On 2 August 2011, The SIA and the Institution of Engineers, Australia (aka Engineers Australia or 'EA') have signed a Memorandum of Understanding [MoU] covering collaboration with the Australian Society for Defence Engineering [ASDE], an EA technical society, for the inaugural SIA Conference on Submarine Science, Technology and Engineering in Adelaide in November. The MoU specifically covers the processes for peer-review of technical papers that will be published for the conference, and available internationally thereafter.