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The Royal Australian Navy, Royal New Zealand Navy and United States Navy have participated in a biennial exercise in the Jervis Bay area designed to strengthen mine warfare, clearance diving and seabed warfare capabilities. Read more
Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom have taken further steps regarding Australia’s preparations for the establishment of Submarine Rotational Force‑West | Kirra Davey
With a sound like a petrol lawnmower at top revs, Shield AI’s V-Bat drone rises vertically from a field in country NSW, swings over into level flight then completes a wide circuit, its sensor depicting the landscape below in fine detail | Max Blenkin
The launch of Saab Australia’s Allied Mission System on 20 October marks the company’s first foray into the sovereign space domain and comes at a critical time in the quest for Space Domain Awareness | Nigel Pittaway
The vehicles being procured under Land 400, the most expensive acquisition project in the history of the Australian Army, are in production and Australian industry is benefiting, with local content increasing | Grant McHerron
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Japan’s Ministry of Defense has awarded a contract to Ukrainian defence tech start-up SkyFall for an unspecified number of interceptor drones, Japan’s Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi told reporters on 9 October | Corey Lee Bell
Kellie Parker has been appointed to the role of National Armaments Director.
AML3D has announced an approximately $2.2 million initial order for a large-scale, Arcemy X system from US Navy prime contractor Northrop Grumman Marine Systems, following a competitive tender process.
An industry-led research collaboration will investigate how to develop a certifiable Laser Direct Energy Deposition repair process for high-value aerospace alloys used broadly across modern military aircraft.
Thales Australia has opened a new sonar manufacturing facility within its Western Sydney advanced manufacturing complex, officially opened by the Minister for Defence Industry Pat Conroy.
Northrop Grumman Australia has appointed a new Managing Director, Lee Davis. Deanne Barnett, the current NGA Managing Director, will be retiring in February 2027.
After six months of training, the 15th iteration of Marine Rotational Force-Darwin will return home.
Kongsberg Gruppen ASA has been awarded a new 10-year contract to deliver a Vessel Traffic Service system at the Port of Port Hedland.
The International Centre for Complex Project Management and ASC have partnered, reinforcing a shared commitment to building the leadership, capability and expertise required to deliver Australia's most complex and strategically significant programs.
The government has unveiled payloads for the Ghost Shark and Speartooth UUVs and advancing plans for sovereign solid rocket motor build while Ocius has sent two diesel-hybrid variants of their Bluebottle USV to the Maritime Big Play Pacific exercise.
L3Harris' Rock Lobster deployable underwater acoustic communication relay system was successfully tested alongside US Navy capabilities during Exercise RimPac 2026 as part of an AUKUS Pillar II undersea warfare activity.
Two diesel-hybrid variants of Ocius’ renewably powered Bluebottle Uncrewed Surface Vessel, ‘Bluebottle Hybrid’, have participated in the US Navy-led Maritime Big Play Pacific exercise, which runs throughout October.
Somewhere between Cocos Island and the Coral Sea, an area larger than the continental United States, Australia is expected to see everything, all the time. It cannot | Sponsored
