US defence contract Anduril Industries says it will manufacture its YFQ-44A Fury Collaborative Combat Aircraft at the company’s new Columbus, Ohio, plant by Q2 of 2026. This will be a missionized variant of the company’s Fury autonomous fighter jet for…
Defence has launched the $15.8 million Propel: Australian Submarine Scholarship program, an initiative to offer up to 3,000 scholarships to students studying priority STEM subject at Australian universities. The Propel program is designed to support the development of Australia’s future nuclear-powered…
Connecticut-based Sikorsky has announced the successful flight testing and delivery of the US Army’s experimental UH‑60MX Black Hawk helicopter, fully integrated with the company’s MATRIX autonomy suite. The delivery of the UH-60MX aircraft, owned and operated by the Army, marks…
Canberra-based Lockheed Martin Australia and Brisbane-based Rheinmetall Defence Australia are collaborating to explore a potential Australian‑based sustainment model for Lockheed Martin’s M142 HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) launchers. The Australian Army has ordered 42 HiMARS wheeled launchers which will equip…
US defence contractor L3Harris Technologies has completed a major mirror refurbishment for the US Space Force’s Australian Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) at the Harold E Holt Naval Communication Station in Exmouth, Western Australia. This critical milestone ensures one of the…
Sydney-based DroneShield, has announced interoperability between its DroneSentry-C2 Command-and-Control (C2) software, and optical sensing technologies from UK firm OpenWorks Engineering. The partnership strengthens DroneShield’s ability to unify multi-domain sensor inputs within a single operational C2 environment, delivering enhanced detection, tracking, and…
California-based Skydio has announced an order exceeding $52 million for over 2,500 X10D drones, or Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS), from the US Army. The order is the largest Small UAS procurement from a single manufacturer in the US Army’s history…
The Royal Navy is set to purchase 20 uncrewed boats from the Kraken Technology Group in a contract worth £12.3 million ($23.3 million) as it looks to build on its ability to merge both crewed and uncrewed forces. The procurement…
Florida-based L3Harris Technologies and Californian company Shield AI have successfully demonstrated a first of kind autonomous Electronic Warfare (EW) integration, combining L3Harris’ electromagnetic battle management ecosystem known as Distributed Spectrum Collaboration and Operations (DISCO) with Shield AI’s Hivemind mission-autonomy software. The…
The National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC) will make a $200 million hybrid note investment in ASX-listed cloud, cybersecurity, and telecoms provider Macquarie Technology Group. The NRFC is a sovereign investor established by the Australian Government to invest in Australian businesses…