The two Australian companies who won contracts after last year’s AUKUS Innovation Challenge are expected to demonstrate their new Electronic Warfare technologies at the end of this calendar year | Gregor Ferguson

H&B Defence – a joint venture between HII and Babcock - has won its first contract to enhance supply chain capabilities for AUKUS through the Australian Submarine Supplier Qualification Pilot Program.

Canberra-based L3Harris Technologies Australia has put its hand up for the 2025 AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge, Alan Clements, the company’s Chief Executive has confirmed | Gregor Ferguson

The Royal Australian Navy has brought two more Evolved Cape Class Patrol Boats into commissioned service in a ceremony at their homeport of HMAS Coonawarra in Darwin.

Singapore Technologies Engineering has announced that it has been awarded contracts by MINDEF to deliver a suite of Mine Countermeasure Unmanned Systems for the Republic of Singapore Navy.

While readers may be forgiven for thinking there isn’t much of a market for new missionised Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance aircraft in Australia and New Zealand, ADM’s Ben Felton argues that it’s not the case | Ben Felton

Researchers at the University of South Australia have proposed a new planning formula to optimise the lifecycle value of Australia's naval fleet. 

A British defence company, SubSea Craft, in partnership with the Australian Maritime College, have tested a new Unmanned Surface Vessel Capability.

The US State Department has approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to India of Indo-Pacific Maritime Domain Awareness and related equipment for an estimated cost of AU $204 million.  

Attendees of ADM’s Northern Australia Defence Summit in Darwin on 29 April were reminded of how critical the region has become when set against the backdrop of the rapidly deteriorating strategic circumstances | Nigel Pittaway

BAE Systems Maritime Australia is expanding its Strategic Supplier Partnerships program with selected small and medium enterprises to protect the construction schedule of the first three anti-submarine warships from the Hunter Class Frigate Program.  

Just a year after announcing the inaugural AUKUS Innovation Challenge, the three AUKUS members have launched their second challenge, this one focussed on undersea Command, Control and Communications | Gregor Ferguson

The Whiskey Project Group (TWPG) has partnered with Colombia’s state-owned shipbuilding authority, Corporación de Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo de la Industria Naval Marítima y Fluvial.

The Whiskey Project Group has unveiled Vycor, a new line of high-performance commercial watercraft.

JFD has opened a second New South Wales advanced manufacturing and support facility in Caringbah on 8 April 2025. This came after the opening of a similar specialised manufacturing facility in Beresfield on 26 February | Kirra Davey

ThayerMahan and Ocius have christened a persistent unmanned undersea surveillance vessel that supports the objectives of AUKUS Pillar II, part of the trilateral security partnership between the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.