The US Department of Defense has announced the second set of projects to receive funding via the pilot program to Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies (APFIT). The purpose of the APFIT pilot program is to expeditiously transition…
The first Regional Office of NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) has opened in London; the UK is partnered with Estonia in this venture and a further hub in Estonia's capital, Tallinn, is due to open later…
Submissions are now open for the US Army’s xTechInternational Advanced Manufacturing and Materials competition. Non-US SMEs, universities and research organisations are invited to enter for the chance to: Engage with and pitch to the US Department of Defense. Be awarded up…
Adelaide-based AML3D Limited has won a $1millipn contract from the US Navy to supply a large-scale, industrial ARCEMY ‘X-Edition 6700’ Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing metal 3D printing system. This will support the US Navy’s accelerating adoption of Wire Arc additive manufacturing…
Sydney-based Saber Astronautics’ microservices program, COSMOS, completed security reviews to deploy to military operators at the US Space Force (USSF). Saber’s COSMOS program encapsulates a number of microservices including a suite of tools that allows operators to analyze and visualize…
Boeing engineers have recently demonstrated a new, autonomous technology that can successfully prevent jamming attempts on U.S. Department of Defense satellite communications (SATCOM). The test was conducted on the U.S. Space Force’s Protected Tactical SATCOM Prototype (PTS-P), showing how this…
UK company Reaction Engines has begun a new testing campaign to expand the performance envelope of its high-Mach or hypersonic enabling technology through the Foreign Comparative Testing (FCT) Program at the U.S. Department of Defense, supported by the Air Force…
Australian company Sentient Vision Systems has been selected for a Foreign Comparative Technology (FCT) test by the U.S. Department of Defense to provide ViDAR Maritime systems for integration and evaluation for the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC). ViDAR, which stands for…