The Australian Department of Defence announced on 5 November that onstruction of a next-generation High Performance Computing Centre (HPCC) in Adelaide is set to begin with the award of a A$57 million contract to South Australian-based company Hansen Yuncken.
In 2018 the DoD secured up to A$300 million to replace two existing classified systems owned by the Defence Science and Technology Group. HPC has become an increasingly integral part of defence development.
Minister for defence industry, Melissa Price, said the HPCC is a 2016 Defence White Paper initiative to establish centralised, networked, supercomputing capabilities that will support advanced research, development, modelling and experimentation across the defence community.
Construction of the new facility is scheduled to commence later this month with completion in late 2020.
Airbus was awarded the Composante Spatiale Optique (CSO) contract at the end of 2010. This included an option for a third satellite, which was activated after Germany joined the programme in 2015.
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Israel will continue to develop autonomy for its weapons and platforms as it brings together defence personnel, academia and industry.
Clavister CyberArmour, an integrated defence cybersecurity system, will be used on BAE Systems Hägglunds’ CV90 platform in deployments with a Scandinavian country, as well as in an eastern European nation.
The tactical satellite (TacSat) is an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) system and will participate in exercises in 2025.
The airborne three-domain, the two ground-based and the ¼ ATR OpenVPX-based cross-domain systems were engineered to provide real-time security across multi-domain operations.
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