Boeing has surpassed $1 billion in export contracts awarded to Australian suppliers since joining the Australian Government’s Global Supply Chain Program in 2007. 

Hitachi Kokusai Electric has won a contract from Japan’s Ministry of Defense to develop high-power microwave technology | Corey Lee Bell

Lockheed Martin Australia has marked the commencement of a new $85.9 million Air Power Precinct in the Hunter region, together with Minister for Defence Industry, Pat Conroy, at a sod-turning ceremony in Williamtown.

In the latest round of the Defence Industry Development Grants program, more than $22 million has been awarded to 60 Australian businesses.

Ocius Technology and UNSW Canberra are collaborating to develop advanced autonomous control systems for the Bluebottle Uncrewed Surface Vessel fleet to optimise its performance and power usage.

The government has released the third of its top-level defence documents for 2026, the Defence Industry Development Strategy, which features a series of targeted measures to grow Australia’s sovereign defence industrial base | Max Blenkin

Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy has assured defence industry that broad ranging defence procurement reforms starting on 1 July 2026 would deliver a smarter and more efficient customer who is more up for taking risks | Max Blenkin

The US Department of State has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Singapore to purchase AGM-114R Hellfire missiles.

Weststar Defence Industries has entered into a Strategic Joint Venture Agreement with Australian aerospace and defence technology company Rocket Technologies International to establish new joint venture companies in Malaysia and Australia.

The second online event for the collaboration between Australian Defence Magazine Women in Defence and National Security Network and Women in Defence UK was hosted by both organisations on 24 June 2026 | Kirra Davey

Southern Launch has won a $25 million funding round led by an Australian national security investment firm, Brindabella and Company, and the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation.

The US Department of State has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Australia for the purchase of F/A-18F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft training and related equipment.

Airbus has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Kawasaki Heavy Industries to analyse opportunities to work on a Japanese anti-submarine warfare variant of the U950 Eurodrone.

We’ve had two big defence funding documents from the Government in quick succession. The first, the 2026 National Defence Strategy (and its supporting Integrated Investment Program) sets out the big picture over the coming decade | Marcus Hellyer

Australian shipbuilder Austal, Curtin University and the Additive Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre have commenced a $600,000 collaborative research project to unlock new additive manufacturing opportunities.

Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy says the new Defence Delivery Agency won’t just be version 2.0 of its predecessor, current Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group | Max Blenkin