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Discuss “Call to defend Australia”

Carnegie Mellon is currently engaged in negotiations with the Australian federal government to establish research facilities geared toward the development of defense-related software engineering, according to an April 16 article in The Australian, an Australian national newspaper.

Southern Australia, according to the press release, has ambitions to become a “defence and education hub,” and offered to fund 20 percent of the cost of establishing the facilities. The Australian federal government would fund the remaining 80 percent.

The proposed partnership would principally involve Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI), a federally funded research and development center which has worked with the U.S. government to implement...

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