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The UK's National Audit Office report gives a progress review of the 16 largest defence projects, shows that in the last year there has been a total forecast slippage of 139 months and increase in costs of 468 million pounds.

Elbit Systems has been awarded two follow-on contracts by the Israeli Ministry of Defense for the operation and maintenance of the Israeli Air Force's Flight Academy trainer aircraft and helicopters.

CAE has signed an agreement with the Netherlands Ministry of Defence to market and sell third-party training services on a CAE-built C-130 Level D full-mission simulator.

The US Navy has exercised a contract option funding the construction of a 10th Joint High Speed Vessel, as part of a 10-ship program potentially worth over US$1.6 billion.

General Dynamics Canada has been awarded a CA$32 million contract by Northrop Grumman Corporation for key communications network technology for the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance program.

The Meteor Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile has been successfully launched from a Eurofighter Typhoon as part of the Future Enhancements Flight Test Program.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has seen the future of naval warfare and it’s falling upward.

The UK MOD has signed a nine million pound contract to provide the Armed Forces with more than 25,000 new Glock sidearms.

A new Pentagon report to Congress lays out critical technology areas for enabling heavy-lift, hybrid air vehicles to become practical for military missions, but the analysis is facing scrutiny on Capitol Hill.

The Colombian Air Force has ordered one more Airbus Military C295 to add to the five examples already ordered for use on military transport and humanitarian aid duties.

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Availability of the RAN's six-strong Collins class submarine fleet is far below that of comparable navies, but John Coles, in his second and final report on Collins class sustainment, believes this can be rectified by 2016.

The Australian Financial Review's John Kerin is today (13th December 2012) reporting that the Minister for Defence Stephen Smith is considering the "purchase of up to 24 extra Boeing Super Hornet fighters amid continuing concern over delays with the troubled F-35 joint strike fighter" program.