Some $4.45 million in seed funding from deep tech and industry expert investors Main Sequence, Beaten Zone Venture Partners and Salus Ventures will enable Melbourne-based Arkeus to scale its next-generation hardware-enabled software platform for search, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.…
The University of Melbourne and the Italian Space Agency have successfully launched the SpIRIT nanosatellite mission, supported by the Australian Space Agency. The Space Industry Responsive Intelligent Thermal nanosatellite (SpIRIT) was placed into orbit by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket…
The Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) has tested successfully two undersea communications and ISR technologies at this year’s EX Autonomous Warrior, held in Jervis Bay in the fortnight before the Indo Pacific 2023 maritime expo in Sydney. Rock Lobster…
Cairns-based NORSTA North Pty Ltd has been awarded the Regional Maintenance Provider contract to operate a Regional Maintenance Centre, known as RMC North, located in Darwin. The five-year $150 million contract will create 37 direct jobs and support a broader…
The Group CEO of the biggest Australian-owned supplier of military munitions has laid out a detailed plan to mobilise the nation’s defence industrial base, emphasising “it’s time for urgency, optimism and action”. NIOA Group CEO Robert Nioa used a keynote…
California company Anduril Industries has unveiled its Roadrunner and Roadrunner-M Autonomous Air Vehicles (AAV). Roadrunner is a Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) AAV designed to be customized for various missions; Roadrunner-M is a radical new class of recoverable ground-based air…
The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) will trial Ocius Technology’s 6.8m, renewable-powered Bluebottle Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV). The supply ship HMNZS Aotearoa has carried the USV from Sydney to Auckland and once operational it will be able to undertake maritime tasks at sea…
The Group CEO of the biggest Australian-owned supplier of military munitions has laid out a detailed plan to mobilise the nation’s defence industrial base, emphasising “it’s time for urgency, optimism and action”. NIOA Group CEO Robert Nioa used a keynote…
The University of South Australia (UniSA) with two Adelaide-based SMEs, VPG Innovation and SMR Australia, will mature and space-qualify a new optical manufacturing process and materials for space flight applications and demonstrate it in a camera that can utilise this…
Australia will install the Northrop Grumman Deep-space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) near Exmouth, WA. The radar is expected to be operational by 2026. The decision was announced during the second AUKUS Ministers’ meeting in California. All three AUKUS partners –…