Defence has confirmed it will select from two contenders to equip the Australian Army with a land-based maritime strike capability under Project LAND8113 Ph.2. It has said this will result in the Army fielding a second long-range fires regiment. Defence…
The Australian Space Agency has selected the ELO2 consortium, led by Brisbane-based autonomy expert EPE, to build Australia’s first lunar rover in a $42 million program. NASA has contracted the Australian Space Agency to develop and deliver an Australian-made, semi-autonomous…
The Royal Australian Navy has achieved a major milestone with Australia becoming only the third country in the world to acquire and fire a Tomahawk cruise missile. HMAS Brisbane successfully fired a Tomahawk missile during a test and evaluation activity conducted…
The Australian government has released its Terms of Reference for the Strategic Examination of R&D announced at the last budget in May this year. Australia has a very weak record of commercialising the fruits of its R&D, despite its researchers…
Adelaide-based BAE Systems Australia and Perth-based Innovaero have successfully flown the STRIX Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) armed Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS) which was unveiled at Avalon 2023. The flight took place in October at an undisclosed location in Western…
Adelaide-based Fleet Space Technologies has successfully demonstrated Two-way Voice and Data (TVAD) Satellite Communications (SATCOM) for the ADF under the SmartSat CRC’s ASCEND2LEO program which is led by the Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG), the University of South Australia…
Sydney-based Advanced Navigation will provide Rheinmetall Defence Australia with Fibre-Optic Gyroscope (FOG) Inertial Navigation Systems (INS), for Rheinmetall’s Boxer Combat Reconnaissance Vehicles (CRV). This follows a previous deal which saw Advanced Navigation provide 200+ FOG INS to Rheinmetall in 2021…
Lockheed Martin and the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA), supporting United States Indo-Pacific Command and the Department of Defense (DoD), have successfully demonstrated a live exo-atmospheric intercept of a Medium-Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM) target using the land-based Aegis Guam System…
In an Australian first, the Trusted Autonomous Systems Defence CRC’s ‘Mine Counter Measures in a Day’ project has delivered a prototype team of sovereign autonomous vehicles, as well as sensor development and analysis tools for Mine Countermeasures (MCM) in the…
Lockheed Martin Australia, in partnership with Thales Australia, has conducted the successful test detonation of four locally designed warheads at the government-owned Mulwala munitions facility in NSW. It’s understood that these included Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System, or GMLRS, relevant…