Oct 12, 2026
Certified autonomous ships, a ¥100 billion unmanned coastal defence, and a defence ministry that now wants the two to meet. Very little of it went through AUKUS.
Aug 3, 2026
Canberra's 2026 National Defence Strategy names Ghost Shark and Ghost Bat as export winners. The ITAR fine print hands Washington a veto over every sale outside AUKUS.
Jul 27, 2026
The US Navy opened the biggest unmanned shipbuilding competition in its history. An allied company can win a place in it. First it has to become American.
Jun 8, 2026
Two minehunters left, no funded replacement, and a threat environment that didn't get the memo.
May 18, 2026
Canberra is spending. Washington is appropriating and London is writing reports about why it should do more.
Apr 27, 2026
China's dual-use ocean tech strategy isn't a secret. It's hiding in plain sight.
Apr 20, 2026
GPS is being spoofed at scale. Autonomous vessels have no one aboard to notice. An Adelaide company just put a critical subsystem of the solution into orbit.
Apr 13, 2026
The technology works. The statutes don't. How Norway built what AUKUS hasn't.
Apr 6, 2026
How Autonomous Systems Are Reshaping Undersea Infrastructure Defense
Mar 30, 2026
Australia’s nuclear submarine program is on track. The autonomous systems scaling alongside it are asking a question Canberra hasn’t answered.
Mar 2, 2026
The West Is Still Writing Policy. Asia Is Running Ships.
Feb 16, 2026
A country-by-country breakdown of where the global uncrewed surface vessel buildout actually stands.
Feb 9, 2026
Qatar's Barzan Holdings just closed about $2.2 billion in defense contracts with Indonesia, with Turkey supplying the headline surface combatants and key autonomous systems. AUKUS competitors aren't paying attention.
Jan 26, 2026
Japan proves you don't need AUKUS to build autonomous undersea tech. Allied coordination standards are diverging anyway
Jan 12, 2026
The Navy logged 46,651 nautical miles autonomously in 2023. Singapore authorizes commercial deployment in 2027. US operators wait until 2032. Which companies survive the gap?
Jan 5, 2026
Three proven autonomous platforms heading to AUKUS navies. They don't yet talk to each other. And adversaries aren't waiting.
Dec 21, 2025
How a $350M+ investment is racing ahead of the regulations needed to make it usefulWeek 3 | December 2025
Dec 14, 2025
Ghost Shark, quantum clocks, and the first signs that AUKUS advanced capabilities might actually deliver