L-3 WESCAM has successfully delivered its first in-flight demonstrations of its MX-25 electro-optical/infrared imaging system.

The UK Defence Committee has cast doubt on the MoD's ability to deal with the consequences of a sustained cyber-attack.

Elbit Systems has delivered a Hermes 900 unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to a customer in the Americas.

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The Attorney-General's department has just released The 2012 Cyber Crime and Security Survey: Systems of National Interest report.

Engineering consultancy Frazer-Nash has been appointed to work with the DMO on a project to replace the current Seahawk 'Classic' helicopters with new Naval Combat helicopters.

As always, Senate Estimates for the Defence Foreign Affairs and Trade committee make for an interesting read. For example, a question as to whether we are pursuing a warranty claim from the RFA for the faulty equipment on HMAS Choules was never actually answered or even taken on notice.

Thanks to ABC's Four Corners this week, the debate surrounding the Lockheed Martin-led JSF program has once again made the mainstream.

In recognition of the increasingly close defence ties between the two countries, Defence Minister Stephen Smith and the Spanish Minister of Defence, Pedro Morenes Eulate, signed an MOU on bilateral defence cooperation during the naming ceremony of Canberra last week.

QinetiQ has celebrated five years in Australia. The celebrations across QinetiQ Australia's Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Port and South Melbourne and Sydney offices involved all 250 employees participating in a cake-cutting ceremony.

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Rolls-Royce has been awarded a $97.3 million contract from the US Air Force to support its C-130J transport fleet in 2013.

Boeing and Elbit Systems have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to offer Elbit Systems' DIRCM systems for a range of Boeing military fixed-wing and vertical-lift aircraft.

The prime contractor of an urgently needed Marine Corps anti-armour weapon has issued a stop-work order after it was found that a nearly 43-cent component in the weapon's nose cap was sourced to a Chinese company.

The US Army's behemoth hybrid airship - the Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle - has been terminated, according to sources.

RADA Electronic Industries has successfully tested its advanced Multi-Mission Hemispheric Radar with the RPS-40 Counter-Artillery, Rockets and Mortars mission.