NSW buys more trains from overseas The New South Wales government has continued its policies of buying trains and trams from overseas rather than local sources, ordering a further 23 drivertess metro trains. Alstom will build the Metropolis trains (pictured) in India. Buddy sells technology for LED lights Technology development company Buddy Technologies (ASX: BUD)…
Western Australian premier Mark McGowan has congratulated FYI Resources (ASX: FYI) on completing trials to develop a new process for producing high purity alumina (HPA). McGowan said the company was now one step closer to producing HPA in WA and the government’s goal of creating a future battery industry based on the state’s vast mineral…
France’s Naval Group which is to build Australia’s future submarines in Adelaide has plans for the programme to be a catalyst for unprecedented industry collaboration and development. Naval Group and its initial Australian manufacturing partners took to social media to promote the supplier programme which will guide local involvement in this strategic and complex national…
Defence, space and communications group Electro Optic Systems (ASX: EOS) has completed the raising of $68 million in a placement to institutional investors. The capital raising was undertaken to support EOS’s forecast earnings which have been revised upwards on a strong order book and the establishment of a new space communications division. EOS group CEO…
Humans have long viewed outer space as the final frontier. Our thirst for exploration has brought whole nations together to create more advanced technologies─all in the pursuit of discovering the outer reaches of the universe. Today’s infographic from Visual Capitalist and ProcureAM highlights the exciting journey humans have taken into outer space, and the economic…
Boeing has flown its Australian developed unmanned Loyal Wingman jet for the first time, releasing a video (below) of the aircraft in flight. Boeing Australia revealed the flights on social media where it said: “We successfully achieved our first autonomous teamed flights using high-performance jets as test beds and Australian-developed mission systems technology.” The post…
Metal additive manufacturing company Titomic (ASX: TTT)( has stolen a march on rivals and displayed the world’s largest additive manufactured Titanium part, a 5.5-metre rocket, at the FormNext3D Printing trade show in Frankfurt. The rocket was made in Melbourne using the TKF 9000, the world’s largest and fastest metal additive manufacturing system that utilises the…
A first capital raising of approximately $50 million has closed oversubscribed for Sun Cable’s project that plans to export solar PV electricity from the Northern Territory to Singapore. Billionaires Twiggy Forrest and Mike Cannon-Brookes are among investors in on the ground floor of the Australia Singapore Power Link (ASPL) plan to supply the island state…
By Stuart Corner of IoT Australia The Australian Government has followed the UK’s lead, producing a voluntary code of practice for suppliers of consumer IoT devices. Home Affairs minister, Peter Dutton said the code of practice, had been developed drawing on the technical expertise of the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), aligned with guidance provided…
It has been a long time coming but an Australian-designed aluminium trimaran warship built by Austal (ASX: ASB) has finally exercised with Royal Australian Navy ships. The Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet announced that the USS Montgomery (LCS 8), an Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) designed and constructed by Austal in Alabama, had successfully conducted operations…
