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Chair – Andrei Ezergailis
Defence News
New Director-General of Australian Signals Directorate
News announced mid-December of an incoming Director-General of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD). Commencing in February 2020, Ms Rachel Noble PSM will become the first woman to lead the ASD, a major intelligence agency in Australia. The ASD is the government...
Defence assets provide rescue and relief
Recently, the news that set fingertips tingly, the silver lining around the orange, smoke-haze cloud that hangs over our head, is that some of our biggest defence assets have been called in to help with the action.The bushfires currently ravaging Australia will come...
What happens to critical assets on decommissioning?
The HMAS Melbourne (III) was decommissioned on Saturday 26th October, berthing at Garden Island, Sydney, for the last time. It was a poignant ceremony, especially for the two-hundred men and women who served aboard the ship. The ship has over two decades of service to...
Showing off new assets in a race between a plane and a bike
In Gippsland, Victoria, the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) got to test one of its newest assets, the Pilatus PC-21, in a race trail with a motorbike ridden by Wayne Gardner. It sounds a bit like a Top Gear challenge. You know the kind where Jeremy Clarkson...
Collins Class Life-cycle Regeneration
Imagine being able to silently slip through the deep and dark waters, way below where the ocean meets the surface. The stealth and the virtually undetectable nature of deep sea navigation is what life on a submarine is all about. A submarine is a massive feat of...
Keeping Australia Secure
On the 19th February 1942, shortly before 10AM, Japanese planes attacked the small town of Darwin, bombing an oil depot, hospital, and other infrastructure. A second raid, about an hour and half later, dessimated the RAAF base. Over the course of the two raids, over...
AMC and ASC announce Strategic Partnership
The Asset Management Council is absolutely thrilled to announce a strategic partnership with ASC, a leader in asset management in the defence sector. Close collaboration between the AMCouncil and ASC over the next twelve months will significantly contribute to the...
Big Data Case Study -Vehicle Health and Usage Monitoring Systems program (VIC)
Michael Bray, Program Manager, Vehicle Health and Usage Monitoring Systems, Department of Defence (VIC) The aim of the Vehicle Health and Usage Monitoring System (VHUMS) Program is to provide equipment managers with quality information to enable timely decisions...