Three influential members of the US Congress, Joe Courtney, Gregory Meeks and Ami Bera, have introduced the AUKUS Undersea Defense Act, H.R. 3939, to enable the RAN to acquire the Virginia-class submarine. This bill supports the AUKUS Trilateral Security Framework…
US Senators Jim Risch and Bill Hagerty of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have introduced the Truncating Onerous Regulations for Partners and Enhancing Deterrent Operations (TORPEDO) Act, legislation to enable operational and technology cooperation with the United Kingdom and Australia…
A Thales-supplied Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) has taken a significant step towards autonomous mine-hunting operations during trials in the UK. The USV, Royal Navy Motor Boat (RNMB) Apollo, completed a demanding series of Royal Navy and industry open water assurance…
Sydney-based DroneShield and Los Angeles-based Epirus, Inc have completed integration of DroneShield’s multi-sensor DroneSentry system with Epirus’ Leonidas High-Power Microwave (HPM) counter-electronics/counter-UAS effector. The integration of these two systems allows for a fully integrated C-UAS system that can track multiple threats and…
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…