South Korea will seek Washington’s cooperation to develop or acquire nuclear-powered submarines | Corey Lee Bell

BAE Systems Australia is cutting over 150 jobs at the Henderson precinct as defence work slows down despite the site’s crucial future role in AUKUS.

Spotted on 13 July -  a Ghost Shark extra-large autonomous undersea vessel | Julian Kerr

Senior US, Australian and Japanese flag officers have agreed to further enhance logistics interoperability among their maritime forces | Kylie Leonard and Kirra Davey

TKMS has sought to demonstrate their capacity to grow Australia’s sovereign shipbuilding capability should their MEKO A-200 be selected for the ADF’s Sea 3000 General Purpose Frigate program | Grant McHerron

Much has been written about Australia’s plans to acquire a nuclear-powered submarine in recent times, but not much about the requirements of the other AUKUS partners | Nigel Pittaway

The Royal Australian Navy's MH-60R Seahawk fleet has reached over 50,000 flight hours in ten years of operational service.

The ANAO has found significant deficiencies in Navy management of sustainment of their two largest vessels, which have experienced critical failures in operations.

Australian engineering company, CIVMEC, is to acquire shipbuilder Luerssen Australia from Naval Vessels Luerssen for A$20 million | Max Blenkin

Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) is well known to the Royal Australian Navy and local industry, having supplied the ANZAC frigates which were an earlier version of the MEKO 200 design | Grant McHerron

Northrop Grumman’s latest MQ-4C Triton uncrewed multi-intelligence aircraft has undergone testing with the US Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command.

Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems recently launched its new branding as TKMS while also announcing that their order backlog for submarines and surface vessels has grown to €18 billion (approx. A$32 billion) | Grant McHerron

Serco has announced that it has retained its contract to provide support to the US Navy’s amphibious warfare ships and systems. The five-year contract has an estimated cost of $167 million.

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company and CAE will collaborate to deliver the CAE Magnetic Anomaly Detection-Extended Role system for installation aboard US Navy and Royal Australian Navy MH-60R Seahawk helicopters.

Navantia Australia has signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement with the Defence Science and Technology Group to advance innovation, science, and technology research in support of the Royal Australian Navy’s surface fleet. 

The US Defense Department has launched a review of the AUKUS agreement | Max Blenkin