DroneShield Ltd has won a launch order from an undisclosed Five Eyes Defence customer for a new target area-specific Satellite Denial System. There are multiple Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) used around the world. The US GPS is the best known,…
Just one month after its formation Defence’s Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) has issued a Request for Information for its first Innovation Challenge. ASCA is seeking information to support an Australian sovereign Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) and trusted autonomy industrial…
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract of undisclosed value by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop and demonstrate a nuclear-powered spacecraft under a project called Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO). The project will represent…
Australia’s Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance Enterprise (GWEO) will start by manufacturing guided weapons as part of the US supply chain, following an agreement announced at the 33rd AUSMIN (Australia-US Ministerial) talks at the end of July in Brisbane. The…
Canberra-based Skykraft has successfully completed a world-first trial of space-based VHF voice communications as part of its development of satellites to provide space-based aviation communications and surveillance services. This trial supports the work on operational space-based aviation VHF services leading…
The Australian Government has selected Hanwha Defense Australia as the preferred tenderer to deliver 129 Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFV) to the Australian Army, as part of a major transformation of the Army in response to Australia’s changing strategic environment. The…
The $240 million Defence Trailblazer program has been launched officially by Senator Anthony Chisholm, Assistant Minister for Education and Regional Development. It is a strategic partnership between the University of Adelaide and UNSW Sydney with support from the Australian Government’s…
EOS Defense Systems USA, Inc, the US defence subsidiary of Electro Optic Systems (EOS) has been selected to provide the EOS AS-65 gimbal, developed for the R150 remote weapon system (RWS), as the positioning component for the L3Harris Vehicle Agnostic…
British engineers have successfully completed a stratospheric flight trial of BAE Systems’ High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS) Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS), PHASA-35. Over a 24-hour period, PHASA-35 soared to more than 66,000 feet before landing successfully. The trial, at Spaceport…
Raytheon and partner Northrop Grumman Corporation have been awarded a contract of undisclosed value from the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Under the follow-on risk-reduction agreement, the Raytheon-led team will build and fly additional Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept…