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.

After six months of contractor work, Sirius is ship shape and ready to hit the high seas to support the fleet and keep the fuel flowing.

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A summary of the latest news and views in the defence industry, locally and overseas.

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Serious doubts about the capabilities likely to be delivered by what appears to be the government's favoured options for the multi-billion Future Submarine and Future Frigate programs have been expressed by one of Australia's foremost naval technical experts.