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…
DroneShield Limited has launched SensorFusionAI (SFAI), a sensor-agnostic, 3D data fusion engine for complex environments. The engine is already deployed as a module in the company’s DroneSentry-C2 system; now SFAI is a standalone module which can integrate into third party C2…
Brisbane-based Insitu Pacific (IPL), a subsidiary of Boeing, and Perth-based Innovaero will collaborate on an integrated solution for a long-range strike capability using Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), providing a versatile solution in an increasingly complex battlespace. The work underway will…
Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) equipped with cutting-edge sensors to detect ground mines and explosives are being researched by UK scientists and engineers at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) and could alter the face of land warfare. Their research…
Port Melbourne-based Sentient Vision Systems has successfully completed live demonstrations of its AI-enabled ViDAR (Visual Detection and Ranging) payload deployed on California-based Edge Autonomy’s VXE30 Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS). The VXE30 vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) solution is the latest…
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…
Melbourne-based Aerosonde, a Textron Systems Corporation subsidiary, has won an initial contract valued at up to US$19.5 million ($30 million) by the US Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to provide UAS operational support to two Independence-class LCS and one…