Staff reporter

The two major defence contractors have been announced as finalists in the race to deliver a sovereign next-generation Joint Air Battle Management System (JABMS) for the ADF under the Commonwealth government’s $2.7 billion AIR 6500 Phase 1 project.

The Royal Australian Air Force’s No. 35 Squadron has begun a sister squadron arrangement with the Papua New Guinea Defence Force’s Air Training Wing.

The Royal Australian Air Force has welcomed its latest F-35A Lighting II and E-7A Wedgetail pilots, which have completed six-month operational conversion courses that wrapped up on Exercise Rogue Ambush 21, held from 15 June to 2 July.

In this cross-posting with The Conversation, the University of Sydney’s Giuseppe Carabetta discusses the legal ‘murky waters’ of Australian airlines requiring their staff to take the COVID-19 vaccine.

Aircraft security operations teams, mobile air load teams and communications elements from No. 95 and No. 96 Wings worked with No. 86 Wing aircraft and aircrew to develop procedures to strengthen interoperability between Air Mobility Group and Combat Support Group. 

UNSW’s Regina Jefferies and Jane McAdam use Freedom of Information laws to try and deduce who exactly is leaving Australia despite the outgoing travel ban.