Defence’s Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator’s (ASCA) Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (EDT) program has signed 14 new contracts worth nearly $40 million to strengthen Decision Advantage capability across Defence domains including air, land, space, maritime and cyber. Decision Advantage is the…
The Australian Department of Defence has awarded Sydney-based CAE Australia a $300 million contract for the Future Air Mission Training System (F-AMTS), under Project AIR5428 Ph.3. The F-AMTS, which is designed to increase Defence’s aircrew training capacity by up to…
In ‘one of the most significant reforms to defence that we have seen,’ the Australian Department of Defence will establish an all-new Defence Delivery Agency combining the functions and budgets of its principal procurement agencies, the Capability and Sustainment Group…
The Australian Department of Defence is establishing a new Defence Delivery Agency designed to strengthen and streamline acquisition and sustainment activities. The new agency , to become operational on 1 July 2026, will deliver the capabilities, skills and workforce needed…
On a recent visit to Anduril Industries’ HQ in Costa Mesa, California, the company’s co-founder Palmer Luckey made a very important point: if you want to build something in large numbers, you need to tailor it to the capabilities of…
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…
The Australian Department of Defence in partnership with Lockheed Martin has connected for the first time F-35A Lightning II simulators at RAAF Bases Williamtown and Tindal using the F-35 Distributed Mission Training (DMT) network. Lockheed Martin and the RAAF successfully…
Defence has cancelled Joint Project 9102 Ph.1, the $6.9 billion Australian Defence Satellite Communications System which it awarded in April last year to Lockheed Martin Australia. It hasn’t said what might replace the capability, nor when it might enter service.…
Defence is accelerating production of the Ghost Shark by part-funding with Anduril Australia a manufacturing facility in Australia that will see the first production variant of the Ghost Shark Extra Large Autonomous Undersea Vehicle (XL-AUV) available by the end of…
The Australian Department of Defence has launched a $150 million Defence Industry Development Grant (DIDG) program. The Grant, announced in the Defence Industry Development Strategy, will soon be open for applications, says the department The new grant program will provide…