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.

The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) has completed hosting an International Maritime Trade Protection exercise involving participants from 10 nations.

The 2013 Safeskies conference is to be held at the Hotel Realm Canberra on 16th and 17th October 2013.

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The US Air Force expects to declare F-35A Lightning II initial operation capability in December 2016.

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress May 21 of a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Republic of Korea for F-35 aircraft weapons and associated equipment, parts, training and logistical support for an estimated cost of $793 million.

General Dynamics Land Systems is leading an effort to develop the first North American combat vehicle with a fully integrated Active Protection System.

Two complementary protoype submarine hunting systems have been tested by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as part of its Distributed Agile Submarine Hunting Program.

Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems has received a $15.3 million cost-plus-award-fee contract modification to upgrade some MQ-4C Triton components from Windows XP to Windows 7.