The new Defence White Paper, Defending Australia in the Asia Pacific Century: Force 2030, outlines and confirms a vast array of new capability that will come into service during the next two decades, shaping the ADF well into the 2030 time frame.

The budget this year was framed against some of the worst conditions the nation has seen for some time.

This year's defence budget is like a mirage in the desert.

As the Defence White Paper and Budget have been handed down for 2009 and the new Defence Capability Plan (DCP) is to be released at D+I, ADM invited head of the Defence Materiel Organisation's Industry Division Kerry Clarke to comment on how these three documents will shape the Australian defence industry.

By the time this is in your hands, the White Paper will have been out for almost two months, the Budget will have been released and the Defence Capability Plan is just around the corner at the D+I conference.

Twelve new top of the range submarines are in Australia's future thanks to the Defence White Paper but therein lies a problem.

As noted in a previous edition of ADM, the fighter pilot's goal of "First look, First shot, First kill" applies increasingly in the land domain also.

Heavily utilised by the US in the Middle East, the AAI-designed Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems have reached a major flying milestone.

Under a new contract RAF pilots will undergo training with British Army personnel at a custom-built training facility before being deployed in the field.

Should some of the RAAF's forthcoming EA-18B Growler Electronic Attack aircraft be fitted with an AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile?

Following the release of the 2009-10 Defence budget, the DMO has earmarked a range of major projects under consideration for second pass approval.

The ANAO has found that the building of the ADF's HQJOC through a public private partnership has only produced slightly better value for money.

The ADF is set to follow the lead of other militaries and trial a legitimate embedding process that will see two journalists stationed with troops in Afghanistan.

Austal has rolled out the first of six 30 metre aluminium fast patrol craft that the company is building for the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard.

Despite BAE Systems' commitment to the project, Defence still sees risks in the M113A1 upgrade project.

The British MoD has withdrawn the Vector armoured patrol vehicle from service in Afghanistan, citing the vehicle's IED vulnerabilities.