Perth-based Orbital Corporation has won a third strategic contract from a US-based customer to develop and manufacture a new unique Heavy Fuel Engine for a specific small unmanned aircraft system application.

The Royal New Zealand Navy has chosen to purchase three upgraded seats of SeeTrack Military from SeeByte.

RPC Technologies manager of Engineering Pierre Gouhier has won the Engineers Australia, Newcastle Division 2013 Young Professional Engineer of the Year Award.

The Chiefs of the Air Forces of Australia, NZ and the UK took the opportunity to fly in the Airbus Military A400M at the recent Royal International Air Tattoo airshow at Fairford in the UK.

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The US Army hopes to invest up to $US65 million in fiscal year 2013 Rapid Innovation Fund money to finance the development of soldier and vehicle protection equipment, training and advanced materials, among other items, according to the service's most recent RIF broad agency announcement.

QinetiQ Maritime has secured a contract from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, to support the development of the Republic of Korea submarine program.

General Dynamics Corp has won a contract potentially valued at $US562 million to supply US Special Operations Command with new four-by-four trucks.

Exelis has successfully negotiated an agreement with Lockheed Martin to deliver carriage and release systems for the F-35 Lightning II.

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In her post on The Strategist last month, Procurement problems: from go to woe, ADM editor Katherine Ziesing says that it takes, on average, about a decade for a project to enter the Defence Capability Plan and to be delivered.

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a contract by the US Navy for the production of acoustic nose arrays for the MK54 lightweight torpedo in support of Navy and foreign military sales requirements.

A large sonar winch weighing 6500kg has been loaded onto the future destroyer Hobart - the first of three ships being built at Techport Australia in Adelaide as part of the Air Warfare Destroyer project.

The concept demonstrator of the British unmanned air combat vehicle has been delivered to a flight test site in Australia and is scheduled to make its maiden flight within weeks, according to Defense News.

Sources of security tension in the Asia-Pacific are cause for concern among regional partners Canada and Australia, according to the first report in a new series from the Centre for International Governance Innovation and the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

NIOA is now an authorised supplier of Cadex products. Founded in 1994, Cadex has become a world leader in helmet impact testing and development.