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DroneShield
DroneShield's Vice President of Strategy, Terry van Haren DSM, will be speaking at the Indo-Pacific Robotics, Autonomy, AI and Cyber Conference and Exhibition 2025 on 8 October. He will discuss the general counter-drone lessons from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, including the widespread and increasing use of small UAS. As a panellist, Terry will discuss drone detection and monitoring in controlled airspace and how critical assets and infrastructure can be protected. For more details: https://lnkd.in/gRibsVwR #CUAS #IPRAAC2025 #AI #Cyber #Autonomy
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Michael Shoebridge
Japan wins frigate deal: Australia gets a strategic industrial partner; Japan gets a bucket of Australian risks: “This partnership is one with the Japanese Government as much as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with the potential for Japan to become a key alternative supplier for Australia of everything from missiles, ships, sensors and almost everything else across a modern military’s inventories. That’s a critical thing to pursue, given the US defence sector’s struggles to meet the American military’s own needs, let along supply partners reliably in conflict. Now for the bad news – the risks Australia brings to itself and Japan The big risks are all Australian – particularly transferring construction of later ships to Henderson WA. Henderson is meant to have an AUKUS submarine maintenance facility built there along with other new facilities, but the plans aren’t moving anywhere near as fast as this frigate project. A rebuilt Henderson Maritime Precinct has been promised by Defence for a long time now. It was outlined in the 2017 Naval Shipbuilding Plan, with nothing much happening as a result, and announced again in the 2024 Naval Shipbuilding and Sustainment Plan, with Richard Marles committing to a ‘consolidated Commonwealth-owned precinct’ there. Any practical work to create new facilities in the precinct seems to now depend on the outcomes of an initial $127m set of planning, consultations, preliminary design and feasibility studies, along with ‘enabling works’ announced in October last year by Defence. These initial studies are going to continue into 2027, according to Defence. The Henderson site is a complex web of corporate-owned facilities and land along with Commonwealth and State government interests and holdings. And of course, local government gets a say in developments. Henderson facilities are also used for commercial purposes – whether that’s shipbuilding or production of items for the offshore oil and gas industry, for example, and those users and interests aren’t just disappearing. On top of these overlapping and not always aligned interests about who gets to do what, when, at Henderson, the AUKUS plan for the precinct now includes building a contingency docking capability and supporting infrastructure and facilities for nuclear-powered submarines, along with facilities for depot-level maintenance of nuclear-powered submarines. Building anything to the standards required for nuclear safety is something new to anyone in Australia except for folk involved in the Lucas Heights research reactor, so the timeframes and costs will be a journey of discovery." Read the article here:
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