Cirrus has announced that it has delivered a Helicopter Control Officer Simulation Trainer (HCOTS) to helicopter specialists Prism Defence under a contract awarded in July 2011.

Raytheon Australia has become the first company in the Australian Defence Industry to be recognised for its achievement of Capability Maturity Model Integration across the breadth of its organisation.

L-3 Communication Systems-East has signed an extension to the Canberra Class LHD Integrated Communications System contract with BAE Systems Australia.

Ernst & Young has teamed with Babcock to win a contract to support the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in delivering a blueprint to help rebuild navy engineering capability.

Australian Aerospace, will bid as prime contractor on the Australian Defence Force's Project AIR9000 Phase 7 - Helicopter Aircrew Training System (HATS) tender.

Late last month Harris Corporation received an $223 million order to deliver Falcon tactical radio systems to the Australian Department of Defence in the next phase of its tactical radio modernisation program.

BAE Systems has been awarded a contract from Boeing for In-Service Support of the Electronic Warfare system on the Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning & Control aircraft.

Raytheon has recently been awarded an $80.8 million contract modification from the US Navy in support of a Foreign Military Sale of the AN/AQS-22 Airborne Low Frequency Sonar to the RAN.

Sparton Corporation announced this week that it has been awarded a contract by Australia to manufacture AN/SSQ-62E and AN/SSQ-53F sonobuoys.

As the US Army and Marine Corps prepare to receive bids for the next (EMD) phase of the JLTV, the services' purported international partner for the truck, Australia, has yet to commit any funding to the program.

Northrop Grumman is confident of continued Australian interest in its MQ-4C Global Hawk-based Broad Area Maritime Surveillance program and could deliver an MQ-4C unmanned air vehicle by January 2016.

Peter Jennings, currently the Deputy Secretary for Strategy with the Department of Defence, has been selected to be the new Executive Director of ASPI.

International naval exercise RIMPAC 2012 will take place near Hawaii from June 29 to Aug 7, 2012 comprising naval forces of Asian-Pacific regional countries.

The US Navy plans to launch AeroVironment's Switchblade small, expendable unmanned aircraft from a submerged submarine during the RIMPAC 2012 naval exercise in the Pacific.

The Indian Ministry of Defence has selected the French aerospace company Dassault Aviation as the lowest bidder in the competition for the Indian Air Force's future multi-role fighter aircraft.

The Pentagon's plan to develop a hypersonic weapon capable of being launched from submarines could mitigate some congressional concerns about a lack of competition in the conventional-strike arena, said a congressional source.