Two functions in one entry because a supplier experiences them as one gate.

DISP. Published expectations are two to three months for Entry Level and four to six months for Levels 1 to 3, dependent on the applicant already holding the required clearances, facility accreditations and ICT certifications. Those prerequisites are the actual cost: there is no membership fee, and there is a substantial bill for facility certification, physical security and cleared personnel. Membership is open only to Australian businesses passing foreign ownership, control or influence tests, which exclude some firms regardless of technical merit.

Export controls. This is the rare case where a step in this database has already been removed, at scale, and the removal can be described precisely. Since 1 September 2024, under the AUKUS national exemptions, industry and the research sector across Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States no longer require a licence to export, re-export or transfer most controlled goods, technologies and services within AUKUS nations.

That is a remove reform of the purest kind: the step is gone, not accelerated, for a defined class of transaction. It is recorded as AUKUS licence-free environment: a step deleted rather than accelerated and it is one of only three entries on this site marked enacted. What it did not do is remove the licence requirement for transfers outside the three countries, which is the majority of the rest of the world and includes several close partners.