Defence cooperation between Australia, China and the US will be highlighted during Exercise KOWARI 14, which commenced in the NT this week.

Defence will enhance the ADF's C-IED capability with a $25 million facilities program for the testing, evaluation, training and sustainment of Force Protection Electronic Countermeasures equipment.

The Army has launched its first public blog focusing on ideas about land power, security challenges, modernisation and the future of land forces beyond 2020.

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The UK MoD has awarded two major MSDF contracts, to maintain and repair the RN's vessels and to support the management of its major naval bases.

Airbus Defence and Space has announced plans to divest its 49 percent shareholding in naval and marine systems group Atlas Elektronik GmbH, as part of a wider restructuring of its business activities.

The US Army Science Board has endorsed the results of a study aimed at helping the service become an expeditionary force adept at overwhelming the defences of capable future enemies.

The US Navy's ONR is developing a fleet of robotic patrol boats that can not only act as escorts for larger warships or merchant vessels, but can also autonomously swarm around a threatening craft and destroy it.

Defence is now accepting public submissions for the 2015 White Paper.

The US Navy expects to drop its total buy of Triton MQ-4C air vehicles below the 68 it had planned for because the system is “more reliable” than anticipated.

AU-1, Australia's first JSF, has taken to the skies for a two-hour sortie.

There's a chance that only one of the planned two JSFs will take part in carrier trials next month.

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems has been awarded two contract modifications totalling $50 million to continue supporting the AN/BYG-1 combat control system aboard US Navy and Royal Australian Navy submarines.

The Submarine Institute of Australia (SIA) has made a submission to the Senate Economics Reference Committee Inquiry into the Future Of Australia’s Naval Shipbuilding Industry.

Four Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) ships are being retired early in an effort to preserve resources for modernising and renewing the naval force structure as a whole.

A key contract for supporting Australia’s new Landing Helicopter Dock ships (LHDs) has been awarded to BAE Systems Australia.