During last year’s Australian-led EX Maritime Big Play, AUKUS military operators and technical experts tested and employed approximately 30 next-generation capabilities in a tactical setting, said Defence in a media release issued this month, working with industry in real time…
Adelaide-based BAE Systems Australia has sold its stake in Perth-based aerospace company Innovaero Pty Ltd to previous owner Aerovation Pty Limited for an undisclosed sum. Innovaero says this transition to full Australian ownership marks a significant milestone in establishing a sovereign…
US company Leidos will manufacture its aluminium, 37-foot (about 11.3m) Sea Archer Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) in Australia. The first of class is currently under construction in the US but the second will be built in Toronto on the mid-north…
Defence’s Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA), through Mission Talon Strike, has issued a Request for Tenders (RFT) for technologies that can address the Problem Statement, “How might we strike land targets from medium range with low cost, and launched loitering…
Adelaide-based BAE Systems Australia and Perth-based Innovaero have successfully flown the STRIX Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) armed Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS) which was unveiled at Avalon 2023. The flight took place in October at an undisclosed location in Western…
Perth-based Innovaero will accelerate development of Australia's first sovereign precision loitering munition capability following a new agreement with the Commonwealth of Australia. The aeronautical engineering company will move into a third phase in the development of the OWL B precision…
Perth-based companies Aurora Labs Limited and Innovaero Pty Limited will collaborate to develop a 3D printed gas turbine for aerospace applications. The first use for it will be in an Innovaero Uncrewed Air System (UAS), the recently launched OWL-X. EX2…
Defence industry journal Australian Defence Magazine reports that an unspecified Special Operations Unit of the Australian Army will put the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) first loitering munition - the Innovaero OWL - into service later this year. The magazine’s report…
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…
BAE Systems Australia has teamed with Perth-based SME Innovaero to launch Australia’s first domestically designed, manufactured and armed VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) Uncrewed Air System (UAS), STRIXTM, at Avalon 2023 The STRIX UAS collaboration brings together BAE Systems’ global…