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There are no silver bullet solutions to the cyber threat. There need to be flexible approaches that evolve with the threat.

Cyber security represents a set of policy issues, not a single issue, with a graduating scale of threats and vulnerabilities across the private and public sectors. So how do Government and the private sector share the load?

Army’s new Battle Management System, supplied by Elbit under Project Land 200, has proven to be a game-changer on its first exercise deployment and roll-out may be accelerated.

The first P-8I aircraft for the Indian Navy has made its maiden flight from Boeing’s Renton Field in Seattle. The P-8I is the first of eight long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft Boeing is building for India as par...

Pennsylvania firm Alloy Surfaces Company, Inc., a subsidiary of the UK’s Chemring Group PLC, has won a US$6.9 million RAAF contract to supply BOL IR and MJU-50/B Special Material Decoys (SMD) for the F/A-18A/B Hornet.

This is my last editorial for Australian Defence Magazine. Shortly after this edition is published the incumbent Editor, Katherine Ziesing, will return to her post and I shall be moving on to a new challenge.

The ADM Cyber Security Summit in Canberra earlier this year threw a light on several security and policy issues. Specialist IT writer John Hilvert attended the summit and explores some of these themes in more detail.

USNS Spearhead, the first of the US Navy’s Joint High-Speed Vessels (JHSV) designed for rapid intra-theater transport of troops and military equipment, was christened in September during a ceremony at the Austal USA yard where she was built in Mob...

The Minister for Defence Materiel Jason Clare, has congratulated Australia’s F1 in Schools world champions – the PentaGliders from Brooks High School in Tasmania.

Rear Admiral (Ret) Brian Adams, AO, spent 37 years in the RAN, much of that time as a specialist in Joint and Amphibious warfare and some of it instructing, both in Australia and the UK. He spoke to Editor at Large Gregor Ferguson.