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The Norwegian government has announced plans to order critical parts for the production of NASAMS air defence systems, aimed at improving the delivery times for launcher units upon the signing of new contracts.

Defence SA has announced the appointment of Matt Opie as the new Chief Executive, replacing outgoing CE Richard Price who resigned in December 2023.

HMAS Choules (L-100) was quietly fitted with a CEA Technologies CEAFAR Phased Array Radar over the new year period | Ben Felton

Maritime autonomy solutions company Exail has unveiled its new transoceanic Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV), the DriX 0-16.

Embraer Defense & Security has announced an agreement with ST Engineering to explore alternatives for future collaboration in the Asia Pacific region.

South Australian satellite Kanyini has successfully completed its Environmental Stress Screening ahead of the satellite’s mid-2024 launch. 

Honeywell has demonstrated the ability to upgrade the current cooling capacity of the F-35 Lightning II’s Power and Thermal Management System to 80kW.

DroneShield has announced that the company has received a repeat order of $4.3 million from a US government customer for a number of its handheld C-UAS systems.

Defence and industry gathered in Canberra for the inaugural ADM 30 Under 30 Awards, recognising thirty of Australia’s best and brightest young people working in Defence and industry | Keira Joyce

New Zealand Defence Minister Judith Collins is to re-assess the recent defence review to ensure it keeps a wider strategic focus | Tim Fish

Australian Defence Apparel has announced a collaboration with Indigenous Design Labs, to showcase Indigenous youth creativity and community engagement.

Ionize has been awarded a government grant through the Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) Round 15 to deliver Project DFNDR: Adaptive Cyber Security for Defence and Critical Infrastructure SMEs.

Fleet Space Technologies’ has successfully demonstrated satellite-enabled Push-to-Talk (PTT) capabilities as part of the Defence Space Command-funded ASCEND2LEO project. 

Raytheon Australia’s new Centre for Collaboration in southeast Queensland has been officially opened by Minister for Defence Industry Pat Conroy.

Codan Communications | DTC has announced the appointment of Matthew Jones as Vice President of Asia Pacific.

New Zealand based Frond Space Systems has signed a contract with Gilmour Space Technologies to supply a dragsail system for Gilmour Space's MMS-1 satellite mission.