BAE Systems Detica has appointed Craig Searle as head of cyber security, Asia Pacific.

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More than 700 people celebrated the delivery of the first production A400M new generation airlifter to the French Air Force at a ceremony at the Airbus Military Final Assembly Line.

Rohde & Schwarz has been selected, after a 12 month competition process run by BAE Systems, to be the preferred partner for the design phase of the integrated communications system for the Royal Navy's Type 26 Global Combat ship.

Northrop Grumman expects to complete a series of flight tests of maritime surveillance radar for the MQ-4C Triton UAV by the end of 2013.

Situational awareness will be significantly improved for the British Army following the development of a new battlefield geospatial intelligence system from Team SOCRATES.

The US Navy awarded Raytheon Company a $US243,478,659 contract for procurement of 89 Standard Missile-6 Block I all up rounds, spares, containers and services

HMS Duncan, the sixth and last of the Royal Navy's new-generation Type 45 destroyers, has been formally commissioned into the fleet.

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It's fair to say that eyebrows were raised at recent remarks by Steve Ludlam criticising ongoing changes by Navantia to Air Warfare Destroyer design as "way beyond expectations".

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.