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07 Apr 26. 6K Additive, Inc. (ASX: 6KA) a leader in the domestic production of high-performance metal powders, reached a major milestone on March 30th with the official groundbreaking of its 45-acre global headquarters and manufacturing campus expansion. The project is fueled by a $23.4 million Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III grant and the successful completion of the company’s Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: 6KA) last December, which raised A$48 million (US$31.4 million).
This milestone is of strategic importance and marks a transformative leap for 6K Additive, enabling a five-fold increase in production capacity, scaling from 200 metric tons to a targeted 1,000 metric tons annually. The project also introduces new commercial capabilities, including tripling the footprint of its existing powder production building for nickel, titanium and stainless-steel metals, adding dedicated facilities for refractory metals and ingot melting, solidifying a 100% domestic supply chain for materials critical to U.S. national security.
“The combination of federal support through the DPA Title III grant and the capital from our successful IPO allows us to fast-track our vision of a secure, sustainable, and domestic supply of critical metals,” said Frank Roberts, CEO of 6K Additive. “We aren’t just adding floor space and buildings; we’re constructing a world-class industrial campus to anchor a secure supply chain across the defense, aerospace, and energy industries.”
Securing the Domestic Supply Chain
The expansion directly addresses the critical need for high-performance materials in extreme environments. By leveraging its proprietary metal powder and alloy compacts production capabilities, 6K Additive will produce spherical powders and alloy additions essential for:
- Hypersonics & Defense: High-temperature materials like tungsten, rhenium, and C-103 for missile systems and flight surfaces.
- Nuclear & Energy: Specialized alloys for advanced reactors and fusion energy.
- Aerospace: High-strength nickel and titanium components for next-generation propulsion.
Strategic Funding and Regional Impact
The DPA Title III grant, awarded through the Department of Defense’s Manufacturing Capability Expansion and Investment Prioritization (MCEIP) office, covers 50% of the expansion costs. When paired with the IPO proceeds, 6K Additive is fully capitalized to complete the renovation, acquire advanced equipment, and hire over 17 new skilled employees in engineering and technical operations and support the local economic base with 37 constructions jobs.
The project involves the construction of four new buildings, including an alloy warehouse, a dedicated melt building for ingot production, and a pre and post processing production facility funded through the grant and IPO funds with a dedicated state-of-the-art refractory facility being constructed in 2027. Initial production at the expanded Burgettstown site is expected by the end of 2026.
06 Apr 26. Palladyne AI (NASDAQ: PDYN), a U.S.-based defense and industrial technology company commercializing embedded AI, collaborative autonomy, and advanced avionics for defense markets, today announced the issuance of U.S. Patent 12,517,525 B1, titled “Path Creation, Detection and Prediction Using Primitives,” protecting its proprietary Bayesian Program Learning (BPL) framework for intelligent target recognition, autonomous path planning, and real-time behavioral prediction across multiple types of sensors deployed across multi-domain environments (space, air, land, and maritime).
“This patent is a direct expression of the long-term value we are building at Palladyne AI,” said Ben Wolff, President and CEO, Palladyne AI.
“We believe our patented BPL framework does three things no conventional AI system can match at the edge: it recognizes targets across multiple sensor types without the cloud, it turns a spoken instruction into an optimized robotic motion plan in seconds, and it keeps tracking even when the signal goes dark,” said Denis Garagic, CTO, Co-Founder, and Named Inventor, Palladyne AI.
This patent represents a significant expansion of Palladyne AI’s intellectual property portfolio and strengthens its competitive position across high-value commercial and defense markets covering three distinct capability domains:
- Target Recognition: Detects, classifies, and tracks moving targets across EO, IR, LiDAR, radar, acoustic, and RF sensors: fully on-device, without cloud connectivity.
- Autonomous Path Planning: Converts natural-language commands into optimized motion plans without manual reprogramming which accelerates deployment and reduces task changeover time from hours to minutes in manufacturing, logistics, and field operations.
- Behavioral Prediction & Track Continuity: Predicts target behavior even through sensor dropout, occlusion, or jamming which enables persistent tracking in communications-denied and degraded environments.
“This patent is a direct expression of the long-term value we are building at Palladyne AI,” said Ben Wolff, President and CEO, Palladyne AI. “Our framework is not incremental, it is a fundamentally different approach to machine intelligence. We believe this IP is revolutionary and will compound in value as autonomous systems become central to both defense and industrial customers as they accelerate adoption of trusted, edge-native autonomy.”
For more information on Palladyne AI and its patented technology, please visit https://www.palladyneai.com. (Source: BUSINESS WIRE)
08 Apr 26 . IFS, the leading provider of Industrial AI software, today announced a new pricing model that fundamentally changes how enterprise AI is bought and deployed. With this announcement, organisations will now have the freedom to deploy Industrial AI wherever it creates value, without constraint, and without the fear of escalating costs.
IFS is disrupting enterprise software pricing models, that traditionally price ‘per user’. By moving away from user-based licensing to a model grounded in operational reality, IFS is enabling customers to pay by assets, rather than users. For example, for an energy company managing 400 offshore assets pays based on those 400 assets rather than the 12,000 people and machines that need to access the data.
The model aligns software investment with the operational assets customers manufacture, manage, and maintain, such as vessels, components, infrastructure, or production assets. The result for IFS customers is predictable costs that align with operations, enabling projects to expand and enterprises to grow without the constraints of user-based licensing.
The move will force the broader industry to rethink how it packages and prices software.
Why now?
Industrial organisations are on the cusp of an unprecedented expansion in what they can produce, maintain, and deliver using Industrial AI. There is no reason for it to be constrained.
Through this pricing model, IFS technology is no longer just enabling workers to do more; it is directly driving work and outcomes. This is a commercial model directly tied and aligned to the success of IFS customers.
The model is designed for industrial systems of action, where software investment aligns with the operational environments a company manages rather than the number of users accessing the system.
This drives greater value for customers by creating a system with metrics that are measurable, auditable, and transparent, ensuring organisations pay for the operational value the system supports, not every individual, contractor, or automated process interacting with it.
This evolution in pricing directly supports the IFS Industrial AI strategy and anticipates changing market needs. At its core, this shift is about enabling customers to navigate an increasingly AI-driven industrial landscape and capitalise on the opportunities it presents.
Mark Moffat, CEO, at IFS, said: “This is a clear message to our customers: rather than rationing users, IFS wants you using AI everywhere you can to create value. Our customers should not have to choose between automating their operations and controlling their software costs. This progressive move on pricing removes that trade-off entirely. We’re not pricing the workers. We’re pricing the work.”
Mickey North Rizza, Group Vice-President, Enterprise Software at IDC, noted: “IFS moving into the next realm of pricing means buyers have flexibility in the Agentic world. IFS new pricing model helps companies operationally scale their investment to the value levers it needs to run the business. This new methodology will help clients sustain their economic value.”
Aly Pinder Jr, Research VP, Aftermarket Services Strategies, at IDC, added: “Asset-centric organisations have made the shift to expect to work with technology vendors that can align the partnership in a way for shared benefit and flexibility enabling growth as market conditions evolve.”
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