Aspen Medical has been selected by Medibank Health Solutions to provide medical practitioners, specialist and allied health professionals to all on-base Australian Defence Force facilities across Australia.

To strengthen its defence business development activities and capabilities Austal has appointed former Deputy Chief of the Royal Australian Navy, RADM Davyd Thomas, AO, CSC, RANR to Vice President - Defence.

Three F-35 partner countries are looking to acquire domestic training capabilities in addition to the US.

Boeing has inducted Australian engineer Shane Arnott as the company's first international Senior Technical Fellow, the highest ranking Boeing technologist outside of the US.

By listening to the complexity of radio signals that pervades the human environment, BAE Systems thinks its new positioning system is as accurate as, but more secure than, GPS.

The Jabiru-1 from NewSat Limited has completed its Preliminary Design Review by Lockheed Martin. A major milestone and a significant step towards the launch of NewSat's next generation Ka-band satellite.

The US Navy is to begin reviewing industry proposals for a potential F/A-18E/F Super Hornet replacement, setting in motion the US military's first formal consideration of a sixth-generation fighter aircraft.

Senator Scott Brown, on the US Senate Armed Services Committee, has taken issue with a proposal to shift more than $US400 million from the Army's Warfighter Information Network Tactical communications system to pay war-related bills.

The Polish Air Force has signed a contract with Airbus Military for the acquisition of five C-295 transport aircraft to further expand their transport capabilities.

Rolls-Royce will lead a project to develop new technologies to support unmanned naval vehicle missions, following an award of $CA3 million from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.

The latest round of Defence Tenders have been released and can be downloaded as a PDF here. Also if you would prefer to read DWP as a PDF Newsletter you can download it here.

Quickstep Holdings formally marked its move from Perth to Sydney with the official opening on 22 June of its new composites facility.

Delivery of the 24 MH-60R Lockheed Martin/Sikorsky naval combat helicopters ordered for the RAN has been accelerated and training on the first seven aircraft will take place in the US, Defence has confirmed to ADM.

The Australian Industry & Defence Network officially launched its SME participation plan for the defence and security industry at the AIDN Qld annual dinner on 21 June.

The nine-week long machinists' strike affecting F-35 Joint Strike Fighter manufacture at Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth plant has a silver lining, according to Jonathan Rambeau, Lockheed Martin's Vice President of F-35 international programs.

The winner of the 2011 DSTO Eureka prize for research in support of defence and national security has significantly advanced a technology for imaging objects through opaque materials. The research team is led by Professor Salim Bouzerdoum from the University of Wollongong.