In the near future, the Australian Government will consider the second-pass approval of the acquisition of the bulk of the proposed F-35 Joint Strike Fighter fleet.

The 2014 rotation of approximately 1150 US Marines will arrive in northern Australia in coming days with equipment, vehicles and helicopters.

According to the Newcastle Herald, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union said this week that Newcastle NSW could help build new steel-hulled patrol boats to replace a reportedly troubled naval fleet of aluminium vessels, said this week.

The ASLAV-S is a specialised surveillance vehicle equipped with thermal imager, laser range finder, day television camera and battlefield surveillance radar RASIT or AMSTAR on a hydraulic mast.

The Australian inventor of the black box flight recorder has been honoured with the naming of a Defence building in Canberra.

Soldiers on deployment will be safer when clearing areas of landmines and unexploded ordnance with the formal introduction into service of eight remote-controlled countermine machines.

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According to Northrop Grumman the first stage of flight testing for the MQ-4C Triton has been completed.

Raytheon Company's Trusted Thin Client product was selected as the gold winner in the category "Security Products and Solutions for Government" at the 2014 Info Security Products Guide Global Excellence Awards.

The Obama Administration recently launched the Cybersecurity Framework, which is the result of a year-long private-sector led effort to develop a voluntary 'how-to' guide for organisations in the critical infrastructure community to enhance their cybersecurity.

The Indonesian Navy (TNI-AL) is to order a new 63m trimaran-hulled, stealthy missile patrol craft to replace KRI Klewang, which was destroyed in a 2012 fire.

Rheinmetall's MASS and ELTA's NavGuard ship protection system successfully completed trials held under the aegis of the German Navy in the Baltic Sea at the end of October 2013.

The Pentagon needs more time to develop highly anticipated draft regulations that would require defence contractors with security clearances to rapidly report penetrations of their networks and information systems.

Late last year, equipped with Thales's APAR, the Royal Danish Navy's patrol frigate HDMS Peter Willemoes performed live firing trials to demonstrate its air defence capabilities.

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According to the RAAF, the MQ-4C Triton UAS is an unarmed maritime variant of Northrop-Grumman's Global Hawk.