Keelback isn’t here to follow. We lead.
Who we are
Rapid sovereign UAS solutions from design to deployment.
Keelback rapidly delivers sovereign UAS solutions ensuring mission-critical performance. Our end-to-end process leverages quality control standards, providing highly secure, reliable, and adaptable unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for defence, law enforcement, and commercial operations.
From initial concept to full-scale production, we integrate advanced engineering, rigorous testing, and precision manufacturing to deliver cutting-edge solutions that enhance operational effectiveness in complex environments.
TRUE SOVEREIGN CAPABILITY
Australian owned, engineered, sourced, and built.
Keelback products are manufactured in Queensland, Australia, adhering to globally recognised certifications and standards.
Our facility draws on 70 years of expertise in complex manufacturing to deliver proven sovereign capability for mission-critical operations.

ISO9001
The international quality management systems (QMS) standard, ensuring we consistently meet customer and regulatory requirements through efficient processes and risk mitigation.
AS9100D
The international aerospace standard for quality management, providing risk management, configuration control, and process validation specific to the aviation, space, and defence industries.
ISO27001
The global standard for information security, focusing on protecting sensitive data, intellectual property, and IT infrastructure through risk management and control.
Australian Defence Industry Security Program (DISP) Membership
Demonstrates our capability to manage classified information and operate within secure environments. Provides a framework for physical, personnel, cyber, and supply chain security, ensuring compliance with Australian Defence requirements.
Our Values
To safeguard the future
Rapidly create simple technology solutions to complex problems.

Innately positive people
Passionate, positive, and caring.
Our people are our most important resource and our most significant capability. We value positivity and embrace the diverse skill sets and personalities that combine to create our amazing team.
Integrity is critical to each and every one of us and we always do the right thing, even when no one is looking. We take ownership and accountability for the day to day and actively seek to have a positive impact through our actions.
Obsessive about progress
Always forwards. Never still, never backwards.
We strive to improve and grow personally, professionally and as a business. There is an open expectation for excellence and collectively we actively seek ways to achieve growth and forward progress in all that we do.
We firmly focus on the future and think creatively about ways to improve or do things differently and this touches all facets of our business from systems, processes, products and people. Incremental and continuous improvement are pivotal to our future successes.
Outpace and Outperform
Swifter, smarter, sharper.
We embody a performance driven culture with a passion for outpacing and outperforming our competitors. We discriminate ourselves from our competition because we are swifter, smarter and sharper. We respond to customer needs, market trends and emerging opportunities with a rapidity rarely seen.
Disrupt everything
The status quo is our enemy.
We actively seek status quo with a view to positively impacting opportunities for change. We embrace thinking outside of the square and empower our people to identify and challenge status quo.
We push boundaries of how things are done both internally and externally. When we identify ways to challenge conventional products, systems or processes, we call it out loudly and proudly with solutions in mind. We see opportunity for positive change where others are blinded by convention.
Solutions centred
Our eyes are firmly fixed on the art of the possible.
At the centre of everything we do, we are focused on solving problems. Whether it be for customers, partners or each other, we remain firmly focused on solutions and we have partly built our reputation by solving problems where others have failed.
We don’t waste valuable time dwelling on what can’t be done, or why things can’t be done, but instead, we constantly evaluate options and provide alternatives with a view to achieving outcomes where others would, and have, failed. Our minds constantly move towards what can be done.
Our Team
Passionate, positive and caring
Our people are our most important resource and our most significant capability. We value positivity and embrace the diverse skill sets and personalities that combine to create our amazing team.

Ross McKinnon
Executive Chair

Jon Carter
Chief Executive Officer

Rob Trueman
Chief Financial Officer

Paul Olsen
Chief Security Officer

Wayne Salzgaber
Vice President Americas
