Today we launch our special editorial series Land Forces 2022 with a look at the policies of the new federal government guiding Defence’s relationship with industry. In his first major interview, Pat Conroy, Minister for Defence Industry and Minister for international development & the Pacific, talks with Peter Roberts. Question: The coalition government from 2016…
Defence, space and communications manufacturer Electro Optic Systems has given itself breathing space for restructuring announcing a financing agreement with major shareholder Washington H. Soul Pattinson. The Canberra company has been under pressure in recent months with leadership transitions, a heavy call on investment dollars and a fall in its share price. Now investment house…
EOS appoints new CFO Australian space and defence company Electro Optic Systems (EOS) has appointed a new chief financial officer (CFO), Clive Cuthell. Cuthell will work from EOS’s Canberra head office and report directly to CEO Dr Andreas Schwer. His career includes over 15 years in a CFO role at a variety of ASX-listed and…
By Peter Roberts I nearly missed this news myself – but the United States has quietly signalled that the one way traffic of sales of military equipment and technology from the US to Australia really has come to an end. This has been going on so long – we buy American equipment and they show…
Defence manufacturer Electro Optic Systems has confirmed its involvement in the US President Joe Biden’s latest assistance measures to Ukraine, with its equipment part of a system that can launch guided weapons from the tray of a utility vehicle. An EOS gimbal mounting system is part of the Vampire counter-drone system, itself part of a…
Defence, space and communications company Electro Optic Systems has been awarded a second contract to further develop its SpaceLink satellite communication system with the US military. EOS subsidiary SpaceLink announced it was selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Strategic Technology Office (STO) for the new contract award. SpaceLink will participate in the…
Construction begins on automated waste material recovery plant for Brisbane A new, fully-automated recycling plant in Pinkenba, designed to recover 97 per cent of construction and demolition (C&D) waste, will be the first of its type in the world, according to Rino Recycling. The company has launched construction on the $90 million plant, which they say…
Space, communications and defence manufacturer Electro Optic Systems has scored the biggest possible ally as it attempts to commercialise its SpaceLink global system of linked optical relay communications satellites. SpaceLink has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command Technical Center (USASMDC-TC) in Redstone Arsenal,…
Valo launches new stadium lighting Adelaide stadium lighting manufacturer VALO has launched its new Zenith Gen-V lED light which claims to be the world’s smallest, lightest and most powerful sports luminaire in its class. The company, which recently onshored production to a new $8 million research, development and manufacturing hub at Kent Town, said the…
By Peter Roberts The story on the stock market this year has been a bloodbath in the share price performance of Australia’s small coterie of high technology manufacturers. The worst month was June, when the the ASX 200 share index lost 8.9 percent of its value and the S&P/ASX All Technology Index went backwards by…
