For the first time in nine years, Simulation Australia hosted both SimTect and SimHealth as a joint event in Brisbane last week

New Zealand is negotiating the possible purchase of some of Australia's stock of Penguin anti-ship missiles with the Norwegian company Kongsberg Defence Systems, according to well-informed sources.

Rockwell Collins has been selected by the Australian Army to provide "eyes and ears" for its soldiers via the company's persistent surveillance system.

The University of Queensland's Scramspace hypersonic experiment has ended in failure as the unmanned spacecraft plummeted into the North Sea off the coast of Norway.

A Joint Terminal Attack Controller who set consistently high standards for Australian JTACs in Afghanistan has recently been recognised with the AVM Don Bennet award.

A Bushmaster PMV, badly damaged by an IED in Afghanistan has been delivered to the Australian War Memorial's Treloar Technology Centre in Canberra in time for the AZWM's store open day.

This country will play a greater role in space surveillance with the relocation of a US C-band radar from Antigua to Exmouth in WA, which will be able to track items in orbit around the earth.

At the AUSMIN meeting there was also discussion regarding the relocation of a DARPA-built optical telescope from New Mexico to WA to monitor space debris and satellites right out to GEO.

A team of 16 dedicated and highly skilled ADF personnel, known as the Cooperative Project Personnel, are working in the US on Australia's contribution to the WGS Project.

Raytheon has demonstrated its upgraded SeaVue expanded mission capability maritime sensor to the Australian government.

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The tyres for the Joint Strike Fighter F-35B variant are being redesigned to improve the number of conventional landings each tyre can support and lower maintenance costs, according to a program official.

The US Navy has revised upward its manning plans for the Littoral Combat Ship based on analysis and lessons learned from the recent deployment of the Freedom to a total of 98 personnel.

Raytheon is pitching the Sentinel R.1 stand-off ground surveillance radar aircraft as a possible solution to bridge the UK's maritime patrol capability gap, a company official told IHS Jane's September 12, 2013.

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According to the CONOPS Land 400 is to develop the simulation system for the LCVS, which will be the foundation of future CAFS simulation requirements, operating within the DSE being established by JP3035.