Northrop Grumman Corporation’s MQ-4C Triton Flying Test Bed (FTB) has demonstrated persistent long-range targeting during this year’s EX Northern Edge 2023 in Alaska. This demonstration highlighted Triton’s potential to enhance joint, distributed maritime operations, and further support sea-control in contested…
A US Army Research Laboratory-led project team investigating quantum constructs to revolutionize precision weapons has been named winner of the US$45 million 2024 Applied Research for Advancement of Science and Technology Priorities, or ARAP, program award, the US Department of…
OK, so Defence has acknowledged that Innovation is important enough that it should get some resources - how do you go about doing it? EX2 - For Defence Innovators has published the first in a series of articles about Defence…
Swinburne University of Technology’s Aerostructures Innovation Research Hub, or AIR Hub, has launched the final round of its AIR Pass funding program Designed to fuel the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups in the Australian aerospace ecosystem,…
Australian company Hypersonix has been awarded a US patent for technology used in its SPARTAN scramjet design. US Patent Number US11639700B2 protects for close to 20 years some key features of an “Airframe integrated scramjet with fixed geometry and shape…
Canberra-based Skykraft has launched another prototype Air Traffic Management satellite stack. The payload was put into orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. This is the second launch for 2023, and part…
Sydney-based HEO Robotics’ Holmes Imager, hosted by Turion’s Droid-1, was also launched successfully into space from Vandenberg Space Force Base. The Holmes Imager is the world’s first commercial camera dedicated to non-Earth imaging and was manufactured entirely in Australia. The…
Paris-based Thales has announced its plan to buy cybersecurity firm Tesserent, one of Australia and New Zealand's largest cybersecurity companies, with a 2022 turnover of $185 million (circa €110 million) and about 500 employees across nine offices. The combination of…
Gold Coast-based Gilmour Space Technologies has signed a $52 million grant agreement with the Department of Industry Science and Resources (DISR) to advance the development and commercialisation of new space technologies in Australia. The funding will support a $156 million…
The Adelaide-based Defence Innovation Partnership (DIP), in collaboration with Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG), has launched a new $1.6 million Activator Fund. The Activator Fund, which calls for dollar-matched co-contributions from grant winners, will build on South Australia’s R&D strengths…