Integration of the complex combat systems on the Royal Australian Navy’s existing Hobart-class destroyers and planned Hunter-class frigates will be done in Australia, following an agreement between three of the country’s largest defence companies and the Department of Defence. BAE…
Nova Systems Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jim McDowell will be leaving Nova to take up the appointment of Deputy Secretary Naval Shipbuilding and Sustainment at the Australian Department of Defence's Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG). He succeeds Mr Tony…
The publication of this book couldn’t be timed better: it came out shortly after the announcement that the RAN would acquire three to five ex-US Navy Virginia-class submarines and then eight SSN-AUKUS boats, and shortly before ANZAC Day this year.…
Australia will acquire at least three and possibly five US Virginia-class submarines, starting in the early 2030s – pending US Congressional approval; and it will build in Adelaide eight SSN-AUKUS conventionally-armed nuclear-powered submarines, based on a UK design, incorporating cutting…
Australian Defence Magazine’s online news service, Defence Week Premium reports that Defence has named the extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle program (XL-AUV) being developed by Anduril Australia as ‘Ghost Shark’. See the article here. The naming ceremony, attended by the Head…
French company Exail, formerly ECA Group, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sydney based Solutions from Silicon to provide advanced data management capabilities for both manned and unmanned Mine Countermeasures (MCM) missions in Australia and overseas. This will…
CAE Australia Pty Ltd. has been awarded the five-year, $50 million Platforms and Systems Training Contract (PSTC) by the Royal Australian Navy to deliver improved quality, efficiency, modernisation, and remote capability in training. Under the agreement CAE Australia will support…
About 40 new, innovative autonomous technologies are being tested and evaluated in the waters of Jervis Bay, NSW, on Exercise Autonomous Warrior (AW22) throughout May and early June. The two-week exercise is testing uncrewed, robotic and autonomous systems that operate…
Defence will invest $1 billion establishing a new naval regional maintenance centre at Fleet Base East (FBE), the Garden Island Defence Precinct in Sydney. Following an open tender which he said was ‘imminent’, Minister for Defence Peter Dutton said the…
The RAN will arm its surface combatants with the RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) Block 2 for anti-air and anti-missile defence. Minister for Defence Peter Dutton said the purchase of the ESSM Block2 capability is a key pillar in…