Penske Australia & New Zealand has appointed Stephen Kelly as the general manager of its Penske New Zealand business, effective immediately.

DroneShield has announced its Q2 2026 software release, delivering coordinated updates across its RF sensing, AI, ATAK-CIV plugin, and command-and-control platforms.

L3Harris Technologies and RFTEQ have signed a memorandum of understanding to pursue opportunities to collectively advance electronic warfare system design and manufacturing in support of the Australian Defence Organisation.

The views of Japan’s defence primes on how the industry can meet the challenges of surging domestic defence production demand was a core theme in a press conference hosted by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan on 2 April | Corey Lee Bell

ST Engineering’s Marine business has secured a six-year sub-contract valued at about S$600 million from Abu Dhabi Ship Building to design and supply the platform systems for a fleet of eight Missile Gun Boats.

The US Department of State has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Singapore to buy Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System-Alternative Warhead and related equipment.

Nioa and US aerospace and defence company General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems have signed an agreement to collaborate on the potential supply of 70mm rockets to equip the Australian Army’s new Apache helicopters.

A modest Canberra company has emerged as a major exporter of drones, selling them to the US, Canadian, UK and European and Australian defence forces and to major international defence companies such as Northrop Grumman, and Anduril | Max Blenkin

The Queensland Defence Science Alliance and Western Australia Defence Science Centre have announced the inaugural winning project of the Northern Australian Defence Project.

After almost two decades, the Australian National Audit Office’s annual review of Defence’s major acquisition projects appears to be at an end.

The National Reconstruction Fund Corporation to invest $50 million of preferred equity in Advanced Navigation.

Hanwha Defence Australia has accepted and begun fit out of Stage 2 facilities of the Hanwha Armoured Vehicle Centre of Excellence, now that works have been completed by construction partner Kapitol and the support of managing contractor, Conscia. 

Defence Trailblazer has launched its DINAMIC Innovation & Entrepreneurship program for 2026.

Invictus Australia has announced its intention to submit a formal bid to host the Invictus Games in Australia in 2031, marking the beginning of a coordinated effort to bring the Games back down under. 

Australian companies EarlyBirds and DMTC have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to enable and accelerate defence-focused innovation, strengthen sovereign industrial capability, and improve the transition of emerging technologies.

Japan’s Acquisitions, Technology & Logistics Agency, the primary organ responsible for that nation’s defence procurements, publicly released information on its new “Fast Pass Procurement” program for defence industry startups | Corey Lee Bell

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