Australia awards grants to six SMEs to support export capability
Six Australian SMEs are the latest recipients of ‘Defence Global Competitiveness Grants’ programme.
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Advanced Materials – Regulatory Trends
Advanced materials offer significant opportunities to provide an operational advantage for the aerospace and defence...
Eaton acquires Cobham Mission Systems for $2.8bn
The acquisition will enable Eaton to expand its defence business and its offerings in fuel...
Thales, Microsoft and Australian SMEs launch Cloud computing capability
The NDC Edge Cloud computing capability is an integrated and modular solution built on Microsoft...
Latvian Armed Forces test Patria 6×6 vehicle platform
The Patria 6x6 live demo was attended by representatives of the Finnish Ministry of Defence...
Austal to bid for Australian Army’s LAND 8710 Phase 1
Austal has confirmed plans to submit a proposal for the Australian Department of Defence’s (DoD) $800m LAND 8710 Phase 1 programme. The bidding is in response to the Morrison government’s…
Krauss-Maffei Wegmann to acquire 24.9% stake in Milrem Robotics
Battle tanks and combat systems provider Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) has entered a strategic cooperation agreement, which enables it to acquire a stake of 24.9% in Milrem Robotics. Post the completion…
US submits $715bn defence budget request for fiscal year 2022
The US has placed a $715bn defence budget request for fiscal year 2022, a nearly $10bn increase from what was allocated to the Defense Department last fiscal. The spending request…
USSOCOM contracts Palantir for enterprise data management software
The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has selected software company Palantir Technologies to continue work as its enterprise data management and (AI) -enabled mission command artificial intelligence platform. The…
Sweden completes full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
The last of Swedish military forces have safely returned from Afghanistan, marking an end to the country’s contribution to the Nato-led operations. Troops of FS 40 unit landed at Sweden’s…
Rosoboronexport delivers SR.3M assault rifles to foreign partner
Russian state-owned company Rostec’s Rosoboronexport has delivered 9mm SR.3M modernised compact assault rifles to a foreign partner. Details about the foreign client, value or quantity of the assault rifles supplied…
