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SRC has announced that its Generic Multi-Function Array system, also referred to as Payload B, was featured in the recent MQ-28A Ghost Bat Collaborative Combat Aircraft live fire demonstration.

The Government has signed two key contracts for Landing Craft Heavy and Landing Craft Medium.

Nova Systems Test & Evaluation Centre of Excellence and RMIT’s School of Computing Technologies to create a one day intensive training program on AI and Machine Learning for Defence industry professionals. 

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a foreign military sale contract through Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to deliver C-130J training devices and upgrades to the Royal Australian Air Force.

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The government is seeking proposals from venture capital firms to co-invest in Australian companies developing next-generation defence technologies | Max Blenkin

Visual technology, drones and precision machining were among the standout features of Japan’s Acquisitions, Technology and Logistics Agency’s 2026 Defense Industry Promotion Exhibition, which was held in Tokyo on February 12-13 | Corey Lee Bell

Terram Astra has announced a seed capital raise to activate a new sovereign ground-based infrastructure platform designed to strengthen defence readiness, space safety, and communications resilience across the Indo-Pacific.

The Australian Government will seek proposals from Australia’s private capital market for potential co-investments in local industry and businesses developing defence and dual‑use advanced capabilities.

The University of Southern Queensland will commence research into improving understanding of how satellites and rocket bodies break apart during atmospheric re-entry.

BAE Systems has conducted trials for its Autonomous Tactical Light Armour System Uncrewed Ground Vehicle.

When Navy veteran Alex Hale was struck by a car and paralysed from the waist down, the future felt uncertain. The accident disrupted every routine, assumption and plan he and his family had in place.

DEWC Services and Adelaide University have started to collaborate on new research into advance sovereign AI-enabled decision-support capabilities for Australia’s Defence sector.

Breaker has raised $9 million in seed funding led by global venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners, with follow-on investment from Main Sequence. This seed funding will be used to drive the development and adoption of their AI agent software.

Construction of Australia’s AUKUS-class nuclear powered submarines is more than a decade away, but when it happens it will be in a new production facility near where the Navy’s Collins-class submarines were built in an earlier age | Max Blenkin

Babcock Australasia has extended its partnership with Auckland University of Technology's Women in Tech program for another three years. 

Hypersonix Launch Systems has announced the launch window for a flight test that will hopefully move sustained hypersonic flight closer to operational reality.