Macquarie Government, part of Macquarie Telecom Group, today announced the appointment of Defence ICT industry leader and former CEO of Fujitsu A/NZ, Mike Foster, as Director of Strategic Growth.

ADROITA and BecTech, both female owned and led engineering consultancies serving the defence sector, yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will deepen defence cooperation between Australia and the USA in light of the recent AUKUS pact.

Adelaide-based welding manufacturer K-TIG will build an R&D facility within BAE Systems Australia’s Factory of the Future where it will demonstrate and further evolve the application of its robotic welding capabilities.

archTIS Limited has announced the appointment of Nick Main as the new Chief Security Officer to support the company's security strategy and practices across its people, products and infrastructure.

QinetiQ Australia has welcomed Simon Fredericks as its General Manager Engineering and Technical Services, effective from 17 January.

HENSOLDT Australia has established a new office within the Newcastle Airport aviation precinct, directly adjacent to RAAF Base Williamtown and Australia’s premier aerospace precinct, Astra Aerolab.

Lockheed Martin Australia has appointed former Royal Australian Navy Director General Navy Aviation Systems, Commodore (Retd) Peter Ashworth, to the role of Program Director Global Training Systems effective immediately.

Gabby Costigan has been promoted to Group Managing Director of Business Development for BAE Systems and will hand over the reins of BAE Systems Australia to Ben Hudson.

Thales Australia has received Development Approval and will commence construction in February on the first phase of an industrial plan to transform its Lithgow Arms facility in regional New South Wales.

The newly created role of Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Electro Optic Systems (EOS) will be filled immediately by former CEO for EM Solutions, Dr Rowan Gilmore.

DroneShield Limited has announced the appointment of Matt McCrann as Chief Executive Officer of its wholly owned US subsidiary DroneShield LLC.

Australian additive manufacturing SME Titomic has acquired Netherlands based cold spray technology company Dycomet Europe.

Northrop Grumman Australia has opened its new AU$20 million systems integration, advanced mission visualisation and demonstration facility, ‘Parallax Labs’.

The capital raise will augment the team’s quantum control efforts, enabling Q-CTRL to realise new data-as-a-service markets powered by quantum sensing for acceleration, gravity, and magnetic fields.

Australian owned communications company Eylex launched their newly upgraded cable manufacturing facility last week.

Global defence company Saab is expanding its local presence with a new and expanded office in Hawthorn, Victoria.