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Steve has an extensive career across government, defence industry and advocacy, having previously worked for cabinet ministers at both Federal and State levels.
By all means buy off the shelf, but build sovereign industry as well
With growing speculation the upcoming Defence Strategic Review will call for expedited, off-the-shelf acquisitions to beef up capability across the services rapidly — ...
GEOPOLITICS & POLICY • Thu, 09 Mar 2023
Innovative Australian tech to deliver next-gen maritime domain awareness
Melbourne-based Arkeus has officially launched its next-generation intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) sensor system, combining the capabilities of ...
JOINT-CAPABILITIES • Thu, 02 Mar 2023
Increasing Australia’s uncrewed strike capabilities
With expectations that the Defence Strategic Review will bring renewed emphasis on uncrewed aerial vehicles as a means of increasing the mass and strike capacity of the ...
AIR • Thu, 02 Mar 2023
Boeing secures US$1.7bn USAF E-7 contract
The United States Air Force has formally announced that Boeing will provide specialised variants of the Australian E-7A Wedgetail to replace its ageing E-3 Sentry fleet ...
JP 9102 – the backbone that makes next-gen capabilities possible: Airbus
Australia’s ambitious AU$4 billion JP 9102 Sovereign Military Satellite Communications program will play a transformational role in the future ADF. For the Airbus-led ...
JOINT-CAPABILITIES • Wed, 01 Mar 2023
The Marines, Iron Dome, open architecture effectors and AIR 6502
With the ever growing complexity of the air and missile threat environment, combined with the tactical and strategic challenges of the Indo-Pacific, the US Marines’ ...
BAE unveils STRIX hybrid UAS, new Australian munition
BAE Systems Australia CEO Ben Hudson has officially unveiled its next-generation, Australian-designed and developed armed VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) uncrewed ...
AIR • Tue, 28 Feb 2023
A nuclear South Korea and the Indo-Pacific
Amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and more broadly across the Indo-Pacific, many nations have responded with drastically increased defence capabilities — South ...
GEOPOLITICS & POLICY • Mon, 27 Feb 2023
In defence of democracy, Australia must become a serious nation
No matter where one looks, the democratic world is besieged — at home, we face the challenges of increasingly polarised populations, abroad, we face the growing question ...
GEOPOLITICS & POLICY • Fri, 24 Feb 2023