The ADF statement carefully notes that these “are key objectives under AUKUS Pillar II,” but it does not claim that they are being done as part of the second pillar, which focuses on a range of advanced technologies, including quantum, artificial intelligence and autonomy.
By Colin Clark
“It’s all the communications that army needs, from the forward rifleman, who’s walking around carrying his pack, who’s really just talking on a radio right the way through to a big Joint Task Force headquarters with heaps of people in it, a field hospital with big logistics sort of node — everything that’s deployed,” Darcy Rawlinson of Boeing Australia said.
By Colin Clark
The drone will decide if, say, an abandoned car near a road appears to be a threat or not. If it decides it’s not then it wouldn’t “bother the operator. The operator is doing something important,” co-founder Matthew Buffa said. “I’m (the drone) not going to go on the radio and tell him about this random car I’ve seen, which is what autonomous systems do right now.”
By Colin Clark
A top Bell executive is spending this week’s Land Forces conference meeting with top Australian Army officials to start pitching the V-280 Valor.
By Colin Clark
Thales Australia, a subsidiary of the French parent, will manufacture rocket motors and warheads for Lockheed Martin’s GMLRS missiles produced in the Lucky Country.
By Max Blenkin
Advanced Navigation CEO Chris Shaw told Breaking Defense the deal could boost his company’s business by 400 percent.
By Colin Clark
“We’ve developed the ATLAS vehicle to give soldiers the advantage on the modern battlefield. This has resulted in an autonomous platform that will deliver the dull, dirty and dangerous tasks expected in a combat environment,” said Andrew Gresham, a managing director at BAE Systems Australia.
By Colin Clark
“Anduril Australia is primarily known for the cooperative development program we do in partnership with DTSG, ASCA and the Royal Australian Navy of the Ghost Shark XL, a UUV capability, and we are far less well known for our wider land and air defense capabilities that we sell to customers all around the world,” Anduril CEO David Goodrich told Breaking Defense.
By Colin Clark
Honeywell’s systems are integral to Australian defense, supporting AUKUS, GWEO, and expanding local capability across air, land, and sea.
By Breaking Defense
AUKUS, a rekindled relationship between the US, Japan and South Korea, as well as the Quad have “presented a much more complex picture” for China, the ambassador said.
By Justin Katz
The Victoria Police said in an email that “this is expected to be our largest operation since the World Economic Forum in 2000,” with hundreds of extra police being brought in to secure the event.
By Colin Clark
