Senior Army capability leaders briefed industry this week on a range of Army programs currently underway. The meeting gave updates on policy frameworks coming into effect this year, Army's move to reliability-centred maintenance practices, Land 907 and 8160, Land 400 Phase 2, and Special Forces' perspective on Land 1508 and 1530.

In other news, RUAG innovations keep the RAAF Hornet fleet in the sky, RAN takes part in a new Indian Ocean exercise, Quoc Do and Ben Heard look at model-based systems engineering in Defence, CASG takes over the space surveillance telescope building in Exmouth, BAE marks another F-35 milestone, and DARPA seeks to automate air-to-air combat.

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