It seems that the DMO is not alone in its procurement and project management difficulties that have necessitated reviews, such as the foregoing on Ernst & Young's review of the DMO's Land Systems Division.

The Government has provided Combined Pass approval for Joint Project 2044 Phase 4A to upgrade and enhance the Defence's digital topographical systems to strengthen interoperability with our allies and deliver enhanced intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capability to the Australian Defence Force.

The following ASPI papers were released earlier this week: Enter the Cyber Dragon: Understanding Chinese intelligence agencies' cyber capabilities and Something new under the Rising Sun: expanding Australia-Japan defence cooperation.

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has appointed Brigadier General Yitzhak Gat as the company's new Chairman of its Board of Directors.

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ITT Exelis has been awarded a $42 million contract by Aireon LLC to provide the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast data processing and distribution component for its global space-based air traffic surveillance system.

Supacat and Navistar Defence have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form a team to deliver collaborative future support to the UK Ministry of Defence's protected mobility fleet.

Rheinmetall has received an order to supply an Arab customer vital subsystems and services for state-of-the-art main battle tanks and artillery systems.

Elbit Systems EW and Sigint - Elisra will launch, at the Paris Air Show, a self protection Electronic Warfare system, well suited for Unmanned Aircraft Systems.

The Bell Boeing V-22 Program, a strategic alliance between Bell Helicopter Textron and Boeing, has been awarded a five-year US Naval Air Systems Command contract for the production and delivery of 99 V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, including 92 MV-22 models for the US Marine Corps and seven CV-22 models for the US Air Force Special Operations Command.

DARPA's Persistent Close Air Support program is an all-digital system that lets joint tactical air controllers, such as Australian Forward Observers/JTACS, call up CAS from a variety of sources, such as aircraft or missile platforms, to engage multiple, moving and simultaneous targets.

MBDA's combat proven, UK developed, Brimstone missile carried out the world's first surface to surface salvo engagement of multiple Fast In-shore Attack Craft threats with a single button push.

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Back in April it was announced that Raytheon Missile Systems had received a $US12.7 million order to integrate the new AGM-154C-1 JSOW into the F/A-18E/F aircraft's H10E Operational Flight Program (core operating system) software.

This week the government announced the signing of a $21 million four-year contract with AMC Search Ltd to provide Pacific Patrol Boat training services.

Fairfax has been quick to report that Defence is buying a $2.2 million supercomputer to help with research for the Future Submarine program. Seattle-based Cray Inc will provide the supercomputer to the Defence Science and Technology Organisation by next month.