Business advice and grants
The CDIC provides a national network of business advisers with regional and domain expertise to:
- help businesses understand and navigate the defence market by providing tailored advice and support to eligible companies
- help businesses develop their industrial capabilities and ability to work with Defence
- help Defence projects understand what the best of Australian industry has to offer and connect these offerings into their supply chains
- connect Australian innovators, researchers and academic institutions to Defence’s two innovation programs – the Innovation Hub and the Next Generation Technologies Fund.