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.

The US Army is moving along with a series of upgrades and technological improvements to its Unmanned Aerial System platforms according to program officials.

Further to the "Shadow upgrades include replacement engine" story, the USMC has chosen a classified weapon to arm the AAI RQ-7B Shadow tactical unmanned aerial system.

The US Air Force recently announced that it was going to reissue a request for proposals for the Light Air Support aircraft.

Boeing and the US Navy have successfully completed a flight test of the prototype Distributed Targeting System-Networked on a Super Hornet.

Thales announced that it has reached an agreement on the sale of its fixed-wing civil simulation and aircrew training activities to L-3 Communications.

Iveco Defence Vehicles has completed delivery of its largest ever order in UK of 206 6x6 and 8x8 Trakkers to support the Royal Engineers on operations.

Eurocopter and PT Dirgantara Indonesia/Indonesian Aerospace have signed a contract for the supply of six EC725.

The Indian Navy formally recently inducted the nuclear-powered submarine INS Chakra into its fleet.

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

The Government has announced that a second Shadow 200 Tactical Unmanned Aerial System will be delivered for use by Australian troops preparing to deploy to Afghanistan.

Defence is to spend more than $19 million to purchase long lead item electronic equipment for the potential conversion of twelve of Australia's F-18 Super Hornet's to the EA-18G Growler variant.

To date there have been six proposals for the upcoming JLTV Engineering and Manufacturing Development phase but whether all are acceptable for evaluation for down selection remains to be seen.