OPINION-Visualising electronic warfare: The importance of modelling and simulation
Control and dominance of the electromagnetic spectrum has become as much a part of modern warfare as air superiority and maritime security. Electronic Warfare (EW) is the mission area responsible for establishing and maintaining a favourable position in the...
Thales and Aquabotix advancing Australia’s undersea drone capability
Thales and Aquabotix advancing Australia’s undersea drone capability
Thales and Aquabotix have signed an MoU for strategic cooperation for the research, design and development of undersea drone swarming technology applied to mine clearance and rapid environment assessment. Focussing on...
AUSTRALIAN MUNITIONS MARKS 75 YEARS OF SUPPORT FOR THE ADF
AUSTRALIAN MUNITIONS MARKS 75 YEARS OF SUPPORT FOR THE ADF
Thales’s Australian Munitions business is celebrating 75 years delivering key sovereign industrial munitions capability to support the Australian Defence Force The new long term strategic agreement on munitions manufacturing...
LEIDOS AUSTRALIA PARTNERS WITH KEY AUSTRALIAN TEAMMATES FOR JP2060 PHASE 4 BID
LEIDOS AUSTRALIA PARTNERS WITH KEY AUSTRALIAN TEAMMATES FOR JP2060 PHASE 4 BID(Canberra, Australia), Sep 23, 2019 - Today, Leidos Australia announced Australian companies MediRecords, Coviu, and Nous as core partners for its Joint Project 2060 (JP2060) Phase 4 team....
NEW MATERIALS RESEARCH TO ENHANCE SUBMARINE STEALTH
NEW MATERIALS RESEARCH TO ENHANCE SUBMARINE STEALTH
Defence has signed a 3-year collaboration agreement with universities and industry to develop new acoustic materials that will make Australian submarines harder to detect.
The $1.5 million Defence Science and Technology (DST) agreement, supported...
ASC welcomes Luerssen to Osborne Shipyard
ASC welcomes Luerssen to Osborne Shipyard
ASC has welcomed permanent representatives from Offshore Patrol Vessel
(OPV) prime contractor Luerssen to the Osborne Shipyard ahead of the start of
fabrication of the first OPV.
Winning designer-prime Luerssen selected ASC as the shipbuilder for the...
[UPDATED] Defence signs multi-million dollar contract with Raytheon Australia for Joint Adversarial Training and...
Defence signs multi-million dollar contract for Joint Adversarial Training and Testing Defence has recently signed a $330 million dollar contract with Raytheon Australia Pty Ltd to deliver Joint Adversarial Training and Testing Services (JATTS) to the Australian Defence Force (ADF)...
Lendlease awarded construction contract for new Defence facilities in Western Australia
Defence has announced the award of a $365 million managing contract to Lendlease Building Contractors for new Defence facilities in Western Australia.Minister for Defence Industry Melissa Price says this will deliver for the first tranche of works at HMAS Stirling and...
Chemring secures contract for U.S, international F-35 countermeasures flares
Chemring Australia, based in Lara near Geelong in Victoria has secured a USD$107.5 million contract with the U.S. Navy for the production and delivery of countermeasure flares for Australian, US and international Lockheed-Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter...
Australia cleared for purchase of HIMARS MLRS for $545 million
In what looks like yet another FMS purchase without any form of competition, the Army is set to purchase Lockheed Martin’s HIMARS multiple launch rocket system (MLRS). It has been known for some time that this is what Army...