The US Air Mobility Command is preparing to pitch to Air Force leadership a proposal for an advanced technology demonstration of a concept that could save the service as much as $10 million each year by changing the way it flies its most-used cargo aircraft.

General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products has been awarded a $67.5 million contract by the US Army for the production of Hydra-70 air-to-ground rockets.

Raytheon successfully intercepted and destroyed a low quadrant elevation 107mm rocket as part of the second series of guided test vehicle flight tests of the Accelerated Improved Intercept Initiative program.

Two Boeing Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System aircraft have arrived at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland for airborne tests of the target-tracking capabilities they will provide to the US Army.

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The field of contenders for JP2072 Phase 2B has slowly been whittled from four earlier this year (teams led by BAE Systems, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Boeing) to a field of only two ADM has learned.

R.M.Williams is to supply the new Army parade boot after a contract was signed in Canberra on August 8.

CAE has been awarded a contract by BAE Systems to provide three Hawk Mk127 full-mission simulators for the Royal Australian Air Force.

Chief Defence Scientist Dr Alex Zelinsky has signed a strategic alliance to explore mutual interests in defence and meteorological sciences with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.

The Hammerhead Crane will be removed from the Garden Island Naval Base in Sydney.

Chief Defence Scientist Dr Alex Zelinsky has been awarded the 2013 Pearcey Medal, Australia's most prestigious Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry award.

A new e-portal that provides the ADF community with access to information anytime, anywhere, is on track for delivery later this year. ForceNet, being developed under Project Suakin, will have blogs, live forums, bulletin boards, webcasts and community events.

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The US Naval Directed Energy Steering Group will have its near-term roadmap ready this fall to begin informing decisions to address drone and small boat swarm threats with directed-energy weapons rather than kinetic weapons, with mid and long-term roadmaps to follow next year.

For five days in July, the ORN Research Vessel Knorr made a survey in the waters off Virginia Beach, using ScanEagle UAVs to study the effects of oceanic and atmospheric changes on radar and radio waves with the aim of producing more secure military communications and improving the ability of radar to detect hostile craft.