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The National Aerospace Centre says it expects to tap intense global demand for rocket launches to get private investment for the country's second launchpad.
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Read more: Hunt on for private overseas investment in NZ's second rocket launchpad
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/888333/hunt-on-for-private-overseas-investment-in-nz-s-second-rocket-launchpad
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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.
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The move to Linux has started with the buying of hardware first of which is a refurbish Mini Form PC.
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Read more: Linux Hardware Bought
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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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