According to Janes, Turkey has rejected UK proposals to become a partner on BAE Systems' Global Combat Ship.

Pilatus Aircraft has signed a contract with BAE Systems to supply the Royal Saudi Air Forcewith a fleet of 55 Pilatus PC-21 turboprop aircraft.

Pilatus Aircraft Ltd this week announced that the Indian Air Force has entered into a contract to procure a fleet of 75 PC-7 MkII turboprop aircraft.

A cyber weapon, twenty times more sophisticated than Stuxnet, has been discovered by Russian internet security firm Kaspersky Lab it has been revealed.

Atlas Elektronik has increased the reach of its torpedoes substantially, setting a new range record for torpedoes.

Reports indicate that Northrop Grumman's military Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle is scheduled to make its maiden flight early next month.

The latest round of Australian and New Zealand Defence Tenders have been released and can be downloaded as a PDF here.

The Department of Defence, Land Systems Division, will hold an Industry Forum at Defence Plaza Melbourne to provide an overview of Project Land 53 Phase 1 B-R

The Department of Defence, Land Systems Division, is providing advance notice of plans to release an ITR for the supply of Soldier Combat Ensemble - Protection Elements, to the market in early June 2012.

Camouflage patterns for military uniforms have been developed to trick the human eye so that soldiers are indistinguishable from the background, whether desert, sky or woodland.

A Senate Armed Services Committee report detailing the use of counterfeit parts in US military aircraft has been getting wide coverage in US and international media this week.

The 2012 Military Communications and Information Systems (MilCIS2012) Conference will be held at the National Convention Centre, Canberra from 6 - 8 November.

With the cancellation of Round 16 of the Capability and Technology Demonstrator program we suggested that perhaps the CTD program might be replaced by the PIC Innovation program.

BAE Systems recently completed a four week repair docking for the platform supply vessel the Lady Kari-Ann in its Williamstown shipyard.

Victorian-based Lovitt Technologies has won a contract with Boeing valued at nearly $1 million for wing parts for the worldwide F/A-18 Super Hornet fleet.

Parliamentary Secretary for Defence, Dr Mike Kelly, has announced a call for papers for the 8th International Lessons Learned Conference.