Cirrus Real Time Processing Systems has announced the successful delivery of a Tactical Electronic Warfare (TACEW) system to the Royal Australian Navy, and the awarding of further related contracts. The…

Maintenance technicians from the US Navy and Royal Australian Air Force recently completed a six-week training event on the AN/ALQ-249(V)1 next generation jammer – mid band (NGJ-MB) that is being…

HENSOLDT Australia has announced that its training team has achieved a key milestone on the Project AIR 5431 Phase 2 Air Traffic Management and Control System Facilities program, with the…

Radar Intelligence in the Falklands War

Defence Minister Peter Dutton will today announce that Lockheed Martin Australia and Raytheon Australia have been nominated as strategic partners to the Commonwealth for the delivery of the Sovereign Guided…

Australia’s capability to conduct offensive and defensive cyber operations will vastly increase with a near $10 billion increase in funding to the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) over the next decade.…

Canada has announced its has selected the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II to fulfil its Future Fighter Capability requirement to replace the McDonnel Douglas CF-18A/B Hornet in service. The 28…

Defence Industry Minister Melissa Price has officially opened Saab Australia’s Deployable Health Capability Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Melbourne. Saab says the CoE will house experts across bio-medical engineering, major…

The January-February 2022 issue of Australian Defence Business Review is now online. In this issue we cover the following news and features: The bids are in for the Project JP9102…

The Commonwealth Government has announced that the Australian Defence Force (ADF) will receive a massive increase in uniformed personnel, growing some 30 per cent from 61,000 to nearly 80,000 across…

Saab Australia has announced it will expand its capabilities in Australia with a move to a new national headquarters facility in Adelaide. Scheduled to commence construction this year, the new…

UPDATED 9 MARCH WITH ADDITIONAL COMMENTS US-based Anduril Industries has announced it has established a local entity – Anduril Australia – to grow its local design, development, engineering, and manufacturing…

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced that a new submarine base will be established on Australia’s east coast to support the Royal Australian Navy’s planned nuclear powered attack submarines. The…

Hanwha has announced it has established a joint user community for the growing list of customers of its K9 Self-Propelled Howitzer (SPH). Following confirmed orders from Australia last December and…

The Commonwealth has announced that BAE Systems Australia will perform an upgrade for the Royal Australian Air Force’s fleet of 33 BAE Systems Hawk 127 lead-in fighter trainer (LIFT) aircraft.…

The Commonwealth has released the Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements 2021–22 for Defence, and they show drops in flying hours forecast for most of the ADF’s aviation fleet for the rest…

Lessons from the bombing of Darwin 80 years ago The attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 has been re-lived through every medium, from the humble written word to…

The governments of Indonesia and France have signed a contract for the sale of 42 Dassault Rafale fighters to the Indonesian Air Force (TNI-AU). The contract was signed in Jakarta…

The Joint Strike Fighter Program Office (JPO) has announced the first units of the F-35 Operational Data Integrated Network (ODIN) logistics information system has successfully entered service. The initial rollout…

The Royal Australian Air Force has deployed a joint force of combat, transport, and command and control aircraft to Anderson AFB on Guam to participate in Exercise Cope North 2022.…