Tag: Pillar II

AUKUS innovators secure $8m in contracts

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The winners of the inaugural AUKUS Innovation Challenge, Canberra firms Advanced Design Technology and Penten, have inked contracts worth $8 million to develop electronic warfare technology for Defence. The...

First AUKUS innovation challenge winners named

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Local technology companies Penten, Inovor Technologies and Advanced Design Technology have been named the Australian winners of the first-ever trilateral AUKUS innovation challenge. All three firms, based in the...

ASCA widens pool for AUKUS innovation challenge

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s Defence accelerator has widened the pool of companies that will be eligible to apply for the first trilateral AUKUS innovation challenge just a week before it was scheduled...

First AUKUS innovation challenge launches

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The first trilateral AUKUS innovation challenge has launched in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom to find military technologies that solve electronic warfare problems across the alliance....

Unlocking AUKUS Pillar II will need more than BAU

Posted on   |  by Dr Miah Hammond-Errey and Tom Barrett
Technology advancement is critical, but it is not the only essential ingredient for the success of AUKUS Pillar II. Without progress on two unheralded ‘functional’ areas – information sharing...

Defence scientists red team robotic vehicles in AUKUS trial

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australian defence scientists have carried out a series of trial electronic attacks against robotic vehicles operated by the United States and the United Kingdom as part of the latest...

AUKUS gets go-ahead with passage of US bill

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
US legislation to allow the sale of nuclear-powered submarines and expedite defence and advanced technology transfers and investment with Australia has passed US Congress, leaving only President Joe Biden...