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

With the launch this week of Intelsat's newest satellite, IS-22, the ADF will enjoy virtually limitless UHF satellite communications in the MEAO from the satellite's payload.

In addition to the UHF hosted payload Intelsat is also providing the ADF with a UHF Comms Monitoring System and an In-Orbit Testing system.

There's recently been a flurry of activity as Airbus has attempted to sell the virtues of its C-295 aircraft for the ADF's future battlefield airlifter.

The Washington Post reported this week that the US was eyeing the Cocos Islands, as ‘‘an ideal site not only for manned US surveillance aircraft but for Global Hawks".

On March 19, the French Navy commissioned the experimental patrol vessel L'Adroit, fitted with a significant number of technical innovations for a three-year trial period.

The Pentagon is asking Congress for new authority enabling a key defense agency to inspect or test critical items prior to the award of procurement contracts.

Russia has offered to help India build air-independent propulsion systems for installation in Amur 1650 class submarines and also to equip future possible joint Indian-Russian built vessels

The US Navy has conducted a series of land-based hardware trials to gauge how an armed MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter would operate in a shipborne environment.

Babcock has been awarded a contract by the MoD for a £350 million, three-and-a-half year refit of the Trident missile carrying submarine HMS Vengeance.

CAE USA recently relocated a KC-135 operational flight trainer and associated training media from Grand Forks AFB in North Dakota to a new training facility at Hickam AFB, Hawaii.

Rolls-Royce will provide Mission Care service support for AE 1007C, AE 2100 and T56 engines which power a variety of US aircraft, including the V-22, C-130, P-3 and C-2.

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

Australian concerns about when the Joint Strike Fighter will attain Initial Operating Capability in US service were apparent at a meeting of the JSF Executive Steering Board in Sydney on March 15.

Frazer-Nash has completed a contract to provide requirements engineering support for JP2110, which seeks to increase protection of personnel from toxic, chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear threats.

Lockheed Martin's $10 million NexGen Cyber Innovation and Technology Centre was officially opened in Canberra this week by LM's vice president of Information Systems and Global Services, Linda Gooden.