Sydney-based Quickstep Holdings has received a $925,000 grant from the Commonwealth Department of Science, Industry & Resources (DSIR) under the Moon to Mars initiative, As part of an overall $1.3 million development program, this DSIR grant will fund the acquisition…
The Australian Army and US Marine Corps have conducted a joint trial of Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled autonomous uncrewed systems at Marine Corps base Quantico in the USA. fly over Northern Virginia. The trial saw an Uncrewed Air System (UAS)…
Defence industry journal Australian Defence Magazine reports that an unspecified Special Operations Unit of the Australian Army will put the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) first loitering munition - the Innovaero OWL - into service later this year. The magazine’s report…
Some of the capabilities and one of the systems selected for accelerated fielding as part of the first tranche of the US Replicator initiative are already in US military service. The Replicator initiative, which was launched last year by the…
The US Defense Advanced research Projects Agency, DARPA, has down-selected six companies from the original nine contenders who will advanced to the next stage of its ANCILLARY program. Phase 1b of ANCILLARY, which stands for AdvaNced aircraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And…
Toulouse-based Airbus has finalised the acquisition of Bingen, Washington-based Uncrewed Air System (UAS) manufacturer Aerovel and its Flexrotor UAS in a move to strengthen its portfolio of tactical unmanned solutions. Flexrotor is a small tactical UAS designed for Intelligence, Surveillance,…
San Diego-based Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. and Shield AI, Inc have announced the successful completion of the first phase of Shield’s AI-piloted flight-testing on-board the Kratos family of UAS as the two companies move toward productizing Shield AI’s…
Defence has selected 11 Australian companies to manufacture drone, or Uncrewed Aerial System (UAV), prototypes in contracts worth a total of $1.21 million. The eleven companies will each provide a prototype of a UAS for demonstration in April along with…
During the Indo Pacific 2023 International Maritime Expo in Sydney EX2 was briefed by Northrop Grumman Australia on Defence’s purchase of the MQ-4C Triton Uncrewed Air Vehicle (UAV). Gregor Ferguson If you’re going to field long-range weapons, it helps if…
Port Melbourne-based Sentient Vision Systems has signed a Long Term Agreement (LTA) to supply its ViDAR AI-enabled imagery analysis system to San Diego-based Unmanned Air System manufacturer Shield AI. The ViDAR (standing for Visual Detection and Ranging) system provides real-time…