Australia spends some AUD$22 billion a year on Defence; roughly one third of that is spent on acquiring, upgrading and sustaining capital equipment. Rumour Control will provide reports and comments on aspects of Australia’s defence capability development and acquisition policies and programs.

It is also preparing a series of papers analysing specific programs and projects. Some of these papers may be downloaded for free; others will require payment. Papers relating to Defence R&D and the commercialisation of defence-related IP will largely be free as they are derived from research carried out as part of the editor's Ph.D studies into factors affecting the successful commercialisation of defence-related intellectual property.

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Some papers on the following topics are currently under development and will be loaded here as soon as possible. If you would like to register interest in receiving any or all of these items please contact Rumour Control.

• ADF air-launched weapons programs [ FREE DOWNLOAD coming soon]
• Commercialising Australian defence R&D
• Australia’s New Air Combat Capability
• Project Air 7000 – Maritime Patrol & Response
• Defence Industry Policy Statement 2007
• Commercialisation Models - a review of the literature on existing commercialisation models (download pdf)