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…
UK company QinetiQ has been awarded a £20 million ($38.9 million) contract to build a radio frequency, anti-jamming test facility at the UK Ministry of Defence’s Boscombe Down flight test centre in Wiltshire. This will be one of the largest…
The UK Ministry of Defence (UKMoD) has successfully trialled a military laser which can engage targets with extreme accuracy while reducing reliance on high-cost direct and indirect-fire ammunition. During a trial at the MOD’s Hebrides Range in Scotland, the DragonFire Laser…
KBR and QinetiQ have signed a teaming agreement to work collaboratively to deliver Test and Evaluation (T&E) services for the Australian Defence Force. Under the agreement KBR and QinetiQ will share skills and experiences to build on both companies’ respective…
UK firms BAE Systems and QinetiQ have signed a framework agreement which will see both parties collaborate on the development of autonomous Uncrewed Air Systems (UAS) and mission management systems. The framework agreement will explore the potential to collaborate and…
MBDA and its partners in the DragonFire consortium have successfully carried out the first static high power laser firing of a sovereign UK capability at DSTL’s range in Porton Down. Using QinetiQ’s phase-combined laser demonstrator, generating in the order of 50kW…
Dragonfire, the UK’s Laser Directed Energy Weapon Programme (LDEW) led by MBDA, has begun a series of trials to prove the accuracy and power of the novel laser weapon. The first of these trials recently conducted at low power by…
The Department of Defence has awarded nine Defence Innovation Hub contracts worth $19 million to develop new technologies that could help protect and sustain Australian Defence Force personnel in the field. Minister for Defence Industry Melissa Price said, “I am…
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…