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Contents 6 VOLUME 27 NO 5 | MAY 2019
Airbus wins Tiger support contract extension 10
Harris Defence Australia wins NZ comms contract 12
Next two F-35s touch
down in Australia 12
New joint venture
chases Sea 1350 14
DEFENCE BUSINESS
Hawk LIFCAP complete 16
Awaiting the White Paper: LIMA 2019 20
EW AND UAVS
Navy moving ahead
with UAS 22
The renaissance of Australian aerospace engineering 26
BUDGET 2019
No surprises here but maybe it’s time for some 30
Consistency is king 32
CYBER IN THE
DEFENCE DOMAIN
The cyber environment keeps expanding 41
ON THE COVER: A war in cyber space has very real effects in the offline world. [Getty]
REGULAR NEWS AND REPORTS
Editorial 4 News Review 6 The View from Canberra 44 Events 47 Books 46 From the Source 50
NEWS
First SPA Falcon 7X
arrives in Canberra 6
Babcock wins SF counter-CBRN contract 6
G550 EW aircraft buy clarified for RAAF 8
Defence and Lockheed Martin sign JP9711 simulation capability 8
ADF’s new air defences
pass Gate 2 milestone 10
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DEFENCE BUSINESS
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From the Source
Gareth Evans
Managing Director
of Rohde & Schwarz Australia
“ We are focused on becoming a regional centre of excellence such that we’re able to further export our capabilities but also to be able to secure the digital sovereignty of Australia.”