Service

Navy

Service and family – a life intertwined

The Service Funeral of Rear Admiral (retd) Geoffrey James Alexander Bayliss, was held at the HMAS Watson Chapel.

Australian Army soldiers from 1 RAR train with Royal Tongan Marines on urban clearance drills at Lavarack Barracks. Photo: Sergeant Andrew Sleeman

Army, Defence International engagement

Forces combine in lead-up to Rimpac

Soldiers from 1 RAR and Tonga have been perfecting their skills and company cohesion in the lead-up to Rimpac.

Corporal Daniel Orders (left) and then Sergeant Geoff Britton conduct a fluorescent liquid penetrant test on an aircraft component under ultraviolet light in 2016. Photo: Corporal Brenton Kwaterski

Air Force Industry

Aviation safety gets a revamp

The Defence Aviation Safety Authority has been restructured following a review.

Pilot Flight Lieutenant Angus Wheeler, from No. 292 Squadron, plans the departure and arrival for an upcoming mission in the flight deck of a P-8A Poseidon aircraft at RAAF Base Edinburgh. Photo: Leading Aircraftman Sam Price

Air Force

Poseidon pilot living the dream

As a child, Flight Lieutenant Angus Wheeler thought it would be cool to work underground in mines or be flying through the sky.

Military Working Dog Handlers from the Australian Army’s 2nd Combat Engineer Regiment and the Royal Australian Airforce at the National Military Working Dog Day commemorative service, Wacol, Queensland, on June 7. Photo: WO2 Kim Allen

Air Force, Army, Defence

Honouring our four-legged heroes

June 7 is Military Working Dog Day. A commemoration was held at the RSPCA Brisbane Animal Care Campus in Wacol.

Governor-General General (retd) David Hurley speaks with deployed Australian personnel in the newly named Hurley’s Hangar at Camp Baird in the Middle East. Photo: Flight Lieutenant Madeline Edwards

Air Force, Army, Defence, Navy Operation Accordion

Camp Baird hangar named in honour of Governor-General

Governor-General General (retd) David Hurley has met with Australian Defence Force personnel deployed to the Middle East.

Tim Burnell, Chief Executive Officer of INCAT takes members of the Service Attachés and Advisory Group through the company's ship building facility in Hobart. Photo: Corporal Robert Whitmore

Air Force, Army, Defence, Navy Industry

Tasmanian Defence industry in the spotlight

Foreign military officials from the SAAG visited Defence industries in Tasmania from May 17-27.

Pictured is the new Australian Signals Directorate cyber and foreign intelligence facility in Canberra, An early warning system for cyber attacks is one of the new innovations to be pitched in the D.Start Ignite program’s upcoming online showcase.

Air Force, Army, Defence, Navy Industry

Innovative ideas ignited in program to be pitched

Budding entrepreneurs are set to pitch their ideas to potential Defence and Defence industry customers in an online innovation showcase.

Air Force

King Air conducts air patrols in the Pacific

A King Air and three pilots arrived in Honiara, Solomon Islands in support of Operation Solania 2022.

Air Force, Defence History

Defence remembers leading scientist, 30 years on

This year marks the 30th anniversary since Defence experienced the tragic loss of one of its scientists, Michael Howlett

Digital renderings of the Boxer CRV using the MAK ONE suite

Army Industry

Fighting threats, real and imagined

Soldiers will be able to operate vehicles not yet in service, and fight enemies they’ve never faced, thanks to incoming simulation upgrades.

Sergeant Rana Chandan operates a Ghost Robotics quadruped robot using a novel brain-computer interface during a demonstration at Majura training area. Photo: Sergeant Matt Bickerton