The federal government has announced the establishment of an Office of National Rail Industry Coordination (ONRIC). According to a statement the office will lead a national and coordinated approach to address challenges facing the rail manufacturing sector. The office will deliver the government’s $14.2 million National Rail Manufacturing Plan, part of the government’s A Future…
The reason why additive manufacturing group Amaero abandoned plans to build a titanium alloy powders plant in Victoria has been revealed in a statement to the ASX. The plant will instead be constructed in the United Arab Emirates supported by investment funds made possible by that country’s defence offsets programme. In September Amaero dumped a…
Four South Australian companies are putting the final touches on the VS03 mission that will launch a rocket and state-of-the-art payloads into space before the end of the year. Southern Launch, ATSpace, Asension and Inovor Technologies have collaborated on the mission which will see an ATSpace ‘Kestrel I’ rocket launched from the Southern Launch Whalers…
Australia’s electricity grid is being shaken up as states and the Commonwealth embrace renewables. But this also gives Australia a chance to claim back energy monopolies it lost to state owned companies from China and Singapore, argues Shane West. With coal supplying 80 percent of Victoria’s energy, the closing of the Loy Yang power station…
Geelong’s Deakin University engineering students are about to roll out for a test drive one of the most unusual vehicles ever built in this city, once the centre of Ford manufacturing – the car they designed and built for the 2023 World Solar Challenge. The road tests come after a disrupted three years preparation which…
Carbon Fibre road wheel manufacturer Carbon Revolution has outlined an ambitious plan to merge with a US fund, list on a US stock exchange and emerge with a warchest to speed its path to commercialisation. The Geelong company told shareholders that it had signed a non-binding letter of intent to merge with a US special…
Space, Defence and communications manufacturer Electro Optic Systems is in ‘active negotiation’ to supply its remotely operated weapon stations (RWS) to the government of Ukraine. Sale of the company’s RWS systems, which allow machine guns, cannon and rockets to be operated from inside a vehicle or from a remote location, was first flagged in August…
By Peter Roberts Few defence ministers have done more for Australian sovereign industry capability than Kim Beazley. Most recently Governor of Western Australia, Beazley as Australian ambassador to Washington pried open US markets for Australian manufactured defence equipment, securing new markets for the likes of BAE Systems Australia’s anti-ship missile decoy rocket, Nulka. Domestically he…
Cement and lime decarbonisation technology company, Leilac has announced it has signed a perpetual global licence agreement for the use of its decarbonisation technology with Heidelberg Materials, one of the world’s largest building materials companies. The licence agreement applies to any Heidelberg Materials facility where Calix’s Leilac decarbonisation technology is installed – Heidelberg Materials operates…
EOS test launches Javelin missile from remote weapons station EOS Defense Systems USA has successfully fired anti-tank missiles and a 30mm cannon from an EOS remote weapon station mounted on a High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV, pictured). The firings, conducted at the Redstone Test Center, Ala., utilised U.S. Army-supplied Javelin missiles and the Northrop…
