Melbourne, Florida-based L3Harris Technologies has received a US$300 million ($455 million) contract from Italy to deliver two Gulfstream G550 aircraft equipped to carry out Electromagnetic Warfare (EW), including Electronic Attack (EA). L3Harris is partnering with BAE Systems Inc. on this…
Canberra-based Lockheed Martin Australia and Geoscience Australia have successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN) system. The SouthPAN initiative delivers a signal augmenting GPS and Galileo over the Australasia region, improving accuracy from…
The governments of Australia and Canada have signed a new technology partnership agreement to support collaboration on Over the Horizon Radar (OTHR) research and development. Canada’s decision to work with Australia on OTHR capabilities recognises Australia’s Jindalee Operational Radar Network…
Perth-based Greenroom Robotics, a leading Australian maritime AI and autonomy company, has been granted AUKUS Authorised User status by the Australian Government. This status, part of the AUKUS trilateral export agreement, gives Greenroom access to licence-free exports to the United…
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) will establish a Cyber Reserve Concept to support the Defence Strategic Review’s call for enhanced resilience, workforce agility and sovereign capability in the cyber domain. This is one of 17 separate recommendations identified in the…
Californian firm General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and its sister company General Atomics Integrated Intelligence, Inc. (GA-Intelligence) have successfully demonstrated an autonomous air-to-air engagement. The flight integrated local and global sensor fusion to deliver real-time situational awareness and autonomous…
Industry partners, BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce and MBDA UK, together with the UK Ministry of Defence, have revealed the design of the UK’s flagship Combat Air Flying Demonstrator (CAFD). The aircraft has reached a major milestone, with two thirds of its…
The US Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) XQ-67A, a second-generation Autonomous Collaborative Platform (ACP), has successfully demonstrated integration of government reference autonomy during a recent flight test in the California High Desert, says General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI). During…
UK company BAE Systems has launched a precision munition from a multi-rotor Uncrewed Air System (UAS) and successfully destroyed both air and ground targets during trials in the US. This marks a major step forward in the development of a…
In 2015 Lockheed Martin realised it need to more broadly engage international R&D opportunities. So it looked around the world for the site of its first non-US R&D centre and found it in Melbourne. Originally named the Lockheed Martin STELaRLab,…