BAE Systems is celebrating the first anniversary of the Hawk Lead-In Fighter In Service Support Phase 3 contract.

The first of two CH-47F Chinook helicopter simulators, worth almost $15 million each, have arrived in Townsville.

The DMO is currently considering leading Team Defence Australia trade missions to nine major international trade exhibitions through the remainder of 2014 and 2015.

3CSR has trialled a new aerostat system for communication relay during Exercise Hamel.

Twenty-one employers are getting a taste of military life this week when they head to the Northern Territory for the Department of Defence's Boss Lift to Exercise Pitch Black.

Boeing and subsidiary Insitu Inc. have named Ryan Hartman Insitu president and CEO, effective immediately.

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The 2013 Japanese Self Defence Force White Paper has announced new capabilities to strengthen Japan's air-maritime denial capabilities.

In a small taste of things to come in military operations, the US Marine Corps has tested a self-driving mini-truck as part of the 2014 RIMPAC international naval exercise.

The Army is pulsing industry for ideas that could possibly feed into a new LRV program aimed at supporting the service's planned rapid global response posture.

The US Army has cited cyber, material sciences and robotics among its top priorities in its newly established 'Force 2025 and Beyond' directorate.

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The composition of the First Principles Review Team, an initiative designed to ensure Defence is fit for purpose and able to promptly respond to future challenges, has been announced by Defence Minister David Johnston.

This latest edition of the Future Land Warfare Report describes five trends in the future operating environment and suggests their possible influence - individually or in combination - on the Army's future land force.

Further to the above, in an era of increasing focus upon concepts such as hybrid warfare, insurgency and 'low intensity conflict', asymmetry is often seen as a means employed by conventionally weak actors against traditional military powers.

The Chief of Army's Exercise 2014 is an invitation only event to be held in Brisbane on 22-23 September 2014.