With 3D printing now moving beyond novelty to mainstream and being hailed by some as “the next industrial revolution”, Australia is starting to develop the infrastructure and education to be part of the technology’s development.

Navantia has developed training simulators for the Integrated Platform Management System for the Spanish, Australian and Norwegian Navies.

Asia Pacific Aerospace (APA) has signed a contract extension with the Commonwealth to continue supporting the GET700 engines installed on Seahawk and Black Hawk helicopters.

With just a month to go before entries close, the 2015 Maritime Australia Limited Industry Innovation Awards are well and truly open.

The full version of Defence Week Premium no.356 of 9 July 2015 can be downloaded here as a PDF. A separate PDF of the latest Defence tenders can also be downloaded here.

The Australian Government will purchase two additional KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force, increasing our KC-30A fleet to seven.

In the coming months the Royal Australian Air Force will decide whether to exercise a final two-year contract extension or go to market for helicopter rescue service cover at RAAF bases.

Outgoing Chief of Air Force, Air Marshal Geoff Brown, welcomed the first RAAF C-27J Spartan battlefield airlift aircraft in Australia at a ceremony at RAAF Base Richmond this week,

DCNS Australia has invited Defence industry leaders to attend briefings in Melbourne and Sydney for the Future Submarine Program.

Ebola is one the deadliest diseases in the world with a mortality rate somewhere between 50 and 60 per cent, depending on who you talk to.

A new coalition of commercial satellite service providers is urging US House Defense Appropriations conferees to reverse funding cuts that it says will jeopardise America’s ability to field the most advanced satellite communications systems in future.

The full version of Defence Week Premium no.355 of 2 July 2015 can be downloaded here as a PDF. A separate PDF of the latest Defence tenders can also be downloaded here.

The chairman of German submarine builder ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) has spent three days in Canberra and Adelaide meeting Ministers and other federal parliamentarians

ADM understands that an announcement on contract signature for Land 40 Phase 2 is imminent.

With the Australian government now committed to replacing 21 Pacific Patrol Boats for 12 Pacific nations as part of Sea 3036-1, the question of how best to provide those boats with aerial surveillance may follow close on the project’s heels.

The program office for Land 19 Phase 7B has released an RFI to industry. The Land 19 Phase 7B project is seeking enhancements to, or replacement of, the Ground Based Air Defence capability.