Defence and Aerospace Industries

• Hopes growing US military presence in NT will boost business

  By Nadia Daly

  Posted February 12, 2017 13:13:47

  The Northern Territory will be a small but crucial part of the United States' pivot towards Asia over the coming years, and local businesses are hoping to profit from a growing Defence spend.

  Topics: defence-forces, defence-and-aerospace-industries, economic-trends, nt, darwin-0800, katherine-0850

• Italian Navy shows off frigate design in Adelaide

  By Daniel Keane

  Posted February 05, 2017 11:05:07 | Updated February 05, 2017 12:27:15

  An Italian naval frigate docks in Adelaide in a bid to help its manufacturer secure a multi-billion-dollar federal contract, but Christopher Pyne says there is no clear frontrunner among the designs competing for the work.

  Topics: navy, defence-industry, defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, defence-and-aerospace-industries, outer-harbor-5018, port-adelaide-5015, adelaide-5000, sa

• Adelaide to host international shipbuilders contending for Navy fleets

  Posted January 31, 2017 07:04:49

  Adelaide will host several international shipbuilders in coming weeks ahead of a major increase in local defence construction that will start next year.

  Topics: defence-industry, defence-and-national-security, defence-and-aerospace-industries, osborne-5017, sa, australia

• First Air Warfare Destroyer being tested ahead of handover to Navy

  By Lauren Waldhuter

  Posted January 30, 2017 13:23:15 | Updated January 30, 2017 14:28:44

  Combat and communication systems on Australia's first Air Warfare Destroyer ship, HMAS Hobart, are being tested at sea this week — marking one of the final stages of construction before it is handed over to the Navy.

  Topics: defence-industry, defence-and-national-security, defence-and-aerospace-industries, business-economics-and-finance, osborne-5017, sa, australia

• Adelaide shipbuilder ASC cuts 130 jobs

  Posted January 05, 2017 15:18:59 | Updated January 05, 2017 15:53:04

  Further job cuts at Adelaide-based shipbuilder ASC are breaking people's hearts and a result of poor Federal Government shipbuilding policy, South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon says.

  Topics: defence-industry, federal-government, government-and-politics, defence-and-aerospace-industries, defence-and-national-security, osborne-5017, adelaide-5000, sa

• French shipbuilder learned of submarine leaks via media

  By political reporter Francis Keany

  Posted December 15, 2016 10:06:52 | Updated December 15, 2016 10:13:51

  The French company building Australia's new submarines says it was not aware of a major security breach until it was "published in the newspapers", as Christopher Pyne accuses a staffer of Nick Xenophon of being behind the leaks.

  Topics: defence-and-national-security, defence-and-aerospace-industries, defence-industry, federal-government, australia

• Trump shows power to move markets with one tweet

  By business reporter Carrington Clarke

  Posted December 13, 2016 20:25:23 | Updated December 13, 2016 22:50:05

  Even before moving into the White House, Donald Trump is showing his power to move markets with the power of a tweet.

  Topics: business-economics-and-finance, us-elections, defence-and-aerospace-industries, defence-and-national-security, united-states

• US defence shares nosedive after Trump criticises cost of fighter jets

  Posted December 13, 2016 12:15:30 | Updated December 13, 2016 12:19:08

  Shares of Lockheed Martin, the US fighter plane manufacturer, fall by nearly $2 billion after President-elect Donald Trump tweets that the cost of production for its F-35 fighter plane project is "out of control".
  

  Topics: government-and-politics, business-economics-and-finance, defence-industry, defence-and-aerospace-industries, us-elections, markets, united-states

• US Astronaut John Glenn dies at age 95 Video

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  ABC News

  32sec

  Posted December 09, 2016 09:24:59

  The first US astronaut to orbit the Earth has died aged 95 after battling cancer.

  Topics: defence-and-aerospace-industries, air-and-space, space-exploration, united-states

• SA shipbuilders strike outside Pyne's office

  Posted November 28, 2016 07:28:20 | Updated November 28, 2016 11:12:15

  Hundreds of ASC workers are holding a two-day strike in South Australia following stalled negotiations over an enterprise bargaining agreement, and focusing their protest on Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne.

  Topics: defence-industry, federal-government, government-and-politics, defence-and-aerospace-industries, adelaide-5000, port-adelaide-5015, sa

• ASC workers to fight 'Government interference' in EBA talks, union says

  By Matt Coleman

  Posted November 10, 2016 06:56:57

  Industrial action at Adelaide-based ship and submarine builder ASC looks likely, as workers resist what they say are attempts to have existing industrial conditions taken away.

  Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, defence-and-aerospace-industries, adelaide-5000, port-adelaide-5015, sa

• Marise Payne can't say if she or Pyne is top minister in Defence portfolio

  By Defence reporter Andrew Greene

  Posted October 19, 2016 11:27:21 | Updated October 19, 2016 15:41:11

  Defence Minister Marise Payne is unable to say whether she or Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne is considered the "senior" minister in the portfolio.

  Topics: defence-and-national-security, defence-forces, defence-industry, defence-and-aerospace-industries, federal-parliament, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia

• Shipbuilder ASC to slash jobs

  By Nicola Gage

  Posted October 18, 2016 13:51:57 | Updated October 18, 2016 17:34:49

  Port Adelaide shipbuilder ASC will slash 121 jobs this month, despite putting on workers for the Air Warfare Destroyers' sea trials.

  Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-parliament, defence-and-aerospace-industries, defence-and-national-security, adelaide-5000, port-adelaide-5015, sa

• Government shipbuilder ASC all at sea on submarine building work

  By National Affairs correspondent Greg Jennett

  Posted October 18, 2016 12:20:33 | Updated October 18, 2016 12:35:43

  Government-owned shipbuilder ASC and its shareholder-Minister Mathias Cormann are unable to explain what role the company will play in the $50 billion building phase of the Future Submarine fleet.

  Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, federal-parliament, defence-and-aerospace-industries, defence-and-national-security, australia, sa

• Defence ministers stalemate a 'crazy situation'

  Exclusive by Defence reporter Andrew Greene

  Posted October 18, 2016 00:00:37 | Updated October 18, 2016 12:11:22

  It has been 100 days since three frontbenchers were given the responsibility of the Defence portfolio, but with none able to confirm their precise powers, department officials and military companies are becoming frustrated.

  Topics: defence-and-national-security, defence-forces, defence-industry, defence-and-aerospace-industries, parliament, federal-parliament, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia

• CommBank backs down on foreclosing contaminated homes

  The World Today

  By Katherine Gregory

  Posted October 12, 2016 15:10:40

  Days after the Commonwealth Bank's threats to foreclose homes in a contaminated area of NSW were revealed at the banking inquiry, the CEO apologises and says an administrative error had occurred.

  Topics: defence-forces, defence-and-aerospace-industries, pollution, housing-industry, salt-ash-2318, williamtown-2318, australia, nsw

• Amphibian aircraft factory to give Central Coast multi-million-dollar boost

  By Mary-Louise Vince
  

  Posted September 27, 2016 20:05:39

  A $100 million aircraft manufacturing facility that specialises in building amphibious airplanes will bring hundreds of new jobs to the Central Coast, the NSW Premier announces.

  Topics: industry, defence-and-aerospace-industries, warnervale-2259, nsw

• Jeff Morgan, Mallee farmer restoring his WWII, DC3 aeroplane image

  image
  ABC News

  Posted September 27, 2016 11:07:51

  Topics: historians, world-war-2, defence-and-aerospace-industries, mount-gambier-5290

• Pilots are under-reporting mental illness

  PM

  By Katherine Gregory

  Posted September 26, 2016 18:46:41

  Australia's aviation industry is trying to change a culture among pilots of under-reporting mental health conditions.

  Topics: defence-and-aerospace-industries, air-transport, mental-health, australia

• Thousands of Australian computer log-ins up for sale on dark web

  Four Corners

  by Jake Sturmer

  Posted August 30, 2016 00:02:00 | Updated August 30, 2016 16:12:05

  Computers from a federal research network, a peak sporting body, a school and a local council are among tens of thousands of machines which have been hacked and had their login details put up for sale in a dark web marketplace, a Four Corners investigation has revealed.

  Topics: industry, defence-and-national-security, defence-and-aerospace-industries, security-intelligence, computers-and-technology, hacking, federal-government, australia

• Chinese hackers behind Defence, Austrade security breaches

  Four Corners

  By Linton Besser, Jake Sturmer and Ben Sveen

  Posted August 29, 2016 05:58:28 | Updated August 29, 2016 14:10:09

  Sensitive Australian Government and corporate computer networks, including those holding highly confidential plans for a privately financed geostationary communications satellite, have been penetrated by sophisticated cyber attacks, Four Corners reveals.

  Topics: industry, defence-and-aerospace-industries, defence-and-national-security, defence-industry, security-intelligence, computers-and-technology, hacking, federal-government, australia

• Tasmanian consortium misses out on Defence vehicle tender

  By Carla Howarth

  Posted July 28, 2016 19:06:04

  Employment prospects in north-west Tasmania are dealt a blow with a local consortium missing out on a multi-billion-dollar Defence tender.

  Topics: defence-and-aerospace-industries, regional, burnie-7320, tas

• Pyne refuses to 'break down' WA's shipbuilding share

  By Kathryn Diss

  Posted July 26, 2016 18:25:50

  New Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne visits WA to promote the state's role in the construction of future defence vessels, but repeatedly refuses to say what percentage of the work it will receive.

  Topics: defence-industry, defence-forces, defence-and-aerospace-industries, states-and-territories, wa, henderson-6166, perth-6000, sa, adelaide-5000

• Building submarines in SA is 'return to bad old days of protectionism'

  By business reporter Andrew Robertson

  Posted July 26, 2016 17:22:57 | Updated July 26, 2016 18:54:08

  The Productivity Commission says without a better product to justify the extra cost of building submarines at home, productive resources are diverted away from more efficient uses.

  Topics: business-economics-and-finance, defence-and-aerospace-industries, manufacturing, australia, sa, wa

• Minister's cancelled meeting with French shipbuilder 'embarrassed Government'

  By political reporter Matthew Doran and political editor Chris Uhlmann

  Posted July 22, 2016 00:32:18 | Updated July 22, 2016 00:37:35

  The NSW Trade Minister sought a meeting with a French shipbuilder during a highly sensitive period days before his federal Defence Minister partner handed the company a $50 billion contract, then cancelled with no explanation.

  Topics: defence-industry, defence-and-aerospace-industries, business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, states-and-territories, federal-government, australia, france

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