The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has announced that four US companies have been awarded contracts for Artemis, a project to operationally evaluate long range, one way platforms (and not to be confused with the NASA project of the same…
The three AUKUS partners have released the trilateral AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge 2025. The AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge 2025 seeks innovative solutions from industry and research institutions around the world to provide capability with a focus on undersea communications and…
Defence’s Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA), in partnership with the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) in the United Kingdom and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) in the United States, is providing advance notice of the AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge 2025.…
Washington-based online publication Breaking Defense, reports that the US Air Force’s Armaments Directorate and the Pentagon’s California-based Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) have down-selected two companies, Anduril Industries and Zone 5 Technologies, to develop a new modular, low-cost air vehicle under…
Norwegian company Kongsberg has completed acceptance testing and delivery of the first HUGIN Superior Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) for the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and US Navy. The company’s Large Diameter Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (LDUUV) was delivered only one year…
Melbourne, Florida-based L3Harris Technologies has introduced AMORPHOUS, a software product that features a single user interface to operate thousands of autonomous assets simultaneously. Designed with an open architecture, this software enables US and allied militaries to control a mix of…
South Australian spaceport provider Southern Launch and Queensland hypersonic vehicle and scramjet technology manufacturer Hypersonix Launch Systems have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on a turnkey hypersonic test bed service. Under the MoU, Hypersonix and Southern Launch…
The three AUKUS partners have named eight companies as winners of the inaugural AUKUS Electronic Warfare Innovation Challenge. Some 173 qualified suppliers applied for the Challenge across all three nations Three Australian companies, Advanced Design Technology Pty Ltd, Inovor Technologies…
The US Air Force Armament Directorate (AFLCMC/EB) and Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) have selected four companies to build prototype Enterprise Test Vehicles (ETV), drone prototypes capable of being manufactured cheaply and in large numbers and that can also be test…
The three AUKUS partners, Australia, the UK and USA, have jointly launched the AUKUS Electronic Warfare Innovation Challenge, the first in a planned series of AUKUS Innovation Challenges. The Australian lead in this Challenge is the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator…