2014 has been a considerable year of change at Sunshine Refuellers Pty Ltd with the divestment of Liquip International and Beta Fueling Systems

Marine safety equipment has an unglamorous life – designed to stay out of the way as much as possible until a life-threatening emergency. Then it has to work perfectly, first time, every time.

In its latest market update, Quickstep has revealed sales of A$28.5 million for the nine months to 31 March 2015

With this more comprehensive PDF edition, I wanted to bring you some stories about our hard-working and often under-appreciated defence suppliers.

As foreshadowed in earlier reporting, Frequentis will work with prime contractor Thales to develop a single system platform that unifies the separate Air Traffic Management systems currently used by Airservices Australia and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd ended the year 2014 with a net profit of US$90 million with orders totaling US$3 billion, an order backlog of US$5 billion and sales of $US1.9 billion.

The Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) has officially received its first of four Airbus A400M military transport aircraft, ordered from Airbus Defense and Space.

Codan Radio Communications, a division of Codan Limited (ASX-CDA), has announced the launch of Stratus, a hybrid P25 and LTE communications network solution.

With those who deployed on Operation Slipper – Australia’s longest military operation – preparing to march in Welcome Home parades across the country this Saturday, defence-linked industries are being called on to help recognise the families of more than 34,500 ADF, AFP and public servants who served in the areas of operation.

Airbus Defence and Space has announced during Satellite 2015 being held in Washington DC the forthcoming move of its Skynet 5A satellite

Connector-Tech ALS has moved to a new location at 18 Sudbury St, Darra, Queensland.

Micreo Limited, a designer and manufacturer of Radio Frequency subsystems for global defence and aerospace applications, has begun shipping production units to Raytheon’s SAS Division for incorporation into the ALR- 69A(V), the world’s first all-digital radar warning receiver (RWR).

Members of the current management team of TAE, led by General Manager Andrew Sanderson, have reached agreement with Air New Zealand to purchase the TAE Group of companies.

In 2013 Airservices Australia contracted Frequentis to replace its communication and tower control and monitoring system at Sydney Tower

Local firm Nioa is eagerly waiting the announcement of the preferred tenderer for Land 40 Ph.2.

Airbus Defence and Space has welcomed the Defence Materiel Organisation’s decision to remove the KC-30A multi-role tanker transport (MRTT) from the Projects of Concern (POC) List.