The US Department of Defense, with help from industry, will ramp up production and fielding of drones, or Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UASs), to maintain battlefield superiority. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at the announcement, at which some 18 US-made…
French company Airbus Helicopters will acquire Washington State-based Aerovel and its Unmanned Aerial System (UAS), Flexrotor, as part of a strategy to strengthen its portfolio of tactical unmanned solutions. The purchase price has not been disclosed. Flexrotor is a small…
Melbourne-based SPEE3D is working with the United States Department of Defense to deploy 3D printers and equipment training for the Ukrainian army, helping bolster Ukraine’s efforts in its ongoing war against Russia. SPEE3D printers were supplied to Ukraine by the…
US prime contractor Northrop Grumman Corporation has opened a new Hypersonics Capability Center (HCC) in Elkton, Maryland to produce advanced propulsion solutions that can power hypersonic missiles beyond Mach 5. The HCC is the first US facility designed specifically for…
Sydney-based DroneShield Ltd has been awarded a follow-on 2-year R&D contract worth $9.9 million by a Five Eyes Department of Defence (DoD). The award follows DroneShield materially completing the $3.8 million contract announced 4 June 2021 with the same DoD. The company has not named the customer. “Follow-on contracts are…
The US Department of Defense (DoD) and the Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD) have launched the India-US Defense Acceleration Ecosystem (INDUS-X) to expand the strategic technology partnership and defence industrial cooperation between the two countries’ governments, businesses, and academic institutions.…
Sydney-based Saber Astronautics’ microservices program, COSMOS, completed security reviews to deploy to military operators at the US Space Force (USSF). Saber’s COSMOS program encapsulates a number of microservices including a suite of tools that allows operators to analyze and visualize…
DroneShield’s counter-drone and counter–autonomous system Sensor and Command-and-Control platforms are now fully compliant with the U.S. Government’s Team Awareness Kit (TAK), the company has announced. The TAK system, originally developed by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), is used…