The partnership builds on AAE’s existing relationship with Lockheed Martin Australia and Sikorsky Australia, for which the company already provides aerospace spare parts and material support to Seahawk sustainment operations at Nowra.
NASA has completed a major test campaign for a lightweight, flexible radar antenna that will enable its proposed SkyFall Mars helicopters to search beneath the Red Planet’s surface for accessible deposits of frozen water.
The Perth-based company will receive $1.75 million, matched by its own funding, to undertake site assessments, support planning and regulatory approvals, and develop a business case for proposed spaceport locations.
The company’s major investment in the Melbourne, Florida-based sixth-generation precinct is designed to bolster Northrop Grumman’s pitch to the US Navy for the lucrative, sixth-generation fighter program to replace the ageing Super Hornet-based carrier airwing fleets.
The companies are positioning the Australian-designed uncrewed combat aircraft as a way for the German Air Force to move rapidly from CCA concept development towards operational capability while retaining sovereign control over key technologies.
The jointly funded technology demonstration is the first to showcase automated manned-unmanned teaming between the two platforms using an open systems architecture, allowing machine-to-machine mission planning and execution.
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