Category: Defence

Former Fleet Air Arm Commander Vince Di Pietro will succeed Raydon Gates as vice president and chief executive of Lockheed Martin Australia from January 2017. Di Pietro served in the Royal Australian Navy for 39 years, first training as a pilot and then serving in a variety of increasingly senior roles rising to the rank

The federal government’s new Defence Industry Policy Statement played a key role in encouraging Lockheed Martin to establish a new multi-disciplinary research and development laboratory in Melbourne. To be led by current head of the Defence Science and Technology Group’s National Security and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Division, Dr Tony Lindsay, the new ‘Science Technology

The RAAF’s major multinational large-force employment exercise, Pitch Black, is under way. Up to 115 aircraft and 2,500 personnel from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Indonesia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand and the US are participating in the three-week long Exercise Pitch Black 2016, which officially began on July 29 and continues through to August 19. Flying operations began on

The Netherlands and Luxembourg have signed a memorandum of understanding committing them to the acquisition of two Airbus Defence and Space A330 Multi Role Tanker Transports (MRTTs) to be operated by NATO.  The two NATO-owned aircraft are due to be delivered in 2020 and will be based at Eindhoven Air Base, allowing the retirement of