The Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator’s (ASCA) Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (EDT) program has signed 21 contracts with Australian quantum and counter disinformation technologies companies as part of an investment of over $60 million with Australian universities and industry partners. This investment…
Defence has released Advance Notice of a Request for Proposal (RFP) for research projects to be delivered under the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (EDT) Program, for the capability effect of Decision Advantage. ASCA aims to…
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 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…
Three Australian companies will each build 100 general purpose Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) under contracts worth a total of $6.6 million awarded under the Sovereign UAS Challenge being managed by Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA). AMSL Aero, Boresight and Grabba…
Defence is accelerating production of the Ghost Shark by part-funding with Anduril Australia a manufacturing facility in Australia that will see the first production variant of the Ghost Shark Extra Large Autonomous Undersea Vehicle (XL-AUV) available by the end of…
Defence will invest over $100 million acquiring 110 ‘drones’ from two Australian manufacturers of lightweight surveillance and reconnaissance Uncrewed Air Systems (UAS) and augment the ADF’s existing stock of UASs. The Quantum-Systems Vector 2-in-1and SYPAQ Systems CorvoX were trialled along…
Californian company Anduril Industries will open a new 100,000-150,000 square foot manufacturing facility to support large-scale production of its Dive-LD family of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) at Quonset Point, Rhode Island, on the east coast of the USA. By investing…
The Australian Army is calling on defence industry and academia to pitch innovative capabilities to optimise the soldier for littoral operations as part of Army Innovation Day 2024 (AID24). Hosted by the Australian Army as part of the Chief of…
The Australian Department of Defence has unveiled its first Ghost Shark Extra Large Autonomous Underwater Vessel (XL-AUV), ahead of schedule and on budget. Ghost Shark will provide the Royal Australian Navy with a stealthy, long-range autonomous undersea warfare capability that can…