The Australian government and BAE Systems Australia will establish a new Aircraft Coating Facility (ACF) at the company’s Williamtown Aerospace Precinct, near Newcastle in Australia. This will see a specialised paint applied to the aircraft to ensure they are virtually…
The Australian Government is investing more than $1.7 billion in three new classes of weapon for the ADF, and a further $1.6 billion in HiMARS launchers. Missiles, including the PrSM hypersonic weapons to be launched from the HiMARS system, will…
Southern Launch and the Koonibba Community Aboriginal Corporation will begin work on Australia’s first permanent commercial sub-orbital space launch facility after planning consent was granted for the Koonibba Test Range in country South Australia. “The development of permanent, world-class facilities…
The US Space Development Agency (SDA) has awarded Lockheed Martin a firm-fixed price agreement valued at approximately US$816 million ($1.26 billion) to build 36 Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL) Beta satellites. T2TL is part of an overarching plan to strengthen deterrence with…
Adelaide-based Inovor Technologies has been selected for Lockheed Martin’s Mentor Protégé Program (MPP), becoming the third Australian Small-to-Medium Enterprise (SME) to do so. Inovor is a member of the team assembled by Lockheed Martin Australia for Joint Project 9102; the…
Adelaide-based Neumann Space has signed partnership agreements with Queensland firm Gilmour Space Technologies and with UK company Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL). Neumann Space has developed the world-leading Neumann Drive propulsion system which uses solid metallic propellant and is today…
Brisbane-based Hypersonix Launch Systems Ltd and San Diego-based Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. have announced an exclusive teaming agreement to offer the Hypersonix DART AE Hypersonic System into the US market, integrated with Kratos’ Zeus family of solid rocket…
San Diego-based Shield AI, an American defence technology company, and Port Melbourne-based Sentient Vision Systems have announced a strategic collaboration aimed at delivering a Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) solution for the US Department of Defense (DoD), the ADF and…
US prime contractor Northrop Grumman Corporation has opened a new Hypersonics Capability Center (HCC) in Elkton, Maryland to produce advanced propulsion solutions that can power hypersonic missiles beyond Mach 5. The HCC is the first US facility designed specifically for…
Australian small businesses participating in Boeing Australia’s first Capability Up-Lift Program have graduated with seven Boeing contracts, including agreements with three new suppliers. The year-long Capability Up-Lift Program, designed to support companies who may not have experience working in a…