Sevaan Group has set up its own blast room, adding a powder coating facility to increase scope for new orders across the industry spectrum.

Mediaware and Sentient Vision Systems Pty Ltd have created a technical partnership which combines Sentient's Kestrel Land and Maritime target-detection software with General Dynamics Mediaware's D-VEX next-generation tactical video-exploitation system.

FireEye has released their findings from a comprehensive survey of the state of Australia's cyber security as seen by executives and technical staff across a range of organisations.

J&H Williams has received the DTC Defence Industry Member Award for Outstanding Small and Medium Enterprise.

The US Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps have delivered a joint report to US Congressional defence committees establishing the initial operational capability of each service's F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters.

New appointments have been made at Northrop Grumman Corporation and NewSat Limited.

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A formal request for proposals for the US Army's Armoured Multi-Purpose Vehicle that was expected this month has been delayed until July 22, the service said last week.

LAV-III armoured personnel carriers has drawn interest from several companies seeking work on the program's LAV Reconnaissance Surveillance System.

ITT Exelis has been awarded a contract valued at more than $US125 million by Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Md., to deliver the latest variant of the AN/ALQ-214 airborne jammer.

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Australia is among the 67 countries which have signed the UN's Arms Trade Treaty aimed at regulating the global trade in conventional weapons - from tanks, warships and combat aircraft, to assault rifles and their ammunition.

The US Navy has hired Electric Boat as contractor for a $14m FMS agreement with the Spanish Ministry of Defence, to provide technical assistance and review the S-80 Submarine project for almost three years.

Last month Australian soldiers from the Shadow UAV Group 2 completed their eight-month rotation in Tarin Kot, Afghanistan, logging about 3400 hours of flight in support of ISAF operations.

Australian Minister for Defence Stephen Smith, Japanese Minister of Defence Itsunori Onodera, and US Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel held trilateral defence ministerial talks in Singapore June 1 on the margins of the International Institute of Strategic Studies Shangri-La Dialogue.

The Defence Systems Innovation Centre (DSIC) has welcomed the University College London (UCL) as an Affiliate Partner.