Virginia-based Aurora Flight Sciences has begun manufacturing work on a new X-plane for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program. This latest phase follows the successful completion of the Critical Design…
US aerospace and defence company Boeing has delivered the first Orca Extra Large Uncrewed Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV) to the US Navy following the completion of acceptance testing. The XLUUV is a new class of autonomous submarine that can perform long…
The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) will acquire six Boeing E-7A Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) aircraft under a US Foreign Military Sales (FMS) agreement. has announced its acquisition strategy for an initial Alliance Future Surveillance and…
Boeing and Brisbane-based Ferra Engineering have agreed to continue production of Joint Direct Attack Munition Extended Range (JDAM ER) wing kits. The agreement also includes the intent to explore applications for Powered JDAM — a long-range, low-cost and mass-producible JDAM derivative…
Brisbane-based Insitu Pacific (IPL), a subsidiary of Boeing, and Perth-based Innovaero will collaborate on an integrated solution for a long-range strike capability using Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), providing a versatile solution in an increasingly complex battlespace. The work underway will…
Bingen, Washington-based Insitu, A Boeing Company, has announced a munitions program for its Integrator Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS) which adds a highly sought-after strike capability to the platform’s payload portfolio and class-leading 24-hour flight endurance. Insitu collaborated with multiple weapons…
Boeing and its Australian subsidiary Insitu Pacific has demonstrated operational applications of its autonomous search, detection and classification capabilities at EX Talisman Sabre. The pioneering technology delivers near real-time intelligence to the warfighter. It combines Boeing’s machine learning, AI and…
Australian online newsletter Defence Connect reports that Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman will compete to develop and build the US Navy’s sixth-generation, carrier-based strike fighter under the F/A-XX program, also known as the New Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program,…
The Department of Defence has signed a $32.2 million agreement with not-for-profit foundation NQ Spark Pty Ltd, paving the way for work to begin on the North Queensland Simulation Park (NQ Spark) in Townsville. This will be a newly developed,…
Queensland-based nanomaterials company White Graphene Limited, part of PPK Group, has secured $100,000 and a partnership with Boeing to develop boron nitride nanomaterial applications in the space and aerospace industries after winning the company’s highly-competitive Sustainability in Space Pitch Competition.…