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BlueSentry Ocius ‘Bluebottle USV’ with Thales Thinline Towed Array

Thales Australia has teamed with NSW SME Ocius to produce a joint ASW and surveillance capability product known as ‘BLUESENTRY’.

This represents over 5 years of joint SFR&D investment from Thales, Ocius and Royal Australian Navy to produce the current level of capability.

The Ocius vessel is ideally suited to quiet ASW and Undersea Surveillance due to the focus on wind and solar power. Generous Space Weight and Power including LiON batteries ensure maximum footprint can be devoted to sensors including a Thales Thin Line Towed Array based on our jointly developed Thales/DST Group Fibre Optic Towed Array capability and Thales Communications system.

Defence Cloud with Microsoft

Thales and Microsoft’s Defence Cloud is a proven, secure mission-ready solution that enables joint force and coalition operations to operate effectively, and enhance situational awareness from HQ to the open seas. Developed in Australia for the Australian Defence Force, Nexium Defence Cloud Edge delivers a sovereign capability that is designed to be compatible with Five Eyes nations, NATO Federated Mission network, as well as humanitarian aid and other civilian applications such as health, emergency response, justice and policing. Read more

Maritime Mine Counter Measures (MMCM): Pathmaster

Our complete Mine Counter Measures & Military Survey (MMCMMS) package is designed to help cut through the complexity of un-crewed MMCMMS operations.

Its flexibility, coupled with Thales’ domain expertise, enables us to clarify the precise needs of the customer and to work in partnership to design and deliver the required solution for shored based, COOP or bespoke platform operations.

Thales has spent over 7 years working alongside the Royal Navy and Marine Nationale, collaborating, designing, integrating and certifying the most complex unmanned and autonomous Mine Counter Measures (MCM) capability. Coupled with our industrial partners, academia and SME’s we have generated the most robust, reliable and repeatable outcomes. Read more

Mine Warfare Collaboration

Thales’ International Mine Warfare Collaboration encompasses UK, France and Australia. It is designed to increase efficiencies to our customers, drawing on critical lessons learnt and economies of scale from our global programmes and, most importantly, improved capability effectiveness. This is achieved by harnessing and acting on the indispensable feedback from our Allied users and the expertise garnered by an international team of suitably skilled engineers; all with a unity of purpose. We see this approach as a genuine force multiplier and it will be available to the RAN for their transition towards autonomous MMCMMS.

Trusted Autonomous Systems Defence Cooperative Research Centre (TAS DCRC)

Thales is partnering with DST Group, Academia (Flinders University, University of Sydney, University of Technology Sydney and the Western Sydney University) and Australian SMEs (INENI Realtime and Mission Systems) in the development of new autonomous technologies that promise to revolutionise mine clearance in littoral operations. The Mine Counter Measures ‘MCM in a Day’ project will design, develop, test and evaluate various teams of micro Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) swarms and Autonomous Surface/Subsurface Vessels (ASVs) to deliver coordinated, multi-robot autonomous mine clearance technology to support and assist amphibious zone preparation. This new approach has the potential to support a significant operational step-change to the Royal Australian Navy by removing ADF members from harm’s way and accelerating the speed of mission execution.

Satellite Communications

Critical communications call for systems that are reliable, available and secure. Satellite communications are the only way to guarantee long-range connectivity, strongly shortening the decision making process to a few seconds, and giving a major tactical and decisive advantage. Read more

Smart Maritime Sustainment

For over 30 years, we have worked closely with the RAN and other partners to ensure the Navy’s diverse fleet of surface ships is provided dependable and reliable support, sustainment and lifecycle management services – making sure ships go out from Thales managed facilities on time, every time.

Our skilled teams in Darwin, Newcastle, Cairns and Fleet Base East at Garden Island in Sydney, have extensive experience and expertise across both Defence and commercial ship building and maintenance industries. Read more

Team AUSSAT

Optus, Australia’s largest and most experiences satellite operator, with Raytheon Australia and Thales Australia, are ready to deliver the next generation of satellite technology to the Australian Defence Force. This partnership represents a genuine sovereign Australian capability with the global reach to access world leading space technology from Europe and the USA. Read more

ARTEMIS IRST - 360° Naval InfraRed Search and Track system

ARTEMIS offers high performance long range detection and tracking of conventional, asymmetric and emerging threats such as hypersonic missiles. Thanks to its high image rate, it provides superior capabilities against high speed very manoeuvring targets. It is fully passive and immune to jammed or cluttered electromagnetic environment. It proves to be a highly valuable complement to naval radars. Read more

Thales and autonomy – Delivering robust, reliable and repeatable military effects for Australia

Date: 11 May 2022, Time: 1100 – 1200, Location: Meeting room E3.9

Presenters

Gavin Henry Thales Australia Business Development Underwater Systems About Gavin	Vanessa Guychard Thales France Project Manager Maritime Mine Countermeasures About Vanessa	James Dickie Thales United Kingdom Product Line Architect About James

Synopsis

Navies are moving into the 4th Industrial age with an aspiration to become more digital and utilise a mix of crewed and uncrewed systems in order to deliver military effects. Domains such as cyber, space and seabed are all adding complexity to an already complicated subject. 

Hear our international experts from Australia, the United Kingdom and France detail our strategic appreciation and commitment to the nuances of the autonomous transition within Mine Warfare and Military Survey, drawing on extensive lessons learnt throughout its Maritime Mine Counter Measures (MMCM) program in the UK and France, now accepted into the production phase following the most comprehensive practical evaluation.

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