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USSC Briefs are short-form pieces of research that provide timely and concise analysis of a specific policy issue, figure or current challenges.

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Local manufacturing industry heads are shown Joint Logistics Unit — Victoria’s capabilities at Wadsworth Barracks, Bandiana, October, 2024.

Trade and economics

Reviving industry: How the Australian Government can be a better customer to the manufacturing sector

17 December 2024

Brief byBronte Munro

representation of topic

Looking to the skies: The importance of satellite cybersecurity

11 November 2024

Brief byTom Barrett

US President Joe Biden and leaders from the Pacific Islands region pose for a photograph to commemorate the first-ever US-Pacific Island Country Summit at the White House, September 2022

US and Australian efforts to bolster people-to-people ties with the Pacific Islands

4 November 2024

Brief byEleanor Shiori Hughes

HMAS Arunta enters the port city of Busan, Republic of Korea, as part of the ship’s North East Asian deployment

Australia’s shipbuilding ambitions and South Korea’s experience

31 October 2024

Brief byDr Peter K. Lee

US President Joe Biden, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Quadrilateral Summit at the Archmere Academy in Wilmington, Delaware, September 2024.

Operationalising the Quad: Maritime security and climate change in the Indo-Pacific

23 October 2024

Brief byKate Clayton

Royal Australian Navy sailor Leading Seaman Aviation Anthony Hunt from HMAS Toowoomba greets crew members from the Republic of Korean ship Gang Gam — Chan during a cross deck exercise as part of the regional presence deployment 2023

Allies and partners

The South Korea-Australia partnership: State of play

23 October 2024

Brief byProfessor Peter Dean

Cover photo: HMAS Warramunga’s embarked MH-60R helicopter ‘Sabertooth’ conducts free-deck landings during AUSINDEX 21.

Allies and partners

Engaging with reality in the Indian Ocean

12 September 2024

Brief byDr Arzan Tarapore

Financing AUKUS Pillar II: Building a multi-sovereign public-private innovation fund

31 July 2024

Brief bySophie Mayo

Defence Minister Richard Marles

The Defence Trade Controls Amendment Bill 2023: The key to AUKUS?

9 April 2024

Brief byAmy McDonnell

European Security Cooperation with the Indo-Pacific

1 April 2024

Brief byDr Gorana Grgic

Allies and partners

Building Japan's counterstrike capability: Technical, temporal and political challenges

25 March 2024

Brief byMasashi Murano

A fiber optic cable is pulled ashore from the cable-laying ship "Pleijel" at the entrance to the port of Sassnitz

Trade and economics

Linking up with business on undersea cables: How Australia, the United States and Japan can better cooperate with the private sector on cables in a more contested Indo-Pacific

18 March 2024

Brief byHayley Channer