As we close out 2024, it is time for a look back at ADM’s most read stories of the year. ADM will also be taking a break from Friday 20 December and will return to bring you the latest in defence news on Monday 6 January 2025.

Defence has released the 2024 Naval Shipbuilding and Sustainment Plan which outlines a vision for continuous naval shipbuilding and sustainment over the next 30 years.

Cleanaway Operations and Veolia Environmental Services (Australia) have been awarded Defence's next generation of Resource Recovery and Waste Management contracts.

The first piece of Defence’s Integrated Air Defence System jigsaw is Army’s Land 19 Phase 7B, which is now delivering a short-range system based on the Kongsberg/Raytheon National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System that is in use around the world, including Ukraine | Nigel Pittaway

The Royal Australian Air Force's final three F-35A aircraft landed in Australia on 18 December following a ferry flight from the US.

The New Zealand Ministry of Defence will select between Boeing’s 737 MAX 8 and Airbus’s A321 NEO family to replace the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s ageing fleet of Boeing 757-2K2s. 

The 2023-2024 Major Project Report, released by the Australian National Audit Office on 18 December, is the most secretive example of the report yet.

An Australian Submariner serving aboard USS Vermont has become the first Royal Australian Navy officer to be awarded a US Navy submarine warfare device or dolphins.

Anschütz has completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the Hunter class frigates' Warship Integrated Navigation and Bridge Systems.

In April this year the Australian Government provided direction to the broad Defence enterprise in the form of the public version of the National Defence Strategy. For the Australian Army, which serves as the primary generator of Australian Land Power, the NDS’ guidance was transformational | Leo Purdy

The Shom (French Naval Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service) has confirmed the acquisition of an Exail DriX H-8 uncrewed hydrographic vessel.

The Australian Submarine Agency, ASC and BAE Systems have signed the first in a series of Tasking Statements that will support the build and delivery of the Royal Australian Navy's future SSN-AUKUS fleet.

Readers may recall; in the months prior to the government’s decision to cut Land 400 Phase 3 from 450 IFVs down to just 129, senior Army personnel publicly defended the program and stressed the importance of combined arms to modern warfighting | Ewen Levick

Northrop Grumman has appointed Robert Denney as the company's Country Executive for Australia, replacing interim Country Executive Andrew "Jake" Campbell.

The ELO2 Consortium, co-led by EPE Oceania and Lunar Outpost Oceania, will build, test and operate Australia's first lunar rover - Roo-ver.

Babcock has delivered a third Bell 412 helicopter to the South Australian Ambulance Service through the company's contract with South Australia's State Rescue Helicopter Service.