Department of Defence Strategic Policy Grants Round: NOIS due by 16 September

The Department of Defence have just opened their Strategic Policy Grants Round.

Please note that interested staff should submit a NOIS by 16 September.

External closing date is 11:30 pm AEST on 14th October 2020

 The Purpose of the round is “The Strategic Policy Grants Program is a mechanism for Defence to support independent research, events and activities to shape the public Australian strategic debate, with a focus on Defence issues, and support and enhance Defence’s strategic policy advice..”  Attached are the key documents. 

Grant Opportunity Guidelines 2021_BN16942645

SPGP 2021 Application_Final Aug 2020_doc_BN16942646

This is a Grants Round and therefore is usually managed by the Grants Office (Army Reserve Scheme was a tender submission and so managed by DRI) – that said both GO and DRI work closely and DRI are happy to help with developing project proposals, suggesting collaborators etc. 

Program Grant Guidelines 2021

2.3 SPGP Priority Policy Topics

All grant proposals should have direct relevance to Department of Defence strategic policy interests and challenges for Australia’s future defence and security needs. These priorities have been identified for 2021, and may be updated in subsequent years. The 2020 Defence Strategic Update (DSU) has informed the selection of the SPGP Priority Policy Topics, and the five (5) to ten (10) year outlook.

All applications must include activities that support one or more of the topics of priority interest below:

Within the next 5-10 years, implications for Australia and possible Australian responses to:

  1. Strategic competition (e.g. US-China), particularly in the Indo-Pacific,
  2. Evolving US strategies in the Indo-Pacific,
  3. Coercive statecraft / grey-zone activities, particularly in the Indo-Pacific,
  4. Challenges to global rules, norms and institutions,
  5. Accelerating regional military modernisation (and asymmetric advantages),
  6. Emerging and disruptive technologies,
  7. Expanding capabilities in information, cyber and space,
  8. Prospect of high-intensity military conflict,
  9. Geostrategic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic,
  10. Threats to national resilience (e.g. disrupted global supply chains),
  11. Threats to human security, and
  12. State fragility in the Indo-Pacific.

 

Melanie Randall BA, MCom, GAICD

Senior Commercial Manager

Deakin Research Innovations

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