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Consultancy firm Noetic’s contract with the Australian Defence Force will see it support a range of defence experiments designed to test ADF future force structure. Noetic will develop classified scenario environments, experiments, and tools to simulate wargaming.

Fortinet has appointed Andrew Sheedy as director of operational technology solutions.

Australian machine learning company Trellis Data has successfully completed a funding round for growth capital, raising $3 million with support from lead investor, CSIRO’s Main Sequence Ventures.

The United States and Australia have signed a deal to continuously develop a virtual cyber training range, with the agreement initialled on 3 November and announced on Friday.

Industry-led skills group, Digital Skills Organisation (DSO), has appointed former Deloitte Australia Consulting executive Patrick Kidd as its new chief executive.

A group of Australian sovereign cyber companies are claiming an Australia-first collaboration to create a successful pilot of a fully online, collective cyber training program for the Australian Defence Force.

The nature and speed of cybercrime means the threat landscape changes quicker than educational institutions can keep up with delivery of cyber security training, according to one cyber education provider who says cyber security is now impacting every sector of the world’s economy and infrastructure.

CubeSat nanosatellites developed by the University of New South Wales Canberra Space Centre will provide new ways to enhance Australia’s future Defence space capability by gathering remote sensing information with radios and cameras, according to Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne.

Luxembourg-based space technology operator Kleos Space has announced the setting up of its first wholly owned subsidiary abroad, with the Australian registration of Kleos Space Asia Pacific.

There has been a call for a new Australian cyber military industrial strategy, independent of the United States, so that Australia can be prepared for major war.

Project management firm PM-Partners has appointed public and private sector industry veteran and former Telstra senior executive, Ken Sheargold, as chief executive officer.

Australia’s chief defence scientist says the defence force needs to leverage advances in technology to maintain its capability edge.

Australian security solutions vendor Cogito Group has been contracted by the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) to provide stronger authentication and access enabled solutions for its digital assets.

The Defence eHealth Information System is being implemented for the Australian Defence Force's Joint Health Command by CSC.

Allocate Software plans to boost its Australian development team. The company's workforce optimisation and compliance software is used by the Australian Defence Force and NSW Health, among others.

Northrop Grumman is to build a cyber test range for the University of New South Wales' Canberra campus at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA).

Relocation is a fact of life for those serving in the Australian Defence Force. Toll Transitions is using Oracle software to help streamline the administration behind all those moves.

The Department of Defence has awarded a five-year contract to develop and implement an eHealth system.

Melbourne-based project management consultancy Protegic has appointed five business development managers to work in Australia and Singapore.

The release of tens of thousands military documents from the Afghanistan conflict by the WikiLeaks website last July had not had a direct significant impact on Australia's national security interests, Defence Minister Stephen Smith has told Parliament.