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…
Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States have finalised the establishment of an export licence-free environment, which Defence says will unlock billions of dollars of investment and cutting red tape for Australian industry and its AUKUS partners. Delivering on…
The US Department of Commerce has announced that Australia and the United Kingdom are being provided with a national exemption from the Export Administration Regulations. This will come into effect in September 2024 and reduce the burden associated with US export…
Construction of the first new Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN) satellite dish has begun at Lockheed Martin’s Telemetry Tracking and Command Station in Uralla, New South Wales. SouthPAN improves positioning accuracy to as little as 10 centimetres which will help…
The Trilateral Defense Ministerial Meeting between the defence ministers of Australia, the United States and Japan during last week’s Shangri-La Dialogue trailed a future trilateral Research Development Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) agreement between the three partners “at the earliest opportunity”.…
US President Joe Biden has told Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese that he (Biden) plans to ask the US Congress to add Australia as a “domestic source” within the meaning of Title III of the US Defense Production Act. Doing…
In their joint communique at the end of the Quad Leaders’ Summit in Japan the Prime Ministers of Japan, India and Australia and the US President committed to an enhanced earth observation satellite system and to enhanced maritime situational awareness…
The US Air Force will replace a portion of its ageing Boeing 707-based E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning And Control System (AWACS) fleet with the E-7 Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) system which is currently in service with the…
Lockheed Martin Australia (LMA) is approaching the end of a long path leading, it hopes, to prime contractorship on Defence's Project AIR6500 Phase 1. Gregor Ferguson, EX2 This project is the ADF’s Joint Air Battle Management System (JABMS), valued at…
California-based AI and networking firm Anduril has established an Australian subsidiary, Anduril Australia, located in Sydney with David Goodrich OAM as CEO and Executive Chairman. The new subsidiary will design, develop, manufacture and market major product lines in Australia.…