US Cyber Command, which has focused on developing forces to blunt attacks against national critical infrastructure, should delegate operational control of distinct combat forces designed to support military operations, a new report urges.

The UK Government has officially launched a new cyber security team which aims to manage cyber security threats and will function as a hub for sage and considered security response thinking.

Despite half a century of creating automated flight systems, emergencies aboard military aircraft still require flight crews to multitask like a one-tentacled octopus. DARPA is hoping to change this with its ALIAS program.

Following on from the completion of flight envelope expansion trials in December 2013, AgustaWestland gave the first customer demonstration flights of the AW609 tiltrotor aircraft in February.

Raytheon is developing a longer-range, fire-and-forget version of its Griffin tactical missile, with an eye toward eventually deploying the weapon as part of the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship surface warfare mission package.

The US Marine Corps is looking at a "family of systems" that will ferry its amphibious vehicles ashore in the near future, rather than one singular connector solution.

The USN's first MLP has completed installation of cargo transfer features, and is en route to San Diego, California, for its initial operational test and evaluation.

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Australia will buy 58 more Lockheed Martin F-35A Joint Strike Fighters at a cost of more than $12 billion after the Federal Government gave the go ahead for the purchase yesterday.

Six strike-length missile modules for the Hobart Class Vertical Launch System were this week installed into Ship 1 Hobart, marking a significant Combat System load out achievement for the AWD project.

The Defence Minister, Senator Johnston, travelled to Jakarta, Indonesia to attend the fourth Jakarta International Defence Dialogue at the invitation of Indonesian Minister for Defence, Dr Purnomo Yusgiantoro.

The DSTO has released a consultation paper, the responses from which will inform the development of a national security science and technology (S&T) policy.

UXC Limited has announced its partnership with Senetas as part of a strategic initiative to provide the ADF with tailored data security solutions and services.

The Minister for Communications Malcolm Turnbull was on hand last week to help ASPI's International Cyber Policy Centre launch its inaugural Cyber Maturity in the Asia-Pacific 2014 report and interactive map.

Last week in Defence Week Premium we looked at DSTO's current area of priority defence capability interest and elaborated on what we thought might have been a solution to their extended range BLOS without repeaters.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to extend connectivity for forward military units with the use of small Wi-Fi-hosting drones.