The UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) have will jointly develop next-generation sub-systems for low-cost weapons systems, bringing together cutting-edge technologies from both nations, according to a UK Ministry of Defence…
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…
A fully operational, Australian-made nanosatellite has been launched from the United States into low-Earth orbit. Buccaneer Main Mission is the second of two CubeSats launched launched by Defence’s Science and Technology Group (DSTG)under the Buccaneer project, following the successful launch…
QinetiQ Australia has successfully demonstrated a prototype of its scaleable high power laser optical chain at QinetiQ Laboratories (QLabs) in Adelaide, in collaboration with Defence’s Science and Technology Group (DSTG). Following the successful demonstration, QinetiQ and DSTG are closer to…
Adelaide-based Fleet Space Technologies has successfully demonstrated Two-way Voice and Data (TVAD) Satellite Communications (SATCOM) for the ADF under the SmartSat CRC’s ASCEND2LEO program which is led by the Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG), the University of South Australia…
Australia and Canada will collaborate on research into emerging missile threat defence under a new, $521 million bilateral Project Arrangement (PA). The countries’ defence ministers, Bill Blair, Minister of National Defence of Canada, and Richard Marles, have released a joint…
UK-based research firm QinetiQ has officially opened QinetiQ Laboratories in Mawson Lakes, South Australia. The facility, known as QLabs, will help enable the rapid development of software and prototypes that support the Australian Defence Force. QLabs includes a Software Development…
US online publication Breaking Defense reports that the two companies selected by the US Air Force to develop Collaborative Combat Aircraft designs have completed what amounts to Critical Design Reviews of their competing designs. This milestone enables California-based Anduril Industries…
Unless you actually read it properly, it’s easy to dismiss Defence’s new Innovation Science and Technology strategy as a DSTG-only thing, and therefore of only marginal relevance to the ‘real world’. Read the Strategy carefully – it’s a genuine whole-of-Defence…
The Australian Department of Defence is investing an initial $22 million in a sovereign rocket motor construction program to support its Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance (GWEO) program to build long-range missiles in Australia. Defence has also announced it will…