{"id":8932,"date":"2026-09-03T19:48:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/8932\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T19:48:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:48:54","slug":"exercise-western-dawn-2026-competition-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/8932\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise Western Dawn 2026 Competition Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"335\" height=\"102\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-03-172446.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40795\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exercise Western Dawn brings together Defence, university students, researchers, and industry specialists to develop and demonstrate innovative approaches to human-robot teaming, autonomous systems, and situational awareness in a littoral environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Invitation to Attend Competition Day<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Competition Day is the culmination of an intensive innovation program that brings together Defence, industry, and university participants to develop practical responses to a contemporary defence challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Competition Day, participating teams will put their solutions to the test through a live operational challenge involving unmanned ground vehicles and reconnaissance drones. It will provide an opportunity to see the teams\u2019 work in action and engage with representatives from the defence, academia, and industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your attendance will provide an opportunity to:<\/p>\n<p>See the competing teams demonstrate and present their solutions<\/p>\n<p>Gain a first-hand appreciation of the innovation process and its outcomes<\/p>\n<p>Connect with representatives from Defence, industry and academia<\/p>\n<p>Support and encourage the teams as their work is assessed<\/p>\n<p>Explore potential relationships and future collaboration opportunities<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Registration is required for attendance. Please register using the link below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.cloud.microsoft\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=PTLLm6N_50Wjb22c_bzCct7tXMwtv5BNpGMeumz39cVUQjRMMzNKMUdVRlg4ODVIRDE4RkRDSjI0UC4u&amp;origin=lprLink&amp;route=shorturl\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/forms.cloud.microsoft\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=PTLLm6N_50Wjb22c_bzCct7tXMwtv5BNpGMeumz39cVUQjRMMzNKMUdVRlg4ODVIRDE4RkRDSjI0UC4u&amp;origin=lprLink&amp;route=shorturl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE TO REGISTER<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We would value your presence and support as we recognise the achievements of the participating teams and strengthen connections across Western Australia\u2019s defense innovation community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exercise Western Dawn brings together Defence, university students, researchers, and industry specialists to develop and demonstrate innovative approaches&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-8932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-defence-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}