Boeing contracted to add sixth workstation to USN, RAAF Poseidons
Boeing has received awards worth $34.5 million to deliver a sixth mission crew workstation retrofit to previously delivered US Navy and Royal Australian Air Force P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft. A total of 60 aircraft will be modified under the contracted work, expanding the crew size from five active operators to six, which will increase […]
Northrop Grumman to boost RQ-4 production capacity
Northrop Grumman plans to more than double production capacity for the RQ-4 Global Hawk and MQ-4C Triton unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) to 12 aircraft per year in anticipation of growing demand for the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform. The manufacturer is adding production capacity to its Site 7 facilities in Palmdale, California. It will start […]
Australia’s latest military commitment should spark assessment of how well we use our defence force
Just when we thought Australia was getting serious about shifting priorities away from the Middle East to its own neighbourhood, the prime minister has announced another Middle East step up. Australia has committed a warship, surveillance aircraft and defence personnel to help keep the Strait of Hormuz open for shipping. So what is going on?
Australians suffer second online banking breach in three months
Australians are being warned about the second major banking breach in three months. Customers bank PayID codes were “exposed by a vulnerability” at a financial services firm in the Australian banking system, according to the New Payments Platform, a real-time payments platform owned by 13 major financial firms such as ANZ, Commonwealth Bank and National […]
BAE Systems wins work to upgrade F-35’s EW suite
"The F-35 will be in service for decades, and we're committed to providing our pilots with an AN/ASQ-239 capability that affords a decisive and sustained EW operational advantage," says Deborah Norton, vice president of F-35 Solutions at BAE Systems. "Our robust, modular architecture enables us to efficiently insert new capabilities, supporting the next wave of […]
Oracle wants to remove barriers to the cloud with Microsoft partnership
Oracle wants to remove as many hurdles for companies when they move to the cloud, Oracle Systems and Technology Business senior vice president Andrew Sutherland told ZDNet. The company has made various moves in 2019, such as unveiling its second generation cloud and creating a cloud interoperability partnership with Microsoft, in a bid to improve […]
Mike Burgess offers new cyber era
Having the director-general of an intelligence agency sitting as a director on the board of Australia’s industry development organisation focused on cyber is either the best thing ever or it opens up potential conflicts of interest. Or maybe it’s both. This is the case with the director-general of the Australian Signals Directorate Mike Burgess and […]
Boeing’s $1-billion ‘kill vehicle’ contract for missile defense is killed
The Pentagon canceled a Boeing Co. contract for a “kill vehicle” envisioned to shoot down missiles from North Korea or Iran, the latest setback for a next-generation system that has struggled to prove its effectiveness. The termination of the Redesigned Kill Vehicle comes as the maker of the interceptor’s warhead, Raytheon Co., continued to struggle […]
SDB increases capability of RAAF F-35A
The capability of the Royal Australian Air Force’s F-35A Joint Strike Fighters has quadrupled since the introduction of the GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bomb (SDB), according to the government. Introduced into No 3 Sqn in June 2019, the SDB Increment 1 (SDB1) weapon is a 16kg weapon guided by GPS-aided inertial navigation, utilising so-called ‘diamondback’ wings […]
Australia joins international maritime security construct in the Gulf
The Morrison Government is reaffirming its commitment to freedom of navigation and safe passage through the Gulf by announcing it will support an international maritime security mission. This mission will see the Australian Defence Force work alongside its international partners to assure the security of merchant vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.

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