Ongoing intakeCommonwealth of AustraliaGovernment
Defence Industry Development Grants Program - Skilling Stream
Offered by Department of Defence
Ongoing intake
This program accepts applications continuously and the funder publishes no closing date. Ongoing programs do get closed or paused, sometimes without notice, so we watch this one nightly and the alert list is told the day it changes.
Verified against Department of Defence's own page on 27 Aug 2026
Key facts
- Funding amount
- Not stated
- Total pool available: $169,100,000
- Status
- Ongoing intake
- Opened 12 June 2024
- Jurisdiction
- Commonwealth of Australia
- ACT, NSW, VIC, SA, WA, QLD, NT, TAS, Administered Territories
- Last verified
- 27 Aug 2026
- The date we last read this program on Department of Defence's own page.
Who can apply
Department of Defence lists this program as open to the following kinds of applicant. It is a starting filter, not the full eligibility test, and the guidelines on the official page are what decide it.
- Companies
- Individuals
- Local government
- Partnerships
- Trusts
Eligibility, in the funder's words
Free account
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What the program funds
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.
Free account
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That description is Department of Defence's own wording, reproduced from the official listing under CC BY 4.0 (Australian Government default open licence). Our plain-English summaries are being written program by program and this one has not been done yet.
What it is for
This program is categorised under the following purposes. Each one that has a page of its own links to every other Australian grant we track for the same purpose.
- Defence
How to apply
Applications for Defence Industry Development Grants Program - Skilling Stream are made through Department of Defence, not through GrantWindow. We do not take applications, charge a fee or act as an intermediary, and any site that offers to apply on your behalf for a government grant is worth a very careful look.
Apply for Defence Industry Development Grants Program - Skilling Stream on the official site
Where this came from
Sourced from GrantConnect (grants.gov.au), © Commonwealth of Australia, used under CC BY 4.0.
Confirm details on the official page before applying. GrantWindow records what the funder published and when we read it. We are not the funder and this page is not legal, financial or eligibility advice.