AFC Group has announced the appointment of Glen Johnston in a newly created Senior Product Management Role.

Opentec is now offering the RPT 12-M Combat Rugged Tablet, delivering thick client capability in a lightweight, 'thin' format.

BAE Systems has conducted a successful rocket ballistic flight test of its five-inch Long Range Land Attack Projectile at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.

SA’s Defence Teaming Centre (DTC) has been successful in winning a significant aggregated bid on behalf of 30 of its member companies for 495 training places in the 2010 Productivity Places Program for Existing Workers allocation round.

Team Michigan have big plans for their little robots.

The Reconnaissance and Autonomy for Small Robots (RASR) team is led by a US based company, Robotic Research, LLC and boasts an impressive team.

Adelaide-based Nova Systems has purchased Aeronautical Engineers Australia (AEA) Aerospace Group Pty Ltd.

Jointly run by the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) and the Research Development & Engineering Command (RDECOM) in the US, the Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge (MAGIC) has seen the field narrowed down to five final contenders.

Defence SA’s CEO Andrew Fletcher, who bares much of the responsibility for developing and implementing the SA Government’s Defence Strategy, talks about the probability of Techport Australia expanding, the JLTV bid and SA’s initiatives on the education front to attract technically qualified people into the defence industry.

The Joint Decision Support Centre (JDSC) may have lost the simulation from its name but the facility has lost none of its capabilities as it expands to cover the wide range of tasks asked of it by Capability Development Group (CDG) and other defence agencies.

Sydney-based weapon mount designer and manufacturer W&E Platt Pty Ltd has been awarded a contract to supply protected ring mounts for use by the Swedish armed forces.

EADS Defence & Security has rebranded itself under the new name CASSIDIAN.

As the only Australian finalist, Team MAGICian has seen an impressive pairing of universities and industry to develop their robot fleet.

Raytheon Solipsys has added a web-based visualization and collaboration tool to its command and control software product line.

BAE Systems Australia has renewed its contract with IMAGINiT Technologies as the preferred supplier of Autodesk computer-aided design and modelling software.

Opentec has announced its new Combat (Super) Rugged RPT 5-M ultra-mobile tablet PC, which can be carried in one hand or worn strapped to the user's forearm.