Sydney based Thales Australia’s BlueSentry thin-line towed sonar array has been successfully integrated into Californian company Saildrone’s Surveyor-class Uncrewed Surface Vehicle (USV), demonstrating exceptional operational performance, according to Thales Australia, during a 26-day continuous mission conducted off the United States.…
Californian company Anduril Industries has launched Seabed Sentry, an AI-enabled, mobile, undersea network of sensor nodes linked by undisclosed means for persistent monitoring and real time communication. Seabed Sentry uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to provide highly accurate, persistent autonomous awareness…
The United States Space Force (USSF) has awarded US prime contractor Northrop Grumman Corporation two national security contracts of undisclosed value, including one for a technology demonstration for in-space refuelling. US Space Systems Command (SSC) awarded the company a contract…
Building on the MoU they signed at the 2024 MilCIS conference in Canberra, Sydney based GME, Geelong-based Hanwha Defence Australia (HDA) and Seoul-based Hanwha Systems signed a teaming agreement at the Avalon Air Show 2025. The three companies have agreed…
The Adelaide-based Defence Innovation Partnership (DIP) has awarded contracts worth $3 million to seven companies under its separate Activator and Collaborative Research Funds (CRF). The DIP is one of five state and Defence co-sponsored research and innovation networks under the…
North Carolina company Honeywell has signed a partnering agreement with Melbourne-based RFD Australia Pty Ltd, part of the Beaufort Group (formerly Survitec), to provide sustainment support for the RAAF and wider Asia Pacific F-35 fleet. Upon activation of its new…
The Australian Army’s newly-designated innovation and experimentation unit, the 1st Armoured Regiment, has taken part in the US Army’s classified Project Convergence Capstone 5 (PCC5) alongside part of the British Army’s Robotics and Autonomous Battle Group. The exercise, in a…
Adelaide-based KBR Australia has been awarded a contract of undisclosed value to continue supporting the MQ-4C Triton autonomous aircraft with critical mission planning capabilities until November this year. KBR mission planning specialists support the MQ-4C Triton aircraft at RAAF Base Tindal…
San Diego-based Shield AI has delivered its first ViDAR (Visual Detection and Ranging) sensor payloads to NAVAIR’s Program Office for the Navy and Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (PMA-263). The sensors and their AI-enabled software, which are designed…
Canberra-based QinetiQ Australia has achieved a significant milestone by becoming the first Australian defence and security company to hold both Defence Aviation Safety Regulations (DASR) Subpart 21J Military Design Organisation, and Subpart 21G Military Production Organisation approvals for all Australian Defence…