The Adelaide-based Defence Innovation Partnership (DIP has awarded $600,000-worth of R&D grants to four programs under its Collaborative Research Fund (CRF). Among them is a dual-use technology research project that will utilise satellite technology to aid in disaster response. It…
Brisbane start-up company Valiant Space, which has been supported by the Queensland Government’s Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Hub, is sending locally-made components into orbit, onboard SpaceX, from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral. Valiant Space co-founder and CEO…
Macquarie University’s Australian Astronomical Optics (AAO) has signed an agreement with pioneering manufacturer Gilmour Space Technologies to produce a new sovereign space technology, set to launch in 2023. Under this new partnership technical specialists from AAO Macquarie will construct and…
To facilitate R&D into autonomous Artificial Intelligence (AI), the TTCP Cage Working Group has released the Cyber Operations Research Gym (CybORG), an experimental platform using the OpenAI Gym interface that features a cybersecurity scenario and a challenge. Researchers and cyber security experts are…
The Bluebottle Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV), designed and manufactured by Sydney-based Ocius Technologies, has been used on live operations by the ADF for the first time. A Bluebottle USV was used by the Army’s 7th Regional Force Surveillance Group (RFSG)…
Sydney-based Advanced Navigation has secured $108 million (US$85 million) in Series B funding led by international investment firm KKR. The funding round also includes participation from new investors such as deep learning venture firm AI Capital and existing investors, including…
Dutch survey and geodata specialist Fugro is partnering with Sydney drone manufacturer Carbonix to establish a new long-range drone capability. It is Fugro’s first partnership working towards long-range Beyond Visual Line of Sight missions (BVLoS), bolstering Fugro’s existing Geographic Information…
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd, with the Israeli Navy and the Israel Ministry of Defense‘s IMDO, has completed an advanced interception test of the C-DOME Naval Iron Dome System. The C-DOME is an advanced naval configuration of RAFAEL's IRON DOME…
Lockheed Martin Australia (LMA) has signed a two-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra Space to contribute to a comprehensive space education program with research and development (R&D) and industry engagement pathways. The…
Boeing engineers have recently demonstrated a new, autonomous technology that can successfully prevent jamming attempts on U.S. Department of Defense satellite communications (SATCOM). The test was conducted on the U.S. Space Force’s Protected Tactical SATCOM Prototype (PTS-P), showing how this…