ADM joins our readers in commemorating this ANZAC Day.

Boeing has raised the Australian flag at its AH-64 Apache helicopter production line in Mesa, Arizona. Australia will be the eighteenth nation to operate the Apache as its attack helicopter.

Lockheed Martin Australia has signed a $500 million contract with the Department of Defence to build Australia’s future Joint Air Battle Management System under project - Air 6500 Phase 1.

Thirteen UniSA students have started work this year with three Adelaide defence employers – BAE Systems, submarine company ASC and electronic warfare specialists Consunet – as part of a new degree apprenticeship program.

SeeByte successfully delivered on-site training of its multi-domain mission management system, SeeTrack, to the Royal New Zealand Navy in partnership with New Zealand Ocean Technology.

BMT has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with DNV to help accelerate the development of an Australian version of BMT's CAIMEN Large Design for the future Landing Craft – Heavy program for the Australian Army.

Many countries in the Asia-Pacific region fly airlift aircraft that have been in service for decades and western aircraft manufacturers see a lucrative replacement market over the next decade or so | Nigel Pittaway

The Irish Naval Service has named the two Inshore Patrol Vessels bought from New Zealand the LÉ Aoibhinn and the LÉ Gobnait.

archTIS announced that the company has signed an agreement with Penten to provide Kojensi as part of a solution for an unspecified Australian national security agency. 

Austal Australia's collaborative Patrol Boat Autonomy Trial project has successfully completed Sea Acceptance Trials of the autonomously operated vessel, Sentinel, during March and April 2024.

AML3D has signed a $240k contract with DSTG to provide components for testing in marine applications.

Macquarie Government announced that is has been added to the Information Communications Technology Provider Arrangement (ICTPA) panel.

In September 2023 Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy announced that the Albanese Government is “taking steps to ensure Australia has one of the most advanced maritime patrol and response aircraft fleets in the world” | Nigel Pittaway

The Royal Navy’s latest Astute Class submarine has been officially named at BAE Systems’ Submarines site in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.

Aerobond has announced that the company's manufacturing headquarters in Woodville, South Australia, is undergoing a fit-out process.

Two units who work closely together, one British and one from the Royal Australian Air Force, have both been allocated the same squadron numberplate in a joint parade and naming ceremony at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.