The National Reconstruction Fund Corporation will provide $245 million of debt to Austal Defence Shipbuilding Australia to build an advanced manufacturing facility that will enable local production of Landing Craft Heavy for the Australian Army.

Saab has introduced the Allied Mission System, a cloud-based software platform that enables the user to monitor, understand and respond to activity in space.

Australia is advancing plans to build solid rocket motors locally, following an announcement in late April that Northrop Grumman was selected to establish SRM manufacturing | Ewen Levick

Of all Australia’s many defence infrastructure projects, far and away the biggest is the Henderson precinct in Western Australia, a multi-billion-dollar, multi-generational enterprise where warships will be constructed | Max Blenkin

Duratec Ertech Joint Venture, a 50:50 joint venture between Duratec and Ertech, will deliver marine construction solutions as part of the $281 million infrastructure upgrade program at HMAS Stirling.

Almost 300 Australian Defence Force personnel have deployed to Japan to enhance readiness and interoperability as part of Exercise Keen Sword.

Model26 has undertaken some modelling which it claims, shows a new not-for-profit Defence delivery model could reduce the cost of professional and technical services to Government by 15 per cent, representing potential savings of $150 million annually.

A South Australian project combining advanced sensors, satellite technology and artificial intelligence to improve threat detection and response has successfully demonstrated a new capability with applications across Defence and national security.

The Australian Government will mark a milestone this week in the development and testing of advanced undersea warfare capabilities for the Australian Defence Force at Maritime Big Play Pacific – an AUKUS Pillar II exercise – in San Diego.

Dassault Systèmes has announced that Safran Electronics & Defense Australasia has selected its Enovia and Catia applications, powered by its 3DExperience platform, to support the design, development and production of high-technology equipment.

Despite losing out to Lockheed Martin for Defence’s Land 8113 Phase 2 contract, Kongsberg Australia remains confident about the export potential of its StrikeMaster variant of the proven Naval Strike Missile Coastal Defence System | Nigel Pittaway

Exercise Keris Woomera 26 is underway in Indonesia, Williamstown shipyard is being sold to a developer part-owned by a Hong Kong company, Drone Forge signs MoU with Arkeus, and RAN Seahawks to receive advanced magnetic anomaly detectors.

The Navy’s Sikorsky SH-60R (Romeo) Seahawk helicopters are set to be upgraded with an advanced magnetic anomaly detector for detecting hostile submarines | Max Blenkin

Ocius Technology has officially opened its advanced engineering, production and maintenance hub for Bluebottle Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USVs) in Sydney, including a new 24/7 Global Operations Centre.

The Land Forces expo was packed with drones - big ones, small ones - all with different capabilities | Max Blenkin

Stärke-AMG and Flinders University will lead a new $2.7 million industry-led project to help establish the sovereign capability Australia needs to manufacture critical metal components for defence, maritime and medical applications.