Back in April this year, Admiral Harry Harris, then Commander of the US Pacific Fleet (now Commander US Pacific Command) made global headlines when he warned of the perils around China’s so-called “great wall of sand”.

Northrop Grumman has won the contract to develop and build a next-generation US long-range strike bomber (LRS-B) in the largest award by the Pentagon in over a decade.

Captain Mona Shindy, a weapons engineer, cultural advisor, and business leader in the Royal Australian Navy, has been named the 2015 Telstra NSW Business Woman of the Year.

The Australian Border Force (ABF) has temporarily transferred two Cape-class offshore patrol vessels to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) to enable the navy to meet its border security operations commitments.

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This week has seen both the Minister and the Secretary among others fronting Senate Estimates. Minister Payne has indicated she hasn't directed any changes be made to the pending White Paper.

Boeing has revealed that the US Navy and ADF trialled its SHARC unmanned surveillance system during the recent Talisman Sabre exercise in northern Australia.

The RAAF’s new battlefield airlifter, the Alenia Aermacchi C-27J Spartan, performed a series of air drop trials in early October.

The 2009 White Paper stated that the Air Warfare Destroyers will be equipped with the Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) long-range surface to air missile (SAM).

Saab has received an order from Australia for a number of additional BOL countermeasure dispensers to be used on F/A-18A/B Hornet aircraft.

Austal has rolled out the first of two 72m High Speed Support Vessels (HSSV’s) being built for the Royal Navy of Oman (RNO), today, at the company’s Henderson Western Australia shipyard.

Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles Australia (RMMVA) recently awarded Milspec Manufacturing a significant contract for the supply of over 2,500 vehicle installation kits.

Engineering consultancy Frazer-Nash is utilising its Adelaide-based team to provide specialist engineering technical support to the Sea 1000 Future Submarine Program.

The Royal Australian Navy is facing a set of circumstances that are probably the envy of many other navies.

I’m going to go against the grain and posit that Defence needs less change in many ways; less leadership change, less change in dollars, and less change in proven processes.

In a presentation to the 1st Navy Aviation Symposium, part of the Pacific 2015 maritime exposition, in Sydney last week, Airbus Group Australia Pacific (AGAP) outlined a series of future capability upgrade proposals for the MRH 90 Taipan Multi-Role Helicopter.