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After three years of development, AIM Defence’s directed energy facility was opened by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles, and local federal member and Minister for Skills and Training Brendan O’Connor.

AIM Defence, a company specialising in applications using directed energy and artificial intelligence, has acquired high-altitude long-endurance drone maker NearSat, in a move that AIM says brings together complementary technologies and sees it “bucking the trend of innovative Australian companies being taken offshore”.

High-power laser developer AIM Defence has acquired Brisbane high altitude drone startup NearSat. Known for its high precision anti drone lasers, AIM Defence plans to integrate the technologies to develop distributed laser communications and directed energy capabilities.

The war in Ukraine has firmly cemented what Defence has known for the last decade: the pace of innovation and adoption for new defence technologies has gone from 10-year cycles to sub-year cycles. Defence needs to be faster, more agile and more efficient. Sub-year cycles.