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.

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.