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NIOA has announced a new partnership with SYPAQ to deliver counter-drone technologies to the Australian Defence Force.
The agreement will see NIOA provide a range of technical components to SYPAQ’s Corvo Strike Counter-Uncrewed Aerial System platform.
The Corvo platform is being delivered as a part of the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) Mission Syracuse, which is the government’s defence program designed to accelerate new technology into legitimate capabilities for the ADF.
“This is a critical, operationally focused partnership between two of Australia’s leading defence primes,” said NIOA CEO Rob Nioa.
“NIOA is delighted to be partnering with SYPAQ to bring our extensive capacity and industry knowledge on fuse and warhead technologies to bear on a key ASCA initiative in Mission Syracuse.
“This is exactly the sort of industry collaboration that needs to be fostered and accelerated if we are to provide the men and women of the ADF with sovereign, battle-ready CUAS capabilities.”
As part of the partnership, NIOA will provide SYPAQ with an inert proximity fuse and kinetic effector package, alongside firing and flight demonstrations of the fuse variant and their functions.
“SYPAQ deliberately seeks to partner with organisations that have the defence mission at its core, and know exactly where our respective strengths lie,” SYPAQ’s managing director and CEO, Amanda Holt, said.
“This partnership brings the best of NIOA and SYPAQ engineering together to the benefit of the ADF.”
The collaboration between these two Australian companies represents a step forward in the government’s push to establish a sovereign defence base.
The announcement follows the government’s $7 billion investment strategy into counter-drone technology, aligning with the 2026 National Defence Strategy.
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