Tactical boat developer The Whiskey Project Group and defence contractor Rafael Australia have unveiled a new collaboration to deliver what they call the most advanced reconnaissance and strike watercraft in the world. Their Whiskey Bravo – Strike craft was revealed at the Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition now underway in Sydney. The companies took to…
By Peter Roberts Mitsubishi Electric has made history in a new deal with Australia’s Department of Defence, becoming the first Japanese company to sign a defence contract with a foreign government. Not only will Australia access Japanese defence technologies, but the deal opens the way for Australian technologies to be adopted in Japan. The federal…
Australia’s Sentient Vision Systems has partnered with US defence technology company Shield AI to offer AI-Enabled Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) capability to international defence forces. Sentient, which specialises in AI-enabled passive wide area search, and Shield plan to deliver their solution to the United States Department of Defense (DoD), Australian Defence Forces (ADF) Defence…
Archer moves biochip graphene sensor to commercial fab Semiconductor company Archer Materials has announced completion of a proof of concept biosensing graphene transistor for use in its biochip, and submitted the technology design to a commercial foundry to verify scalability. Archer is transferring its first-generation graphene field effect transistor (“gFET”) design to a foundry partner, …
CSIRO and university and industry partners are testing an Australian-made CyanoSat hyperspectral imager which was recently launched into low Earth orbit on board a Skykraft satellite. Canberra-based Skykraft has had a number of satellites launched this year forming part of a constellation of Air Traffic Management satellites, with the latest launched two days ago. The…
Drone detection and countermeasure manufacturer DroneShield and defence contractor Epirus Inc have completed integration of DroneShield’s multi-sensor DroneSentry system (pictured) with Epirus’ Leonidas high-power microwave (HPM) counter-electronics/counter-UAS effector. The integration of DroneShield’s detection system with a high power microwave directed energy weapon allows for a fully integrated C-UAS system that can track multiple drone threats…
The SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) has unveiled a Compact Hybrid Optical-RF User Segment (CHORUS) prototype terminal to provide more stable and secured military satellite communications. Funded by SmartSat CRC, the terminal which was developed over three years of research was revealed at the 15th Australian Space Forum underway in Adelaide. Technology embedded in the…
By Sean O’Byrne, UNSW Sydney “God mode”, for those who aren’t gamers, is a mode of operation (or cheat) built into some types of games based around shooting things. In God mode you are invulnerable to damage and you never run out of ammunition. There’s no God mode in real life, of course, but the…
@AuManufacturing’s sponsored series reporting on BAE Systems Australia’s Partnering for success defence industry supplier event continues today with a profile of disruptive 3D volumetric display manufacturer Voxon Photonics. By Peter Roberts. It is a bit of a cliché – the story of a small company that is founded in a backyard garage and demands international…
The federal government has announced approximately $3.2 million in matched funding to six defence industry SMEs. The grants came through two programs, Defence Global Competitiveness and Sovereign Industrial Capability Priority. According to industry minister Pat Conroy, the grants would help provide “the opportunity to deliver cutting-edge manufacturing and maintenance capabilities” to the Australian Defence Force…
