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The defence company has showcased its work to deliver sovereign technology to the ADF during a visit from the defence industry minister.
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SYPAQ Systems (SYPAQ) recently hosted the Minister for Defence Industry Melissa Price at its newly established headquarters in Port Melbourne.
Minister Price toured the SYPAQ Production and Research Centre (SPaRC) Labs, consulted with staff, and witnesses a demonstration of the company’s ‘Corvo’ family of autonomous systems in the CASA-certified indoor drone testing facility.
Since 2017, SYPAQ has been awarded more than $20 million in innovation, integration, and R&D contracts across Navy, Army and Air Force projects, which have included developing autonomous systems, sensor systems, military systems integration, power generation, and artificial intelligence solutions.
SYPAQ CEO Amanda Holt welcomed the opportunity to showcase company’s progress to Minister Price.
“It was a pleasure to host Minister Price to show her first hand the investment SYPAQ has made in developing our own sovereign autonomous systems integration and testing facility in Melbourne,” Holt said.
“SYPAQ’s success can be closely mapped against the federal government’s defence industry policy agenda, since the establishment of the Defence Innovation Hub in 2016.”
SYPAQ’s general manager, innovation and strategic programs, Michael Partridge, outlined the firm’s plan to support the development of ADF capability.
“SYPAQ’s vision for the Corvo product line is to create autonomous systems that do for the Australian Defence Force what Nulka did for electronic warfare, what CEAFAR did for radar technology, and what the Bushmaster did for protected vehicles,” Partridge said.
“These programs all had significant government investment and are now sovereign capabilities in their own right.
“The government’s innovation agenda, and particularly the Sovereign Industrial Capability Priority dedicated to robotics and autonomous systems, has given SYPAQ the confidence to invest in research and development that directly contributes to sovereign capability.”
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