ASCA, Defence's Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator, seeks proposals to develop and demonstrate a sovereign Prototype Undersea Navigation System (UNS) that can operate in deep ocean transit without relying on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) or acoustic transmissions. Responses are due 12…
Defence has awarded Anduril Australia a $1.7 billion contract for the delivery, maintenance and continued development of the Ghost Shark Extra Large Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (XL-AUV) for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) over the next five years. An undisclosed number…
The Department of Defence has awarded three companies contracts worth $9 million for the development of Information Warfare and Quantum Technologies through the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator’s (ASCA) Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (EDT) program. The Department says the contracts are…
Three Australian manufacturers - AMSL Aero, Boresight and Grabba Technologies - have delivered 100 Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) each to the Australian Defence Force (ADF). They are now delivering an undisclosed number of extra UASs worth around $1.5 million. The…
Defence’s Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) on innovative asymmetric solutions for its Pitch Day 2025. Down-selected respondents will be invited to attend ASCA’s Pitch Day scheduled for Monday 3 November 2025 in Sydney,…
UK firm MGI Engineering has unveiled its SkyShark loitering munition, a next-generation military Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS) platform designed to transform battlefield operations with speed and precision, the company says. The jet-powered version of the SkyShark will be powered by a…
Just four months after the announcement of Project LAND156, which is aimed at countering Small Uncrewed Aerial Systems (C-SUAS) Defence has issued an initial rolling wave of contracts worth $16.9 million to 11 vendors, including five Australian companies, to rapidly…
UK company BAE Systems has launched a precision munition from a multi-rotor Uncrewed Air System (UAS) and successfully destroyed both air and ground targets during trials in the US. This marks a major step forward in the development of a…
The US Army’s Program Executive Office Aviation, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) Project Office has released a Sources Sought Notification to identify commercially available low-cost, sovereign Small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (SUAS). The Army is looking to field thousands of low-cost UAS…
The Australian-made and designed autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), the MQ-28A Ghost Bat, has achieved a major capability milestone. In a capability demonstration at Woomera a single operator aboard an airborne E-7A Wedgetail took control of two Ghost Bat aircraft…