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…
Diversified US industrial giant Honeywell has been awarded a contract of undisclosed value by the BlueForge Alliance to deliver the AUKUS Submarine Industrial Base (SIB) pilot program in Australia. For this program Honeywell says it will establish an enhanced security…
Geelong-based Hanwha Defence Australia (HDA), Visionary Machines, an Australian SME leader in high-fidelity passive 3D spatial sensing, and Hanwha Systems Corporation have signed an MoU to explore collaborative development opportunities. The MoU was signed at the Avalon Air Show in…
Sydney based Thales Australia has integrated Dedrone by Axon into its Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle (PMV), adding a Counter-Uncrewed Aerial System (C-UAS) capability to the evolving Bushmaster design. Successful testing was completed near Thales Australia’s Bendigo facility, where the Bushmaster…
The three AUKUS partners have released the trilateral AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge 2025. The AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge 2025 seeks innovative solutions from industry and research institutions around the world to provide capability with a focus on undersea communications and…
The Australian government handed down its budget for 2025-26 on the evening of 25 March and then almost immediately called a General Election which will be held on 3 May. Until then, the government is in ‘caretaker’ mode so is…
The Australian Army has taken delivery of its first two of a planned 42 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HiMARS) launcher vehicles, less than two years after the purchase was announced. Defence will spend $1.6 billion to equip the Army’s…
The RAAF’s AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) is now ready for operational use after an operational test conducted by a RAAF F/A-18F Super Hornet off the coast of California last month, supported by the United States Navy. Defence has allocated some…
In the same week that the US Air Force selected Boeing’s F-47 is its 6th generation Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) crewed fighter, California-based Anduril Industries is showing a model of its 6thgeneration YFQ-44 Fury autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA)…