Andrew Greene

Australia is expected to acquire three Virginia-class submarines in the 2030s as part of the agreement.

Tender documents reveal the Australian Submarine Agency awarded the lucrative AUKUS contract to the local subsidiary of McKinsey & Company last month.

Defence businesses say the conference was "an embarrassment" after none of the advertised officials turned up.

Hackers are increasingly eyeing private schools as a "honey pot" for ransomware, with the average cost of cybercrime to small businesses hitting almost $50,000.

Japanese forces will train alongside US Marines in northern Australia in 2025, Defence Minister Richard Marles said during high-level talks hosted in Darwin on Sunday.

After a defence employee handed confidential information to weapons company Thales, only to join the company later, a former defence minister has blasted the defence department that continues to award contracts to the same company.

The nation's highest military honour has posthumously given to Private Richard Norden for his actions during the Battle of Fire Support Base Coral in 1968.

Australia has missed out in a bid to join Interpol's executive committee, with representatives from China and Qatar elected instead

Australia will begin building its next warships in either Germany or Japan after the government narrowed the field of designs for a contract worth $11 billion over the next decade. 

A $7 billion plan to create an Australian military-grade satellite communications system announced in April last year has been cancelled as current defence spending is reviewed.

A highly vaunted push to "rapidly" develop disruptive military technologies into the Australian Defence Force is facing uncertainty, with local companies saying an initial project has been "cancelled".