It looks like the defence industry lobby group, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, is running low on funds. Nothing else can account for the surfacing of its executive director Peter Jennings on the opinion pages of The Australian, conjuring up a fictional version of a Chinese bid to grab Taiwan.

The CSIRO founded deep tech investment fund Main Sequence has completed a capital raising of $250 milion for its second fund to help it continue its mission aimed at solving the world’s biggest problems in health, food, space, and industrial productivity, by turning science and research into breakthrough companies.

The Australian Government-owned defence industry lobby group, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, appears to have spent oodles of American money on studies that are virulently anti-China, raising serious doubts over Canberra's claim that it has not picked a side in the battle for supremacy between the two global giants.

The defence industry lobby group Australian Strategic Policy Institute is acting to ratchet up tensions with Australia's major trading partner China and using funds it gets from the Federal Government for this purpose, more than $20 million at last count, the Australian arm of the Chinese telecommunications equipment company Huawei Technologies says in a strongly-worded blog post.

The defence industry-funded lobby group, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, has many shortcomings. But it has numerous strong points too, chief among which is its unceasing ability to spread misinformation, propaganda and heighten the fear index in society.

The Australian Government is attempting to fix a manufactured problem — disinformation on social media — without properly assessing the source to see if vested interests are pushing a case for which there is no basis.

Technical documents exfiltrated from a parts maker for space and defence companies have been leaked on the Web, after they were acquired during a Windows ransomware attack in March.

Security vendor Fortinet has appointed Glenn Maiden as director of threat intelligence at FortiGuard Labs Australia and New Zealand.

The world's biggest open source company Red Hat appears to have somewhat skewed priorities, judging by the fact that it has been rejoicing over helping aircraft maker Lockheed Martin improve the F-22 Raptor, one of the world's premier fighter jets.

AWS has announced its Ground Station satellite ground station as a service, and Lockheed Martin Space's new Verge network of antennas is being integrated with Ground Station.

The resumés of thousands vying to get jobs as mercenaries with TigerSwan, a North Carolina-based private security firm, have been found exposed to public gaze on the Internet.

Virginia-based defence company Leidos officially launched its Australian business today.

Lockheed Martin has almost finished building a private cloud for the Defence Department, using NetApp products for primary storage, Lockheed Martin's Defence CP (centralised processing) CTO Liam Caskie (pictured) told iTWire.

The nails continue to be hammered into NewSat’s coffin. Another asset, its launch spot with Arianespace, is gone.

Lockheed Martin has appointed Christine Zeitz as vice president & managing director of its technology business in the Australia-Asia region.

Just a few days ago NewSat’s future as Australia’s only satellite company seemed over after a bankruptcy court in the U.S. severed its contract with Lockheed Martin for the building of its Jabiru-1 communications satellite.

Australia’s homegrown satellite company NewSat has finally crashed to earth and disintegrated with a bankruptcy judge in the U.S. severing its contract with Lockheed Martin who is building its Jabiru-1 satellite.

Australia’s only would-be commercial satellite operator has hit the wall and been placed into administration after it was revealed that French Government-owned creditor COFACE has withdrawn a major portion of the funding for the US$650 million project to put the Jabiru-1 satellite into space.

Troubled satellite company NewSat has released a long statement to the ASX that essentially says it is trying to raise more money and everything is on hold for now.

Australian satellite company NewSat has issued an update to the ASX on its Jabiru-1 project financing and construction arrangements. The news is not good.