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Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has paid a visit to Australian counter-drone developer DroneShield following a recent $4.7 million contract awarded to the company by an international customer.
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The Prime Minister of Australia and Minister for Defence visited the DroneShield Sydney facility earlier this month.
DroneShield was previously included into the Australian government’s Ukraine aid package in late 2023, contributing its rapidly deployable C-UAS sensors and effectors, and was approximately half of the total package amount at the time ($10 million out of the $20 million total).
“DroneShield is an example of Australian high-tech success story, with world-class cutting edge local research and development and manufacturing, and growing exports around the world, with focus on the US,” Minister Marles said.
The company has moved into a new and substantially enlarged premises earlier this year, with the facility currently hosting approximately 130 staff, including over 100 engineers, as well as operations, business and corporate teams.
In addition, the new facility has a larger manufacturing floor of approximately $400 million per annum.
“Over the last 10 years, DroneShield has become a global leader in AI-powered C-UAS solutions. Critically in the current geopolitical environment, it is also a significant sovereign manufacturer. We are pleased to have had an opportunity to brief the Deputy Prime Minister on our operations and look forward continuing to support Australia and its allies with our advanced technologies,” DroneShield chief executive officer Oleg Vornik said.
Earlier this month, DroneShield announced it had secured a $4.7 million contract for multiple vehicle-based counter-drone systems for a new non-government Swiss international customer.
The vehicle-based solution will offer a rapidly deployable C-UxS platform that can be operated in both static and on-the-move missions for convoy and mobile VIP protection. The solution provides a new level of operational flexibility by incorporating DroneShield’s radio frequency detection and mitigation, radar, and electro-optical sensors into a single vehicle-based platform. The system will be powered by the DroneSentry-C2 command and control system, including its proprietary AI-based SensorFusion engine.
The end customer is a high-profile government agency. Payments are expected to be received throughout 2024, with the final payment expected in quarter one 2025.
“This order highlights DroneShield expertise not only as a maker of cutting-edge AI-based C-UAS sensor and effector technologies but also a system integrator, for demanding applications that involve multiple sensor and effector modalities, operating in tough conditions,” Vornik said.
“We are excited to have this new customer onboard and doing more work with them over coming years.”
