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02 April
AUKUS partners launch Innovation Challenge 2025
AUKUS partners have released the trilateral AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge 2025, connecting partner governments to the very best technology across industrial and innovation sectors to deliver cutting-edge capabilities to defence forces.  The AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge 2025 seeks innovative solutions from industry and research institutions around the world to provide capability with a focus on undersea communications and control of autonomous systems.  Australia’s Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) will lead the Australian component, and work with the United Kingdom’s Defence and Security Accelerator and United States’ Defense Innovation Unit.  More.....		 01 April
New U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier To Be Named USS Musk
Important update on this article: April Fool’s
The U.S. Navy is set to launch it next aircraft carrier, CVN 80, later this year.  In a change from the planned USS Enterprise name, the vessel will now be named after the Senior Advisor to the President, Elon Musk.  The U.S. Navy will name its next aircraft carrier the USS Musk according to an executive order to be issued later today. The vessel, which was originally to be christened the USS Enterprise (CVN 80), is expected to be launched by Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) in November.  The executive order on ship naming will follow on from a draft order in February entitled ‘Make Shipbuilding Great Again’.  More.....
01 April
Defence challenges students’ STEM skills
From high-tech augmented reality to flying drones, a group of talented Victorian students had the opportunity of a lifetime to explore Australia Public Service (APS), ADF and Defence industry capability in an emergency simulation.  The Defence Work Experience Program, 'STEM to the Rescue', works with the Knox Innovation Opportunity and Sustainability Centre and Defence industry organisations to deliver a five-day placement in Melbourne.  More.....		 01 April
US shipbuilding in a ‘perpetual state of triage,’ watchdog says
The U.S. Navy is hoping to nearly double the amount of battle force ships in oceans around the world within the next three decades — a jump from 296 ships, including submarines, aircraft carriers and destroyers, to 381.  The current state of American shipbuilding, however, is sorely in need of a complete overhaul if that plan is to be achieved, according to recent testimony and a new government watchdog report.  More.....
01 April
From Lang Lang rodeo air ambulance to RAN cockpit
It’s been a quite a journey for a teenager from regional Victoria, fascinated by helicopters, to take centre stage at the Australian International Airshow representing Navy.  Sub-Lieutenant Nicholas Mudge grew up in Lang Lang, about 70km south-east of Melbourne, and would jump on his BMX whenever he heard a chopper was inbound, which was often the Air Ambulance on its way to help a local in trouble.  “There’s the Lang Lang rodeo and unfortunately, back in the day, that could result in some poor soul needing extra medical attention after a run-in with a bull or a horse,” Sub-Lieutenant Mudge, of Fleet Air Arm’s 725 Squadron, said.  More.....		 01 April
Navy takes Victorian schools to new heights
Two Victorian schools received an extraordinary visit as a Royal Australian Navy MH-60R helicopter and its crew touched down, offering students a rare glimpse into naval aviation.  Navy’s Fleet Air Arm’s 725 squadron landed the helicopter on the sports ovals of Geelong High School and Ocean Grove’s Bellarine Secondary College for an early-morning visit.  The planned landing was part of a presentation to students about the aircraft and ADF capability ahead of the Australian International Airshow, March 25-30.  More.....
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09 Apr – 11:00 – HMAS Vampire service – Shrine – Sanctuary

13 Apr – 12:00 – George Cross Award Day - Maltese Australia Assoc. – Shrine – WW2 Forecourt

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