Micreo Limited has begun shipping production units to Raytheon’s SAS Division for incorporation into the ALR-69A(V), the world’s first all-digital radar warning receiver (RWR).

By any yardstick, Japan’s defence forces and by association the industries that support them, have been completely transformed since the dark years after WWII.

Tectonica Australia and Honeywell continue to work together to deliver the future of navigation solutions and are looking to Land 400 opportunities.

Hyperdrive Performance are the 2015 F1 in Schools new National Champions. The team of three from Trinity Grammar School Kew in Melbourne took out line honours from an impressively accomplished field of competitors in the Professional Class – with the bar again raised higher in this year’s competition.

Australia’s Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) is putting the finishing touches to what it believes will be Australia’s definitive debate on our Future Submarine next week at the 2015 Sub Summit in Adelaide.

Australia’s Electro Optic Systems (EOS) has won a $6.5 million contract to refurbish and upgrade 45 EOS remote weapons systems used on the Bushmaster protected mobility vehicle.

If you believe everything you read in the media, you would think that Australia’s submarine capability is pretty woeful.

From a nation depending almost entirely on US-supplied equipment during the Korean War, South Korea has developed a national defence industry that now provides around 80 per cent of its own equipment and helped propel the nation in to the list of top 10 global national exporters in 2014.

The University of Tasmania’s Australian Maritime College (AMC), the University of Wollongong (UoW) and Flinders University (FU), in collaboration with ASC Pty Ltd, Babcock International, PMB Defence Engineering, Thales Australia, DSTO and DMTC were recently awarded a three year research grant.

DCNS has been selected - as part of a multinational industrial team led by the US company Leidos - to participate in the system engineering and the integration of the NATO Ballistic Missile Defence.

Entries and nominations are now open for the 2015 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, Australia’s premier national science awards program.

MBDA is pleased to announce the appointment of Dave Armstrong MBE to the role of MBDA UK Managing Director and EGD Technical (Executive Group Director).

The full version of Defence Week Premium no.339 of 12 March 2015 can be downloaded here as a PDF. A separate PDF of the latest Defence tenders can also be downloaded here.

The full version of Defence Week Premium no.338 of 5 March 2015 can be downloaded here as a PDF. A separate PDF of the latest Defence tenders can also be downloaded here.

Perhaps the best-known person move over the last week has been that of Warren King.

The Federal Government had been criticised heavily, including from some of its own backbenchers, for offering ADF personnel a pay rise of 1.5 per cent.