AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems announced that it is one of three companies awarded the US Navy's Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Services multiple-award contract.

Supplier of tactical and utility hand protection products, Ansell, announced that it has been selected as supplier of combat gloves to the Australian Defence Force.

Meggitt Training Systems has been awarded a US$11 million contract from the ADF for delivery of Weapon Training Simulation Systems at four purpose-built Australian Army facilities.

National Instruments Oceania has announced the participating teams for the annual National Instruments Autonomous Robotics Competition.

The record has been broken for the most people carried on board a RAAF aircraft. On March 12, a KC-30A carried 234 passengers for a two-hour flight from Defence Establishment Fairbairn.

The US Armed Forces has teamed with Raytheon to begin testing on a new integrated missile system specifically designed to protect Afghan Forward Operating Bases.

The US Coast Guard has exercised a US$78.5 million contract option to purchase the service's 16th and 17th HC-144A Ocean Sentry Maritime Patrol Aircraft.

The Dutch defence ministry has announced it is lending Denmark a number of its unmanned drones.

The US Navy is reported to be working on the requirements definition for its Mobile Landing Platform-turned-Afloat Forward-Staging Base, which was mentioned within the Pentagon budget briefing in January.

Raytheon has completed delivery of the electronics for the AN/SQQ-90 tactical sonar suite, the complex sonar for the first ship of the USN's DDG 1000-class multimission destroyer.

MBDA Incorporated's GBU-44/E Viper Strike munition scored multiple direct hits from a US Marine Corps KC-130J Harvest HAWK aircraft during developmental testing.

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

The biennial convention of the Australian chapter of the Association of Old Crows takes place in Adelaide next week at a time of concern over the erosion of Australian electronic warfare capabilities.

With the Request for Tender deadline for HATS next week, hopeful contenders are pushing their teams to get their responses in.

Canada's National Defence undertook the acquisition of the F-35 fighter jet as a replacement for the aging CF-18 without establishing a procurement process that reflected unique aspects of this project.

Architectural firms Woods Bagot and Rice Daubney have formed a joint venture to deliver architecture for major defence projects across the country.