Aussie steel makers Bisalloy and BlueScope have signed a contract with Naval Group to produce up to 250 tonnes of steel for the Future Submarines.

Fincantieri Australia announced today that two South Australian shipbuilders have each been awarded a contract to build cruise ship blocks as part of the Italian shipbuilder’s start-up of local operations.

Navantia Australia has signed a memorandum of understanding with Western Australia-based Hofmann Engineering for the future frigate program.

Recent developments in swarm technology raise the question of whether acquisitions of direct energy (DE) weapons systems are on Australia’s horizon, and how DE might factor into decisions on the Future Frigate.

KBR and US shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries have been selected to run the new Naval Shipbuilding College.

Elbit Systems Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV), the Seagull, participated in a joint anti-submarine warfare (ASW) exercise held recently in the Mediterranean.

Negotiations between the Commonwealth and Naval Group on an overarching strategic partnering agreement for the Future Submarine program are progressing more slowly than originally anticipated.

Schiebel has demonstrated the heavy fuel variant of the Camcopter S-100 Unmanned Air System (UAS) as an interim capability for Navy.

Landing Ship Dock HMAS Choules has conducted First of Class Flight Trials for the CH-47F Chinook helicopter.

Dassault Systèmes has created a regional training centre, known as the Virtual Shipyard, in partnership with the South Australian government to ensure that SA’s supply chain is on par with the rest of the world.

Air Affairs Australia is teaming with Italy’s Leonardo Helicopters to offer a Maritime Tactical Unmanned Air System for the RAN’s future Offshore Patrol Vessel fleet.

Viva Energy successfully refuelled the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) ship, HMAS Parramatta, at the Gore Bay Terminal in Sydney Harbour last week.

Naval Group has formally signed a contract with a local engineering company, KBR, to assist with the concept design of the proposed Future Submarine construction yard at the Osborne Naval Shipbuilding precinct in SA.

This is a point which ADM is not disputing, far from it.

The prime will be providing a training program through which trainees will be taught to use the FORAN digital design software.

Current CO2 scrubbers though take up a large amount of the limited space, weight and power available in submarines.