In a boost for Australia’s defence and security start-up ecosystem, UNSW Canberra has launched ProtoHub – a collaborative prototyping, fabrication and innovation hub | Keira Joyce

Defence has been trialling a new space surveillance sensor to monitor objects and activity in space in South Australia.

Headquarters Joint Operations Command's Joint Collective Training Branch has awarded Calytrix strategic training contracts to deliver Exercise Planning and Simulation Services in support of Defence's joint and coalition training activities.

Construction of Defence HQ, where BAE Systems Australia's new Australian corporate headquarters will be, has begun.

In March and April, the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force and the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service, celebrated their 85th birthdays | Kirra Davey

New Zealand engineering and support company Edge Defence has acquired fellow kiwi defence business New Zealand Ocean Technology which support NZ Defence Force undersea activities | Max Blenkin

The Australian Department of Defence has selected Systematic's SitaWare Headquarters for the first tranche of Army’s next-generation Battle Management System.

Aurizn has announced the appointment of Jim McDowell as Chair of the Board.

Boresight has signed a lease for a new 812 square metre manufacturing facility in Huntsville, Alabama; approximately 15 times the size of its current US site.

The 19th Australian Space Forum, presented by the Andy Thomas Space Foundation, will bring together international space agencies, defence figures, senior government and industry leaders in Adelaide on 21 and 22 July.

The Australian Army has conducted the first successful live-firing of AH-64E Apache helicopters on Australian soil.

Under the revisited project to acquire space communications, Defence plans to start out with a basic geostationary satellite capability to enter service quickly | Max Blenkin

The Royal Australian Air Force’s premier air combat exercise, Exercise Pitch Black, will take to the skies over northern Australia from 20 July to 7 August.

Japanese 3D printing construction technology start-up Serendix has released footage of successful ballistic tests on 3D-printed fortifications | Corey Lee Bell

Corsair uncrewed autonomous surface vessels produced by US company Saronic have been used to destroy a docked Iranian midget submarine at the Bandar Abbas Naval Base, the first US use of kamikaze boats | Max Blenkin

Bombardier Defense Global 6500 aircraft will support South Korea’s Electronic Warfare program. The Global 6500 aircraft was already selected to be the platform for the country’s Airborne Early Warning & Control program.