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Termination of USAF KC-X tanker solicitation: 19 Sep 08; The US Department of Defense notified the Congress and the two competing contractors, Boeing and Northrop Grumman, that it was terminating the current competition for a US Air Force airborne tanker replacement. Secreta ...

Thales Australia upgrades ADF's Austeyr assault rifle: 19 Sep 08; Thales Australia and the DMO have signed the first of a three-stage contract for the development and enhancement of the ADF’s F88 Austeyr rifle system. The standard-issue Austeyr assault rifle, in service since 1 ...

RAAF gets C-17 Aircrew Training System from Boeing: 19 Sep 08; Boeing has been awarded a $33 million FMS contract to provide a C-17 Aircrew Training System to the Royal Australian Air Force. The contract marks the first international sale of the system. The AT ...

Australian naval build-up flagged: 19 Sep 08; Hot on the heels of news that price and availability for a fourth Aegis system shipset had been sought from US authorities, the Prime Minister has foreshadowed a dramatic expansion of the RAN to counter a military build-up

Terma gets Danish Navy contract: 18 Sep 08; Denmark’s Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organization has awarded Danish systems group Terma a contract to integrate a Multi Link System into the combat system of the Royal Danish Navy’s two Absalon-c ...

M113AS needs a belly: 18 Sep 08; Defence has released an RFT for the provision of belly plates for fitting to M113AS vehicles. One belly plate is required for Stage One and 15 are required for Stage Two. While this additional protective armou ...

Airborne IFR counter to SAMs coming: 17 Sep 08; The German ministry of defence-sponsored Infra-Red Radiation Donator, a non-ammunition based, soft-kill airborne countermeasure against shoulder launched surface-to-air missiles, is nearing delivery of a system for government

Professor Robert Clark takes DSTO reins: 17 Sep 08; Professor Robert Clark will be appointed as Chief Defence Scientist and head the DSTO, Minister for Defence Science and Personnel Warren Snowdon has announced. “Professor Clark brings significant national and int ...

$6 million to retain RAAF specialists: 16 Sep 08; From a special skills retention fund of $6 million, Defence will offer selected Air Traffic Controllers and Air Field Engineering trades personnel retention bonuses as part of broader strategies to maintain capability in ...

Glass cockpit for RAAF PC-9A trainer: 16 Sep 08; The RAAF is fitting a glass cockpit into one of its Pilatus PC-9A trainers as part of the development work for its eventual calling for tenders for a new defence aircrew training system. The work is being carried out b ...

DSTO renews IBM links: 15 Sep 08; DSTO has renewed its Industry Alliance agreement with IBM for a further three years, enabling DSTO to leverage IBM’s annual investment fund for research and development through the Australian IBM Research Laboratory progr ...

JP129 Tactical UAV project terminated: 15 Sep 08; The DMO and Boeing Australia have agreed to terminate the contract, awarded to Boeing in December 2006, for the delivery of a TUAV System under Joint Project 129. The contract aimed to deliver the Israeli Aircraft ...

ABL program fires up: 12 Sep 08; Boeing, industry teammates and the US Missile Defense Agency, have achieved a major milestone in the development of the Airborne Laser missile defense program by firing a high-energy chemical laser onboard the ...

UK military get virtual: 12 Sep 08; UK military personnel have been undertaking pre-deployment training in a virtual world, to prepare them for convoy driving and vehicle patrol operations. The UK MOD’s Operational Joint Combat Operations Virtual E ...

Federal Government maintains current stance in Afghanistan: 12 Sep 08; The Federal Government is not actively looking at deploying infantry soldiers to ‘take the fight to the Taliban’ as part of the present offensive battle against insurgents in Oruzgan province of Afghanistan.

Defence numbers needed: Combet: 12 Sep 08; Speaking at the ADM Defence Skilling Summit in Adelaide on 8 September, Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Procurement Greg Combet has called on industry to address skills shortages in t ...

US Army trains with Ospreys for first time: 11 Sep 08; The US Army has trained with the Bell-Boeing MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft for the first time. The exercise was conducted at the US Army’s John F Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg, N ...

DMO shapes IDLS 2008: 11 Sep 08; The Government supported the International Data Link Symposium held last week in Sydney. The symposium is an annual gathering of the International Tactical Data Link community and it aims to impr ...

CAF’s Middle East visit: 10 Sep 08; New Chief of Air Force, Air Marshal Mark Binskin, has met many of the RAAF personnel who provide vital support to Australian and Coalition forces in the Middle East, during his first visit to the region as CAF. “ ...

Boeing scores big: 10 Sep 08; Boeing has been awarded a five-year US Army contract valued at US$4.3 billion for 181 CH-47F Chinooks and 10 additional Chinooks under Fiscal Year 2008 supplemental funding. There are options in the award for an additi ...

US Defense to monitor weapons' sustainment costs: 9 Sep 08; US Defense acquisition chief John Young has instructed managers of the Pentagon’s most expensive weapon systems to submit performance goals for their programs that would improve the tracking of these systems’ ...

ScanEagle gets improved vision: 9 Sep 08; Boeing, Goodrich Corporation and Insitu Inc. have successfully flight-tested a ScanEagle unmanned aircraft equipped for the first time with a short-wave infrared camera. The camera, built by Goodrich’s Sen ...

Pentagon modifies General Dynamics' contract: 9 Sep 08; The Pentagon is finalising negotiations to modify contractor General Dynamics’ agreement for delivering so-called “Rifleman’s Radios”, a variant of the Joint Tactical Radio System hand-held manpack small ...

DSTO renews its agreement with IBM: 8 Sep 08; The Defence Science and Technology Organisation has renewed an Industry Alliance agreement with IBM for a further three years, announced Minister for Defence Science and Personnel Warren Snowdon. “This Ind ...

Australia Industry Capability to help companies: 8 Sep 08; The DMO has briefed industry on the implementation of the Australia Industry Capability program. DMO’s Director of Industry Policy Management Eddie Ho told industry representatives in Brisbane that the reas ...

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