The two-day conference ran in Canberra this week, attracting 150 delegates from defence, industry, government and academia.

Lockheed Martin’s Adelaide submarine combat system laboratory, will commission its secure phase two facility at the same site on 4 July.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has announced the successful first flight of the MQ-9 Reaper Extended Range (ER) Long Wing.

After a series of concluding trials of the David's Sling aerial defence system, major components have been delivered to the Israeli Air Force.

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When the White Paper came out, there were commentators whose first task was to search the document for how many times the ‘C-word’ was mentioned and how.

For those who missed it late last year, the Senate made a report into the state of defence industry and what it means for Defence as a whole.

Analysts have been encouraged by the White Paper’s attempt to tackle fuel security but say it will not go far enough and a whole of nation approach is required.

Buried in the Defence Integrated Investment Policy was confirmation that the VIP conversion of one or two KC-30A multi-role tanker transports (MRTT) would go ahead.

Ninox Robotics has announced the appointment of its Chief Pilot and purchase of its first set of UAS for commercial and government use.

Team Defence Australia was a significant exhibitor at the Singapore Airshow, with twelve Australian SMEs exhibiting.

As promised, we've dug a little deeper into the White Paper this week with our Editor Katherine Ziesing analysing the strategy and that tricky definition of defence industry. Our weekly Defence tenders and PDF version can also be found here.

As a coherent whole, the documents make for some of the best reading to come out of the department this century.

The Defence Industry Policy Statement makes for some interesting reading in that it puts dollars to ideas.

There will be growth for both the civilian and uniformed part of Defence with both set to reach highs not seen since 1993.

Government confirmed their biggest Navy recapitalisation program in a generation.