Defence and cyber security have been high on the agenda for the PM during visits this week to troops and leaders in the Middle East and meetings with US Defence Secretary Ash Carter and President Obama in Washington.

On Tuesday the Australian Centre for Cyber Security (ACCS) released two studies highlighting Australia’s lack of preparedness for cyber war.

ADF pilot candidates are gaining practical training to pass the ADF’s crucial flight screening program, with a little help from the Red Baron.

The agreement signed by the tactical military bridge manufacturer, is made up of two contracts and follows an internationally competed tender.

QinetiQ Australia has commenced the second phase of full scale fatigue testing on the Hawkei vehicle

Defence’s CIO Group is looking for a new technology deputy to lead the implementation of its suite of IT projects.

Welcome to the first Premium newsletter for 2016 – our Editor Katherine Ziesing and the ADM team look forward to another big year reporting the news in the Defence realm.

ADM understands that the two Gulfstream G550s are being acquired under Project Air 555.

Cobham will own, operate and maintain all four aircraft for AMSA on a 12-year $640 million search and rescue contract.

Recently the US Marine Corps decided to indefinitely shelve a project it had been working on to help its jarheads with some of the ‘dull’ work

The US Navy (USN) and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has certified Baseline 9.C1 for the US destroyer fleet.

Wildside is a biennial four-day mountain bike race that takes cyclists along 200 km of tracks in the rugged mountains and remote coastline of Western Tasmania.

The objective of the research is to understand how to make ships and submarines as quiet, and therefore undetectable, as possible.

AWD designer Navantia has been selected to bring an experienced shipbuilding management team into ASC to maximise AWD program performance

Once again ADM publisher Judy Hinz has herded the cats to produce our annual Top 40 Defence contractors and Top 20 Defence SMEs.

The restricted Request for Response for a Combat Systems Integrator for Sea 1000 will also see the winner take all approach for future CSI work on the Collins class.