connectivity – The Australian Digital Defence Industry Matrix (ADDIM). Born out of the requirements of the Defence Strategic Review and the Defence Industry Development Strategy, ADDIM is the first key milestone in BenchOn’s…

Read More
Featured Video Play Icon

BenchOn launches ‘Defence Industry Vision 2030’ at the Indo Pacific Maritime Conference

By BenchOn_admin / November 15, 2023 /

At the major Australian Maritime conference, Indo Pacific 23, held 7-9 November 23, BenchOn officially launched it’s ‘Defence Industry Vision 2030’. A vision for how Defence, Industry and Academia can seamlessly come together to provide Defence the data insights it needs to make the best capability and funding decisions, but to also link the people, products and services in our sovereign industry together to create concentrated industry capability to meet the expected, yet unknown demand.

Read More

Registrations open for Meet the Primes

By BenchOn_admin / August 31, 2023 /

This year at the Indo Pacific Conference 23, in conjunction with our friends at Hays and Michael Fairweather & Associates, BenchOn is running events to help small to medium businesses better understand and connect with Australia’s best Defence Primes. On Day 1, Tuesday 7 November, BenchOn will present the Primes’ Briefs where the best Primes will present on…

Read More