Strategic Elements to develop autonomous vehicle for Defence
The company will collaborate with the Defence Science Technology Group and the University of Western Australia to build the solution and conduct a live demonstration to the Army. The autonomous vehicle will carry drones and sensors into a target environment keeping humans at a safe distance.
Strategic Elements Ltd’s (ASX:SOR) (OTCMKTS:SORHF) subsidiary Stealth Technologies will design and deliver an autonomous drone carrying vehicle that automates detection and sensing of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear agents.
This autonomous vehicle will be designed to carry drones and sensors into a target environment keeping humans at a safe distance and will enable rapid traversing of the target area using sensors to map and monitor the location of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) sources.
SOR to Develop Autonomous Vehicle for Defence with DST
Strategic Elements Ltd (ASX:SOR) is pleased to report that subsidiary ‘Stealth Technologies’ will design and deliver an autonomous drone carrying vehicle that automates detection and sensing of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear agents. The Company will collaborate with Defence Science Technology Group (DSTG), part of the
Australian
Department of Defence, and the University of Western Australia to build the solution and conduct a live demonstration to Army. The Western Australian Defence Science Centre has agreed to part fund the collaborative work.
The autonomous vehicle will carry drones and sensors into a target environment keeping humans at a safe distance. The autonomous drone will enable rapid traversing of the target area using sensors to map and/or monitor the location of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) sources.
Debate on Australia’s future submarines is understandably focused on the information that floats out of the Defence Department about France’s Naval Group and the $80 billion program to design and build the boats.
It’s very sensible to be concerned about the program because of the contrast between the assurances Defence officials provide to parliament that everything is proceeding according to plan and the episodic need for high-level political intervention to resolve fundamental issues between Defence and its French industrial partner.
We saw this with the tortured, delayed effort to resolve the ‘strategic partnering agreement’ that took almost three years to sign. We saw it again this year when Naval Group and Defence were unable to resolve the issue of the Australian industry share in the program, a year after apparently agreeing to do so, without the intervention of various ministers during Naval Group boss Pierre Eric Pommellet’s recent visit to Australia.