The Royal Australian Navy RAN has formally named its Maritime Autonomous Systems Unit (MASU), marking a key step in its transition to a more highly advanced, technology‑enabled future force. The Officer in Charge is CDR Chris Forward. MASU has been…
California-based Skydio has announced an order exceeding $52 million for over 2,500 X10D drones, or Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS), from the US Army. The order is the largest Small UAS procurement from a single manufacturer in the US Army’s history…
Defence will acquire 40 Australian-designed and built Bluebottle Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USV) under a $176 million, five-year contract to enhance the Royal Australian Navy’s undersea warfare capabilities. The funding, announced by Richard Marles, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence,…
UK Magazine Flight International reports that Mount Manganui-based Syos Aerospace is to equip the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) with its SA2 and SA7 quadcopter Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UASs). The company will also provide the NZDF with its SM300 uncrewed…
Sydney based defence AI start-up Breaker has raised AUS$9 million (US$6.4 million) in seed funding from US venture capital fund Bessemer Venture Partners to tackle what CEO and co-founder Matt Buffa calls the ‘operator bottleneck’ in exploiting AI on 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…
Californian company Anduril Industries has been awarded up to US$50 million ($77.6 million) in contracts under the Pentagon’s Small Business Innovation Research (SIBR) program for the ALTIUS-600 Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS). The ALTIUS-600 can be both a loitering munition and…
Californian company Anduril Industries has unveiled its Omen Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) Group 3 Autonomous Air Vehicle (AAV). This is designed to carry significant Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and strike payloads a tactically relevant distance. The Omen will…
New Zealand autonomy and uncrewed vehicle specialist Syos Aerospace demonstrated its mastery of both autonomy and the manufacture of uncrewed vehicles when it demonstrated control of its SM300 Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV), which was based in the UK, from Sydney,…
Shield AI has unveiled its new X-BAT, an autonomous, AI-piloted, Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) fighter jet designed for expeditionary and maritime operations in contested environments. It uses a compact launcher to take off and recover vertically but still…