US defence contractor L3Harris Technologies has completed a major mirror refurbishment for the US Space Force’s Australian Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) at the Harold E Holt Naval Communication Station in Exmouth, Western Australia. This critical milestone ensures one of the…
Sydney-based DroneShield, has announced interoperability between its DroneSentry-C2 Command-and-Control (C2) software, and optical sensing technologies from UK firm OpenWorks Engineering. The partnership strengthens DroneShield’s ability to unify multi-domain sensor inputs within a single operational C2 environment, delivering enhanced detection, tracking, and…
California-based Skydio has announced an order exceeding $52 million for over 2,500 X10D drones, or Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS), from the US Army. The order is the largest Small UAS procurement from a single manufacturer in the US Army’s history…
The Royal Navy is set to purchase 20 uncrewed boats from the Kraken Technology Group in a contract worth £12.3 million ($23.3 million) as it looks to build on its ability to merge both crewed and uncrewed forces. The procurement…
Florida-based L3Harris Technologies and Californian company Shield AI have successfully demonstrated a first of kind autonomous Electronic Warfare (EW) integration, combining L3Harris’ electromagnetic battle management ecosystem known as Distributed Spectrum Collaboration and Operations (DISCO) with Shield AI’s Hivemind mission-autonomy software. The…
The National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC) will make a $200 million hybrid note investment in ASX-listed cloud, cybersecurity, and telecoms provider Macquarie Technology Group. The NRFC is a sovereign investor established by the Australian Government to invest in Australian businesses…
The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the US Navy have selected Anduril Industries and its Dive-XL autonomous submarine to participate in the Combat Autonomous Maritime Platform (CAMP) Project. This project aims to address a persistent operational gap beneath the…
The Geelong-based AMDA Foundation Ltd, which organises the Indian Ocean Defence & Security (IODS) 2026 expo, has named the ten finalists in the IODS 2026 Innovation Pitchfest and Awards which spotlight the ingenuity shaping Australia’s maritime and defence future. This…
Defence’s Canberra-based Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) has released a Request for Information (RFI) for the ASCA Pitch Day 2026 – Resilient Command and Control (C2). ASCA Pitch Days provide industry and academia the opportunity to present their idea to…
Defence will acquire 40 Australian-designed and built Bluebottle Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USV) under a $176 million, five-year contract to enhance the Royal Australian Navy’s undersea warfare capabilities. The funding, announced by Richard Marles, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence,…