Boeing Australia is planning to have the Australian production capability to move to commercial manufacture of the MQ-28A Ghost Bat unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) within two to three years. With funding of $400 million in funding for the production of three more prototype Ghost Bats at Boeing’s Melbourne factory announced on Friday, the company expressed…
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BAE Systems Australia and Trusted Autonomous Systems (TAS) have completed a four-year research and demonstration programme developing an advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that could be used in uncrewed ground vehicles (UGV). The companies developed the TAGVIEW (Trusted Autonomous Ground Vehicles in Electronic Warfare) system which allows multiple UGVs to operate simultaneously to carry out…
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What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. 5) AMSL Aero secures first customer for VTOL aircraft Australian zero emission aircraft manufacturer AMSL Aero has signed an order and received deposits for 10 of its Vertiia vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, with an option for 10 more.…
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By Peter Roberts Finally the Polly Waffle – that strangely popular chocolate bar made of baked waffle filled with marshmallow – is back.. That’s the good news. Not so good is that Adelaide confectionery manufacturer Robern Menz, which bought the rights to the Polly Waffle from Nestle, is not returning to the market with a…
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The University of Newcastle’s Hunter Cleantech Accelerator has been awarded $438,375 in funding through the NSW government’s Accelerating Regional Innovation Fund. The accelerator is operated through the university’s Integrated Innovation Network (I2N) and is “designed to build the capability and competitiveness of tech-enabled entrepreneurs” in the region, according to a statement from University of Newcastle…
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BlueScope Steel and iron ore producers BHP and Rio Tinto have entered a partnership that could see the construction of a low emission Electric Smelting Facility (ESF) pilot plant which could cut carbon emissions in the steelmaking process by 80 percent. The ESF is capable of producing iron suitable for the basic oxygen steelmaking (BOS)…
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A new quarterly survey by Westpac shows Australian businesses juggling reduced consumer demand and other challenges, though being “well positioned” at this early stage in the calendar year, according to the bank. “Progress on cost inflation is more than offsetting the decline in demand, meaning businesses have fared relatively well and have not yet had…
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The federal government has pushed forward with plans to develop and field the MQ-28A Ghost Bat unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which is seen as a companion for manned Royal Australian Air Force planes. The government said it has secured hundreds of highly skilled jobs while driving industry innovation with the allocation of an additional $399…
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By Peter Roberts Until now the talk in defence circles has been about the possibility that fewer than the planned nine Hunter class frigates might be built at a new shipyard at Osborne in Adelaide (pictured). This is something that has kept Adelaide manufacturers, already reeling from Australia’s recent on-again, off again submarine policies, awake…
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Transport electrification group GoZero has received $80 million in asset finance facilities from the Commonwealth Bank which will fund the electrification of the bus fleets of Sydney independent schools. The schools, including Queenwood, Knox Grammar and Scots College, through GoZero’s charter business the NSBC Group, will have their diesel buses replaced by battery electric buses…
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