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Buying a service, not a fleet
The Ministry of Defence has issued a request for information seeking commercial operators who can fly maritime surveillance missions up to 1,400 nautical miles from base for at least six hours. The RFI, published on the Government Electronic Tender Service, sets a demanding bar: high-definition imaging, maritime search radar, and near real-time imagery in all weather, day or night.
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Read more: New Zealand’s maritime surveillance programme is a commercial contract waiting to be won
- Article: https://b2bnews.co.nz/news/nz-defence-eyes-commercial-drones-for-pacific-surveillance/
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The New Zealand Ministry of Defence is seeking information from those UAS manufacturers relevant to the delivery of a Commercially Owned Commercially Operated (COCO) contract for the Persistent Surveillance (Air) project. The COCO contract will provide uncrewed airborne Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance activities over a four year period. The RFI details a series of assumptions, and seeks answers to a number of questions which will inform the project’s next stages.
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Read more: Request for Information - Persistent Surveillance (Air) Phase 1
- Article: https://www.gets.govt.nz/FutureProcurementOpportunitiesIndex.htm
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A leading open-source technology provider warns New Zealand's digital infrastructure is critical to our national interests and should not be run by a single global tech giant.
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- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/596711/new-zealand-s-digital-infrastructure-should-not-be-run-by-single-tech-giant-open-source-tech-firm-warns
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New Zealand need to truly think about digital sovereignty and not be controlled by Microsoft who can easily leak any information, which they have openly admitted they have done to foreign governments, Frances as deleted Windows from their governmental systems, not only capitalizing their digital sovereignty but saving millions of euro's a year. Germany and many other EU Countries are following this.
- Category : Defence
The Government is beginning the process to purchase long-range one-way strike drones, looking particularly toward Kiwi industry for solutions, Defence Minister Chris Penk says.
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Read more: Defence Force to modernise with strike drones
- Article: https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/defence-force-modernise-strike-drones
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A retired Major General says one-way military strike drones would rapidly modernise the nation's military.
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Read more: Government moves to buy one-way military strike drones
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The government is moving to buy strike drones that drop bombs on a target and wants to get them locally if it can.
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Read more: Government moves to buy local strike drones as lower-cost alternative to missiles
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/829841/government-moves-to-buy-local-strike-drones-as-lower-cost-alternative-to-missiles
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- Category : Defence
The crew of a Royal New Zealand Navy ship has pulled off an unexpected rescue mission, going to the aid of a battered outrigger while participating in an exercise off Hawaii.
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Read more: NZ Navy crew make dramatic high seas rescue off Hawaii
- Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/07/28/watch-nz-navy-crew-make-dramatic-high-seas-rescue-off-hawaii/
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New Zealand is moving to close a critical gap in its undersea warfare capability after the United States approved a potential $69 million sale of MK 54 lightweight torpedoes on June 5, 2026, providing Wellington with the weapon needed to turn submarine detection into combat-ready engagement. The decision comes as strategic competition expands across the Indo-Pacific and signals a clear effort to strengthen New Zealand’s ability to counter increasingly sophisticated submarine activity across the South Pacific and Southern Ocean.
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