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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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.

Katherine Ziesing ADM understands that Boeing has been selected as the preferred tenderer for phase 2B of the long running JP2072 comms program.

The Canadian DND has signed a joint space operations agreement with the defence departments of Australia, the US and the UK in a bid to avoid respective satellite collisions in the future.

Increasing the number of joint Australia-Singapore defence science and technology projects was discussed during a high-level meeting between the two countries in Canberra this week.