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Jan 18 2019

Research to enhance survivability of Navy warships

RMIT University and CSIRO have partnered with the Department of Defence and US Navy to develop a spray-on system to repair navy ships damage...

Maritime and Undersea Warfare

Jan 18 2019

RMIT University and CSIRO have partnered with the Department of Defence and US Navy to develop a spr...

Jan 17 2019

PODCAST: Enhancing the future of Australia’s unmanned undersea capabilities, Gavin Henry & Daniel Dent, Thales

The growing capability of autonomous underwater systems is changing the dynamics of undersea warfar...

Jan 18 2019

Babcock awarded maintenance contract for HMS Queen Elizabeth

Babcock has secured an $8.9 million contract to support the Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier, HMS...

Strike & Air Combat

Jan 18 2019

Raytheon wins AMRAAM support contract

Raytheon Missile Systems has secured a US$9.5 million firm-fixed-price contract modification to prov...

Jan 17 2019

Lockheed Martin secures US$172m contract for LRASM

The US Navy and US Air Force have awarded Lockheed Martin a US$172 million contract to produce the s...

Jan 16 2019

Industry critical to 5th-gen delivery: AIRCDRE Kitcher

Defence industry has played a key role in delivering air combat capabilities for the Royal Australia...

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Aerospace and defence manufacturing in the age of Industry 4.0

The convergence of digitised machine parts, improved connectivity and emerging ‘Industry 4.0’ technologies has begun to reshape global aerospace and defence...

Defence airworthiness goes global

On 30 September 2016, a huge change occurred in how the ADF handled airworthiness. The organisation began a transition from a system that was unique to Australi...

Land & Amphibious

Jan 17 2019

Northrop Grumman trials vehicle active protection system

Northrop Grumman has successfully demonstrated a complete vehicle active protection system (APS) de...

Jan 15 2019

GaardTech targets survive Army firepower

Queensland-based GaardTech has demonstrated the survivability and capability of the company’s trai...

Jan 11 2019

General Dynamics secures US$714m Abrams modernisation deal

The US Army has partnered with General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) to upgrade an additional 174 M1A...

Intel & Cyber

Jan 9 2019

KBRwyle secures place on IT service contract for US Army

SGT, a business unit of KBRwyle, will provide IT services to the US Army around the globe after winning a seat on the US$12.1 billion Infor...

Jan 7 2019

Saab demonstrates capabilities of GlobalEye AEW&C aircraft

Saab’s second GlobalEye airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft has successfully completed a series of flight tests, inc...

Dec 31 2018

Airbus enhances military Earth observation capabilities for EU partners

Airbus Defence and Space successfully launched the first of the company’s CSO Earth observation satellites to support the French Armed For...

Key Enablers

Jan 18 2019

L3 to enhance SOCOM lethality with optics contract

L3 Technologies has won a US$26.3 million contract from US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) to provide close-quarter sights and clip-on...

Jan 18 2019

Snow sports exercise to help strengthen strategic partnerships

The Australian Defence Force snow sports team has touched down in Europe ahead of the UK Armed Forces Inter-Services Snow Sports Champions...

Jan 17 2019

Minister's Middle East visit reaffirms relationships

Minister for Defence Christopher Pyne visited Iraq and the United Arab Emirates to meet Australian troops as well as key leaders from both c...

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