Building a post-COVID 19 defence innovation system Finding a balance between encouraging Australia’s domestic manufacturing to ensure supply chain security for critical sectors, and not violating free-trade agreements by introducing…
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Mention power projection in Australian defence circles, and the conversation will default to talking about ADF readiness and reach. Fundamentally, it is about when ‘we’ go over ‘there’.But what happens…
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China’s largest military trade show was held at Zhuhai near Macau from September 28 to October 3. As expected, the event – which had been pushed back from November 2020…
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Boeing Australia has announced it will assemble its Airpower Teaming System (ATS) uncrewed air system (UAS) at Toowoomba’s Wellcamp Airport, west of Brisbane. Being developed for the ADF’s Air Force…
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Leonardo and Northrop Grumman have announced that they will team to jointly pursue opportunities in the Vertical Take-Off and Landing Uncrewed Aerial Systems (VTUAS) domain. Announced at the DSEI conference…
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The Boeing MQ-25A Stingray unmanned carrier air-to-air refuelling system has successfully conducted refuelling trials with a US Navy Lockheed Martin F-35C fighter. The September 13 test with the F-35C represents…
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The RAAF is more than halfway through the delivery of its planned fleet of 72 Lockheed Martin F-35A fighters. Selected in 2002 to replace the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18A/B Hornet and…
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The US Department of Defense has awarded follow-on contracts to three US companies as part of the development of the joint US-Australian Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment (SCIFiRE) hypersonic…
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Northrop Grumman Australia has announced it has delivered the Network Integration Test Environment (NITE) capability for the MQ-4C Triton high-altitude maritime UAS to the ADF. Located at RAAF Edinburgh, the…
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Defence Industry Minister Melissa Price has announced four new Sovereign Industrial Capability Priorities which it says will help to build a robust, resilient, and internationally competitive defence industry in Australia.…
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The Australian Defence Force has released a Request for Information (RFI) for the Project LAND 129 Phase 4B requirement for a small uncrewed aerial system (SUAS) for the Australian Army.…
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The USAF has awarded more small development contracts to Kratos and General Atomics as the service moves towards making its Skyborg Vanguard loyal wingman project a program of record. The…
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The US Navy’s MQ-25 Stingray uncrewed aerial refuelling system has successfully refuelled a Northrop Grumman E-2D Hawkeye AEW&C aircraft in flight. The key test is the second type to be…
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The US Marine Corps has fired two Raytheon/Kongsberg Naval Strike Missiles (NSM) during a live-fire ship sinking exercise (SINKEX) off the coast of Hawaii in mid-August. Conducted as part of…
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AMDA Foundation has announced the cancellation of the 2021 Australian International Airshow at Avalon. In an August 10 release, AMDA Foundation CEO Ian Honnery said the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic had…
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The government has announced it has selected Lockheed Martin Australia and Northrop Grumman Australia to proceed to the final stage of the competitive evaluation process for the ADF’s Project AIR…
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The latest configuration of the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton made its first flight on July 30. Dubbed Integrated Functional Capability (IFC)-4, the configuration includes for the first time the system’s…
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We have people, we have machines. What’s missing? Australia’s defence discussion has an ideas gap that leaves it vulnerable in the face of new challenges. Planned investments in equipment and…
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Defence has released an advanced notification to industry of an impending request for information (RFI) for the Australian Army’s Project LAND 129 Phase 4B small unmanned aerial system (SUAS) requirement.…
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At what cost efficiency? One of the more difficult projects for Defence to conceive, plan, and execute, is an enterprise training system – and no more so than a defence…