Current Grant Opportunity View - GO6896
Defence Industry Development Grants Program - Exports Stream
The Defence Industry Development Grants Program (the program) will award grants over four years from 2024-25 to 2027-28. The program was announced as part of the Defence Industry Development Strategy.
The objective of the program is to build the industrial base Australia needs to achieve Defence outcomes in areas of strategic priority.
The Defence Industry Development Grants Program funds four distinct grant opportunity streams tailored to address the program outcomes:
- Sovereign Industrial Priorities
- Skilling
- Exports
- Security.
The Exports stream provides support for small to medium enterprises (SMEs) to overcome export barriers and help defence industry build scale and competitiveness in defence capability priority areas as identified by the Sovereign Defence Industrial Priorities described in the Defence Industry Development Strategy.
You can apply if you:
- have an Australian business number (ABN)
- are a SME with less than 200 employees
- are registered for GST
- have an account with an Australian financial institution
- are non-income tax exempt
and are one of the following entities:
- an entity incorporated in Australia
- a company limited by guarantee
- an incorporated trustee on behalf of a trust.
You can’t apply if you are:
- an organisation, or your project partner is an organisation, included on the National Redress Scheme’s list of Institutions that have not joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme
- an employer of 100 or more employees that has not complied with the Workplace Gender Equality Act (2012)
- income tax exempt
- an individual
- a partnership
- an overseas organisation
- an unincorporated association
- an organisation not included in section 4.1 of the grant opportunity guidelines
- a trust (however, an incorporated trustee may apply on behalf of a trust)
- a Commonwealth, state, territory or local government body (including government business enterprises).
You can partner with one or more other organisations that also meet the eligibility criteria. But you must decide who the lead organisation is.
The lead organisation must fill out the application form.
If we give your group the grant, the lead organisation:
- signs the grant agreement
- is responsible for making sure your group follows the rules in the grant agreement.
Find the full eligibility criteria in the grant opportunity guidelines.
Applications will be assessed in batches. The closing dates for each batch will be regularly updated on business.gov.au. You can apply at any time.
All projects are due to be completed by 31 Mar 2028.
$153,600,000.00
From $15,000.00 to $250,000.00
Applications open Tuesday 18 June 2024.
To apply, go to https://business.gov.au/DIDgrants
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