Raytheon, Rohde & Schwarz, L-3 Communications (East), Thales Australia and Lockheed Martin are possible contenders for SEA1439 Phase 5B2.

ASC has confirmed that 41 employees were made redundant with an additional 34 unfilled positions being abolished across the organisation.

Contract details for the electronic warfare and weapons handling systems on the Hobart class Air Warfare Destroyers have been announced.

ASC has announced a major restructure to bring together the company's submarine and shipbuilding business divisions.

Babcock has been awarded a $1.6 million contract to supply high pressure air reduction stations for the three Hobart class Air Warfare Destroyers.

Austal has confirmed that a contract has been signed with Oman's National Ferries Company for the maintenance of seven large high-speed craft.

The Defence Sub Committee has met with senior Defence officials to look into a range of projects raised in the DMO major projects annual report.

For the Strategic Policy Forum (March 2010), writers from government and industry provided their thoughts on the future of naval shipbuilding.

Observers who understand the complexities of amphibious warfare have wondered for some time how the ADF would approach the development of a robust and sustainable amphibious warfare capability.

The Anzac class Anti-Ship Missile Defence (ASMD) program is well underway with HMAS Perth alongside in Henderson, WA having had her two masts removed in February for the extensive upgrade program.

The choice of Electronic Warfare (EW) system for the Hobart-class AWDs was imminent as we closed for press; new EW systems will also be selected for the RAN's Anzacs and LHDs over the next couple of years.

Although somewhat dated, the operational concepts used in the development of the RFT for the JP2048 Amphibious Deployment and Sustainment (ADAS) system appear to have been a reasonable match for the capabilities being acquired.

On 18 February 2010, exactly three years and three months after she was launched, HMNZS Otago, the first of the two Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) built for the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) was handed over by BAE Systems Australia in Melbourne.

There appears to be a mood around that Australia's Future Submarines will be larger than the current 3,400 tonne Collins class.

The design stage for Project Sea 1000 is about to get under way and the Navy, DMO and DSTO are preparing for some new propulsion technology and energy storage challenges, while being careful not to lose sight of the proven lead-acid battery technology that is the mainstay of the current Collins fleet.

Shipbuilding and support facilities in Australia have clustered around a small number of key centres for the last few decades, but developments at South Australia's Techport and Western Australia's Common User Facility (CUF) have begun to challenge that paradigm.