The acquisition of a commercially available computer processing unit and some in-house technical know-how has saved the Royal Australian Air Force $2.75 million.

NUSHIP Canberra's Command Team have had their first taste of raw LHD ship-handling, albeit at 1:20 scale.

DSEI 2013 opens having already broken a series of records. For the first time the number of exhibitors has reached the 1,500 mark, including a record 40 international pavilions.

Boeing is pitching enhancements to advance its F/A-18 Super Hornet into 2030 and beyond, aiming to anticipate the needs of the Navy (and the RAAF?) and secure further buys, as the service mulls the effective shutdown of the Hornet production line.

Launched on schedule last month, the sixth satellite in the USAF's Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) is expected to come on stream next year (2014).

The revolutionary jet scramjet engine, capable of operating at eight times the speed of sound, has arrived in Norway.

A project team has been established to investigate and determine the feasibility for an Air Force General Purpose Uniform (GPU).

A further two blocks were lifted onto the structure of the first ship Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) in August, bringing the total number of blocks joined to date to 20.

The WA Department of Education School Pathways Program (Defence Industries) and Challenger Institute of Technology have successfully implemented the School Pathways Program.

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Bell Helicopter and Lockheed Martin will work as a team on the Bell V-280 Valor, making Lockheed Martin the first of Bell Helicopter's V-280 program tier one team members.

Under a program similar to DSTO's CTD the Pentagon has launched 10 new initiatives to rapidly transition mature technologies into projects that could find permanent places in the military's arsenal, with each one aimed at resolving an immediate need identified by combatant commanders.

At DSEi, the world's largest fully integrated defence and security exhibition, Supacat and Patria have launched their new vehicles.

Northrop Grumman Corporation has supplied the final batch of Platform Management System (PMS) hardware for the Royal Navy's Astute-class series' boat 5 submarine.

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Around 200 Australian Army G-Wagon 6x6 Surveillance Reconnaissance Vehicles are to receive a weapon mount suite from W&E Platt in a contract valued at more than AUD$2.5 million.