SpeedCast International has added Inmarsat’s Global Xpress (GX) to its portfolio of services for government customers.

DCNS and UNSW have signed an MoU to collaborate more closely on engineering and marine technologies for Australia’s Future Submarine Program.

Cirrus has been awarded a contract to supply a Generic COMCEN Simulator to the signals school at HMAS Cerberus

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Australia is exchanging ideas with the US Army on its Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program

As part of the RAAF’s ongoing program to ‘normalise’ unmanned aerial systems (UAS) operations in Australian airspace..

In another first for the recently concluded Pitch Black air defence exercise held in the NT, Northrop Grumman’s Joint Threat Emitter System (JTE) was used to provide a credible surface to air threat.

Rheinmetall and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) will soon be supplying the Lithuanian armed forces with 88 Boxer multirole armoured fighting vehicles.

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has awarded a contract worth around £184 million for ASRAAM missile.

Raytheon Company has received an initial contract to produce Naval Strike Missile (NSM) launchers at its production facility in Arizona.

Advents in advanced materials processing, such as additive manufacturing, are producing promising novel materials that are of interest to the aerospace, defence and energy sectors.

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a US$10 billion contract for the support the C-130J program.

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Saab has signed a contract to upgrade the Army’s RBS 70 ground-based air defence weapon system and Giraffe AMB radar.

Exercise Pitch Black 2016, the largest air power exercise held in Australia and the RAAF’s largest training activity this year, will draw to a close on Friday.